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1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776</id><updated>2024-09-04T19:41:14.967-07:00</updated><category term="ChemTrails"/><title type='text'>Conspiracy Theories - the Truth Unmasked</title><subtitle type='html'>Only those who seek the truth will find it...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>407</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-4050202597645494488</id><published>2018-07-05T00:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2018-07-05T00:37:16.383-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Q - Just Another Mossad Fucking Jew Trying to Keep Us From FIGHTING and BURNING THIS MOTHER FUCKER DOWN</title><content type='html'>Enough of the Games.&amp;nbsp; Yeah, it was cranky fun.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
2. <br />
3. Until.<br />
4. <br />
5. You wake up, shake your damn head and realize that you've just blown almost a year fucking with a manipulators' fucking machinations.<br />
6. <br />
7. We worked too fucking hard.<br />
8. <br />
9. Did we work our asses off to simply elect yet another Hillary-Fuck-Your-Kids-Clinton?<br />
10. <br />
11. I didn't.<br />
12. <br />
13. So Awan walks. Clinton walks. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz walks.  Mueller walks.  Strok/Page walk.  This ain't cool.<br />
14. <br />
15. I feel so jerked around and like I have been convinced to give a crap that the left was never going to be charged with.  Who convinced me?  Q. Trump. Sundance.<br />
16. <br />
17. It wasn't Twatter - because I've been banned three times.  Can't seem to scam another account, or I'd be doing the same things that got me banned before.<br />
18. <br />
19. The Last Refuge censored me and I have been banned from posting there.  All I did was to impune Jews who censoring and censuring me. <br />
20. <br />
21. Scott Adam's Periscopes suspend my posting for 2 minutes at a time.  I just wait it out then ask "Why'd you do that? Do you think it actually accomplished something?"<br />
22. <br />
23. Jeez Louise, I need to find another venue.  If I weren't such a ghoul, I'd use Periscope.  May as well as come up with a costume and be outrageous.  It's my nature.<br />
24. <br />
25. Happy late Fourth.  Good food and fun.  No fireworks, but I saw them everywhere!  Plebes like their blowing-up toys!<br />
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31. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/4050202597645494488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/q-just-another-mossad-fucking-jew.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/4050202597645494488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/4050202597645494488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/q-just-another-mossad-fucking-jew.html' title='Q - Just Another Mossad Fucking Jew Trying to Keep Us From FIGHTING and BURNING THIS MOTHER FUCKER DOWN'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlqLKMCGz51HnvI9TpU4UC1xsVLXKJ-U1jBHd9cek1KgI3ZukE4lFBqDHEopHbg4Uoe4b76wzT_r11jg5mp2Q2JWWNYcRrTe0IM_-OIJhF66bVY4burYxJtyVMXA_GQHeqFn8phcOjc1W/s72-c/flag.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-8426035621006256794</id><published>2018-07-01T22:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2018-07-01T22:25:07.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Your Private Data Has Probably Been Compromised</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Bitstream Charter&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
32. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this month, the renowned security researcher Vinny Troia announced that he discovered an unsecured database containing around 340 million individual records. According to Troia, the database included profiles of a few hundred million Americans belonging to Exactis, a Florida-based marketing and data-aggregation firm.</em></div>
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34. Troia told Wired that the catch contains about two terabytes of data that includes personal information of almost every American adult, along with millions of businesses.</div>
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36. While the database does not include credit-card numbers or Social Security information, it does include phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses and personal characteristics for every name, such as interests and personal habits, plus the number, age, and gender of the person’s children. Other types of information found: religion, whether a person smokes, kind of pet. Even though the millions of individual profiles did not include financial information, it was more than enough data to help scammers steal identities.</div>
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38. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It seems like this is a database with pretty much every US citizen in it,” said Troia, who is the founder of his own New York-based cyber security company, Night Lion Security.</em></div>
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40. <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-28/massive-data-leak-could-affect-300-million-americans" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-28/massive-data-leak-could-affect-300-million-americans</a></div>
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43. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If Troia’s numbers are remotely accurate, this leak could be one of the most significant data security breaches in several years, surpassing last year’s Equifax breach and the Facebook debacle with Cambridge Analytica.</em></div>
44. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/8426035621006256794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/your-private-data-has-probably-been.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/8426035621006256794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/8426035621006256794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/your-private-data-has-probably-been.html' title='Your Private Data Has Probably Been Compromised'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-2808803343508092501</id><published>2018-07-01T21:57:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2018-07-01T22:01:51.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Mexican President Better Clean up His Shithole</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot; data-lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;
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55. “This is the type of scene you see in failed states, where you don’t just have organized crime, but you have an organized criminal population with an extensive social base”<a href="https://t.co/a0gVMFTNGl">https://t.co/a0gVMFTNGl</a></div>
56. — John Robb (@johnrobb) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1012363501963182080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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58. <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><b>
59.  
60. In Mexico, rising ‘mass crime’ defies security forces
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68. TENANTLA, Mexico (AP) — Whoever wins Sunday’s presidential election will have to face not only Mexico’s drug cartels, but a new kind of crime involving whole neighborhoods defying police and military personnel.
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70. It was on display in the Jalisco state town of Ciudad Guzman — a stronghold of the Jalisco New Generation cartel — in early June, when a crowd of men and women gathered around two pickups carrying armed Mexican marines.
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72. They taunted the troops, throwing rocks and water bottles at them and kicking one repeatedly as he was helped away by two comrades. 
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74. <br />
75. Purportedly protesting a young man’s disappearance, the crowd later spray-painted the cartel’s initials on a bashed-up marine vehicle.
76.  
77. Such “socialized” or “mass” crimes are spreading in Mexico as entire communities empty freight trains of merchandise or steal hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel from pipelines.
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79. “The logic of the people is that they see politicians and officials stealing big time ... and they see themselves as having the same right to steal as the big-time politicians,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, an international crime expert and research fellow at Columbia University. “You begin to create an ethical code in which, ‘If the upper-class people can steal and get away with it, we can steal, too, with complete justification.’”<br />
80. <br />
81.  In May, armed men broke the locks on two supermarkets in the southern city of Arcelia in Guerrero state and allowed local residents in to loot them. Police didn’t show up for hours.
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83. Guerrero security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said the stores’ owners had refused extortion demands from a local splinter of La Familia cartel and the looting was punishment for not paying.
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85. Meanwhile, an average of 42 illegal taps are being drilled into pipelines across Mexico every day and transporting, storing and selling the stolen fuel often represents a major source of employment in some rural communities.
86.  
87. “These criminal groups are inserting themselves in society. They have put women and children on the front line,” Interior Secretary Alfonso Navarrete Prida said in late May.<br />
88. <br />
89.  Stung by complaints from business groups that such crimes are threatening jobs and investment, the Interior Department blamed the increasing use of local populations by gangs.
90.  
91. “Much of the explanation lies in the diversification of criminal organizations that started out trafficking drugs, and now have interests in fuel theft,” the department said. “What also plays a role is that in a number of cases they have encouraged or forced members of many communities to block police actions to detain those involved in train and highway freight robbery.”<br />
92. <br />
93.  Political scientist Jesus Silva Herzog compares it to the emergence of piracy in Somalia, where the central government doesn’t have control over much of the country.
94.  
95. “This is the type of scene you see in failed states, where you don’t just have organized crime, but you have an organized criminal population with an extensive social base,” Silva Herzog said.
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97. Buscaglia said such mass crimes occur in parts of Nigeria and Afghanistan, but are absent in places where there are “social controls” such as councils of elders in Afghanistan.
98.  
99. “Mexico doesn’t have social control mechanisms except in some very defined (indigenous) ethnic communities ... so Mexico is, unfortunately, in the worst of both worlds,” he said.<br />
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101.  In the first quarter of this year, six times a day on average, robbers blocked tracks or loosened rails to stop trains, leading to dangerous derailments. In such cases, thieves open up grain hoppers or freight cars and people swoop in en masse as police or soldiers stand by outnumbered and overwhelmed.
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103. In one incident witnessed by The Associated Press last year in the central state of Puebla, police pointed out locals acting as lookouts — posing as farmers or gazing from a highway overpass — as people in dozens of pickups filled plastic tanks with fuel pilfered from a gas pipeline running through a cornfield.
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105. Police stood just 100 yards away, holding off on intervening until soldiers could provide backup. But the army — stung by a previous encounter where troops were ambushed by townspeople — didn’t arrive.<br />
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107.  Perhaps the most widespread “social crime” in Mexico is drug growing. As one farmer who grows opium poppies in the Guerreo hamlet of Tenantla said: “There is no other work. If there was, we’d do it.”
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109. Untrained and unwilling to take on civilians, the military often just stands by. When it does intervene, sometimes rights abuses result.<br />
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111.  On March 25, marines were ambushed three times as they left their base to patrol in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, attacks that killed one marine and wounded several.
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113. A marine helicopter called in for support fired from the air and hit a civilian family’s car, killing a woman and two of her children. In the weeks around that attack, complaints were filed about 28 people who went missing in Nuevo Laredo, some allegedly hauled off by marines.
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115. Javier Oliva, a political science professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said the military is unprepared to handle “the process of social breakdown we are experiencing.”
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117. “They will continue to do the job because there is no one else to do it,” Oliva said. “Because if they don’t do it, we are going to be left defenseless against criminal activities.”<br />
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119.  Buscaglia said that without a real move to punish criminality and corruption from the top down, mass crimes may continue to rise.
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121. “This situation is cancerous. It is going to spread more and more with all the political and social instability that come with it,” he said. “If today you have hundreds of thousands, it could become millions who think like this.”
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127. FUCKING WANKER MARXIST PEDOPHILE</div>
128. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/1657845573693811187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/uk-behind-spygate-goddamn-queen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1657845573693811187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1657845573693811187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/uk-behind-spygate-goddamn-queen.html' title='UK Behind Spygate, Goddamn Queen Elizabeth, Marxist Pedophile'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA3_RrXQdmk_DFXXKTxFJ2B4AP5PtweQGJxvUzWQAhgxJFNZt8NpyvC01Gip8s4t365z3aK2xJ-zYd07KRpqe2S7wW_459sZnKfi03GIV1iaVRQn7MQZ01ydw7RO7Gb4SXgTFKv4z38jKS/s72-c/queen.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-1135458125336209239</id><published>2018-06-07T15:39:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2018-06-07T15:39:27.929-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Facebook is a Fucking Wanker; Volcano; Awan and Gohmert</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Bitstream Charter&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
129. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook has been at the center of a seemingly unending series of data-privacy scandals this year, and just days after the company was exposed for sharing data with 60 major device developers – contradicting testimony that Mark Zuckerberg gave to Congress – Recode is reporting that the company has copped to another colossal blunder: as many as 14 million Facebook users who believed they were posting items that only their friends or smaller groups could access instead may have shared that content publicly.</em></div>
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131. According to Facebook, a software bug, which was live for 10 days in May, updated the audience for some user’s posts to “public” without any warning. Facebook typically lets users set the audiences who get to see posts; that setting is “sticky,” which means it remains the default setting until manually updated.</div>
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133. Facebook didn’t specify how many of these people actually posted things that were shared more widely than they would’ve liked. It’s also unclear how many people noticed the settings change. The company said Thursday it would begin to alert people who were impacted. As Recode points out: “Obviously this is another public relations and management disaster and it is unclear how widespread the problem is.”</div>
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135. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook offered an apology:</em></div>
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138. <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/14-million-facebook-users-may-have-unknowingly-shared-posts-public" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/14-million-facebook-users-may-have-unknowingly-shared-posts-public</a></div>
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146. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rescuers have recovered 99 bodies of those burned and buried alive – only identifying 28, while nearly 200 are still missing after deadly pyroclastic lava flows and giant clouds of superheated smoke and ash buried entire towns.</em></div>
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148. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A secondary eruption on Tuesday ejected more ash and smoke over 16,000 feet into the air, sending more volcanic material over nearby settlements to the east and northeast.</em></div>
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150. <iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zy3bKp5Fqqk?feature=oembed" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640"></iframe></div>
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154. <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/shocking-satellite-photos-reveal-entire-towns-obliterated-guatemalas-volcano-fire" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff4b33; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/shocking-satellite-photos-reveal-entire-towns-obliterated-guatemalas-volcano-fire</a></div>
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162. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After months of delays, former IT aides to Congressional Democrats, Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, look like they’re about to slide right out of a D.C. courtroom with a plea deal in their bank fraud case – while a litany of far more serious allegations documented by the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak remain unprosecuted.</em></div>
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164. <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/trump-blasts-awan-plea-deal-says-democrat-it-scandal-key-corruption-brings-stolen" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/trump-blasts-awan-plea-deal-says-democrat-it-scandal-key-corruption-brings-stolen</a></div>
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172. Corrupt Democrats Slammed by Louie Gohmert for not Investigating Awans</div>
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177. <iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iLQJWgOSPX0" width="560"></iframe>
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182. _____________________________________________________________________________<br />
183. <br />
184. Who is Q?<br />
185. <br />
186. I think it may be Trump.  Q stopped posting around the time Melania got sick and needed surgery.  Trump didn't have time, as he was caring for his wife.<br />
187. <br />
188. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/1135458125336209239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/facebook-is-fucking-wanker-volcano-awan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1135458125336209239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1135458125336209239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/facebook-is-fucking-wanker-volcano-awan.html' title='Facebook is a Fucking Wanker; Volcano; Awan and Gohmert'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/zy3bKp5Fqqk/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-3249261022865357345</id><published>2018-06-07T14:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2018-06-07T14:58:35.483-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Justin Trudeau Commits Sexual Impropriety - Gropes a Reporter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
189. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQkvnyRU6Tsbc1vXwfzhR7CRAfObwM13PdWIe-IwdZL7E-LznOSFbwnenG2-wayqGyixE78SF9CdAGhq6WWsnjO87z9tWRDDks9-J7v0Jo5mKe_izAFCvGyFHs30NQI7WvkpCQ1CpX8I7/s1600/trudeau+sexual+impropriety.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="755" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQkvnyRU6Tsbc1vXwfzhR7CRAfObwM13PdWIe-IwdZL7E-LznOSFbwnenG2-wayqGyixE78SF9CdAGhq6WWsnjO87z9tWRDDks9-J7v0Jo5mKe_izAFCvGyFHs30NQI7WvkpCQ1CpX8I7/s640/trudeau+sexual+impropriety.PNG" width="532" /></a></div>
190. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/3249261022865357345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/justin-trudeau-commits-sexual.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/3249261022865357345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/3249261022865357345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/justin-trudeau-commits-sexual.html' title='Justin Trudeau Commits Sexual Impropriety - Gropes a Reporter'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQkvnyRU6Tsbc1vXwfzhR7CRAfObwM13PdWIe-IwdZL7E-LznOSFbwnenG2-wayqGyixE78SF9CdAGhq6WWsnjO87z9tWRDDks9-J7v0Jo5mKe_izAFCvGyFHs30NQI7WvkpCQ1CpX8I7/s72-c/trudeau+sexual+impropriety.PNG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-2237988278613655777</id><published>2018-06-07T14:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2018-06-07T14:27:08.787-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Contact Rand Paul and Call Him Out on His Complete Lawlessness</title><content type='html'>&lt;div data-option=&quot;1&quot; id=&quot;tttt_1004463924220051456&quot;&gt;
191. <strong><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1004463924220051456.html">: "(1) Today, , </a></strong></div>
192. <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/embed/1004463924220051456.js"></script>
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194. ThreadReaderApp has been suspended by Twitter.<br />
195. <br />
196. Must be a bunch of Pakistanis in a sweat shop sitting around their screens, going "tap, tap, tap" to delete the conservative site addresses on their lists.  Bastard Rats.<br />
197. <br />
198. Check out Thomas Wictor's thread:<br />
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202. <strong><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1004500518356414464.html">: "(1) Congress versus soldier. Today the Senate is grandstanding about war. Old news. Look at THIS turd. (2) The American entry into World War […]"</a></strong></div>
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206. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpaoXnju66I1ox_YHpFtCxB6RnK3sLWXlyJ81k6V7-WjVuu9o6S9oXqe6GJ_dN6Rf0kRbh9xNqJ_Od6Ttmntbe-4w2IaOCvlcCWE-w_NWbARwk0_hMrHBknVwBkT7Ok7E_PPXtCxGxlHA/s1600/cfr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="600" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpaoXnju66I1ox_YHpFtCxB6RnK3sLWXlyJ81k6V7-WjVuu9o6S9oXqe6GJ_dN6Rf0kRbh9xNqJ_Od6Ttmntbe-4w2IaOCvlcCWE-w_NWbARwk0_hMrHBknVwBkT7Ok7E_PPXtCxGxlHA/s640/cfr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
207. <br />
208. <br />
209. June 7, 2018<br />
210. <br />
211. Hi, folks.  I'm back.<br />
212. <br />
213. It's been a long time, but three suspended accounts later and finally, a permanent banning from Twitter, I came to the realization that my work was done in that forum.<br />
214. <br />
215. Then, I tried sharing my work on what was a favorite - but burdensome, weed-wading, website called <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Conservative Treehouse</span></a>. (click on the title for the live link)  I read there to learn about President Trump's main work, tweets, and accomplishments.  I recommend the site; however, censorship on that site tells me that there are probably government agencies involved in shaping the site's message from the public.  That's you and me.  But, hey, it's a source and, I believe, a reliable one.<br />
216. <br />
217. I've lived a few lifetimes since I last posted and so much has happened in the world, our country, and in my personal life.  I don't know why, but my life is always full of living.  I don't waste time on unimportant things.  I keep my grass cut to keep the HOA off my back.  I attend functions to honor my family.  I spend time with family members who love me.  I honor the spirit and purpose for which I believe I was put here:  to save the republic for my progeny.  All else is extraneous.<br />
218. <br />
219. The internet has become a web of deceit and manipulation.  It is more difficult than ever to perform even the most basic research on many subjects.  Sources are being manipulated and rewritten as I type this, and the educational system is more corrupt and crippled than ever.  My prayers are for the youth of this country to find and hold fast to truth, to nationhood, to freedom, and to pass on at least the freedoms that we have today.<br />
220. <br />
221. With President Trump's election, we once again had the potentiality of repairing a broken, corrupt government.  But it appears that we are losing this battle, as our elected POTUS is prevented from having our corrupted electeds write, propose important legislation that protects our borders.  I will be researching and posting - and hopefully, performing field research - on this important topic, which I believe is the most important one for today.<br />
222. <br />
223. Thanks for stopping by.<br />
224. <br />
225. Time for me to get to work.<br />
226. <br />
227. P. S. Here's a Thomas Wictor thread.  He's an expert in munitions for our early world wars.<br />
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235. <strong><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1004597590443286528.html">: "(1) A tale of two countries. Turkey uses the German Leopard II main battle tank. (2) The Germans said this was the best tank in the world. ( […]"</a></strong></div>
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238. Why do we even have to be bothered with this garbage of wiretapping? Because flaccid Democrats started the meme in summer 2016 as cover to wiretap Trump because their candidate was a drunk, a pathological liar, criminal, child molester, child trafficker, daughter of a mafia member, and was simply ready because it was "her turn."  No amount of conditioning could've prepared me for the smug evil of that fat fucking face Cankles.<br />
239. <br />
240. So...child molesters such as Chucky Schumer and Lindsay Graham run around giving orders to the minion attorneys on staff to file baseless charges against our newly-elected president, while the Soros-funded and taxpayer-funded anarchists beat on conservatives.<br />
241. <br />
242. Cold anger is the word used on many conservative blogs, but I'd take it a step further and call it murderous rage.<br />
243. <br />
244. Watch it, libtard faggots.<br />
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254. <br />
255. <br />
256. Today's circumspections include wading through the completely corrupt and propagandist mainstream media about whether Barry, the wimpy gay usurper, had permission to spy OR whether the media has been lying their asses off all along.  Illegal either way.<br />
257. <br />
258. And we're tired to being flogged, beaten, and bloodied by paid Marxist thugs of George Soros.  We will find this wormy, beastly flaccid globalist and put his head on a pike, if he hasn't already died and his body has been long-ago frozen for his hoped-for trek through forever.  Sorry, Dickwad, even you won't escape.  But we will look for you just the same.<br />
259. <br />
260. Appears that Bannon knows.  He's telling us to chill...that they're on this.  We know that they know.  The Deep State is holding the entire country in a vise right now and our democratically-elected leader has been unable to fill his role with gusto because of a bunch of bureaucrats and handlers.<br />
261. <br />
262. All we need is names, really, and we will go after them.  Anyone with names?  Feed them to the comment section and we will be about the work of the people.  Trump can't do this alone.<br />
263. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
264. <div dir="ltr" lang="en">
265. Went to Steve Bannon's Facebook page & the Following Quotes Regarding WireTapping & Chuck Schumer..<br />
266. Thanks to Steve C <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveCBoston">@SteveCBoston</a> for lead <a href="https://t.co/Ln5AFXZt68">pic.twitter.com/Ln5AFXZt68</a></div>
267. — Beirut Marine (@bestdad2000) <a href="https://twitter.com/bestdad2000/status/838877961344409601">March 6, 2017</a></blockquote>
268. <br />
269. One of the better articles from today's readings:<br />
270.  http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/21934<br />
271. <br />
272. <a href="http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/21934" rel="bookmark">Obama Administration Looks To Be In Very Serious Legal Trouble</a><br />
273. <br />
274. There is no reblog feature, but full credit to the author, A J Strata<br />
275. <br />
276. <center>
277. <img class="alignnone" height="225" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0iZ1E3bs4kM/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></center>
278. <br />
279. <br />
280. There is a lot of breaking news this weekend as the nation learns that a sitting President (Obama) looks to have used the nation’s national security apparatus – which is empowered to protect this nation from <em><strong>foreign</strong></em> enemies and threats – for crass political gain (read “personal gain”).  If this is even partially true, this would be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal">Watergate</a> on steroids and irreparably tarnish the Obama administration for all history.<br />
281. These high stakes may also explain the irrational fear and hate by the democrat leadership we have seen in their scorched-Earth actions since the election.  Events may be unraveling on them big time, events that started last summer in a very different world.<br />
282. Let’s begin by setting down a hard and fast rule to blunt the coming weasel words from team Obama. The President runs his administration. The President’s cabinet has some individual authority, but they confirm with the Commander-in-Chief anything that could erupt back on them either legally or politically. No cabinet member – especially the Attorney General – would run near or across legal or ethical lines without concurrence (i.e., cover from) the top person.<br />
283. To say Obama did not “order” the “wire tap” against the Trump campaign is as ridiculous as it sounds. Note: Trump used figurative parentheses when he tweeted “wire tap”, so read that as meaning “surveillance” legally.<br />
284. It is not like the Captain of a ship actually “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weigh_anchor">weigh’s the anchor</a>” themselves! Captains order it be done. Or more accurately, it is one step of a process that has been established by the command chain so that when the Captain orders the ship to prepare to “get under way” this action is taken. However executed, the Captain is legally responsible for the people under him, and any mistakes they make. This would include any issues or damage done “weighing” the anchors.<br />
285. So when someone tries to split hairs about who ordered the surveillance on Team Trump, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump">remember this:</a><br />
286. <blockquote>
287. <div>
288. First, as Obama officials well know, under the FISA process, it is <strong>technically the FISA court that “orders” surveillance</strong>. And by statute, it is the Justice Department, not the White House, that represents the government in proceedings before the FISA court.</div>
289. </blockquote>
290. The fact is no one would be dumb enough to run afoul of the laws protecting the American People from our intelligence apparatus without top cover – because these represent very, very serious crimes. So let’s stop pretending AG Lynch did this on her own. If this happened, it was all coordinated.<br />
291. We also need to start with specifying which laws were broken, and then get to the all critical timeline – because that is where we will discover how thin the ice is under Team Obama.<br />
292. T<a href="http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/yes-obama-could-be-prosecuted-if-involved-with-illegal-surveillance/">he best overview of the laws broken is here</a>, and the following excerpts summarize the issues our nation faces. To understand the issues one must understand the very narrow and special role the FISA Court and our Intelligence Apparatus plays in our nation. Because of its special powers, it is very restricted on what it can do.<br />
293. <blockquote>
294. Rather shockingly, no law currently forbids misusing the power of the presidency to spy on one’s adversaries. <strong>What the law does forbid is lying to any judicial officer to obtain any means of surveillance</strong>. <strong>What the law does forbid, under criminal penalty, is the misuse of FISA</strong>. Both derive from the protections of the Fourth Amendment itself. Under section 1809, FISA makes it a crime for anyone to either “engage in” electronic surveillance under “color of law” under FISA without following the law’s restrictions, or “disclose” or “use” information gathered from it in contravention of the statute’s sharp constrictions.</blockquote>
295. Emphasis mine. As we deal with this explosive situation, remember the core issue. It is not run-of-the-mill political skulduggery (is there any other kind?). It is the criminal misuse of a critical national defensive capability. Liken it to using a military weapon against your political opponent, because that is the nearest and best analogy. If Obama ordered the military to intervene with Team Trump during the election, that would not be much different from using the intelligence powers to intervene. This is not on the same level as using the IRS to target political opponents – not by a long shot.<br />
296. Why is this the case? Because the FISA court operates outside the US Constitution, and therefore any misuse is much more serious:<br />
297. <blockquote>
298. FISA, 50 USC 1801, et seq., <strong>is a very limited method of obtaining surveillance authority</strong>. The reason for its strict limits is that FISA evades the regular federal court process, by not allowing regularly, Constitutionally appointed federal judges and their magistrates to authorize surveillance the Fourth Amendment would otherwise forbid. Instead, the Chief Justice handpicks the FISA court members, who have shown an exceptional deference to the executive branch. <strong>This is because FISA court members trust the government is only bringing them surveillance about pending terror attacks or “grave hostile” war-like attacks, as the FISA statute limits itself to</strong>. <strong>Thus, a FISA application can only be used in very limited circumstances</strong>.</blockquote>
299. Again, emphasis mine.  The capability to use our intelligence resources against any entity is restricted to <strong><em>critical</em></strong> national security. These resources are <em><strong>NOT</strong></em> to be applied for other legal matters, such as questionable business interests, hacking computers, etc. This is important because the evidence seems to show Team Obama tried to abuse these resources – and were rebuffed!<br />
300. <blockquote>
301. <strong>FISA can only be used for “foreign intelligence information.</strong>” … <strong>The only “foreign intelligence information” allowed</strong> as a basis for surveillance is information <strong>necessary to protect the United States against actual or potential “grave” “hostile” attack, war-like sabotage or international terror</strong>. Second, it<strong> can only be used to eavesdrop on conversations where the parties to the conversation are a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power</strong>. An agent of a foreign power cannot be a United States person unless they are knowingly involved in criminal espionage. <strong>No warrant is allowed on that person unless a FISA court finds probable cause the United States person is knowingly engaged in criminal espionage</strong>. Even then, if it involves a United States person, special steps must be taken to “<strong>minimize the acquisition and retention, and prohibit the dissemination</strong>, of non publicly available information concerning un-consenting United States persons.”</blockquote>
302. This is the crux of Obama’s legal trouble. In order to <em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">legally</span></strong> capture</em> <em>information</em> about members of the Trump Campaign (one of which was a sitting Senator), then <em>retain it</em> and <em>distribute it</em>, the reason would have to border on high crimes and treason – not “discussions” or “hacking” or “business transactions”. Even coordinating national policies and treaties with foreign leaders would not rise to the level of urgency required to invoke these intelligence resources.<br />
303. To summarize, it is Team Obama’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">collection</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">retention</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">distribution</span> of  information protected by the US Constitution that constitute the high crimes here, specifically when it pertains to members of Trump’s campaign, emphasized here:<br />
304. <blockquote>
305. This includes procedures that require <strong>they never identify the person, or the conversation, being surveilled, to the public</strong> where that information is not evidence of a particular crime.</blockquote>
306. Since the Fake News media has been reporting these very same details to the public, and citing current and former Obama administration sources, it is not debatable on whether laws were broken. They were.<br />
307. Bottom line: this should never have happened:<br />
308. <blockquote>
309. At the outset, <strong>the NSA should have never been involved in a domestic US election</strong>. Investigating the election, or any hacking of the DNC or the phishing of Podesta’s emails, would not be a FISA matter. It does not fit the definition of war sabotage or a “grave” “hostile” war-like attack on the United States, as constrictively covered by FISA. It is your run-of-the-mill hacking case covered by existing United States laws that require use of the regular departments of the FBI, Department of Justice, and Constitutionally Senate-appointed federal district court judges, and their appointed magistrates, not secretive, deferential FISA courts.</blockquote>
310. So how did this happen? How did our extensive intelligence apparatus come to be misused against members of the Trump campaign?<br />
311. Well, the simplest answer seems to be Team Obama misled the courts:<br />
312. <blockquote>
313. This raises the second problem: Obama’s team submission of an affidavit to to the FISA court. <strong>An application for a warrant of any kind requires an affidavit</strong>, and that affidavit may not omit material factors. A fact is “material” if it could have the possible impact of impacting the judicial officer deciding whether to authorize the warrant. Such affidavits are the most carefully drawn up, reviewed, and approved affidavits of law enforcement in our system precisely because <strong>they must be fully-disclosing</strong>, forthcoming, and include any information a judge must know to decide whether to allow our government to spy on its own. My assumption would be that intelligence officials were trying to investigate hacking of DNC which is not even a FISA covered crime, so <strong>therefore serious questions arise about what Obama administration attorneys said to the FISA court to even consider the application</strong>. If the claim was “financial ties” to Russia, then Obama knew he had no basis to use FISA at all.<br />
314. Since Trump was the obvious target, <strong>the alleged failure to disclose his name in the second application could be a serious and severe violation of the obligation to disclose all material facts.</strong></blockquote>
315. President Trump now owns the records of the United States of America. One thing he and his Attorney General (former Senator Sessions) can get their hands on are these affidavits to the FISA Court. If they are as damning as some believe they must be, then Team Obama is going to be in serious trouble.<br />
316. Remember, back when this all started no one believed Trump would win and be given the keys to all the evidence lockers. Which is why one has to ask why did Team Obama double down in January and push the laws even further?<br />
317. Team Obama has a responsibility to the FISA Court to not disclose any information on US Citizens accidentally caught up in a surveillance activity, but this is what they began doing in January 2017.  This may be the second smoking gun – diligently reported by the Fake News media.<br />
318. <blockquote>
319. That raises the third problem: <strong>it seems the FISA-compelled protocols for precluding the dissemination of the information were violated</strong>, and that Obama’s team issued orders to achieve precisely what the law forbids,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0"> if published reports are true about the administration sharing the surveilled information far-and-wide to promote unlawful leaks to the press.</a><strong>This, too, would be its own crime</strong>, as it brings back the ghost of Hillary’s emails — by definition, FISA information is strictly confidential or it’s information that never should have been gathered. FISA strictly segregates its surveilled information into two categories: highly confidential information of the most serious of crimes involving foreign acts of war; or, if not that, then information that should never have been gathered, should be immediately deleted, and never sourced nor disseminated. It cannot be both.<br />
320. <strong>Recognizing this information did not fit FISA meant having to delete it and destroy it. According to published reports, Obama’s team did the opposite:</strong> order it preserved, ordered the NSA to search it, keep it, and share it; and <strong>then Obama’s Attorney General issued an order to allow broader sharing of information and, according to the New York Times, Obama aides acted to label the Trump information at a lower level of classification for massive-level sharing of the information</strong>. The problem for Obama is simple — if it could fit a lower level of classification, then it had to be deleted and destroyed, not disseminated and distributed, under crystal clear FISA law.</blockquote>
321. There is much more in the article, so please take the time to read the whole thing.<br />
322. This is about as open-and-shut as you can get in my humble opinion. All this has been faithfully reported (i.e., corroborated) by the Fake News media – citing sources. Along with the internal trail of documents the government is required to keep, it would seem Team Obama has a real problem on their hands.<br />
323. So let’s visit the timeline of events (<a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/03/the-shadow-government-timeline/">best one can be found here</a>), and recall that when all this started Hillary was a shoe-in as the next POTUS. Therefore she would be able to keep a lid on all the critical internal government documents Team Trump now has unfettered access to.<br />
324. <blockquote>
325. <ol>
326. <li><strong>June 2016: FISA request.</strong> The Obama administration <a class=" x5l" href="https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">files a request</a> with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.</li>
327. </ol>
328. </blockquote>
329. Note that the article above identifies a prior attempt to gain surveillance through the normal criminal courts process, before this event. This is one month prior to the RNC and DNC conventions. At this time Trump as POTUS seems to be pure fantasy.<br />
330. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump">This prior attempt is confirmed (supposedly independently) by Andrew McCarthy</a>:<br />
331. <blockquote>
332. <div>
333. To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI <strong>considered a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">criminal investigation</span> of Trump associates</strong>, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).<br />
334. ….<br />
335. In June, the Obama Justice Department submitted an application that apparently “named” Trump in addition to some of his associates.  …  In any event, <strong>the FISA court reportedly turned down the Obama Justice Department’s request.</strong></div>
336. </blockquote>
337. Both the normal courts and the FISA court reject the administrations requests. These requests should be made public ASAP.<br />
338. Very few people expected Hillary to lose the election at this stage. Bernie was clearly on his way to being vanquished from the Democrat ticket. The effort in June 2016 is clumsy and quickly abandoned. Hillary has her email problems, but she also looks invincible.<br />
339. I would note one other event on this timeline, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/05/giuliani-sessions-keating-et-al-time-for-loretta-lynch-to-appoint-special-counsel.html">when former President Bill Clinton tried to secretly meet with Obama’s AG, Loretta Lynch</a>:<br />
340. <blockquote>
341. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she regrets her controversial meeting over the summer with former President Bill Clinton, saying she should have recognized ahead of time how it would be perceived by the public.<br />
342. <strong>Mrs. Lynch had met with Mr. Clinton privately </strong>after the two wound up on the same airport tarmac <strong>in Phoenix on June 27</strong>, just days before FBI Director James Comey would announce that he would not press charges against Hillary Clinton over her private email server.</blockquote>
343. AG Lynch is the only person authorized to make FISA court requests. Coincidence?<br />
344. Anyway, nothing happens for months, until …<br />
345. <blockquote>
346. <strong>3. October: Podesta emails.</strong> In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.<br />
347. <strong>4. October: FISA request. </strong>The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at <em>National Review</em> later <a class=" x5l" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap" rel="noopener" target="_blank">notes</a>. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.</blockquote>
348. By October 2016 things are looking really serious for Hillary, but not desperate yet. The Democrats are trying to find a way to neutralize the Podesta emails, which expose serious collusion with the Fake New media. They also remind everyone of Hillary’s own email issues.<br />
349. But more importantly, the <a href="http://observer.com/2016/11/latest-wikileaks-reveals-clinton-critics-were-right-all-along/">Clinton Foundation was being exposed</a> as a pay-for-power enrichment scheme (rivaling anything thrown at Team Trump in the last few weeks). Did all these events panic the White House and the Democrat power structure? Did they attempt a Hail Mary and try and resurrect their plan to use our nation’s Intelligence Apparatus against Trump?<br />
350. Not an unreasonable assumption to be honest. And somehow Team Obama actually get the authority for surveillance (maybe by withholding key information about Trump?). Anyway, no one is challenging the fact surveillance began.<br />
351. But after losing the election to the GOP, team Obama does something stupendously stupid: they issue a memo that attempts to overturn very clear laws about dissemination so they can try and “leak” damning innuendo about Trump through their surrogates in the Fake New media:<br />
352. <blockquote>
353. <strong>6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. </strong>As Michael Walsh later <a class=" x5l" href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/15/surprise-at-the-end-obama-administration-gave-nsa-broad-new-powers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">notes</a>, and as the <em>New York Times</em> reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.<br />
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355. <strong>The new rules</strong>, which were issued in <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349/Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">an unclassified document</a>, entitled Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the National Security Agency (NSA), significantly relaxed longstanding limits on what the NSA may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations.</div>
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357. …</div>
358. <ul>
359. <li class="selectionShareable"><strong>Jan 3rd 2017</strong> – Loretta Lynch signs off on rule changes for phone taps.</li>
360. <li class="selectionShareable"><strong>Jan 12th 2017</strong> –  WaPo reports <strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking/2017/01/12/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b4a68c3d937f" target="_blank">On Phone Calls </a></strong>Anonymous Intel Sources</li>
361. </ul>
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364. Obama’s administration had become so addicted to circumventing laws by executive orders, procedures, rules, etc they apparently went to that well one time too many.</div>
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366. There is no legal cover behind an illegal rule. This is not going to protect these people from legal jeopardy (may reduce their sentences somewhat). And the more players involved (Lynch, her successor Yates, etc) the more this runs into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act">RICO statutes.</a></div>
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368. Team Trump looks to have a great case here. Plus they have access to the government “smoking gun” documents spread throughout. I do not understand why Obama’s administration would dig their legal hole deeper in disseminating the classified information the law required them to delete and not leak. But they did.</div>
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370. So what does that indicate about team Obama? Either colossal stupidity, uncontrolled panic, or a combination of both. Maybe by they time they realized Trump would find the FISA court records their only avenues was to try and turn public opinion using their robots in the Fake News media.</div>
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372. All Trump has to do is let out the smoking gun documents one at a time. Let the left deny and parse words, then drop his counterveiling bombshells.</div>
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374. Rinse and repeat.</div>
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376. If this is as bad as some say, Trump will milk this all the way – as he should.</div>
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388. Thoughts:  Americans have wanted justice for the usurper for over eight years regarding the usurper Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama and we will have it.</div>
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392. He believes that he will slide and walk away as he has during his tenure, but his fantasy world of drugs, children sex slaves, and Muslim cohorting days are over and he will now account for his theft of years and wealth from Americans.</div>
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396. There is a reckoning.  And it is now.</div>
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400. On February 28, Barry's Attorney General, the affirmative action hire and liberal "progressive" extraordinaire, Loretta Lynch Hargrove, made a tape that effectively calls Black Lives Matter and Muslims to jihad.  She, too, will face her reckoning:</div>
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411. How can any one question whether she did or didn't bug Trumps phones?! She is as sleazy as it comes! <a href="https://t.co/mL6XdkAkd0">https://t.co/mL6XdkAkd0</a></div>
412. — Bellcollector (@Bellcollector1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bellcollector1/status/838918303548653568">March 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
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417. A dog-whistle for unpaid anarchists to take to the streets, and as Democrats have admitted to, encouraging those unhinged individuals to commit violent crimes in the "name" of their current movement...which even they can't seem to articulate.
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420. ANTICIPATIONS FOR THE WEEK:<br />
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422. James Comey's resignation - or the NYPD will reveal the contents of Anthony Weiner's laptop, which will corner 1/3 of elected Republicans and Democrats and news folks in the pedophilia/human trafficking investigation.<br />
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424. And why not come out with it NOW, NYPD?<br />
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426. Don't Americans have the right to know where the children of our country go when they go missing?<br />
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429. Fuckers<br />
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436. Well, looky here. It's virtually impossible to seek FISA surveillance authorization w/out White House knowing. Obama lied again. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wiretap?src=hash">#wiretap</a> <a href="https://t.co/xWToHQzQQd">pic.twitter.com/xWToHQzQQd</a></div>
437. — 🎙Black Russian🎙 (@StacyOnTheRight) <a href="https://twitter.com/StacyOnTheRight/status/838771618759442432">March 6, 2017</a></blockquote>
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451. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wikileaks?src=hash">#Wikileaks</a> revealed a torrent download, and is releasing the password tomorrow! This will be YUGE! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vault7?src=hash">#Vault7</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ObamaGate?src=hash">#ObamaGate</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y6ChA4KWLs">https://t.co/Y6ChA4KWLs</a></p>— Fake Checker (@ExtinctMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctMedia/status/838935513600049153">March 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
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461. Name the inequity that you've seen in the past eight years of the Obama terror and you'll find this racist demagogue:  Tom Perez.  Recently named the Head of the RNC, this nation-destroying, insane, police-hating racist deserves nothing but the greatest disrespect, having earned the honor from his scorn for our Constitution and rule of law.</div>
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465. Perez is the son of immigrants...imagine that, a man with divided loyalties and with Communistic/Nazi tendencies to destroy every facet of American culture...seeking to destroy America's pride and ability to function as a nation state.</div>
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469. Fuck Tom Perez and every liberal Communist weakling that ever breathed.</div>
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477. https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-racist-labor-secretary-tom-perez-is-said-to-be-near-the-top-of-hillary-clintons-vp-list/</div>
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481. by <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/person/dr-steven-j-allen/">Dr. Steven J. Allen</a> <div class="single__side-info__date">
482. July 18, 2016</div>
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486. <b>The Racist: Labor Secretary Tom Perez is said to be near the top of Hillary Clinton’s VP list</b> </div>
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488. <br />
489. Few Americans have heard of Tom Perez, but the current Secretary of Labor is one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination for Vice President.<br />
490. If he’s not Hillary Clinton’s running mate, he’ll likely play a big role in her administration (Attorney General?) if she wins, or in the next Democratic administration, whenever that occurs.<br />
491. He is, by all accounts, a rising star on the Left and in the Democratic Party—one who just might soon be Vice President of the United States.<br />
492. And he is a racist. If you’re in the political mainstream, and the prospect of Perez as VP doesn’t give you a chill down your spine, you don’t know Tom Perez.<br />
493. <br />
494. <strong>Running mate</strong><br />
495. Edward-Isaac Dovere, writing in <em>Politico</em>:<br />
496. <blockquote>
497. Aside from the wonkiest of Washington circles and the most progressive corners of the left, no one’s heard of Tom Perez. He isn’t young or handsome. He has zero foreign policy experience. The highest office he’s been elected to is a suburban county council.<br />
498. Yet the labor secretary has emerged as a sleeper pick for vice president, with chatter building among top Democrats—including Elizabeth Warren.</blockquote>
499. Warren is a radical firebrand, now a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who became rich and famous by exploiting “affirmative action” with the pretense that she is an American Indian. <em>Politico</em> quoted Warren during a discussion of possible running mates for Hillary Clinton, “Oh, you’d be great, Tom.” <em>Politico </em>added that the “other senators quickly started agreeing [that] maybe Perez was the one who could make Clinton stick to the progressive politics people in that group wanted.”<br />
500. According to <em>Politico</em>, many top aides in the White House favor the selection of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who’s close to the President.<br />
501. <blockquote>
502. But over beers, some of the rank-and-file White House staffers who are part of what’s been referred to as the “cult of Perez” see things differently.<br />
503. “My strong guess,” one White House aide said, “is that if you took a straw poll of staffers here about who they’d pick for the ticket, Tom would do very well.” . . .<br />
504. Perez has more credibility with committed progressives—who measure politicians by their battle scars—than almost anyone else around. The unions love him so much that they campaigned against his nomination to replace Eric Holder as attorney general in late 2014 because they didn’t want to lose him at the Labor Department.</blockquote>
505. Per <em>Politico</em>, Perez is adored in the White House, a key player in setting President Obama’s second-term agenda. He checks the boxes that, in the view of many Hillary Clinton supporters, would make for a good VP pick: He’s the son of immigrants (Dominican). He’s wildly popular among “Progressives” (the Far Left), yet he endorsed Hillary Clinton early in the 2016 contest, only the third current Cabinet member to do so. And, unlike his fellow-Latino rival for VP, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Perez speaks fluent Spanish.<br />
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507. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, called him “one of the finest labor secretaries since Frances Perkins,” FDR’s labor secretary.<br />
508. Perez appeared on <em>USA Today’</em>s “power ranking” of potential Democratic VP candidates, ranked as the third most likely pick for Clinton’s running mate.<br />
509. Chris Cillizza of the <em>Washington Post</em> ranked Perez as fourth most likely, on the ground that “The Labor secretary checks two boxes for Clinton (and, yes, some of vice presidential picking is box-checking): He’s well regarded in liberal circles, and he’s Hispanic. Also, he’s not named ‘Elizabeth Warren’ or ‘Bernie Sanders’—neither of whom Clinton wants to pick.”</blockquote>
510. Amie Parnes of <em>The Hill</em>, who put Perez on her “top five” list, made essentially the same argument: “Perez is very well-liked in the White House and maintains a close relationship with Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough. Many see him as having all the right attributes to fill the ticket and win over progressives. Unions love him, plus he speaks fluent Spanish, which could help further drive Latinos to Clinton’s column.”<br />
511. Alex Pfeiffer wrote in the <em>Daily Caller</em>: “There has been much worry recently on the Left that Trump could get union support not typical for a GOP candidate, and Perez could quell those fears.” (See our report on Trump’s appeal to union members in the April and May issues of <em>Labor Watch</em>.)<br />
512. In <em>National Review Online</em>, Jim Geraghty noted Perez’s relative obscurity outside the world of unions and leftists.<br />
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514. On the shortlist of potential Democratic running mates filled with senators and governors, one name stands out for its obscurity. <em>Tom Perez? Who?</em> . . .<br />
515. Perez’s liberal credentials are as impeccable as they come. [The leftist magazine] <em>Mother Jones</em> called him “one of the administration’s most stalwart progressives.” Conservative policy experts who have followed his work in the Justice and Labor Departments consider him perhaps the Obama administration’s most radical and relentless ideologue.<br />
516. Iain Murray, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s vice president of strategy, calls Perez “possibly the most dangerous person in the administration right now.”<br />
517. “His rewriting of U.S. labor law is probably the most fundamental attack on the free-enterprise system going on at present,” Murray says. “If he has his way, we won’t just revert to the 1930s. We’ll do things that even Franklin Roosevelt couldn’t do, like eliminate vast numbers of independent-contractor jobs and unionize those that remain.”<br />
518. Murray sees Perez’s ideological vision as driven by an arrogant insistence that most workers are oblivious to their own exploitation by employers, and need the state to intervene to help them understand proper “work-life balance” or to make basic choices about work.<br />
519. His work in the Justice Department was just as extreme. “He essentially operationalized Eric Holder’s radicalization of the Department of Justice,” says Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. “No civil-rights theory too crazy to pursue, no litigants too awkward to pay off.”<br />
520. “Perez has shown a glaring inability to tell the truth and dispassionately apply the basic constitutional tenet of ‘equal justice under law,’” declared Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.</blockquote>
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522. <strong>Origin story</strong><br />
523. A 2005 profile in the <em>Washington Post</em> described Perez’s background:<br />
524. <blockquote>
525. Perez, 43, grew up in Buffalo in the 1960s and ’70s, the youngest of five brothers and sisters. His maternal grandfather, Rafael Brache, was the Dominican Republic’s ambassador to the United States in the early years of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship. After Brache spoke out against the regime in 1935, the ambassador was declared <em>persona non grata</em> by his own government. He chose to stay in the United States.<br />
526. Brache’s daughter Grace, Perez’s mother, married Rafael Perez, a Dominican who received U.S. citizenship after serving in the Army following World War II. “Politics,” Perez says, “was my dad’s passion,” in part because it had cost his father-in-law his country. Both men risked their lives by defying Trujillo.</blockquote>
527. Perez’s father, Rafael, was a physician in Atlanta, then moved to Buffalo, New York, to work at a veterans’ hospital. The <em>Post</em>:<br />
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529. Perez’s father was a Democrat unimpressed by centrists: “A Rockefeller Republican is still a Republican,” he used to say. Rafael Perez died when Tom was 12; he found a surrogate in a friend’s father, a Teamster who had lost his job. The union helped keep his friend’s family afloat in hard times, and their experience made Perez a labor supporter</blockquote>
530. Perez was born in Buffalo in 1961. He graduated from Canisius High School, an all-male Roman Catholic Jesuit private school in Buffalo, in 1979. To supplement grant and scholarship money for college, Perez worked his way through school, as a trash collector, in a warehouse, in Brown University’s dining hall, and for the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights.<br />
531. In 1981, he received an A.B. in international relations and political science from Brown University. In 1986, as a Harvard law student, he worked as a law clerk for U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese (who today is a member of the board of the Capital Research Center). In 1987, he received a J.D. from Harvard Law and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.<br />
532. From 1987-89 Perez was a law clerk for a federal judge, Zita Weinshienk of the U.S. District Court in Colorado, who had been appointed by President Jimmy Carter. In 1989-95, he was a federal prosecutor, then as deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Clinton’s attorney general, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno">Janet Reno</a>. From 1995-98, Perez worked as special counsel to Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).<br />
533. In 1996, Perez was instrumental in the passage of the Church Arson Prevention Act, a bill founded on the false premise that African-American churches were being targeted at a disproportionately high rate by arsonists. (For information on the church arson hoax, see <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/fanning_imaginary_flames_a_look_back_at_the_great_church_fire_propaganda_campaign.html" target="_blank">“A Church Arson Epidemic? It’s Smoke and Mirrors” by Michael Fumento, <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, July 8, 1996</a>, and “Fanning Imaginary Flames: A Look Back At The Great Church Fire Propaganda Campaign” by Scott Swett, <em>American Thinker</em>, June 11, 2011.)<br />
534. In the last part of the Clinton administration, Perez served as deputy assistant attorney general and in the Department of Health and Human Services as director of the Office of Civil Rights. He chaired the inter-agency Worker Exploitation Task Force, which focused on the working conditions of illegal aliens.<br />
535. An advocate of “disparate impact” theory, which sees racism as a driving force in human affairs, he worked to eliminate the supposedly disproportionate assignment of black and Hispanic students to special-education programs and Asian and “white” students to gifted-and-talented programs. Perez and others of his mindset, in the name of fighting racism, have effectively denied many students the sort of education that was appropriate to their academic ability.<br />
536. Perez was a volunteer for CASA de Maryland, a George Soros-funded advocacy group representing the interests of illegal aliens. He served on the organization’s board in 1995-2002, rising to president. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has called CASA de Maryland “a fringe advocacy group that has instructed illegal immigrants on how to escape detection and also promoted illegal labor sites and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.” Big donors to CASA de Maryland include Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society (at least $270,000 in 2010-2013), the National Council of La Raza ($70,000 in 2004-2013), and two government-supported entities, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. (at least $40,000 in 2011-2013) and the Maryland Legal Services Corporation, which is supposed to provide legal services to the poor (at least $630,203 in 2005-2013). For more on CASA de Maryland, see our sister publication <em>Organization Trends, </em>September 2012.<br />
537. Perez was elected in 2002 to the county council of Montgomery County, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. In that race, with the help of unions, he defeated the local head of the Chamber of Commerce. As a council member (and, in 2004-2005, council president), he continued his advocacy for illegal aliens, calling for the state to recognize <em>matricula consular</em> cards, issued by Mexican and Guatemalan consular offices, as a valid form of ID. Such cards, notoriously prone to being issued and used fraudulently, help illegals get easier access to taxpayer-funded social services.<br />
538. He sponsored a bill aimed at giving illegals better access to banks and backed a policy to permit illegal immigrants who attend college in their state of residence to qualify for the same discounted, in-state tuition rates that are available to legal residents. In 2004, he went before the Maryland state legislature to testify against a number of immigration-enforcement bills, including one that sought to prevent illegals from acquiring driver’s licenses and another proposing that people be required to prove their citizenship before registering to vote. He opposed efforts to study and document the financial burdens that illegal aliens placed on the Maryland state budget.<br />
539. From 2001 to 2007, Perez taught at the University of Maryland School of Law and, part-time, at the George Washington University School of Public Health. Former Justice Department official J. Christian Adams (about whom, more below) wrote that Perez, during his time working on healthcare policy, he focused on matters of race. “While at George Washington University’s School of Public Health in Washington, D.C., his teaching and research centered on ‘health care workforce diversity” and “racial and ethnic disparities in health status.’ At the University of Maryland’s School of Law in downtown Baltimore, he taught courses and law clinics which ‘explored the intersection between health care and civil rights issues.’”<br />
540. In 2005, Perez served as a trustee and an action-fund board member of the Center for American Progress, a left-wing group closely associated with the Clintons. Its founder, John Podesta, served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and currently chairs the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.<br />
541. In 2007, he ran for attorney general in Maryland, backed by the teachers’ union and the Service Employees International Union, but was disqualified by the Maryland Court of Appeals (the state’s supreme court) for failure to meet the requirement that the state AG have 10 years’ experience as a lawyer in Maryland. (He had joined the state Bar in 2001.) After the disqualification, he focused on supporting Martin O’Malley in the governor’s race and was rewarded by Gov. O’Malley with the appointment to run the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.<br />
542. In 2008, Perez backed Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and served on the presidential transition team. President Obama nominated Perez to be assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil Rights Division. His controversial background brought the opposition of Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and David Vitter (R-La.), and the confirmation process was further slowed when it was revealed that the Civil Rights Division had dismissed an open-and-shut, caught-on-video case of election-day voter intimidation by a gun-toting member of the racist New Black Panther Party. (Perez, it would be revealed, was a key player in the decision to dismiss.) Nominated in March 2009, Perez was not confirmed until October. The vote was 72-22, with only Coburn and Vitter speaking against confirmation.<br />
543. <strong>Race obsession</strong><br />
544. Upon taking office, Perez declared that part of the mission of the Civil Rights Division was to help those Americans who were “living in the shadows”—illegal aliens as well as “our Muslim-American brothers and sisters subject to post-9/11 backlash,” “communities of color disproportionately affected by the subprime meltdown,” and “all too many children lacking quality education.”<br />
545. Perez pledged to greatly expand DOJ’s prosecution of alleged hate crimes, depicting such crimes as predominantly cases in which a “white” person targets an African-American. (Actually, according to statistics gathered by the Obama administration, an African-American is 12 times as likely to murder a “white” person as vice versa.)<br />
546. In his new job, Perez focused on cases of “disparate impact.” Under that concept, any mathematical difference among groups serves as <em>prima facie</em> evidence—proof, unless rebutted—that illegal discrimination has occurred.<br />
547. An example: American Samoans are 57 times as likely as other Americans to play in the NFL. Under “disparate impact” theory, that fact would be <em>prima facie</em> evidence that the NFL discriminates against non-Samoans.<br />
548. Under this concept, it would be unlawful for an employer to, say, use test scores as a basis for hiring or promotion, unless different groups all did equally well on the tests.<br />
549. In 2009, Perez and the Civil Rights Division pressured several universities to discontinue an experimental program whereby students could purchase their textbooks in digital formats which they could read via the Amazon Kindle, because the Kindle—notwithstanding its text-to-voice feature for the narration of books—was not fully accessible (in its menu options) to blind students. Until the Kindle rectified this injustice, said Perez, universities that made their textbooks available on the e-reader would be investigated for possible violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<br />
550. That year, Perez and the CRD launched an investigation of Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his strict enforcement of immigration laws. This investigation, which led to a federal lawsuit, grew out of a February 2009 demand by some Democrats in Congress that the Justice Department examine Arpaio’s “discriminatory” practices toward illegal aliens. Perez and his associates also sued to block an Arizona law deputizing state police to check the immigration status of criminal suspects whom they believed might be in the U.S. illegally.<br />
551. On April 23, 2012, Perez’s Justice Department sued the city of Jacksonville, Florida, claiming that its use of written tests to determine promotions in its fire department had “resulted in a disparate impact upon black candidates,” who registered passing grades at significantly lower rates than others. “This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices that have the effect of excluding qualified candidates on account of race will not be tolerated,” said Perez.<br />
552. This was just one of numerous Perez/DOJ lawsuits designed to force various municipal fire (and police) departments to do away with written tests. In a case against the New York Fire Department, Perez and DOJ argued in favor of what amounted to strict racial quotas, even if the candidates scored as low as 30 percent on their qualifying exams.<br />
553. Likewise, bankers and mortgage lenders are committing discrimination if they reject loan applications for different groups at different rates, even if that’s because some people are rated, based on objective criteria, as less likely to pay back their loans. Such lenders, says Perez, discriminate “with a smile” and “fine print,” but their subtle brand of racism is “every bit as destructive as the cross burned in a neighborhood.” In other words, they’re Klansmen!<br />
554. Remember: Forcing lenders to give loans to unqualified borrowers, in order to avoid accusations of discrimination, was the spark that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Perez would continue to support the idea of government intimidation of lenders, based on their “disparate” lending, long after the American people and the world saw the disastrous consequences of a race-based lending policy.<br />
555. Perez’s desire to protect the preposterous basis for his policies—the idea that “disparate impact” is <em>prima facie</em> evidence of discrimination–led to a scandal known as “Perez’s <em>quid pro quo</em>.”<br />
556. According to Perez in testimony before Congress, the Civil Right Division filed “a record eight lending-related federal lawsuits” in 2011, resulting in eight settlements that netted “more than $350 million in relief to the victims of illegal lending practices.” In many of those cases, Perez used “disparate impact” analysis to advance the notion that if banks were rejecting “white” and “nonwhite” loan applicants at different rates, they were, by definition (and regardless of intent), engaging in discrimination that violated the Fair Housing Act.<br />
557. In February 2012, Perez had used his influence to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court from hearing <em>Magner v. Gallagher</em>, a case where local slumlords from St. Paul, Minnesota, were accusing that city of racism for enforcing its housing code. St. Paul, in turn, challenged the notion (embraced by Perez) that racial discrimination can be proven simply by presenting disparate-impact statistics, rather than actually ascertaining intent or examining the specifics of each case.<br />
558. Here’s how it all went down, according to an editorial in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>:<br />
559. <blockquote>
560. Soon after Mr. Perez assumed his job [at the Civil Rights Division] in October 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder established a unit under Mr. Perez to examine loans to minorities. The unit proceeded to threaten a series of lawsuits against banks under the 1968 Fair Housing Act.<br />
561. The lenders quickly settled these cases rather than run the reputational risk of being called racist in court. But on November 7, 2011 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the City of St. Paul’s appeal in <em>Magner v. Gallagher</em>, which concerned the legality of disparate-impact theory in housing. St. Paul believed it had an excellent chance to prevail because the text of the Fair Housing Act doesn’t explicitly allow for disparate impact.<br />
562. That’s when the Obama Administration kicked into gear. On November 17, Mr. Perez emailed a former colleague . . . to probe if city officials might be convinced to withdraw <em>Magner</em> . . .  according to documents that the Justice Department sent to Congressional investigators. . . . [Perez was referred to another lawyer] who was advising St. Paul on a pending False Claims Act case against the city filed by a private citizen.<br />
563. Mr. Perez had stumbled onto a potential <em>quid pro quo</em>: The feds could decline to intervene in the false claims case (known as <em>Newell</em>) in exchange for the city withdrawing <em>Magner</em> from the Supreme Court. . . . [A series of contacts and negotiations followed.] In early January, Justice made a proposal to St. Paul: The feds would decline to intervene in another private False Claims Act case against St. Paul (known as <em>Ellis</em>) if the city would withdraw <em>Magner</em> from the Supreme Court. Then Justice would also decline to intervene in <em>Newell</em>.</blockquote>
564. In other words, Perez and the DOJ agreed to give up a case that could have recovered $200 million for taxpayers, in exchange for the City of St. Paul dropping its legal challenge to Perez’s theory of “disparate impact.” Why? Because at that point, prior to the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, it appeared that the Court would throw out the concept, which is critical to the success of Perez and other race-baiting politicians. The <em>Journal</em> summed it up: “A senior Justice Department official, Mr. Perez, intervened to undermine two civil complaints against the City of St. Paul in order to get St. Paul to drop a Supreme Court case that might have blown apart the legal rationale for his dubious discrimination crusade against law-abiding businesses.”<br />
565. <br />
566. <strong>Vote fraud</strong><br />
567. Perez and his associates assert that voter ID laws—the same kind of laws used in Mexico, in Canada, and in South Africa under Nelson Mandela—are a racist effort to deprive “people of color” of their voting rights. Consistent with that claim, Perez led the Obama administration’s assault on voter ID laws during the run-up to the 2012 elections.<br />
568. In December 2011, for instance, the Justice Department blocked a new South Carolina law requiring voters to present valid identification at their polling places on Election Day. Perez contended that the law violated Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, because of a supposed racial disparity: that 8.4 percent of the state’s registered “white” voters lacked photo ID, compared to 10 percent of “nonwhite” voters.<br />
569. Perez also led a 2012 Civil Rights Division lawsuit that succeeded in overturning Texas’s voter ID law.<br />
570. In 2012, Florida election officials had identified some 53,000 still-registered voters who were deceased, and another 2,600 who were non-citizens. State officials began an effort to verify the identity and eligibility of the people listed on its voter rolls—and Perez and DOJ ordered the state of Florida to halt its efforts.<br />
571. DOJ explained its actions by saying that it had not yet been able to verify that Florida’s efforts “neither have the purpose nor will have the effect of discriminating on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group.” In a letter to the Florida Secretary of State, Perez charged that Florida was violating the National Voter Registration Act and the Voting Rights Act. “Please immediately cease this unlawful conduct,” he wrote.<br />
572. The U.S. Constitution and federal statutory law prohibit the denial of voting rights. Leftists like Perez get around that restriction by blocking measures like voter ID laws. As a result, real voters have their votes cancelled out by fraudulent voters.<br />
573. Actual law runs against Perez’s efforts to prevent honest voting. For example, the Supreme Court in 2008 ruled 6-3 that an Indiana law requiring photo ID did not present an undue burden on voters. In recent years, officials in various states have bent over backwards to ensure that all people have access to them. For example, South Carolina’s law explicitly addressed potential disenfranchisement by offering state-issued IDs free of charge, and free transportation to anyone who needed a ride to a location where a picture ID could be obtained. South Carolina also showed how badly the state needed voter ID when an extensive data review conducted by Department of Motor Vehicles Director Kevin Shwedo found that more than 900 deceased people had “voted” in recent elections in South Carolina—depriving more than 900 living people of their right to vote by cancelling their votes out.<br />
574. <strong>Whistle blown</strong><br />
575. In 2010, a Justice Department official, J. Christian Adams, resigned from the department to protest the “corrupt nature” of DOJ’s dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case mentioned above.  The case involved two Philadelphia-based members of the New Black Panther Party who had intimidated voters with racial slurs and threats of violence on Election Day 2008. Adams cited Perez and Thomas Perrelli (the associate attorney general) as the two DOJ officials most responsible for dropping the case. In July 2010, Adams gave damning public testimony about how Perez and other Obama DOJ officials believed that “civil rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities.”<br />
576. In sworn testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Perez claimed that “no political leadership” was involved in the DOJ decision to back down on a voter-intimidation lawsuit brought against the New Black Panther Party. However, the organization Judicial Watch, in a Freedom of Information Act suit, later obtained documents contradicting Perez’s claim. According to Judge Reggie B. Walton, “The documents reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ’s dismissal of claims in that case, which would appear to contradict Assistant Attorney General Perez’s testimony that political leadership was not involved in that decision.”<br />
577. This contradiction led Judicial Watch to declare that “Thomas Perez has shown a glaring inability to follow his sworn duties to tell the truth and dispassionately apply the basic constitutional tenet of equal justice under law.”<br />
578. In September 2010, Christopher Coates, chief of the DOJ’s Voting Section, testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and corroborated Adams’ assertion that the department had routinely ignored civil rights cases involving “white” victims. For more than a year, Perez had denied the Commission’s requests to hear Coates’ testimony and had instructed Coates not to testify. But Coates finally chose to go public with his story and asked for protection under whistleblower laws. In a similar vein, an Inspector General report released in March 2013 stated that Perez believed voting rights laws did “not cover white citizens.”<br />
579. In July 2011, Perez addressed a luncheon meeting of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a group with which he has long had a close relationship. NCLR supports amnesty for illegal entry/immigration, and takes its name from the term “La Raza,” which means “the race” in the context of the supposed racial superiority of Latinos. (The late Cesar Chavez considered the term racist and refused to use it, noting that, “when you say ‘la raza,’ you are saying an anti-gringo thing, and our fear is that it won’t stop there” before being used to exclude other groups from “la raza” status, including dark-skinned Mexicans. Chavez’s lieutenant LeRoy Chatfield once said, “A few months ago the Ford Foundation funded a la raza group and Cesar really told them off. The foundation liked the outfit’s sense of pride or something, and Cesar tried to explain to them what the origin of the word was, that it’s related to Hitler’s concept,” i.e., of a superior or “master” race.)<br />
580. In his remarks to the “La Raza” group, Perez praised NCLR’s work and expressed gratitude for its steadfast support of President Obama’s agenda. He also lauded the organization’s members as valuable “change agents” and “serial activists” who will help “move America forward.” And he asserted that those who oppose a left-wing version of “immigration reform” are bigots, creators of “an absolute headwind of intolerance.”<br />
581. In August-September 2011, the journalism group PJ Media published a series of exposés revealing that, without exception, every attorney hired by the Civil Rights Division under Perez had a pedigree as an activist for the Left or the Democratic Party. (The Justice Department refused to provide the résumés, but PJ Media sued successfully to obtain them.)<br />
582. In March 2013, the <em>American Spectator</em> expanded on PJ Media’s work, noting that “Perez has overseen most of the unprecedentedly naked politicization of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division,” as evidenced by the fact that “every one” of the 113 people his CRD had hired for supposedly non-political civil-service positions were “demonstrably liberal activists.” Moreover, said the report, Perez had “insisted on personally approving each of these new hires.”<br />
583. <strong>From DOJ to DOL</strong><br />
584. In 2013, President Obama nominated Perez for Secretary of Labor. Praise for the nomination came pouring in from the Left. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said, “At a time when our politics tilts so heavily toward corporations and the very wealthy, our country needs leaders like Tom Perez to champion the cause of ordinary working people.”<br />
585. Conservative commentators strongly opposed the nomination. Michelle Malkin, for example, referred to Perez as an “extremist race-baiter” for “selectively enforc[ing] the law in a racially, not neutral way.” And Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called Perez “a committed ideologue who appears willing, quite frankly, to say or do anything to achieve his ideological end.”<br />
586. Most Republican Senators participated in the filibuster against Perez’s confirmation, but six “RINOs” joined Democrats to invoke cloture and bring about a vote. (A “RINO” or “Republicans In Name Only” is a Republican who runs from fights with the Left.) The Republicans who backed cloture were Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee, Susan Collins of Maine, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and John McCain of Arizona.<br />
587. Having voted to bring Perez’s nomination forward, the six switched and opposed his confirmation on the final vote. Thus, Perez was confirmed with a 54-46 party-line vote.<br />
588. Little more than a year after his confirmation, <em>Politico</em> reported that Perez had “energized” the Labor Department. Enforcement had gone up, the department was raising the profile of issues like minimum wage and paid medical leave, and employees were happy. According to a survey by the Office of Personnel Management, federal government employees since 2011 had been reporting increasing disengagement and dissatisfaction, employees at Labor reported feeling more engaged and more satisfied.<br />
589. And why not? Perez has turned the Labor Department into a regulation-issuing machine, just as the Left wants.<br />
590. ►<strong>Persuader rule</strong><br />
591. As Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute warned in the May 2013 <em>Labor Watch</em>, the Labor Department changed the so-called “persuader rule,” overturning more than 50 years of precedent. This rule stacks the deck against employers when employees are considering unionization, requiring employers to publicly disclose any consultants they hire when faced with unionization efforts.<br />
592. According to <em>Politico</em>, while the rule doesn’t require that employers disclose what advice they are being given, “it will require them to report when they ‘plan, direct, or coordinate managers to persuade workers; provide persuader materials to employers to disseminate to workers; conduct union avoidance seminars; and develop or implement personnel policies or actions to persuade workers’ on union organizing, according to the Labor Department.”<br />
593. Unionization votes are often forced on employees in short periods of time so they are pushed to make rush decisions with little information. Meanwhile, their employer is limited from discussing the issue with them, even as they are bombarded with union propaganda. Perez seems to care only that, “too often, workers don’t know that the messages being delivered by management, including trusted front-line supervisors, have been in fact created by paid outsiders.”<br />
594. Furchtgott-Roth noted in a recent <em>Wall Street Journal</em> op-ed that the new rule “will require companies to make public the names of the outside attorneys and consultants that give them advice on unionization. These attorneys and consultants, in turn, would have to make public all the other clients they help with union matters, and how much they charged these clients. The rule would deter many if not most outside attorneys and consultants from offering their services to companies facing a unionization drive. The burden will fall heavily on small businesses that do not have the in-house staff of large corporations. The rule does not apply to consultants offering advice to unions.” How ridiculous is the new rule? “Suppose a firm puts in a gym at the same time as a rival is unionized. The gym could be construed as an attempt to fend off a union drive and the designer could qualify as an adviser—and be forced to declare its other clients.”<br />
595. ►<strong>Overtime rule</strong><br />
596. <em>Politico</em> called the overtime rule “the most ambitious intervention in the wage economy in at least a decade.” Christine Harbin of Americans for Prosperity said the rule—<br />
597. <blockquote>
598. will dramatically increase the salary threshold exemption for overtime pay from $23,660 to [$47,476], requiring employers to pay time-and-a-half for hours worked exceeding 40 hours per week for employees below the arbitrary new limit.<br />
599. Like the fiduciary rule, this overtime rule will make it significantly more difficult for many Americans to move up the economic ladder—particularly those who are just starting their careers. Moreover, recent research from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University shows that employers will face a high cost of compliance and workers will face cut hours, lower overall compensation, and less flexibility.</blockquote>
600. The Labor Department itself predicts that pay will drop for salary workers covered by the new overtime threshold by around 5.3 percent next year.  Businesses will face added costs in money and time as they move employees from salaried positions to hourly in order to better keep track of hours and not run afoul of the law. Overall, retail chains, restaurants, colleges, and any small business with on-site managers will be the hardest hit.<br />
601. As Walter Olson of CATO wrote, this regulation would “frustrate ambitious individuals who willingly tackle long hours to rise into management ranks.” It would also “force millions of workers into time-clock or hour-tracking arrangements even if they themselves prefer the freedom and perks of salaried status.”<br />
602. When House Democrats attempted to make a point by complying with the spirit of the rules in their own offices, they allegedly faced “a series of headaches including the prospect of unanswered phones and other gaps in constituent service, layoffs, and even closure of some district offices.”<br />
603. Trey Kovacs of the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote in <em>The Hill</em> that businesses will, of necessity, cope with the overtime rule by cutting hours and pay. “Cutting wages would make up for 80 percent of overtime costs, according to U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics economist Anthony Barkume. Or businesses could hire more part-time employees and hourly workers, limiting workers’ hours to 40 and reducing fringe benefits. Workers will bear the brunt of the harmful impact of the overtime rule and its unintended consequences. Salaried employees now on a management track may have their work status downgraded to hourly, which will have some impact on their long-term career prospects, earnings, and other benefits, like healthcare and a pension.”<br />
604. The overtime rule will be particularly tough on women. In the December 2014 <em>Labor Watch</em>, Diana Furchtgott-Roth noted that, as the rule was proposed, “employees who receive overtime pay would not be allowed to take time off, or comp time; they would have to receive overtime pay. Some people may prefer overtime pay, but others, especially working mothers, may prefer more leisure. . . . Overtime rules hurt women by reducing flexibility with their employer. Many women with children, particularly young mothers who cannot afford childcare, would prefer flexibility in their schedule rather than extra overtime pay. When overtime hours are allowed to count toward time off instead of pay, women can change their work schedules according to their needs.”<br />
605. ►<strong>Fiduciary rule</strong><br />
606. The Labor Department’s new “fiduciary rule” adds new disclosure requirements and compliance costs on financial advisors, which could raise the costs of these advisors beyond what lower-income Americans are able to pay. Christine Harbin of Americans for Prosperity wrote in the <em>Daily Caller</em> that the fiduciary rule<br />
607. <blockquote>
608. will empower unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to take control over Americans’ retirement choices by imposing significant new disclosure requirements and compliance burdens on the nation’s financial advisors—and at a significant cost to ordinary workers. American Action Forum estimates that the final rule will create nearly 57,000 paperwork hours and will cost Americans over $75 billion in duplicative fees, making it the most expensive proposed or finalized rule of 2016.<br />
609. For average Americans, the fiduciary rule means that they will face restricted access to financial advice and have a harder time opening and maintaining an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Small businesses may be less likely to offer 401(k)s to their employees. Experts predict many brokers will stop serving households with less than $50,000 in assets—small investors who need guidance on their investment decisions the most.</blockquote>
610. Congress passed a resolution expressing disapproval over the fiduciary rule; the House had a party-line 234-183 vote, while the Senate voted 56-41 to criticize the rule. But Perez and the Labor Department are charging forward with the rule, regardless of the will of Congress.<br />
611. ►<strong>Joint employers</strong><br />
612. Perhaps the most insidious action perpetrated by Perez’s Department of Labor is the redefinition of the term “joint employer.” According to Iain Murray, writing at <em>National Review Online</em>, the category of joint employer applies when “two or more employers are jointly responsible or liable for a worker’s employment conditions.”<br />
613. By reinterpreting legal terminology—without notice, without a hearing—the Labor Department under Tom Perez is threatening the future of some 800,000 small businesses that use the franchise model. National franchisors (for example, McDonald’s) would be held liable for actions taken by each of the thousands of McDonald’s franchises—which would mean that McDonald’s could no longer afford to let the local franchises be run by local people. Meanwhile, local franchises would be subject to the same regulations that apply to colossal multinational companies.<br />
614. Here’s what we wrote about this, in the March 2015 <em>Labor Watch</em>:<br />
615. <blockquote>
616. If you’ve taken your car to Jiffy Lube, stayed at a Choice Hotel, or ordered a pizza from Papa John’s, you’ve most likely patronized a business built on the franchise model. From KFC, Wendy’s, Arby’s, and Dairy Queen, to Planet Fitness, Ace Hardware, Supercuts, RE/MAX, and H&R Block, franchises are at the heart of small business in America.<br />
617. Despite the strong national brand identification associated with these names, they are actually part of the small business mosaic of America. Franchisees are independent business people, running their own shops under the marquee of a brand customers that know and trust, often actually located on Main Streets across the country. Franchises give small businesses, many of them family businesses—literally “mom-and-pop operations”—the opportunity to take advantage of national brand-name recognition and advertising, supply networks, business expertise, and other advantages that would otherwise be available only to the big guys. Many franchise operators are the first in their families to run businesses, and many are immigrants or members of “minority” groups.<br />
618. There’s a world of difference between a local franchise business and a multinational corporation. The point seems so obvious it should hardly need to be made. Yet a series of developments in federal labor law is lumping these two classes of businesses together in a way that could imperil some of the 8.9 million jobs the franchise industry provides in this country.</blockquote>
619. In addition, the new rules could lump subcontractors in with the companies that hire them to perform such services as waste disposal and recycling, office cleaning, clothes cleaning, security, parking services, and photocopying.<br />
620. The inevitable result of this is obvious. Being held liable for labor decisions whether they make them or not, corporations will bring local personnel decisions under their control, effectively ending the franchise model and destroying small businesses across the country.<br />
621. Why would the Department of Labor do this? It’s simple once you recall that Perez believes the Department exists to serve union bosses, not workers. Today, fast-food workers can only be unionized franchise by franchise. But if fast food workers were all employed by a single large corporation, then tens if not hundreds of thousands of workers could be unionized in one fell swoop, swelling the pockets of union officers as well as the campaign chests of the Democratic candidates to whom those officers send nearly 100 percent of their organizations’ political contributions.<br />
622. <strong>But wait, there’s more!</strong><br />
623. Tom Perez’s record of corruption and extremism is so extensive that it’s hard to keep track of all his wrongdoing and kookery. A few more examples:<br />
624. ►In a July 2014 speech to hundreds of students at the historically black Howard University, Perez denounced the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline” that, he suggested, funnels large numbers of African-American youth into the prison system without cause. To drive the point home, Perez declared that school authorities in Mississippi had recently had black high-schoolers arrested for infractions as small as wearing the “wrong color tie” or the “wrong color socks,” or for “flatulence.”<br />
625. “This is Meridian, Mississippi, where we still see separate and unequal. . . . We thought we had made progress [but] this is America” today. Perez assured the students that “I’m not making this up.”<br />
626. Yes, he was. Hoover Institution Fellow Paul Sperry noted that, in fact—<br />
627. <blockquote>
628. Meridian Public School District students have never been jailed simply for breaking school dress code, as he implied. That would be false imprisonment. They have, however, been mildly disciplined for wearing the wrong uniform to school. Meridian, which is mostly black, has a strict dress code to prevent gang violence. . . . Perez made it sound as if Meridian were run by a bunch of white, racist Bull Connors. What he failed to mention is that the Meridian school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Taylor, and four of the five Meridian school board members are all black. So is the judge running the juvenile court.</blockquote>
629. Why would Perez say these things? Sperry’s answer: “To rile young African-Americans up about the specter of a still-racist America.”<br />
630. ►Under Perez at the Justice Department, the DOJ repeatedly slow-walked efforts intended to help ensure that overseas military personnel (who tend to support Republican candidates by a wide margin) could exercise their voting rights. Meanwhile, Perez’s division strove, without jurisdiction, to help felons (who overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates) regain voting privileges in a number of states.<br />
631. ►During his time at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Perez was a featured speaker at a number of events held by the American Constitution Society, telling its members that “your mission and ours [at the Civil Rights Division] share a lot in common.” ACS promotes the idea of a “living Constitution,” asserting that judges can and should ignore the Constitution and just decide cases in ways that reflect the political climate of the times (which is exactly what the Supreme Court did in <em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em>, the 1896 decision that established the doctrine of “separate but equal”). The ACS was founded by a law professor who was involved in the 2000 effort by Al Gore’s presidential campaign to deprive Florida voters of their rights. It is the far-left counterpart to the mainstream/conservative Federalist Society. A 2014 report by our sister publication, <em>Foundation Watch</em>, found that “benefactors of ACS include George Soros’s Open Society Institute ($2,201,500 since 2002), Ford Foundation ($600,000 since 2003), Sandler Foundation ($200,000 in 2003), Tides Foundation ($25,000 since 2002), Barbra Streisand Foundation ($20,000 since 2002).”<br />
632. ►In January 2015, Perez said that raising the minimum wage and changing the overtime rule were religious imperatives. “This is really about biblical teachings,” he told an AFL-CIO conference. “This is about what is taught in the Quran and what is in the Torah and what we learn about making sure we ‘do unto others.’ . . . This about who we are as a nation.” He attacked businesses that, in his view, violate the will of God: “Low wages are a choice, not a necessity. Low benefits are a choice, not a necessity.” (As noted in the June 2014 <em>Labor Watch</em>, minimum wage laws make it effectively impossible for unskilled workers to find employment, which disproportionately hurts minorities, which is why those laws were originally promoted by groups that wanted to protect “white people’s jobs”—groups like the Ku Klux Klan.)<br />
633. ►It is illegal for government employees to conduct government business on a personal e-mail account or to destroy government e-mails. That’s because such e-mails belong to the taxpayers and must be kept accessible in case of Congressional or criminal investigation, or Freedom of Information Act requests from reporters and others seeking to expose corruption. Yet the Obama administration has seen one official after another caught in the practice of stealing these public documents by using private e-mail systems or by destroying e-mails on a government system. That includes former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin, former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit Lois Lerner, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Add Perez to the list.<br />
634. At a May 2013 hearing before members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, Perez testified that he could not recall ever having used his personal e-mail account to conduct Justice Department business at his Takoma Park, Maryland home. Perez was then confronted with e-mails showing conclusively that he had conducted DOJ business on his home account, and he conceded their authenticity.<br />
635. ►Another type of corruption in which Perez was involved is a despicable practice that allows corrupt officials to funnel money to activist groups that support them. It works like this: After plaintiffs win judgments in civil rights cases, compensatory payments then go not only to the actual victims of discrimination, but also to “qualified organizations” approved by the Justice Department. How do you “qualify”? Support the administration’s political agenda. (More on this in future publications of the Capital Research Center.)<br />
636. <strong>One heartbeat</strong><br />
637. The vice presidential candidate rarely plays a significant role in voters’ choice for President. Typically, the only direct effect of the VP selection on the election results is a point or a point-and-a-half in the VP candidate’s home state, added to the vote a party would otherwise have received in that state. Indirectly, the selection is important in what it tells us about the presidential candidate’s character and values—for example, John Kerry’s choice in 2004 of the appalling John Edwards.<br />
638. People should pay more attention than they do. After all, a Vice President can become President at any moment. And the odds of a Vice President eventually becoming President by succession or election are about one in four. Hillary Clinton’s running mate may have a better than average chance of making it to the Oval Office, as Robert Spencer <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/04/26/you-need-to-know-about-tom-perez-likely-hillary-vp-opposes-first-amendment/">noted at PJ Media</a>:<br />
639. <blockquote>
640. . . . it could well be 1944 all over again. That year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was virtually assured of victory over the strutting New York prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey. The real race was at the Democratic convention—for vice president. Everyone knew FDR was gravely ill, and that the vice presidential nominee would likely become president sometime before the 1948 election.<br />
641. Sitting Vice President Henry Wallace was ultimately cast aside in favor of Harry Truman, largely because Democratic Party leaders were alarmed at the prospect of a Communist sympathizer like Wallace becoming president. (How times have changed, at least in that respect.)<br />
642. Hillary Clinton is 68, and beset by a persistent cough that she has never adequately explained. According to Ed Klein, author of <em>Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary</em>, she also suffers from “blinding headaches, exhaustion, insomnia, and a tremor in her hands.”</blockquote>
643. Not only Is there the possibility that Clinton’s health problems might cut short her presidency, or that she might retire after one term with her VP as a likely successor, but<br />
644. <blockquote>
645. If Clinton became unable to serve prior to the election, the obvious move for the Democrats would be to promote her vice presidential nominee to the presidential slot—and it will not be Bernie. Hillary has not yet announced her choice, but one name that has been bruited about for months as one of her most likely running mates is Tom Perez, the Secretary of Labor.<br />
646. The notion that Perez, or whomever the Democratic vice presidential nominee turns out to be, could become president of the United States on January 20, 2017—or sometime thereafter—is not just a remote possibility.</blockquote>
647. And what will it mean, if Perez is a key player in the next administration? J. Christian Adams, who resigned from the Justice Department to protest the policies of Perez and his allies, wrote in an April 2016 <a href="https://pjmedia.com/blog/read-the-radical-resume-of-tom-perez-possible-hillary-vp/">article for PJ Media</a>:<br />
648. <blockquote>
649. Although much of Perez’s history is well-known to PJM readers due to his many fringe polices at the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) recently obtained his revealing eight-page résumé. Nearly every single entry of his career history involves some form of racial activism. . . .<br />
650. The document shows that with Perez near the White House, race-based politics and social division in America will be sure to intensify. Picking Perez would ensure the most extreme and marginalized policies of the Obama years would carry on into a Clinton administration.<br />
651. With Perez in the White House, the current “war on cops” likely won’t skip a beat. His résumé praises his heavy involvement in “Department efforts to address police misconduct,” and for having “[p]rosecuted federal civil rights violations nationwide involving police misconduct and racial violence.” His résumé also mentions a paper he published with an academic journal on what the DOJ could do to “curb police misconduct” and further police accountability.<br />
652. Another career focus for Perez seems to be injecting race into health care policy. When he was appointed director of the Office for Civil Rights in the Health and Human Services Department, he worked on cases involving “redlining and other racial discrimination in health care,” and “discrimination in welfare to work programs based on race.”<br />
653. He also worked to “address the wide-ranging challenges confronting immigrant populations seeking to access health and human services.”<br />
654. This means using the levers of federal power<strong>—</strong>such as attaching strings to federal money<strong>—</strong>to force local recipients of the federal money to adopt race-centric transformative policies that beltway bureaucrats dreamed up. . . .<br />
655. Perez is a utopian. I’ve sat in rooms with him listening to his progressive vision of a future free from everything he dislikes. He is a true believer that the government can force the transformation of a culture and a society for good. He isn’t enough of a student of history to know where those ideals lead.</blockquote>
656. Tom Perez’s history of racialized decision-making at the Department of Justice further politicized an already tarnished executive agency, and his actions at the Department of Labor have added untold costs to small businesses and burdened our nation’s economy while benefiting his union allies.<br />
657. As Mitch McConnell put it when Perez was nominated to be Secretary of Labor, he is “a committed ideologue who appears willing, quite frankly, to say or do anything to achieve his ideological end.” How far will his zealotry take him? This year or in the years to come, the sky’s the limit.<br />
658. <em>Dr. Steven J. Allen (J.D., Ph.D.) is vice president & Chief Investigative Officer of the Capital Research Center, and editor of </em>Labor Watch<em>. This article incorporates material from CRC senior vice president Matthew Vadum and from the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s website </em>Discover the Networks<em>.</em><br />
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660. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/1846305587771237906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/tom-perez-racist-extraordinaire.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1846305587771237906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1846305587771237906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/tom-perez-racist-extraordinaire.html' title='Tom Perez, Racist Extraordinaire'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQGGvfRAstG7XMP7BUFFeINdpqCiX6_IENrA-PIq5h8wxMYqdojg2gBtKr5emS6cdi33G8FMgdMw-OTwUm2G_IoBAanvl8g0wnxjznZFPANSSIgcgNJQl0Kp98AhkW9WTCxAxdPibPE1M/s72-c/tom+perez.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-7438528208231749183</id><published>2017-02-15T16:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2017-02-15T16:40:10.795-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama&#39;s OFA or Organizing for America Proof of His Treason and He Should Be Charged and Jailed</title><content type='html'>February 15, 2017&lt;br /&gt;
661. <br />
662. Obama is using a non-profit 501 (c)(4), tax-exempt foundation, much like Hillary Clinton's Clinton Foundation, as a slush fund to fund criminal enterprises that seek to overthrow the People's President Trump and his administration.<br />
663. <br />
664. The organization is OFA, or Organizing for America.<br />
665. <br />
666. Trump's organization uses fascist tactics, including violence and the threat of violence, to threaten and harm Trump supporters.  <br />
667. <br />
668. According to the laws of the United States, these actions are construed as treason and Obama should be picked up, charged, and await conviction and sentencing:<br />
669. <br />
670. <span class="_Tgc"><b>18 U.S. Code</b> § <b>2385</b> - Advocating overthrow of Government. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the <b>United States</b> or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.</span><br />
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676. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17b0k-xu-ftjXDWNtLmopoJ8oOM8d06qHe2GLCJfo3eLYR5Wl59hPQh_jfs5Aa9k6GQrgiIEbLJOnIPmGUYipOIHZqa7UbVsdesfU0bsIzX-b0HnFDI64_mOPlhwtJxG9P5OybwGi2y-Z/s1600/fukker5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17b0k-xu-ftjXDWNtLmopoJ8oOM8d06qHe2GLCJfo3eLYR5Wl59hPQh_jfs5Aa9k6GQrgiIEbLJOnIPmGUYipOIHZqa7UbVsdesfU0bsIzX-b0HnFDI64_mOPlhwtJxG9P5OybwGi2y-Z/s400/fukker5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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680. Americans have waited long enough for this undocumented usurper to face justice and we demand it now.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/7438528208231749183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/obamas-ofa-or-organizing-for-america.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7438528208231749183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7438528208231749183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/obamas-ofa-or-organizing-for-america.html' title='Obama&#39;s OFA or Organizing for America Proof of His Treason and He Should Be Charged and Jailed'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17b0k-xu-ftjXDWNtLmopoJ8oOM8d06qHe2GLCJfo3eLYR5Wl59hPQh_jfs5Aa9k6GQrgiIEbLJOnIPmGUYipOIHZqa7UbVsdesfU0bsIzX-b0HnFDI64_mOPlhwtJxG9P5OybwGi2y-Z/s72-c/fukker5.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-1065450208872424369</id><published>2017-02-15T13:07:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2017-02-15T13:07:20.894-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Prepper?  Now More Than Ever is Time to Be Prepared with Arms</title><content type='html'>https://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/skull-stomping-sacred-cows-reality-isnt-nice-its-a-2x4-to-the-teeth/
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686. Skull-Stomping Sacred Cows: Reality Isn’t Nice. It’s a 2×4 to the Teeth.</span>
687. </div>
688. <br />
689. February 7, 2017 <br />
690. <br />
691.  
692.  
693. <br />
694. Sam Culper posted a comment on FB recently, in light of the protests-turned-riots in Berkeley, and elsewhere, asking, “What happens when the black bloc (“anarchists”) get AR’s?” A legit question, all things considered, and one deserving of serious consideration, which we’ll get to in a moment. The problem that arose, which I, in turn, confronted in a FB post on the MG FB page, was that the responses to Sam’s questions were retarded. Seriously. The comments read like the locker room bragging of a bunch of 13 year olds, after PE class, about the hot dates they’d had last Friday night.<br />
695. Seriously….these ranged from “Open season on liberals!” type macho posturing, to “they’re just a bunch of cowards who can’t do shit in a stand-up fight!”<br />
696. <br />
697. Here’s the reality. I am going to share my response to the commentary, from Facebook, then I’m going to discuss some harsh truths that are the 900-pound guerrilla in the room (see what I did there?).<br />
698. (The below has been edited from FB to make it more legible.)<br />
699. <br />
700. “<i>So, I saw this come across my FB feed today, from Sam. I’m going to address it, because there’s a whole bunch of fucking stupid in the comments. Since I’m reasonably certain some of those commenters are also subscribers here, it will probably be wasted effort, but I’m willing to give it a shot….</i><br />
701. <br />
702. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>Battlefield pickup: Plan for it. Make sure your people know how to clear them, get them into duffle bags, and into your supply channels to be re-issued as necessary. You may keep ammo as needed to replace expenditures, but the rest goes to the S4 for caching and resupply.</b>‘</i><br />
703. <i>My response: While technically about the closest thing to a legitimate response I saw, this is ridiculously optimistic. In all of the classes I’ve taught, over the last half-decade plus of teaching through the MG blog,including the auxiliary and support classes, nobody—NOBODY—has even come close to having anything near an organizational footprint that this answer would matter too…except the Left.</i><br />
704. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>This is what I have been chatting with some friends about for a few months. Particularly the myopic ones who don’t understand that the hapless morons will eventually be armed and given some level of training to escalate their own surge. Arming these ppl is not the next move, but it’s not far off.</b>‘</i><br />
705. <i>My response: Dunning-Kruger much? “Hapless morons?” These “hapless morons” are off their fucking couches, engaging in the physical violence that the Right yammered about for the last eight years, without doing fuck all. I’m not condoning it, and certainly not supporting it, but intellectual dishonesty about skill at organization, and willingness to engage in violent direct-action is going to get a whole fuckton of “prepared militias” killed dead…and there ain’t no fucking restart to this game.</i><br />
706. <i>Comment on Sam’s page:<b> ‘They maybe (sic) psychologically conditioning the left for kinetic operations, but it takes years to build capability and capacity. They maybe (sic) ten years out if they started today.</b>‘\</i><br />
707. <i>My response: Bullshit. They could go hardcore tomorrow, and be effective, at least for some time. They’ve got organizational infrastructure in place. They’ve got leadership cadre and numbers. They’ve got the will to get violent, right now. What they don’t have is their puppet masters handing them guns and ammo…yet. Sam’s right. It’s an ugly potential that is probably not far off. Ten years? You’re fucking dreaming. </i><br />
708. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>The left gas lighted themselves into destroying their gun culture. Where are the black block gun blogs? Training videos? PT videos? Discussion about Intelligence capability? The design of OPSEC programs? How to effectively use Command and Control for tactical, operational and Strategic success? Fuck blogs even where are their white papers? There are none.</b>‘</i><br />
709. <i>My response: Again, see my comment above about Dunning-Kruger. Intellectual study is important, but getting out from in front of the computer, and getting out and DOING counts for more, and the other side IS DOING.</i><br />
710. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>A blood bath.</b>‘</i><br />
711. <i>My response:Yep. Because only one side has consistently displayed a willingness to get violent, right now, right here, despite the blatherings of the Right about ‘Molon Labe!’ and ‘From My Cold Dead Fingers,” etc….Talk is cheap. It will be a number of blood baths, but 99% of the victims are NOT going to be the Leftist pseudo-Anarchists that are willing to fuck shit up, already, without quality weapons at their disposal. </i><br />
712. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>We get to slaughter them wholesale! YeeeeHaw!</b>‘</i><br />
713. <i>My response: (parenthetical note to point out, I specifically referenced LaVoy Finicum in this response because the dumb motherfucker who posted the above comment had Finicum’s cattle brand as his profile picture. I’ll address the stupidity of the “Let’s Be a Martyr” mindset of Finicum below, this really wasn’t the attack on Finicum that some readers assumed it to be. This was a comment about a dumb motherfucker saying dumb shit.) Ah yes, the redneck, LaVoy Finicum response. How many people you slaughtered tough guy? Nobody? Then, you’re full of shit.</i><br />
714. <i>Comment on Sam’s page: ‘<b>Are we talking about the Black Bloc types? I can see them going with drive by attacks because they seem to attack in groups and then run away. Don’t expect a standup fight.</b>‘</i><br />
715. <i>My response: So, they’re smarter than you? Because, I can tell you what…fair fights? “Standup fights?” are a sucker’s bet. I decide to go hunting bad people, I’m going to be rolling up to their back door at 0430, while they’re sound asleep, and lighting their house on fire, while they’re still asleep inside. I’m only gonna stick around long enough to make sure nobody gets out before the house the engulfed. I’m into winning, not playing macho games. </i><br />
716. <i>Look, I get it. It’s fun to poke fun at the opposition. It’s easy to make jokes about ‘safe spaces,’ etc. Those dudes smoking people in the head with bricks? Those people staring down the riot cops, and taking bean bag rounds to the face and chest, to get a chance to lob a brick or a Molotov Cocktail at them? They’re not scared of you and they’re not looking for a fucking safe space. They’re willing to stand by their convictions, right or wrong.</i><br />
717. <i>That doesn’t make them good guys, by any stretch. It does make them far more qualified for the change in velocity of the collapse that we’re witnessing. People have been talking smack since election night, about how now, the Left was going to go away, because POTUS wasn’t going to put up with their shenanigans. Well, he may not, but it’s going to take a lot more to stop them than people are ready to understand. I’m not even saying that won’t happen, but if you’re sitting here, talking shit on your computer, instead of DOING shit, and TRAINING, and PRACTICING for how you’re going to REALISTICALLY respond to this shit, when it shows up in your neighborhood? You’re full of shit.</i><br />
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720. <br />
721. That was my Facebook response. Here, as ol’ Paul Harvey liked to say, “is the rest of the story.”<br />
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724. <br />
725. A whole lot of ‘ardent patriots’ and ‘expert preppers/survivalists,’ breathed a giant sigh of relief on the morning of WED 9NOV16. They woke up to the news that “R” had one, both the White House and a majority of Congress. All was saved from immediate damnation, and since everything was cool now, they could get on with not worrying about the future anymore. Big D got this, right?<br />
726. There is a huge problem with normalcy bias in this country—a subject I’ve written about a lot on this blog, in the past. As long as “our guys” have control in DC, all is fine, right? Well, just like this last presidential cycle demonstrated that people on the Right were no longer content with the Beltway status quo, it should have demonstrated that people on the Left were no longer content with the Beltway status quo as well. The DNC pissed all over their own party, broke their own rules, and then basically, told the voters to “go fuck yourselves if you don’t like it,” in order to get their gal the nod to run. People on the Left are not fucking happy, and just like people on the Right swore they would contest the election results, and be ready to take up arms if Hillary Clinton got the White House, people on the Left are ready to take up arms, since there is a dude with an R behind his name sitting their instead.<br />
727. It’s not that they wanted HRC—although, I know for a fact, some of them did—it’s that they didn’t want a person with an R behind their name in there. Donald Trump getting the White House was, to the modern day Left in this country, the exact same as Abraham Lincoln getting the White House in 1860 was to the Southern States. We are, make no mistake, in a Civil War. Fort Sumter is past, folks. Seriously. Wake the fuck up already.<br />
728. Now, before I’m accused of being melodramatic, or hysterical, slow the fuck down for a second. There are some pretty serious differences that DO have to be taken into account, when we look at this.<br />
729. #1) The people of Dixie weren’t stupid, and neither was their leadership. They didn’t run right out and start attacking the Army of the United States. They took a defensive role, and said, basically, “Hey, leave us alone, and all is well.” They didn’t want a fight. The Left today isn’t content with that, for a variety of reasons. They DO want a fight, and they’re not taking a defensive role. They are already attacking their enemies. They’re just not doing it with guns…yet….much.<br />
730. #2) The Confederate States of America was the disgruntled party in the last go-round, and they were the more “libertarian/anarchist” of the belligerent parties. In this go-round, the roles have reversed; the “disgruntled party” is the statist party that wants to control everything, in accordance with their world view.<br />
731. #3) While not technically accurate, Fort Sumter was the first “official” battle of the War of Northern Aggression. It was the real opening of hostilities between the uniformed services of two distinct, autonomous governments. In the current conflict, the legitimate government of the United States is, at most, a bit player, thus far. The War of Northern Aggression, while labeled a civil war, was not. It was a conflict of conquest by a sovereign state, against a sovereign state, that had declared its independence, and been recognized as a sovereign state, in accordance with international law. None of that mattered of course, but the difference with the current conflict should be obvious.<br />
732. This is an actual civil war, as in a conflict between ideologically-opposed factions within the civilian and political population of a country. Like real civil wars, it is not going to be pretty. It’s not going to be armies, in pretty uniforms, fighting pitched, conventional battles. It’s going to be a matter of assassination, sabotage, hit-and-run raids, targeting ideological leadership figures, enemy families, etc.<br />
733. As Matt Bracken pointed out in a recent Facebook post himself, we’re looking at more of a Balkans and/or Argentine “Dirty War” conflict. People just haven’t accepted that, because it doesn’t fit their mental images of what “war,” even “guerrilla war” looks like. That, in turn, is because, even the most devout conversions to the “Church of the Anti-Media” in this country today, have a lifetime of conditioning to the media’s portrayal of what “reality” is. From what a “proper” war looks like, to what “collapse” looks like, to what “bad guys” look like.<br />
734. <br />
735. We commonly jump to the idea of “well, George Soros is funding this shit, so it’ll cause a breakdown, and currency collapse, and he can make a fortune off it.” There’s probably a lot of truth to that. I don’t know Soros, so I can’t tell you what his ultimate goals and motivations are. I have however, met a lot of Leftists, both in the US and elsewhere, and I can tell you, they are not looking for a currency collapse, in order to get richer.<br />
736. It’s easy to sit in your lounger, with your laptop across your knees, and pontificate on the false motivations of the Leftist activists. “Oh, they’re just attention whores!” “Oh, they just want their safe spaces!” “Oh, they’re just useful idiots being played.” “Oh, they’ll quit as soon as the money stops.” There’s a very real problem with that though, and it’s called underestimating your enemy. If you don’t believe that a dude who is out, in wintertime, in a protest/riot, and eating some riot cops baton, as he receives a solid washing with “hickory shampoo,” is not a dedicated True Believer, you’re deluding yourself.<br />
737. If you think that some twenty-something kid, who just saw his buddy take a bean bag round from a PD riot gun, in the dick, and then ignored his friend’s screams, to continue advancing, is not dedicated, and a True Believer, you’re fucking stupid.<br />
738. If you think POTUS is going to magically save you? You’re dumb. Large urban areas and entire states are telling the federal government to go fuck itself on the immigration issue (and granted, the states are wrong on this one, but that doesn’t change the fact that this—as I mentioned, in detail, in Forging the Hero—is symptomatic of the collapse of the American Empire.) Things are not normal, and if you’re still stuck in your normalcy bias about “Make America Great Again,” you’re WAY behind the learning the curve.<br />
739. I’ve talked with a number of friends in recent days; police officers and public services personnel, in large urban areas, across the country. None of them are taking this shit lightly. A fireman friend, from a major urban enclave on the east coast, that has been the scene of a number of ethnic conflicts in the last year or two, posted the following on FB recently,<br /> “<i>They are organized, they are violent. The cops aren’t shooting back because when some Tumblr shit biscuit doxxes them, their kids will be targets. Molon Labia and snowflake bluster isn’t cutting it anymore.<br /> I’m a fucking fireman and have had body armor issued. That should say something very loudly and clearly</i>.”<br />
740. A cop friend told me, in private conversation, “<i>Yeah, man. It’s serious. We know it can kick off at any moment. Sitting in your cruiser, at a stoplight; writing a citation, sitting at lunch. We just have to be ready to rock, all the time</i>.”<br />
741. Another cop friend, “<i>Man, I’ve upped my off-duty EDC to three twenty-round mags for the Glock, and I keep eight loaded mags for the AR in the plate carrier behind my seat. It’s getting weird out there.</i>”<br />
742. So, if THEY get it, why don’t you, Mr. Expert Prepper/Survivalist?<br />
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745. This is not about being a tough guy. This is not about the questionable PSYOP value of talking shit with social media memes about the opposition. This is about knowing, and understanding, the realities of the battlespace.<br />
746. #1) Dirty civil wars are ‘tribal’ guerrilla wars. This was discussed in-depth in The Reluctant Partisan, Volume One: The Guerrilla. This is not about dudes in cute camouflage coveralls, running through the woods with Kalashnikovs. This is about people burning down their neighbors’ houses and businesses, to run them out of town, over ideological differences. Look at the Balkans in the early 1990s.<br />
747. This is about a group from one side, murdering the entire family—Dad, Mom, Brother, and baby Sister—of their neighbors, over political differences.<br />
748. There’s nothing pretty or heroic about it. It’s about pragmatism. It’s not about dying for anybody or anything. It’s about changing the dynamic of the battlespace, so none of your people die…or at least, as few as possible.<br />
749. #2) Heroic gestures and martyrdom are dumb. LaVoy Finicum, bless his heart, may have had good intentions, but he was a fucking idiot if he thought he was accomplishing anything. If you fucking people would get outside of the echo chamber of your masturbation studio, you’d realize that. You think anybody in mainstream America—the undecided majority in the current conflict—remembers Finicum? Go up to some random stranger, in the supermarket and ask. I got good money that says, 99 out of 100 are going to say, “Who’s she?”<br />
750. So, nobody, outside of his own side’s True Believers, even remembers his “heroic” gesture. There’s Strike One.<br />
751. What changed, following the Malheur Malcontent Mishap? Anything? Nope. Not a single federal policy changed. He LITERALLY died for nothing. There’s Strike Two.<br />
752. Despite the acquittals of the ring leaders in federal court, far more of the participants are still in jail, and the other still face trial in Nevada (as far as I know. Did it ever get dealt with down there? I quit giving a shit). At best, it is possible that his death swayed some of the jurors towards leniency, out of pity for the deceased. It didn’t help the majority of them though, that are still dealing with the effects of the case. I’d call that Strike Three, but perhaps I’m being too harsh, and that was a foul ball.<br />
753. The point isn’t to besmirch the dead. The point is, it was pointless. If you want to survive; hell, if you even just want your team to win, and don’t care about survival, you have to focus on efforts that make a difference. Stand-up fights don’t make differences in this type of conflict, because the other side isn’t interested in them. Quit focusing on some macho, redneck John Wayne image of conflict, and focus on doing what works. Right now? That still means organizing, because, while it’s not “tacticool,” it’s way more important than running around in the goddamned woods in cammie jammies. That means, instead of worrying about running raids and ambushes, you should be focused on gathering intelligence information about the opposition’s leadership cadres in your local area, so you can set about changing their mindset, by focusing your PSYOP activities on a specific target audience (them). It means training with your EDC concealed carry weapon, to protect yourself. And yes—you knew it was gonna get slipped in somewhere—it means doing your PT and combatives training, so you at least have a chance of fighting your way to an escape route when you get caught in the middle of a protest-turned-riot, and then getting away, instead of getting knocked the fuck out, so you have to be rescued by the local riot police.<br />
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757. The Right—especially the preparedness/survivalist/III/Threeper/Militia segment of the Right—is full of tough talk from self-professed badasses about how they’re gonna “slaughter” the other side when “open season on Leftists” is declared. It’s all a bunch of bullshit, written for an audience of people they don’t even know, but need to feel big in front of, for whatever reason.</div>
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759. Let me tell you a couple of trade secrets:</div>
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761. #1) I can train a fucking monkey to run an AR or an AK in three days. Give me ten days, and I can bring a complete novice to a near-expert level of proficiency with the gun. That’s fucking easy. The hard part? Convincing somebody to actually use it. Convincing someone that they actually need to overcome the culturally conditioned aversion to interpersonal violence that Americans have been spoonfed for the last sixty years, is far more challenging than teaching someone the mechanics of gunfighting. Guess which side has already overcome that cultural conditioning? I’ll give you two hints: first, it’s not the guys typing away on FB about how they’re gonna “slaughter” Leftists, as soon as they get permission from their Mommy. Second, it’s the people that are already cracking complete strangers in the head with bricks, then putting the boots to the unconscious victims, before throwing a Molotov Cocktail through their car window.</div>
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763. #2) The Left has won far more dirty civil wars and insurgent conflicts than the Right has won. There are a host of reasons for this, but most notable is the aversion, on the Right, to give up the security of law-and-order. As long as there is a politician telling them, “Now, now, let’s all keep calm. Let the authorities sort this out,” the Right is content to sit at home and bitch about those juvenile delinquents. The Left? They’re all, “FUCK THE MAN! LET’S MAKE IT BURN!” As long as there is a police officer in uniform…even if he is, like so many are currently, telling people, “Hey, we’re probably gonna be busy with other catastrophes when your personal catastrophe happens, so you’re on your own….” as long as he is on the job, the Right is going to say, “Meh, we’ll let the police do their job.” The Left? They’re going, “FUCK THE MAN! KILL THE PIGS!”</div>
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765. #3) The government isn’t going to save you. The government isn’t going to save your neighborhood, your city, or your state. The government MAY try and save itself. Those piranhas in the Beltway, on both sides of the aisle? They don’t give two shits about Mayberry RFD, until Mayberry RFD isn’t paying it’s taxes anymore, and by then? It’ll be too late for Sheriff Andy, Deputy Barney, Aunt Bea, Opie, and all their friends and neighbors. You want to be saved, you’d better be looking around and building what SF once upon a time called “CIDG,” or “Civilian Irregular Defense Groups,” among your neighbors and friends and families….you know…your tribe: the people in your local community that share your values and traditions. There’s a couple of really good books available that tell you exactly how to go about selecting those people, and training them. Let me see if I can recall what they are, and where you can fucking buy them……</div>
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770. People are emailing me and asking, “<i>John, what can we do?” “John, what should we be doing right now to get ready</i>?” I see the same questions getting asked everywhere; Sam’s pages, Matt’s FB page, etc. Here’s the problem….<br />
771. <br />
772. WE ALREADY FUCKING TOLD YOU WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO!!!!!! WE’VE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS!!! Hell, in Bracken’s case, he’s been telling you for over a fucking decade!<br />
773. You want to know how a Dirty War is fought, even on defense? With pistols, in urban areas. Guess what? I know a dude teaching a Clandestine Carry Pistol class in a couple weeks, in Arizona! He’s doing a CQB class the following weekend! If you live in motherfucking Arizona….with the cartels running shit through your neighborhoods every…single…fucking…day….and you’re not already keyed in on this shit? You’re too fucking stupid to save. So, why is it that my wife is telling me that we’re gonna have to cancel these classes, because there’s not been enough people interested in taking them? Because nobody wants to face the ugly reality, that it’s already started. It’s easier to sit on your computer, order multicam gear off Amazon.com, and talk shit about “open season on libtards!” than it is to face the task of somebody maybe telling you that you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, after all, by bucking up and taking a class on shit that is actually relevant to you.<br />
774. Don’t want to take my class, because I’m an obnoxious, foul-mouthed prick that calls a spade a spade? There’s a host of classes available from qualified dudes who are far nicer than me (not really. Anyone who has taken a class with me will tell you, I’m actually Prince Charming…in my own inimitable way…)<br />
775. <br />
776. That’s okay. I get it. Classes are expensive, and might be embarrassing. I mean, not as embarrassing as getting anal raped with your own EDC gun, by the dude that just killed you and took it from you, but, yeah, it could be embarrassing. So, there’s an alternative. I fucking wrote THREE goddamned books for you people. They are all how-to books. Two of them have the step-by-step curriculum, and the techniques and drills that make up those curricula, to train with somebody you know, that already has a background in the skills. I’ve written seven or eight books worth of free information on this blog, over the last six-plus years, explaining what you needed to be, know, and do, to be ready. When you ask, in public, “gee, golly. What should I be training in for this?” it tells me, you haven’t done your fucking homework. You’re just reading shit on the Internet forums and Facebook, and imagining yourself as Sergeant Fucking York.<br />
777. <br />
778. So, here’s my actionable steps for readers (who haven’t yet) to take, to play catch up, and start getting ready for the festivities to come to their ‘hood:<br />
779. <ol>
780. <li>Enroll in a fucking legit concealed carry-centric gunfighting course.</li>
781. <li>Get some advanced trauma medical care training.</li>
782. <li>READ THE FUCKING BOOKS! Yeah, they’re expensive. As someone pointed out, not long ago, they’re a fucking post-grad course in “how to be The Most Dangerous Man You Know.”</li>
783. </ol>
784. Yes, I just pimped my own classes and books. Get over it. They’re that important, and that valuable.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/1065450208872424369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/prepper-now-more-than-ever-is-time-to.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1065450208872424369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/1065450208872424369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2017/02/prepper-now-more-than-ever-is-time-to.html' title='Prepper?  Now More Than Ever is Time to Be Prepared with Arms'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-6681949797840693084</id><published>2016-10-03T19:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2016-10-03T19:43:25.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ERDOGAN PROCLAIMS HIMSELF AS GOD - USES HOLOGRAM OF HIMSELF FOR WORSHIP</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
785. <u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Unprecedented, Historical Moment when Turkey's Erdogan Proclaims Himself to be God</span></b></u></div>
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789. <span style="font-size: large;">from the website Shoebat:  </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/03/30/SHOCKING-MUSLIMS-ARE-NOW-DECLARING-ERDOGAN-AS-GOD/">http://shoebat.com/2015/03/30/SHOCKING-MUSLIMS-ARE-NOW-DECLARING-ERDOGAN-AS-GOD/</a></span></h4>
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791. In an unprecedented and historical event, Turkish president proclaims himself to be God and to use Holograms for his followers to worship.  This comes on the heels of his murdering thousands of people after a so-called "coup" of his government.</div>
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808. Shocking: Muslims Are Now Declaring Erdogan As God</h1>
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811. <span class="small" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fn" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://shoebat.com/author/admin/" rel="author" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Shoebat Foundation">Shoebat Foundation</a></span></span> <span class="small" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">on</span> <abbr class="date time published" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; cursor: help; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2015-03-30T23:14:08+0000">March 30, 2015</abbr> <span class="small" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">in</span> <span class="categories" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://shoebat.com/category/featured-articles/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Featured</a>, <a href="http://shoebat.com/category/announcement/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General</a></span></div>
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814. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Walid Shoebat</strong></div>
815. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
816. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As shocking as it may be, Erdogan is being proclaimed as God amongst diehard leaders in Turkey. And if in doubt, read this (<a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/03/31/shocking-and-amazing-erdogan-has-now-declared-himself-to-be-god/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link here</a>) Erdogan proclaimed himself as God.</strong></em></div>
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818. Everyday I wake up I am not just shocked at what I find in my researches on Erdogan of Turkey, but amazed in awe how closer this man is beginning to mimic what the biblical prophets of old declared as The Antichrist proclaiming himself to be God in 2 Thessalonians 2.</div>
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820. As shocking as you just read it, wait till you read <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/turkey-erdoganism-is-becoming-distinct-from-islamism.html#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this article</a> by Mustafa Akyol (a columnist for <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse</em>, the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkish Hurriyet Daily News</em>, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The International New York Times</em> and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wall Street Journal</em>) and be amazed that reputable writers are now documenting that Erdogan is literally viewed by many Muslims as “God”. You heard it correctly.</div>
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822. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/er.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="er" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-75911" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/er.jpg" height="348" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/er.jpg 550w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/er-300x190.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="550" /></a></div>
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824. Aykol <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/turkey-erdoganism-is-becoming-distinct-from-islamism.html#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">writes</a> of Erdogan’s cult of personality:</div>
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827. “In a recent book, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Sun of the Age</em>,” Aykol writes “<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/israel-turkey-erdogan-silent-netanyahu-election-campaign.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">proudly gives him titles</a> that only belong to <a href="http://www.habervaktim.com/haber/380014/erdogan-baskan-oldu-bile.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">deity</a> which would sound bizarre, if not heretical”.</div>
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830. Indeed, I am not sure if Aykol is aware, to the Wahhabist Muslim this is true, but not the Sufi Muslim who believes in the Sufi doctrine of “Fana” in which man becomes God. Aykol adds:</div>
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833. “In 2011, an AKP deputy declared, “Even <a href="http://www.mynet.com/haber/politika/basbakana-dokunmak-bile-bence-ibadettir-582862-1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">touching Erdogan</a> is a form of worship,” and in 2014 another AKP deputy proclaimed that Erdogan “carries all the attributes of Allah in himself.”</div>
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836. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Sun of the Age</em>,” and “carries all the attributes of Allah in himself” and “Even <a href="http://www.mynet.com/haber/politika/basbakana-dokunmak-bile-bence-ibadettir-582862-1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">touching Erdogan</a> is a form of worship,” qualifies Erdogan to fit what none of us Christians who would ever doubt what was already proclaimed in the Bible:</div>
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839. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God</span>.</em> – 2 Thessalonians 2 1-4</div>
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842. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ea-copy.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ea copy" class="wp-image-75918" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ea-copy.jpg" height="333" sizes="(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ea-copy.jpg 1632w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ea-copy-300x153.jpg 300w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ea-copy-1024x522.jpg 1024w" style="background: none; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="653" /></a><br />
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844. AKP deputy Duzce Miletvekili Feavi Arslan proclaimed that Erdogan “carries all the attributes of Allah in himself.”</div>
845. </div>
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847. So where are the Naysayers now who for years ridiculed us saying that it is impossible for a Muslim to qualify since Muslims can never deify a man? Shoebat.com <a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/11/28/many-christians-will-fall-antichrist-get-deceived-religion/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">predicted</a> this will be the outcome last year and and even explained it theologically from a Muslim perspective (<a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/12/19/new-discovery-erdogan-now-reviving-religion-antichrist-will-enable-islamic-mahdi-declare-god/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">read here</a>).</div>
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849. We in fact even illustrated, before Erdogan’s coming out of the closet this very issue, by quoting the most infamous of Islamic Sufi writers, Rumi, when he wrote of how the goal of the Sufi is to become divine via <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fana </em>(eliminating the self to become God):</div>
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852. Remember the famous utterance of al-Hallaj, “I am God.” <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">People think that to say “I am God” is a claim of great pretense and spiritual arrogance</span>. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">It is actually a claim of extreme humility</span>. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am God” means “I do not exist.”</span> He is all, everything is He, existence is God’s alone. I am without existence, pure non-existence. I am nothing.” “<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I am God</span>” is not a claim of great pretension, it <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">is a claim of extreme humility</span>. There is more humility in this than any supposed claim to greatness, but people do not understand the inner meaning. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">When a man acknowledges his servitude to God</span>, he is aware of his being a servant. He may see himself as a devoted servant of God, but he still sees himself and his own actions as apart from the one reality of God. He is not drowned in the Ocean of Divine Unity. Drowned is he in whom there is not separate motion or mobility. Drowned is he whose movement is the movement of the water. And so it is with the enlightenment ones, those who declares, “I am God.” <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyone who says “I am the servant of God” asserts the reality of two existences</span>, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">one for himself</span> and <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">the other for God</span>. But <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">he who says “I am God”</span> — and has realized the deepest levels of unity within his being — has seen through the illusion of his existence. He knows from the experience of unity that his own separate existence is nothing but an illusion. Knowing that, he casts its former selfhood upon the winds of oblivion. (Rumi, Hearts bear witness one to another, in The Complete Discourses of Jalal al-Din Rumi, discourse 11, p. 75, ed. Louis Rogers)</div>
853. </blockquote>
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855. And now we understand Erdogan’s show of humility and tears when viewed by Muslims. Erdogan is a master of great deception. This is the first time in history that this connect was made. And it is not as if Erdogan is unaware of Rumi’s theology. Far from it. It was no surprise to us that the president of Turkey, Erdogan even praised Rumi’s work, revealing that he himself is not only Sufi but that he also believes in <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fana</em> “the art annihilation and becoming God himself”. Why else would Erdogan praise Rumi’s work The<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Masnavi</em>, <a href="http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2014/12/17/turkey-to-move-forward-with-the-strong-bonds-to-its-ancestors-president-erdogan" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">saying</a>:</div>
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858. “A work can live for more than seven centuries only if it is written with love”.</div>
859. </blockquote>
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861. The <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Masnavi </em>is amongst Rumi’s most popular works, and it is in this very book that the idea of man becoming divine is adulated. He praises the Sufi declaration “I am the Truth!” saying, “Mansur’s ‘I am the Truth!’ was purest light” (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Masnavi</em>, 2.307, trans. Mojaddedi)</div>
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863. When Christ said “I am The Truth” He was declaring Himself to be God Almighty. Likewise in Sufi Islam, this also exists, yet mimicking Christ. In Sufi Islam for one to exclaim, “I am the Truth,” is to say “I am God!”</div>
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865. While some of these people who deify Erdogan are Islamists others are secular figures who praise Erdogan  for making Turkey a powerful country and for crushing the “traitors” of the nation. Notably, some of these secular pundits have become pro-Erdogan only in the past few years and have outdone most Islamists in the ranks of the AKP in their zeal to defend the “founding leader of New Turkey.”</div>
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867. All this besides Erdogan’s metamorphosis into an outspoken Islamist calling to serve the God Allah and advance his glory via warfare and martyrdom (see Daniel 11).  The most striking example of this troubling metamorphosis was the speech he made during a ceremony held March 16 in the presidential palace to award “state honor medals” to army veterans and families of fallen soldiers.</div>
868. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
869. “These lands remain our home because every singly citizen of this 78 million-strong country — men and women alike, even the children and the elderly — <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">see martyrdom as an honor</span> when necessary. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been allowed to stay a single day here,” <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/turkey-erdogan-grows-more-radical.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he said</a>.</div>
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871. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/%E2%80%9CPM-Erdo%C4%9Fan-Hates-Alevis%E2%80%9D-96119.receptayyiperdogan-001.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="“PM-Erdoğan-Hates-Alevis”-96119.receptayyiperdogan-001" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-75913" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/%E2%80%9CPM-Erdo%C4%9Fan-Hates-Alevis%E2%80%9D-96119.receptayyiperdogan-001.jpg" height="292" sizes="(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/“PM-Erdoğan-Hates-Alevis”-96119.receptayyiperdogan-001.jpg 628w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/“PM-Erdoğan-Hates-Alevis”-96119.receptayyiperdogan-001-300x139.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="628" /></a></div>
872. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
873. “Don’t even think that the struggle that began 1,400 years ago between the truth [Islam] and fallacy [other beliefs] is over. Don’t even think that those who set an eye on these lands 1,000 years ago have given up their ambitions. Don’t even think that those who turned up at the Dardanelles, and then across Anatolia 100 years ago, coming with the most powerful armies, weapons and technology of the time, have repented. No, they never did so. This long-standing struggle is going on and will go on,” he added.</div>
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875. Erdogan wants to declare war, again, against the “strongest fortresses” to “advance his god” (Daniel 11) while at the same time wants to “proclaim himself to be god” (2 Thessalonians 2).</div>
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877. Erdogan went on to say, “We have to keep toiling with this awareness, always ready for one of the two beautiful [eventualities], and take measures accordingly.” What he meant by two “beautiful” eventualities was becoming a “martyr” or “ghazi.” In the Islamic sense, a martyr is someone who sacrifices his life in the name of Allah, while “ghazi” is a title of the Muslim who advances the cause of Allah in war.</div>
878. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
879. Hakan Albayrak, one of the leading activists in the 2010 Gaza flotilla, wrote a critical open letter to Erdogan March 22 in his new Islamist daily, <a href="http://www.dirilispostasi.com/boyle-yapma-reis-allah-askina-makale,214.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dirilis Postasi</a>. Albayrak was nonetheless supportive of Erdogan, but longed for the days when he shared power with other figures, among them former President Abdullah Gul. Albayrak soon learned that even the most respectful of criticism is unwelcome. A website operated by the Sabah group, i.e., Team Erdogan headquarters, accused him and two other similarly supportive-but-critical journalists of <a href="http://www.medyagundem.com/dugmenize-kim-basti/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“treachery” against Erdogan</a>, “the leader of a struggle awaited for a century.” Erdogan in other words is an awaited Messiah.</div>
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881. “The Islamist scene, however, has become a bit more complicated as of late, with “Erdoganism” morphing into an ideology unto itself, disillusioning veterans of Turkey’s Islamist movement” writes Aykol.</div>
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883. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ERDOGAN IS LURING ISRAEL</strong></div>
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885. With Erdogan and Israel, it is as if the devil possessed the man telling him to lure the Jews in readiness to rebuild them a temple. The other shocker was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s <a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/03/30/SHOCKING-MUSLIMS-ARE-NOW-DECLARING-ERDOGAN-AS-GOD/%20http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/israel-turkey-erdogan-silent-netanyahu-election-campaign.html#ixzz3VvQZLxIb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">silence during the recent Israeli election</a> campaign, despite controversial remarks about the Palestinians, and the reopening of a synagogue in Edrine might signal a change in in his methods with Israel. Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan’s devoted adviser, even published a moderate and thoughtful analysis March 24 about the <a href="http://www.dailysabah.com/columns/ibrahim-kalin/2015/03/24/is-peace-possible-after-the-israeli-elections" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Israeli election results </a>attempting to convince his readers that the only way for Netanyahu to<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/originals/2015/03/israel-netanyahu-coalition-palestine-negotiations-herzog.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">achieve his goal</a> of a <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/originals/2015/03/israel-us-turkey-reconciliation-erdogan-netanyahu-nato.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">secure Israel</a> is through a <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/originals/2015/03/israel-netanyahu-palestinian-conflict-two-state-solution.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">just and lasting peace</a> with the Palestinians. Erdogan wants to be the peacemaker and divider of God’s land (Joel 3).</div>
886. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
887. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ey-copy.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ey copy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-75912" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ey-copy.jpg" height="403" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ey-copy.jpg 640w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ey-copy-300x189.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="640" /></a></div>
888. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
889. Even after the Israeli elections, a <a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/65640-150326-turkey-the-great-synagogue-of-edirne-reopens" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lavish ceremony</a> was held March 27 in the city of Edirne, in northwestern Turkey, to re-consecrate the city’s <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=429&GalleryID=2484" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Great Synagogue</a>. In its glory days in the early 20th century, it was the largest synagogue in the Balkans and the third-largest in Europe. The impressive building, designed as a replica of the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leopoldstaedter Temple</em> in Vienna, was renovated by the Turkish government at a cost of $1.7 million. Just a few months ago, in November 2014, the governor of Edirne province, <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_edirne-governor-retracts-statement-of-turning-synagogue-into-museum_365153.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dursun </a><a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_edirne-governor-retracts-statement-of-turning-synagogue-into-museum_365153.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali Sahin</a>, caused a controversy when he called for the synagogue to be confiscated from the Jewish community and turned into a museum because of what he called “the rumblings of war from the [Israeli] criminals, who are destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and killing Muslims there.”</div>
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891. Erdogan aiding in building a temple for the Jews in Edrine is no accident, Erdogan himself wants to sit in a Jewish Temple and <a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/06/03/antichrist-will-soon-enter-temple-god-pay-close-attention/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in Hagia Sophia, the Temple of The Word of God</a>.</div>
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893. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img574245.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="img574245" class="aligncenter  wp-image-75914" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img574245.jpg" height="431" sizes="(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img574245.jpg 420w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img574245-300x201.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="642" /></a></div>
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895. The ceremony was intended to be an expression of Turkey’s tolerance and openness toward the Jews, who had long ago left Edirne. Representatives of the Jewish community were invited to attend, along with top-level Turkish officials, as would be expected according to protocol. A number of them actually showed up. Even Israel’s chief rabbis were invited, but at the suggestion of the Foreign Ministry, they chose to remain in Jerusalem. Israeli diplomats serving in Turkey, however, attended the event.</div>
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897. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had apologized to the Jewish community on behalf of the Turkish government for Sahin’s remarks, called on all Jews who so desire to come and live in his country. Arinc was trying to supplant any expressions of anti-Semitism, which has been rearing its head in Turkey and which, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League, is directly connected to public <a href="http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/israel-middle-east/adl-increasingly-disturbed-by-anti-semitic-narratives-from-turkish-leadership.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">statements by senior politicians</a> about Israel.</div>
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899. This makes it impossible to ignore that the message being conveyed by the ceremony at the Edirne synagogue was not simply one of inclusiveness and brotherhood toward the Jews, but also one of reconciliation, or at least of “good intentions” by the Turkish government toward the State of Israel.</div>
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901. Erdogan being declared as “God”, preaching on war and martyrdom, while preparing peace with Israel and the Jews is some Antichrist deadly combination.</div>
902. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
903. It is now no wonder why Erdogan of Turkey introduced the latest state-of-the-art innovation to Turkish politics, resorting to a tool usually found only in science-fiction books: The hologram which reflected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s image as he addressed his worshippers in İzmir. Erdogan through trickery, wants to be an omnipresent type of leader and is luring the entire Muslim world.</div>
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905. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram2.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="hologram2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-58583" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram2.jpg" height="370" sizes="(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram2.jpg 740w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram2-300x150.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="740" /></a></div>
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907. <a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram3.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="hologram3" class="aligncenter  wp-image-58585" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram3.jpg" height="431" sizes="(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px" srcset="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram3.jpg 350w, http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hologram3-300x196.jpg 300w" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.701961); border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="659" /></a></div>
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909. Turkey will lure Israel with a 7 years covenant of death (Isaiah 28:14-22) and a treaty will be signed in Egypt thinking it preserved the Egypt-Israel Camp David accord. By this “peace” Turkey “will deceive many” and “Islam” will appear as “a peaceful religion”, so by peace the Antichrist will deceive many.</div>
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913. &lt;/section&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/6681949797840693084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/erdogan-proclaims-himself-as-god-uses.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/6681949797840693084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/6681949797840693084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/erdogan-proclaims-himself-as-god-uses.html' title='ERDOGAN PROCLAIMS HIMSELF AS GOD - USES HOLOGRAM OF HIMSELF FOR WORSHIP'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxXFmKKx_46m0L0iZtRUWVyLS8AbS-nXZjVHAeZaNcy6Rt3zCyVaRnzkR-Q_G6r-kVoDyA5hSMyMgCbsze714Bb1IvZTpifSv8DApjmuMbDpMcgDKUjwZcIlZuDWkzpgHKq5gJ7qdtT95/s72-c/erdoganholog1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-7042790348627249830</id><published>2016-10-03T16:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2016-10-03T17:45:47.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Trump v. Clinton - Correct the Record Exposes Underbelly</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
914. <b><u>The Old CORPSE Just Won't Go Home, Where She Belongs</u></b></div>
915. <div style="text-align: center;">
916. <b><u>She Can Hardly Walk</u></b></div>
917. <div style="text-align: center;">
918. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
919. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
920. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlrWzWJ0lyxl1pH5fvRAvcMruVO6KwQ1ucSC7sIVHyrUif9-h2ZvMLdOO3EI7g5qvDe2j2n94jYH5NbqXUR8miqhNTZtEYJx-Y_NzamJqWhvGNxv7atTzPPowLhU0QebjQT5RNN9PbkYh/s1600/hillarycorpse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlrWzWJ0lyxl1pH5fvRAvcMruVO6KwQ1ucSC7sIVHyrUif9-h2ZvMLdOO3EI7g5qvDe2j2n94jYH5NbqXUR8miqhNTZtEYJx-Y_NzamJqWhvGNxv7atTzPPowLhU0QebjQT5RNN9PbkYh/s640/hillarycorpse.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
921. <div style="text-align: center;">
922. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
923. <div style="text-align: center;">
924. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
925. <div style="text-align: left;">
926. The most current information on the Old Bag's health is that she scored a "3" on a Dementia test called the AMTS.  She's about to fall over and croak in front of us.</div>
927. <div style="text-align: left;">
928. <br /></div>
929. <div style="text-align: left;">
930. So, what do you say? That we give her a nudge into the light?</div>
931. <div style="text-align: left;">
932. <br /></div>
933. <div style="text-align: left;">
934. Okay!  Let's get started.</div>
935. <div style="text-align: left;">
936. <br /></div>
937. <div style="text-align: center;">
938. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
939. <b><u>CORRECT THE RECORD, A ROTTING ARM OF THE LIBERAL/COMMUNIST PARTY</u></b><br />
940. <b><u><br /></u></b>
941. <br />
942. <u>FEC filing for CTR:</u>  <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/318/201607159020655318/201607159020655318.pdf">http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/318/201607159020655318/201607159020655318.pdf</a><br />
943. <br />
944. <u><br /></u>
945. <u><br /></u>
946. <u>I'll be adding information here, as I find it.</u><br />
947. <u><br /></u>
948. Wilson B. Woodhouse, or Brad Woodhouse  - paid 7406.00 by CTR<br />
949. Twitter account: <a href="https://twitter.com/woodhouseb">https://twitter.com/woodhouseb</a><br />
950. Raleigh, North Carolina<br />
951. <br />
952. Joe Wiley - says president's tweets are signed -bo<br />
953. <a href="https://twitter.com/joewileyDC">https://twitter.com/joewileyDC</a><br />
954. <br />
955. Karen Smith-Murphy<br />
956. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
957. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEGI0fhSjNJqSeTBgxVhgPZe5KEb4ynq3OmA2Iz2l4gbC1iA1jFYL6sBmRXHUJQvchhKIVKgdy7dpvlNj2NjH9Ca1AFPRdO6kZxvxf88i1RWe3zG94T4TogAe6bgyvKQzfNAkLyBoLJkc/s1600/Screenshot+2016-10-03+19.31.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCEGI0fhSjNJqSeTBgxVhgPZe5KEb4ynq3OmA2Iz2l4gbC1iA1jFYL6sBmRXHUJQvchhKIVKgdy7dpvlNj2NjH9Ca1AFPRdO6kZxvxf88i1RWe3zG94T4TogAe6bgyvKQzfNAkLyBoLJkc/s640/Screenshot+2016-10-03+19.31.44.png" width="640" /></a></div>
958. <br />
959. <br />
960. Ryan Migeed -<br />
961. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
962. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWHbLO7qMQ0ucMBqx8Spd-ar1XloG6G0mys74V6vUo7VxtXw_UiGM0lUtgS8TIRQ2zXVCKe_vSjbnHTQHVnj7YbcHGiPSHC4X-2cG0g2iFY-sl09XlWDieQFdDB0viU52KKR5moyza4K7/s1600/Screenshot+2016-10-03+19.35.31.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWHbLO7qMQ0ucMBqx8Spd-ar1XloG6G0mys74V6vUo7VxtXw_UiGM0lUtgS8TIRQ2zXVCKe_vSjbnHTQHVnj7YbcHGiPSHC4X-2cG0g2iFY-sl09XlWDieQFdDB0viU52KKR5moyza4K7/s640/Screenshot+2016-10-03+19.35.31.png" width="640" /></a></div>
963. <br />
964. <br />
965. <br />
966. <br />
967. Member of DC Press. Twitter account:  <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/lists/dc-press/members">https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/lists/dc-press/members</a><br />
968. <br />
969. ____________________________________________________________________<br />
970. <br />
971. CTR Disbursements:<br />
972. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
973. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj36UCOqXe7hGEO8-YPa2rjnBT8dRo8l7PDbxIw-Tk47p1yfdnQuxUg47ROizCuXcKaX0YdD3hX2dA9_Cp86Oufk3xWsGWmJFQn3QV0cFUT-F-__Zh0gemD0YGHaC6UAP5fe_kSziamFeY/s1600/ctr+list.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj36UCOqXe7hGEO8-YPa2rjnBT8dRo8l7PDbxIw-Tk47p1yfdnQuxUg47ROizCuXcKaX0YdD3hX2dA9_Cp86Oufk3xWsGWmJFQn3QV0cFUT-F-__Zh0gemD0YGHaC6UAP5fe_kSziamFeY/s640/ctr+list.png" width="360" /></a></div>
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976. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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979. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6w1_ISvLz0sgrWyNeeo2ESSFeKwo0kmxlNGnjpkEdRZLPN1sqfJHvFYkgIQGYropec0wPrHTnE6d3UTM1bcXyZzoTfUVg-PzL0sUMQr2I5t2-G_kr9ePgNrZRueopd5_8rVis13H3Js9/s1600/ctr+list2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD6w1_ISvLz0sgrWyNeeo2ESSFeKwo0kmxlNGnjpkEdRZLPN1sqfJHvFYkgIQGYropec0wPrHTnE6d3UTM1bcXyZzoTfUVg-PzL0sUMQr2I5t2-G_kr9ePgNrZRueopd5_8rVis13H3Js9/s640/ctr+list2.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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981. <br /></div>
982. <br />
983. More interesting information on this site:<br />
984. <a href="http://clintonfoundationinvestigation.com/2016/08/09/correct-the-record-ctr/">http://clintonfoundationinvestigation.com/2016/08/09/correct-the-record-ctr/</a><br />
985. <br />
986. Found a little late in the election...but Hillary decided a little late in life (ok, a LOT late) to run, so it all evens out, I suppose.<br />
987. <br />
988. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/7042790348627249830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/trump-v-clinton-correct-record-exposes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7042790348627249830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7042790348627249830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/trump-v-clinton-correct-record-exposes.html' title='Trump v. Clinton - Correct the Record Exposes Underbelly'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlrWzWJ0lyxl1pH5fvRAvcMruVO6KwQ1ucSC7sIVHyrUif9-h2ZvMLdOO3EI7g5qvDe2j2n94jYH5NbqXUR8miqhNTZtEYJx-Y_NzamJqWhvGNxv7atTzPPowLhU0QebjQT5RNN9PbkYh/s72-c/hillarycorpse.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-7928856344203425136</id><published>2016-06-12T23:32:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2016-06-13T00:13:17.581-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ORLANDO SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG...JUST LIKE SANDY HOOK</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
989. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
990. <div style="text-align: center;">
991. <b><u>You must understand that the goal of all governments is the disintegration of government, society, cultures, and nationalism.  The goal is to destroy countries, to kill over 5 billion people, and to implement a global governance for those few who remain.</u></b><br />
992. <b><u>How will this occur?</u></b><br />
993. <b><u><br /></u></b>
994. <b><u>THROUGH ORCHESTRATED INVASION - USING MUSLIM AND OTHER MURDEROUS CARTELS WILLING TO KILL EVERYONE, INCLUDING AMERICANS</u></b><br />
995. <b><u><br /></u></b>
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1011. THE ORLANDO SHOOTING IS SIMPLY AN ORCHESTRATED EVENT</div>
1012. <b><u><br /></u></b></div>
1013. <div style="text-align: center;">
1014. <b><u>IT'S THE GODDAM GLOBALISTS TRYING FOR ANOTHER GODDAM GUN GRAB</u></b></div>
1015. <br />
1016. <br />
1017.      I HATE false flags, but goddam it, I'll post what I find here.  The labor market is swelling, but the brains are shrinking and they are sloppy and just plain fucking stupid.  But here goes and I won't let a sneaking suspicion lurk in my head for months before I finally try to figure out what that nagging observation was that just didn't fit.  Cognitive dissonance has symptoms and it is a good thing to be aware of what they are. <br />
1018. <br />
1019.      The opposite of cognitive dissonance is awareness and logic.  The following is a list that will be updated as they occur to me about the details as to why Orlando is a false flag.<br />
1020. <br />
1021. #1) Nothing sounded right from the get-go.  I was awake when the first twitter came in about a "shooting" that said more details to follow.  Well, the details didn't follow for 3 f'n hours.  That just doesn't happen.<br />
1022. <br />
1023. #2) To have as many deaths as was reported, there simply wasn't art.  No pools of blood.  We've seen blood that has soaked into the sands of the Middle East with corpses, and there is a pool, even with absorption by sand.  But Orlando has an absence of it.  I'm not saying people didn't die, because false flags include dead people and the globalists don't care if people die or not.  But there isn't much available art and with as many cameras that were in that place...and if they were held hostage for 3 hours...there should've been fucking pictures.<br />
1024. <br />
1025. #3) A kid texted his mom from a bathroom where they were hiding.  But no pictures? No direct phone call?  He said that he could hear them coming. Supposedly, he was among the dead.  A picture of the mother showed a tired face, but not the face of a grieving black mother.  He was supposed to be 30 years old.<br />
1026. <br />
1027. #4) The story about the shooter included that he worked as a government contractor and had four FBI interviews.  He also carried around a gun for his job, which was transporting illegals.  WTF? Are you f'n kidding me? <br />
1028. <br />
1029. #5) Bodies were reported to be lying around hours after the police supposedly shot the perp and the incident was "under control."  This is EXACTLY the detail about the Sandy Hook incident that struck me as not possible, because Americans don't treat their dead like that.  We don't allow our dead to lie where they are killed for hours needlessly.  They begin to decay and become a germ issue, for one.  And we simply don't accept that treatment of our loved ones or even people we don't know.  Bodies go to the morgue in refrigeration.  Period.<br />
1030. <br />
1031.  #6) Do I need to even mention Goddam Hillary and Obama, the biggest criminal syndicate on the planet in the history of the world?  On their list is a gun grab for the globalists.  Bilderberg has just met and they got their orders.  Both should be indicted for violating national security through communications on a private e-mail server of Cankles the Stinky Whore and Barry the Usurping Kenyan Butt-fucker knew about it.  Done.<br />
1032. <br />
1033. #7) Govt/Black Ops/CIA/FBI hire actors for this shit.  The first CNN interview with a supposed buttfucker at the nightclub was the one:  Luis Burbano . Sandy Hook was a conglomeration of bad crisis actors who were so fucking stupid that they were filmed "getting into character" as grieving parents.  It was ridiculous.  Here's Burbano, THE ACTOR:<br />
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1039. <br />
1040. <br />
1041. #8) Here's a shout-out to the shooter who worked for the government contractor with his picture posted for a 5-year tenure.  Must be fucking nice.<br />
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1044. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXDayx7ffqJVGShhOmYhnFXESzUfjRsXQZp9SEBqhswFa4uJPm9JnzsfUPk2_fQVS61lqFE5UTu9apeyMVDrfPm7lrxkSdG7Nkx0XKFgId1PdWb67WArryUTt02_ykz-jJP0MwOvXPxHiD/s1600/omar-mateen-newsletter_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXDayx7ffqJVGShhOmYhnFXESzUfjRsXQZp9SEBqhswFa4uJPm9JnzsfUPk2_fQVS61lqFE5UTu9apeyMVDrfPm7lrxkSdG7Nkx0XKFgId1PdWb67WArryUTt02_ykz-jJP0MwOvXPxHiD/s1600/omar-mateen-newsletter_1.jpg" /></a></div>
1045. Omar Mateen.  Whatever.  These fuckers change their names every year or so and who could tell?  Typical Americans could never get away with that shit.<br />
1046. <br />
1047. <br />
1048. Updates coming.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/7928856344203425136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/06/orlando-shooting-was-false-flagjust.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7928856344203425136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7928856344203425136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/06/orlando-shooting-was-false-flagjust.html' title='ORLANDO SHOOTING WAS A FALSE FLAG...JUST LIKE SANDY HOOK'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nc4e4z8_nNg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-8131911225243249496</id><published>2016-05-05T15:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2016-05-05T15:46:25.650-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mexican President Vicente Fox DID NOT Apologize and Should be Taken to the Mattresses</title><content type='html'>It&#39;s been reported that Vicente Fox, Mexican President, apologized for using a vulgarity to insult Americans and our President Trump when he said &amp;nbsp;&quot;I&#39;m not going to pay for that fucking wall!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1049. <br />
1050. The following video shows that he says "If I offended you, then I'm sorry, but what about the other way around?"<br />
1051. <br />
1052. WTF?  Has this Indian/Spanish prince been off the reservation too long?  That is no apology and the fact is that any American dollars that find themselves in the hands of the Mexican government goes into the POCKETS of the corrupt government officials.  It has always been this way and always will.<br />
1053. <br />
1054. Now, their country is overrun with drug cartels who have now been handed a carte blanch to behead and mutilate any who stand in their way of running drugs to their biggest customers...Americans.<br />
1055. <br />
1056. ENOUGH, MEXICANS.<br />
1057. <br />
1058. Stay in your country and fix your country.  If you are in ours, then GO HOME.  No more freebies, no bennies, no more anchor baby shit.<br />
1059. <br />
1060. Get the hell out and good riddance.<br />
1061. <br />
1062. BTW, Fox...try again.  Because if that's your idea of an apology...YOU SUCK AT IT.<br />
1063. <br />
1064. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1065. <iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iXw2E4JlGkI/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iXw2E4JlGkI?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
1066. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/8131911225243249496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/mexican-president-vicente-fox-did-not.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/8131911225243249496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/8131911225243249496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/mexican-president-vicente-fox-did-not.html' title='Mexican President Vicente Fox DID NOT Apologize and Should be Taken to the Mattresses'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/iXw2E4JlGkI/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-7090498176789668485</id><published>2016-05-04T19:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2016-05-04T20:16:36.204-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Trump Won</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
1067. <span style="font-size: large;">TAKE IT TO THE MATTRESSES </span>... The Godfather</div>
1068. <br />
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1070. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlKjH9s_9NjvFypwkfMsqrEMzmUKMLoBko-2EnN-ApklhvSNIjvwo7Ht4wMTXn1Q3icopme5P0_F-NBWwtryN41VoldelSf898f_6JSnqBalpaCyWKLsumJovMbT_fnQp3A-Y04IDWR_e/s1600/trumpgodfather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlKjH9s_9NjvFypwkfMsqrEMzmUKMLoBko-2EnN-ApklhvSNIjvwo7Ht4wMTXn1Q3icopme5P0_F-NBWwtryN41VoldelSf898f_6JSnqBalpaCyWKLsumJovMbT_fnQp3A-Y04IDWR_e/s640/trumpgodfather.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
1071. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1072. <br /></div>
1073. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1074.   May 4, 2016 ...  Oh, the whining, the crying, the pounding of chests and stomping of feet!  Want to win a modern campaign?  For starters, vet your candidate.  Don't parade a dual citizen, or naturalized citizen, or worse - a potentially non-citizen whose records have been sealed (he's such a wise and cunning little devil, right?) - and expect Americans to buy it.  We're too sophisticated.  We have access to too much information.  We read.  We research...and when we smell a rat, we've had enough progressive and globalist manipulation shoved down our throats - that we will shove it right back in your faces.</div>
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1076. <br /></div>
1077. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1078.   So you lazy, so-called "Christians" whose actions betray nothing except your self-righteous and self-loving religiosity - get a grip.  There may be no rapture that rescues you from the coming economic collapse.  Your government-owned 501(c)(3) church and pastors won't feed you, house you, and stroke you when you don't have a crumb to eat.  All of your good intentions won't replace the time, resources, effort, thought, and preparation that you should've been making instead of sitting obediently in church - a targeted and imprisoned population of do-gooders - listening to preachers tell you that you were somehow faithless if you took care of yourselves and your families.  And when the progressives begin their onslaught of unending negative political ads against my candidate and the only alternative is the reptile, remember that you could've been a force for good in supporting the lion that God Himself has raised up for such a time as this.  </div>
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1080. <br /></div>
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1082. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32S4xpUdaNeX0CcPEOD9mVUcxCWgcu25R8DoGHrXFLwOqPbkQiXQDVsELIgazv-HjLc5QIuhBU45E0NHKngASBjssRhMhc8_LlsuIxs9aTQiPJeVvmJYeXqAocCinmqo5T_wIkX0JdGsm/s1600/trump-gladiator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32S4xpUdaNeX0CcPEOD9mVUcxCWgcu25R8DoGHrXFLwOqPbkQiXQDVsELIgazv-HjLc5QIuhBU45E0NHKngASBjssRhMhc8_LlsuIxs9aTQiPJeVvmJYeXqAocCinmqo5T_wIkX0JdGsm/s640/trump-gladiator.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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1084. <br /></div>
1085. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1086.   A lover of America and her people, Trump has the courage and has honed the selfless ruthlessness that the fight with progressives require.  Do you honestly think that being a soft-spoken, weak, polite, and gentle candidate will defeat the complete monstrous garbage that is Hillary Clinton? </div>
1087. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1088.   </div>
1089. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1090.   The globalists' ambitions are to enslave an entire country of the most diverse and talented people on the planet.  Progressives want to overrun this country with illegals who will suck the country dry of its resources and the fruits of the labor of the able-bodied - to rob future generations of a potential future for happiness and productivity.  They have every intention to murder you and yours.</div>
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1092. <br /></div>
1093. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1094.   So dry up your tears and gear up.  Continue to say your prayers and repent that you judged an entire American population that didn't believe in your candidate.  Repent of your self-righteousness, your pride in being the "chosen" and accept that your role may not be the grand players on the stage as you believed it your right to be.</div>
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1096. <br /></div>
1097. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1098.   Accept that Donald Trump is the chosen one of God and has the strength, will, fortitude, and ability to defeat the greatest evil this planet has ever known.    </div>
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1100. <br /></div>
1101. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1102.   TAKE IT TO THE MATTRESSES...</div>
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1104. <br /></div>
1105. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1106.   Don't be weak-minded.  Watch the videos in their entirety to know the level of determined corruption that we face:</div>
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1110. <br /></div>
1111. <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0sRpsMlmxlc/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0sRpsMlmxlc?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><br />
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1117. <br /></div>
1118. <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_g_WVWjQ-8Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_g_WVWjQ-8Q?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><br />
1119. <br />
1120. <br />
1121. <span style="font-size: x-large;">TIME TO TAKE IT DOWN AND BUILD ANEW</span><br />
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1124. <iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8lGH_DvtBEM/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8lGH_DvtBEM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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1126. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/7090498176789668485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-trump-won.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7090498176789668485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/7090498176789668485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-trump-won.html' title='Why Trump Won'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlKjH9s_9NjvFypwkfMsqrEMzmUKMLoBko-2EnN-ApklhvSNIjvwo7Ht4wMTXn1Q3icopme5P0_F-NBWwtryN41VoldelSf898f_6JSnqBalpaCyWKLsumJovMbT_fnQp3A-Y04IDWR_e/s72-c/trumpgodfather.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-9002529888018718022</id><published>2016-05-04T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2016-05-04T13:58:20.702-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LYIN&#39; TED IS OUT, BUT CAN&#39;T BE TRUSTED AND POTENTIAL DANGER TO TRUMP</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
1127. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Km2h5P8BsmhSa3geEHmW-tmMf4d7ZHsVlVDTsEQRqVxqmDMsvo9N-VyK4hmGH2Sipd5Wd5m8tlgEAEyzdNb4flEeLQlUGsjjJxnUOOWhSOSbMczJDxCwu_lbCjxNXozM8YzJSjuExXwT/s1600/cruz-booger-575x496.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Km2h5P8BsmhSa3geEHmW-tmMf4d7ZHsVlVDTsEQRqVxqmDMsvo9N-VyK4hmGH2Sipd5Wd5m8tlgEAEyzdNb4flEeLQlUGsjjJxnUOOWhSOSbMczJDxCwu_lbCjxNXozM8YzJSjuExXwT/s640/cruz-booger-575x496.png" width="640" /></a></div>
1128. <br />
1129. <div style="text-align: center;">
1130. <b><span style="font-size: large;">Because anyone over ten who eats his or her boogers can't be trusted.</span></b></div>
1131. <div style="text-align: center;">
1132. <br /></div>
1133. <div style="text-align: left;">
1134.      Canadian Ted, in his lying, lawyer-speak, bowed out of the campaign last night, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, giving the national favorite, Donald Trump, his rightful place as number one contender amongst the more conservative of Americans.  Is Trump Republican?  Who the hell knows what a Republican is in this day and age?  But what we know is that we sit on the verge of a precipice, tilting toward the dark space of annihilation...and we need a strong and purposeful American-loving leader.</div>
1135. <div style="text-align: left;">
1136. <br /></div>
1137. <div style="text-align: left;">
1138.      Canadian Cruz not only isn't that person, but his own father has been complicit in working as a CIA operative and spending time with Lee Harvey Oswald.  The last time we had a man in the Oval Office who would destroy the Fed to protect Americans from the Jew-owned, Masonic, and Corporatist-owned banks was JFK and...interestingly, a Cruz was somewhere around then as well.  WTF?  </div>
1139. <div style="text-align: left;">
1140. <br /></div>
1141. <div style="text-align: left;">
1142.      We're onto you, Teddie.  So take your Goldman-Sachs, your abused wife, and bratty children and go back to the Houston burbs.  We'll deal with you about that Senate seat soon enough.</div>
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1148. <br /></div>
1149. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/9002529888018718022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/lyin-ted-is-out-but-cant-be-trusted-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/9002529888018718022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/9002529888018718022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/lyin-ted-is-out-but-cant-be-trusted-and.html' title='LYIN&#39; TED IS OUT, BUT CAN&#39;T BE TRUSTED AND POTENTIAL DANGER TO TRUMP'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Km2h5P8BsmhSa3geEHmW-tmMf4d7ZHsVlVDTsEQRqVxqmDMsvo9N-VyK4hmGH2Sipd5Wd5m8tlgEAEyzdNb4flEeLQlUGsjjJxnUOOWhSOSbMczJDxCwu_lbCjxNXozM8YzJSjuExXwT/s72-c/cruz-booger-575x496.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-4819147577671411373</id><published>2016-05-04T13:27:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2016-05-04T13:27:43.655-07:00</updated><title type='text'>William Guy Carr&#39;s work...Historical Perspectives</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Communism/pawnsinthegame.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;PAWNS IN THE GAME CLICK HERE...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1150. <br />
1151. <a href="http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/william_guy_carr/the_conspiracy.pdf" target="_blank">THE CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY ALL EXISTING GOVERNMENTS AND RELIGIONS</a><br />
1152. <a href="http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/william_guy_carr/the_conspiracy.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a><br />
1153. <br />
1154. <br />
1155. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/4819147577671411373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/william-guy-carrs-workhistorical.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/4819147577671411373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/4819147577671411373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/william-guy-carrs-workhistorical.html' title='William Guy Carr&#39;s work...Historical Perspectives'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-7680589101456911230</id><published>2016-02-17T17:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2016-02-17T19:23:42.408-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CLIMATE CHANGE NOT MAN-MADE, BUT DETERIORATING ANCIENT ANAEROBIC BACTERIA</title><content type='html'>MARXISTS SAY TO &quot;NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1156. <br />
1157. TPTB once again proved that they've blamed mankind for "climate change" and are busy raping us financially, socially, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.<br />
1158. <br />
1159.  Mankind is no more responsible for the climate changes we are witnessing than we are of the extinction of the dinosaurs.<br />
1160. <br />
1161.  Read the engaging and persuasive article that follows and located<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com/2012/02/jumping-jack-flash-hypothesis-its-gas.html">here</a> </span></span>by JumpingJackFlash.<br />
1162. <br />
1163.  Sorry, folks...but this thing called "life on the planet as we know it" is going down.<br />
1164. <br />
1165. So THIS is what newly-elected presidents are told...that they must manage a building scenario of life-threatening and altering events...events that are unstoppable and unpredictable, but ultimately deadly.<br />
1166. <br />
1167. If the sorry "daddy-wannabes" would stop treating humankind like children and expose the truth for what it is, then humanity would have the choice to grow into maturity and face its demise with humility, maturity, and acceptance. <br />
1168. <br />
1169. As it stands, we are being lied to, manipulated, robbed, enslaved, and treated as mushrooms.  We sense this on a deep level and our response is confusion, suspicion, and hostility.<br />
1170. <br />
1171. The Bible says that the earth will be destroyed in a lake of fire...and this lake of fire is called hydrogen sulphate...and it is making its way to a place near you.<br />
1172. <br />
1173. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1175. <br />
1176. <div style="text-align: center;">
1177. <br /></div>
1178. <div style="text-align: center;">
1179. EXPOSE THE TRUTH, POWERS THAT BE.</div>
1180. <div style="text-align: center;">
1181. <br /></div>
1182. <div style="text-align: center;">
1183. On many levels, we already know.</div>
1184. <br />
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1186. <br />
1187. Subhuman Islamists are butchering and apparently marketing human flesh in what appear to be a business operation.  There have been reports of organ marketing by these Islamist animals and the following report from Shoebat confirm this.
1188. <article class="post-48645 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-announcement tag-arabia tag-armenian-genocide tag-assad tag-bible tag-christianity tag-christians tag-copts tag-egypt tag-free-syrian-army tag-fsa tag-god tag-islamic-violence tag-jesus-christ tag-jihad tag-koran tag-mccain tag-muhammad tag-murder tag-muslim-brotherhood tag-obama tag-persecution tag-quran tag-rape tag-sharia tag-slaughter-of-christians tag-slaughterhouses tag-syria tag-syria-christians-persecution" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; position: relative;"><header><h1 class="title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif !important; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;">
1189. And Literal Islamic Human Slaughterhouses For Christians Discovered</h1>
1190. </header><div class="post-meta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1191. <span class="small" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://shoebat.com/author/ted/" rel="author" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Ted">Ted</a></span></span> <span class="small" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">on</span> <abbr class="date time published" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; cursor: help; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2014-03-17T07:21:19+0000">March 17, 2014</abbr> <span class="small" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; vertical-align: baseline;">in</span> <span class="categories" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://shoebat.com/category/announcement/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General</a></span></div>
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1193. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1194. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EXCLUSIVE</strong><br />
1195. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Walid Shoebat and Theodore Shoebat</strong></div>
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1197. Saif Al-Adlubi told the story when the Egyptian butcher would examine the row of people who were waiting their execution. Al-Adlubi witnessed at least two Armenians who were waiting their turn to be slaughtered since no one paid their ransom, the sum of $100,000 each.</div>
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1199. “He grabbed the neck of one elderly Armenian Christian”, says Al-Adlubi, which the Egyptian butcher was about to slaughter. The Egyptian butcher felt the neck of the Christian Armenian saying “you’re an aged man and your neck is soft and I don’t have to sharpen my knife for you”. Others might be more difficult depending on their physique.</div>
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1201. Saif Al-Adlubi tells of his miraculous escape to the Turkish village of Rehaniyeh from Syria. He was probably one of the few survivors who sounded the alarm on one of the gruesome systematic human extermination centers carried out by the Takfiri Jihadist group ISIS.</div>
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1203. Rescue Christians translated an interview with Al-Adlubi:</div>
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1205. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ztJ_CqtH8Cw" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div>
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1207. (Also see references [<a href="http://www.alwatannews.net/NewsViewer.aspx?ID=0tg9yyxZBcdtSbMpHapicg933339933339" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>] and from Al-Jazeera [<a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/mob/f6451603-4dff-4ca1-9c10-122741d17432/90373f8c-67c7-43bc-b221-c583274bf85c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>] and others [<a href="http://mufaker.org/?p=21400" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>])</div>
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1209. The prison centers where the ISIS (Da’ish) controls have become miniatures of what was during the Nazi SS extermination camps, except the ISIS carries out the extermination in a much more horrific way. Da’ish transforms the prisons into kangaroo courts with systematic slaughterhouses and killing centers to exterminate Christians and Muslims who disagree with the Takfiri ideology. Once they are found guilty, the way they deal with the victims was as if they were cattle.</div>
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1211. The ISIS stands for The Islamic group of Iraq and Syria. ISIS is also known in Middle East circles as Da’ish. Rescue Christians obtained footage of another slaughterhouse from one Syrian Christian named Kamil Toume to confirm the claims.</div>
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1213. It all adds up. Toume confirmed what was told by Al-Adlubi and he provided some leaked footage to prove it:</div>
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1215. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=64e9bca93422" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640"></iframe></div>
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1217. This is the Siba’ District Human Slaughterhouse in Homs, Syria.</div>
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1219. Rescue Christians aided Toume’s plight to escape the fate of his father and sister after they were ritually sacrificed and cremated by Al-Nusra Islamist rebels in Duwair near Homs.</div>
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1221. We also work in order to rescue Christians from this horror in Syria. <a href="https://ffmu.webconnex.com/rescuechristians" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Please donate to save the lives of Christians in Iraq and Syria from this unbearable brutality and evil. </a>When you donate, you save a life and fight evil.</div>
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1223. “You never heard of Umm Muhammad slaughterhouse?” Kamil told us when we asked him to comment on the story of Saif Al-Adlubi.</div>
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1225. “What do you mean by Umm Muhammad Slaughterhouse”? We asked in unbelief.</div>
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1227. The footage is from two separate slaughterhouses, one in Bayyada and the other is even 3 years old in Al-Siba’.</div>
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1229. Slaughterhouses has been going on for 3 years in Syria.</div>
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1231. Al-Adlubi is Muslim fundamentalist who joined the FSA (Free Syrian Army) and was a militant and a media agent for the FSA. He was captured by Da’ish and tells his horrific tale explaining how he has never experienced or seen such horror under the Assad Regime. He was one of few that made it out when the Syrian militia finally defeated the Da’ish rebels in that specific prison center.</div>
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1233. “How could I be considered Kafir (heathen) if I pray and fast?” he asked the prison official as he tells his story to several Arabic news agencies.</div>
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1235. “you are “murtad” [apostate]” answered the official.</div>
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1237. “I asked him, what is my destiny. I want to get a closure. What is it, a year two years in prison?”</div>
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1239. “He said in Arabic “Abshir Bithabih”, in English, “Rejoice, you will be sacrificed”.</div>
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1241. According to Dai’sh Islamic theology, he would be sacrificed as a martyr by being slaughtered for his sin. This is not the same fate for Christians who in their view will end up in eternal hellfire.</div>
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1243. Before he was freed, Al-Adlubi saw the bodies of young men who were systematically slaughtered and disemboweled.</div>
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1245. “The slaughterhouse was on a hill. It is secluded and is void of any homes nearby” says Al-Adlubi. “I witnessed lifeless bodies hanging upside down as if they were slaughtered sheep,” he added.</div>
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1247. “In the center of the slaughterhouse is a huge Egyptian about two meters high. He was the one doing the slaughtering”</div>
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1249. The Egyptian butcher examines the row of the young and old men who were about to be slaughtered: Armenian Christians, Syrian Christians, Shiites and even Sunnis. Each had to be physically examined. They are decapitated from the root of their necks, their chest cavities are opened and disemboweled and hung upside down.  The neck of the aged Christian Armenian man was a simple one.</div>
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1251. The stories told by Al-Adlubi and Toume adds up. Toume sent us some footage that circulated the Syrian community after the human slaughterhouse finally ended, and the ugly remaining evidence was revealed when Umm Muhammad’s slaughterhouse in the Siba’ district in Homs was busted by Syrian police 3 years ago in August 2011. This was during the infancy of the revolution in Syria. Umm Muhammad’s slaughterhouse was not operated by Da’ish but by the FSA (Free Syrian Army) during its infancy. The slaughterhouses were in progress for years and only the future will show the extent of such operations. <a href="http://shoebat.com/2013/11/04/new-cases-cannibalism-muslim-syria/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">We have also reported in the past</a> how a rare disease (Kuru) that infected Syrians which can only be contracted as a result of cannibalism.</div>
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1253. Umm Muhammad was a Sunni woman in charge of dismembering human bodies. In the footage, it can be seen with human bodies being chopped up exactly as is done in a cattle slaughterhouse. What is striking is the way of the superior care in the chipping of the body parts without having clear traces of torture, which indicates that the potential target was to pile the body parts for an unknown reason. The table is the type used in a morgue or in Forensic Medicine.</div>
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1255. Al-Adlubi’s story also checks out from footage obtained from Al-Bayyada, another slaughterhouse, which Rescue Christians was able to obtain footage from. And just as Al-Adlubi stated, they were hanging upside down, headless, like slaughtered sheep. The heads were removed from the root of the chest cavity just as Al-Adlubi stated when describing how the Egyptian was doing his meticulous methods and how Toume described the Umm-Muhammad slaughterhouse in Al-Siba’ district.</div>
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1257. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=76ced3c3493c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640"></iframe></div>
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1259. This is the Al-Bayada Human Slaughterhouse</div>
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1261. Saif Al-Adlubi’s nightmare was over when Syrian civilian militia finally swarmed into the Da’ish prison in Edbana.</div>
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1263. We report this story because of the silence on the systematic killing of Christians, Shiite minorities and even Sunni Muslims in Syria who disagree with the Takfirist theology. The story is reminiscent to the initial reporting on the extermination of European Jewry and other minorities when little coverage was given to the truth in these days.</div>
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1265. We predict that history will repeat itself in the case of Christians in Syria and Iraq. When Dr. Gerhart Riegner, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, learned what was going on from a German source. Riegner asked American diplomats in Switzerland to inform Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, one of America’s most prominent Jewish leaders, of the systematic killing centers. But the State Department, characteristically insensitive and influenced by anti-Semitism, decided not to inform Wise.</div>
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1267. The rabbi nevertheless learned of Riegner’s terrible message from Jewish leaders in Great Britain. He immediately approached Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who asked Wise to keep the information confidential until the government had time to verify it. Wise agreed and it was not until November 1942 that Welles authorized the release of Riegner’s message.</div>
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1269. Wise held a press conference on the evening of November 24, 1942. The next day’s New York Times reported his news on its tenth page. Throughout the rest of the war, the Times and most other newspapers failed to give prominent and extensive coverage to the Holocaust.</div>
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1271. In the case for Syria, history is repeating itself. Rescue Christians will do a press release for media interviews to speak to Mr. Toume and the plight of Syrian Christians and how his family were murdered by rebel forces in Syria.</div>
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1273. The cruelty expressed by the Muslims in the Syrian slaughterhouses is reminiscent to the violence perpetuated by the Ottoman Turks.</div>
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1275. For example, the Egyptian executioner who told the elderly Armenian man that his neck was soft and easy to cut parallels the hatred which the Ottoman Muslims expressed toward the Armenians. Today we have actual footage on how the extermination of the Armenians was carried out.</div>
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1277. A German, who was present in the Armenian Genocide, was running an orphanage in the area of Moush where the Turks were conducting their massacres. When he asked a Turkish officer in charge if the Armenian children of the orphanage would be given guaranteed safe passage, the Turk replied:</div>
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1280. You can take them with you, but being Armenians their heads may and will be cut off on the way. (1)</div>
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1283. In the slaughterhouses in Syria, there are countless corpses, all severely mutilated and cut into parts. This is exactly what the Turks did to Christians in their infamous Genocide.</div>
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1285. Turkish peasants seized entire multitudes of Armenians and cut their bodies into pieces while they were still alive. A letter written by an anonymous source recounts how Turkish farmers cut to pieces a large body of Armenian men with their farming tools:</div>
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1288. In the valley of Beyhan Boghazi, six or seven hours’ distance from the town, they were attacked by a wild horde of Turkish peasants, and, in pursuance of the order, were all massacred with clubs, hammers, axes, scythes, spades, saws — in a word, with every implement that causes a slow and painful death. Some shore off their heads, ears, noses, hands, feet with scythes; others put out their eyes. …The bodies of the victims were left in pieces in the valley, to be devoured by the wild beasts. (2)</div>
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1291. William Willard Howard, an eye-witness to the Armenian Genocide, actually described how the Turks mutilated and cut to pieces the bodies of Christians:</div>
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1294. …the soles of his feet are held before an open fire until the flesh drops off. After that his tongue may be pulled out, or red hot irons thrust into his eyes. If he is not dead by this time he is hacked to pieces with knives. (3)</div>
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1297. Samuel Gridley Howe, an American who helped the Greek Christians revolt against the Turkish occupation in the 19th century, described the massacre of the Greek Christians by the Turks as a literal slaughterhouse, with severed body parts and decapitated heads being found without number. He described one massacre of a Greek town as such:</div>
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1299. [T]he Turkish troops gathered round the town, rushed in among the defenseless inhabitants, and begun to butcher all they found. …And a few hours were sufficient for all this; a few hours of rapine and murder had changed the beautiful town to a scene of utter devastation; to a slaughter-house, still steaming with the blood of thousands of all ages, and of both sexes, whose mutilated and headless bodies, lay in every direction about the streets (4)<br />
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1304. The slaughterhouses in Syria are really centers for ritual human sacrifices. Rescue Christians even obtained footage to prove this as well:</div>
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1308. In the video, which is filmed at yet another unknown slaughterhouse, the executioner declares this prayer before making the slaughter:</div>
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1311. In defense of the Sunnis O Lord, O Lord, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We bring these offerings to you</strong>, O Lord. Please accept this <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sacrificial offering</strong>, O Lord. O Lord, accept this from us, accept this from us. In the name of Allah. Bismillah (In the name of Allah). Allahu Akbar</div>
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1314. The victims could be shot or slaughtered, but one thing is true, these are ritualistic killings.</div>
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1316. This can be deduced by paralleling the slaughterhouses in Syria to Islamic ideology in regards to shedding Christian blood, which can be observed in historical accounts. For example, Howe, an eyewitness to Turkish violence, recounted that the Muslim Turks “thought the blood of a Christian an acceptable offering to God.” (5)</div>
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1318. Now, in conjunction with this statement, here is an account of John Eshoo, an Assyrian reverend who survived the Assyrian Genocide under the Turks, in which he refers to the carnage as a literal slaughter house and describes how the Muslims butchered the Christians in the same fashion as the system of animal sacrifice during the Islamic fasts:</div>
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1321. The fearful place became literally a human slaughter house, receiving its speechless victims, in groups of ten and twenty at a time, for execution. … These helpless Assyrians marched like lambs to their slaughter, and they opened not their mouth, save by sayings “Lord, into thy hands we commit our spirits. The executioners began by cutting first the fingers of their victims, join by joint, till the two hands were entirely amputated. Then they were stretched on the ground, after the manner of the animals that are slain in the Fast, but these with their faces turned upward, and their heads resting upon the stones or blocks of wood Then their throats were half cut, so as to prolong their torture of dying, and while struggling in the agony of death, the victims were kicked and clubbed by heavy poles the murderers carried Many of them, while still laboring under the pain of death, were thrown into ditches and buried before their souls had expired. (6)</div>
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1324. All of this sadism and cruelty was done in the fashion of an Islamic animal sacrifice, and in the Muslim religion, it is permitted that a human being replace the animal in the sacrificial rituals. This theology of human sacrifice is based upon the very ancient story of Khalid Abdullah al-Kasri, who ritually sacrificed Jaad bin Durham in the place of an animal on the Islamic holiday of The Festival of Sacrifice. He dragged Durham into a mosque, and before spilling his blood, proclaimed:</div>
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1327. O people, sacrifice, Allah accepted your sacrifices. I am now sacrificing Jaad bin Durham.</div>
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1330. The story is accepted as orthodox by several of the most forceful Muslim theologians during the history of Islam like Al-Shafi’, Ibin Tayymiya, Bukhari, Dhahabi, Ibin Al-Qiyam, Darami and Ibin Katheer.</div>
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1332. This is the reality of Islam, it is a pagan and utterly depraved and sadistic religion. It takes the soul of a man and purges any remnants of human affection from his very being. Look to your own soul, and understand your own obligation to help the Christians from this horror. <a href="https://ffmu.webconnex.com/rescuechristians" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #1f65b3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Please donate to save Christian lives in Syria.</a></div>
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1334. (1) Moush: Statement by a German Eye-witness of Occurrences at Moush; communicated by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, in Arnold Toynbee, The Treatmen of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, p. 89</div>
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1336. (2) Angora: Extract from a letter, dated 16th September, 1915; appended to the memorandum (doc. 11), dated 15/28th October, 1915, from a well-informed source at Bukarest</div>
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1338. (3) William Willard Howard, Horrors of Armenia,  ch. 1, p. 6</div>
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1340. (4) Samuel Gridely Howe, An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution, ch. 3, pp. 99-100, brackets and ellipses mine</div>
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1342. (5) Howe,  An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution, ch. 3, p. 100</div>
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1344. (6) In Joel Euel Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia: or, the Assyrian Nation and Church, ch. 26, ellipses mine</div>
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1384. <a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/03/17/syrian-christians-escape-jihadists-still-deal-horrors-displacement/" rel="next" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Syrian Christians who escape Jihadists still have to deal with the Horrors of Displacement <span class="icon-angle-right" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: "fontawesome"; font-size: 12.6px; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></span></a></div>
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1391. <li class="comment even thread-even depth-1 parent" id="dsq-comment-23514" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23514" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1392. <cite id="dsq-cite-23514" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
1393. <div class="dsq-comment-body" id="dsq-comment-body-23514" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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1396. Islam is a fascist, supremacist, murderous ideology akin to Nazism. It must be defeated like Nazism was.</div>
1397. </div>
1398. </div>
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1400. <li class="comment odd alt depth-2" id="dsq-comment-23547" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23547" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1401. <cite id="dsq-cite-23547" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catholicon</cite></div>
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1405. Lest Ye Forget, Remember The Holomodor and it’s Perpatrators;<br />
1406. ynetnews. com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html</div>
1407. </div>
1408. </div>
1409. </li>
1410. <li class="comment even depth-2 parent" id="dsq-comment-23572" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23572" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1411. <cite id="dsq-cite-23572" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dani</cite></div>
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1415. Islam is the religion of Peace and everyday thousands of people enter Islam from all over the world, those killers are non Muslims and the rule in Islam says that if you kill an innocent person with no valid reason, your punishment in the hereafter will be as huge as killing all human kind! now , do you think Islam is murderous ?</div>
1416. </div>
1417. </div>
1418. <ul class="children" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1419. <li class="comment odd alt depth-3 parent" id="dsq-comment-23576" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23576" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1420. <cite id="dsq-cite-23576" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chuck Bump</cite></div>
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1424. Muslims are encourage in the Koran to lie, if it is to help the spread of Islam. What Dani says is just that. A lie.</div>
1425. </div>
1426. </div>
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1428. <li class="comment even depth-4 parent" id="dsq-comment-23580" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23580" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1429. <cite id="dsq-cite-23580" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dani</cite></div>
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1433. Well here we go, I challenge you to show me one verse in Quran encourages people to lie, only one verse… I’m waiting brother <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-height: 1em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
1434. </div>
1435. </div>
1436. <ul class="children" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1437. <li class="comment odd alt depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23592" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23592" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1438. <cite id="dsq-cite-23592" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
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1442. he Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.</div>
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1444. The context of violent passages is more ambiguous than might be expected of a perfect book from a loving God, however this can work both ways. Most of today’s Muslims exercise a personal choice to interpret their holy book’s call to arms according to their own moral preconceptions about justifiable violence. Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.</div>
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1446. Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad’s own martial legacy – and that of his companions – along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history.</div>
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1448. These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad.</div>
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1450. Africa</div>
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1452. Thomas Sowell [Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, BasicBooks, 1994, p. 188] estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the forced march.[Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions, David Livingstone, p. 62, 1888] Those who were left behind were the very young, the weak, the sick and the old. These soon died since the main providers had been killed or enslaved. So, for 25 million slaves delivered to the market, we have an estimated death of about 120 million people. Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa.</div>
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1454. 120 million Africans</div>
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1456. Christians</div>
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1458. The number of Christians martyred by Islam is 9 million [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-10] . A rough estimate by Raphael Moore in History of Asia Minor is that another 50 million died in wars by jihad. So counting the million African Christians killed in the 20th century we have:</div>
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1460. 60 million Christians</div>
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1462. Hindus</div>
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1464. Koenard Elst in Negationism in India gives an estimate of 80 million Hindus killed in the total jihad against India. [Koenard Elst, Negationism in India, Voice of India, New Delhi, 2002, pg. 34.] The country of India today is only half the size of ancient India, due to jihad. The mountains near India are called the Hindu Kush, meaning the “funeral pyre of the Hindus.”</div>
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1466. 80 million Hindus</div>
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1468. Buddhists</div>
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1470. Buddhists do not keep up with the history of war. Keep in mind that in jihad only Christians and Jews were allowed to survive as dhimmis (servants to Islam); everyone else had to convert or die. Jihad killed the Buddhists in Turkey, Afghanistan, along the Silk Route, and in India. The total is roughly 10 million. [David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson,World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, William Carey Library, 2001, p. 230, table 4-1.]</div>
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1472. 10 million Buddhists</div>
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1474. Jewish victims.<br />
1475. Oddly enough there were not enough Jews killed in jihad to significantly affect the totals of the Great Annihilation. The jihad in Arabia was 100 percent effective, but the numbers were in the thousands, not millions. After that, the Jews submitted and became the dhimmis (servants and second class citizens) of Islam and did not have geographic political power.</div>
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1477. This gives a rough estimate of 270 million killed by jihad.</div>
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1481. <li class="comment even depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23593" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23593" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1482. <cite id="dsq-cite-23593" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
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1486. The Quran:</div>
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1488. Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing…</div>
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1490. but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)” The historical context of this passage is not defensive warfare, since Muhammad and his Muslims had just relocated to Medina and were not under attack by their Meccan adversaries. In fact, the verses urge offensive warfare, in that Muslims are to drive Meccans out of their own city (which they later did). The use of the word “persecution” by some Muslim translators is thus disingenuous (the actual Muslim words for persecution – “idtihad” – and oppression – a variation of “z-l-m” – do not appear in the verse). The actual Arabic comes from “fitna” which can mean disbelief, or the disorder that results from unbelief or temptation. Taken as a whole, the context makes clear that violence is being authorized until “religion is for Allah” – ie. unbelievers desist in their unbelief.</div>
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1492. Quran (2:244) – “Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things.”</div>
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1494. Quran (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.” Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.</div>
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1496. Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”</div>
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1498. Quran (3:151) – “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”. This speaks directly of polytheists, yet it also includes Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be ‘joining companions to Allah’).</div>
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1500. Quran (4:74) – “Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.” The martyrs of Islam are unlike the early Christians, led meekly to the slaughter. These Muslims are killed in battle, as they attempt to inflict death and destruction for the cause of Allah. Here is the theological basis for today’s suicide bombers.</div>
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1502. Quran (4:76) – “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…”</div>
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1504. Quran (4:89) – “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.”</div>
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1506. Quran (4:95) – “Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-” This passage criticizes “peaceful” Muslims who do not join in the violence, letting them know that they are less worthy in Allah’s eyes. It also demolishes the modern myth that “Jihad” doesn’t mean holy war in the Quran, but rather a spiritual struggle. Not only is the Arabic word used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption. (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man’s protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad and this is reflected in other translations of the verse).</div>
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1508. Quran (4:104) – “And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain…” Is pursuing an injured and retreating enemy really an act of self-defense?</div>
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1510. Quran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”</div>
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1512. Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle.</div>
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1514. Quran (8:15) – “O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey’s end.”</div>
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1516. Quran (8:39) – “And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion should be only for Allah” Some translations interpret “fitna” as “persecution”, but the traditional understanding of this word is not supported by the historical context (See notes for 2:293, also). The Meccans were simply refusing Muhammad access to their city during Haj. Other Muslims were allowed to travel there – just not as an armed group, since Muhammad had declared war on Mecca prior to his eviction. The Meccans were also acting in defense of their religion, since it was Muhammad’s intention to destroy their idols and establish Islam by force (which he later did). Hence the critical part of this verse is to fight until “religion is only for Allah”, meaning that the true justification of violence was the unbelief of the opposition. According to the Sira (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 324) Muhammad further explains that “Allah must have no rivals.”</div>
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1518. Quran (8:57) – “If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.”</div>
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1520. Quran (8:59-60) – “And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah’s Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy.”</div>
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1522. Quran (8:65) – “O Prophet, exhort the believers to fight…”</div>
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1524. Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.” According to this verse, the best way of staying safe from Muslim violence is to convert to Islam (prayer (salat) and the poor tax (zakat) are among the religion’s Five Pillars). This popular claim that the Quran only inspires violence within the context of self-defense is seriously challenged by this passage as well, since the Muslims to whom it was written were obviously not under attack. Had they been, then there would have been no waiting period (earlier verses make it a duty for Muslims to fight in self-defense, even during the sacred months). The historical context is Mecca after the idolaters were subjugated by Muhammad and posed no threat. Once the Muslims had the power, they violently evicted those unbelievers who would not convert.</div>
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1526. Quran (9:14) – “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace…”</div>
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1528. Quran (9:20) – “Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah’s way are of much greater worth in Allah’s sight. These are they who are triumphant.” The Arabic word interpreted as “striving” in this verse is the same root as “Jihad”. The context is obviously holy war.</div>
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1530. Quran (9:29) – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” “People of the Book” refers to Christians and Jews. According to this verse, they are to be violently subjugated, with the sole justification being their religious status. This was one of the final “revelations” from Allah and it set in motion the tenacious military expansion, in which Muhammad’s companions managed to conquer two-thirds of the Christian world in the next 100 years. Islam is intended to dominate all other people and faiths.</div>
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1532. Quran (9:30) – “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”</div>
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1534. Quran (9:38-39) – “O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.” This is a warning to those who refuse to fight, that they will be punished with Hell.</div>
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1536. Quran (9:41) – “Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew.” See also the verse that follows (9:42) – “If there had been immediate gain (in sight), and the journey easy, they would (all) without doubt have followed thee, but the distance was long, (and weighed) on them” This contradicts the myth that Muslims are to fight only in self-defense, since the wording implies that battle will be waged a long distance from home (in another country and on Christian soil, in this case, according to the historians).</div>
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1538. Quran (9:73) – “O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.” Dehumanizing those who reject Islam, by reminding Muslims that unbelievers are merely firewood for Hell, makes it easier to justify slaughter. It also explains why today’s devout Muslims have little regard for those outside the faith.</div>
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1540. Quran (9:88) – “But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper.”</div>
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1542. Quran (9:111) – “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.”</div>
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1544. Quran (9:123) – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”</div>
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1546. Quran (17:16) – “And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.” Note that the crime is moral transgression, and the punishment is “utter destruction.” (Before ordering the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden first issued Americans an invitation to Islam).</div>
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1548. Quran (18:65-81) – This parable lays the theological groundwork for honor killings, in which a family member is murdered because they brought shame to the family, either through apostasy or perceived moral indiscretion. The story (which is not found in any Jewish or Christian source) tells of Moses encountering a man with “special knowledge” who does things which don’t seem to make sense on the surface, but are then justified according to later explanation. One such action is to murder a youth for no apparent reason (74). However, the wise man later explains that it was feared that the boy would “grieve” his parents by “disobedience and ingratitude.” He was killed so that Allah could provide them a ‘better’ son. (Note: This is one reason why honor killing is sanctioned by Sharia. Reliance of the Traveler (Umdat al-Saliq) says that punishment for murder is not applicable when a parent or grandparent kills their offspring (o.1.1-2).)</div>
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1550. Quran (21:44) – “We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?”</div>
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1552. Quran (25:52) – “Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness…” “Strive against” is Jihad – obviously not in the personal context. It’s also significant to point out that this is a Meccan verse.</div>
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1554. Quran (33:60-62) – “If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.” This passage sanctions the slaughter (rendered “merciless” and “horrible murder” in other translations) against three groups: Hypocrites (Muslims who refuse to “fight in the way of Allah” (3:167) and hence don’t act as Muslims should), those with “diseased hearts” (which include Jews and Christians 5:51-52), and “alarmists” or “agitators who include those who merely speak out against Islam, according to Muhammad’s biographers. It is worth noting that the victims are to be sought out by Muslims, which is what today’s terrorists do. If this passage is meant merely to apply to the city of Medina, then it is unclear why it is included in Allah’s eternal word to Muslim generations.</div>
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1556. Quran (47:3-4) – “Those who reject Allah follow vanities, while those who believe follow the truth from their lord. Thus does Allah set forth form men their lessons by similitude. Therefore when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners,” Those who reject Allah are to be subdued in battle. The verse goes on to say the only reason Allah doesn’t do the dirty work himself is in order to to test the faithfulness of Muslims. Those who kill pass the test. “But if it had been Allah’s Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.”</div>
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1558. Quran (47:35) – “Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost (Shakir: “have the upper hand”) for Allah is with you,”</div>
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1560. Quran (48:17) – “There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom.” Contemporary apologists sometimes claim that Jihad means ‘spiritual struggle.’ Is so, then why are the blind, lame and sick exempted? This verse also says that those who do not fight will suffer torment in hell.</div>
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1562. Quran (48:29) – “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves” Islam is not about treating everyone equally. There are two very distinct standards that are applied based on religious status. Also the word used for ‘hard’ or ‘ruthless’ in this verse shares the same root as the word translated as ‘painful’ or severe’ in verse 16.</div>
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1564. Quran (61:4) – “Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way” Religion of Peace, indeed! The verse explicitly refers to “battle array” meaning that it is speaking of physical conflict. This is followed by (61:9): “He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist.” (See next verse, below). Infidels who resist Islamic rule are to be fought.</div>
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1566. Quran (61:10-12) – “O You who believe! Shall I guide you to a commerce that will save you from a painful torment. That you believe in Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad ), and that you strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives, that will be better for you, if you but know! (If you do so) He will forgive you your sins, and admit you into Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant dwelling in Gardens of ‘Adn – Eternity [‘Adn (Edn) Paradise], that is indeed the great success.” This verse refers to physical battle in order to make Islam victorious over other religions (see above). It uses the Arabic word, Jihad.</div>
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1568. Quran (66:9) – “O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey’s end.” The root word of “Jihad” is used again here. The context is clearly holy war, and the scope of violence is broadened to include “hypocrites” – those who call themselves Muslims but do not act as such.</div>
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1573. <cite id="dsq-cite-23600" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dani</cite></div>
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1577. Brother, don’t copy and past, I challenged Chuck to show me one verse in Quran encourages Muslims to lie, if you find that verse please let me see it.</div>
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1582. <cite id="dsq-cite-23606" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
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1586. Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences.”</div>
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1588. There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances… TAQIYYA and KITMAN. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.</div>
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1590. The Qur’an:<br />
1591. Qur’an (16:106) – Establishes that there are circumstances that can “compel” a Muslim to tell a lie.</div>
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1593. Qur’an (3:28) – This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to “guard themselves.”</div>
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1595. Qur’an (9:3) – “…Allah and His Messenger are free from liability to the idolaters…” The dissolution of oaths with the pagans who remained at Mecca following its capture. They did nothing wrong, but were evicted anyway.</div>
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1597. Qur’an (40:28) – A man is introduced as a believer, but one who must “hide his faith” among those who are not believers.</div>
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1599. Qur’an (2:225) – “Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts” The context of this remark is marriage, which explains why Sharia allows spouses to lie to each other for the greater good.</div>
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1601. Qur’an (66:2) – “Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths”</div>
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1603. Qur’an (3:54) – “And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers.” The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) ismakara, which literally means ‘deceit’. If Allah is supremely deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also 8:30 and 10:21)</div>
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1605. Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be “compelled” to deceive others for a greater purpose.</div>
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1607. From the Hadith:<br />
1608. Bukhari (52:269) – “The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.'” The context of this is thought to be the murder of Usayr ibn Zarim and his thirty unarmed men by Muhammad’s men after he “guaranteed” them safe passage (see Additional Notes below).</div>
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1610. Bukhari (49:857) – “He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar.” Lying is permitted when the end justifies the means.</div>
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1612. Bukhari (84:64-65) – Speaking from a position of power at the time, Ali confirms that lying is permissible in order to deceive an “enemy.”</div>
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1614. Muslim (32:6303) – “…he did not hear that exemption was granted in anything what the people speak as lie but in three cases: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them).”</div>
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1616. Bukhari (50:369) – Recounts the murder of a poet, Ka’b bin al-Ashraf, at Muhammad’s insistence. The men who volunteered for the assassination used dishonesty to gain Ka’b’s trust, pretending that they had turned against Muhammad. This drew the victim out of his fortress, whereupon he was brutally slaughtered despite putting up a ferocious struggle for his life.</div>
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1618. From Islamic Law:<br />
1619. Reliance of the Traveler (p. 746 – 8.2) – “Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N:i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory… it is religiously precautionary in all cases to employ words that give a misleading impression…</div>
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1621. “One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie.</div>
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1625. <li class="comment odd alt depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23607" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23607" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1626. <cite id="dsq-cite-23607" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
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1630. Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them. The two forms are:</div>
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1632. Taqiyya – Saying something that isn’t true.</div>
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1634. Kitman – Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind”) while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of “corruption” and “mischief.”</div>
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1636. Though not called Taqiyya by name, Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the Meccans that allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his own forces for a takeover. The unsuspecting residents were conquered in easy fashion after he broke the treaty two years later, and some of the people in the city who had trusted him at his word were executed.</div>
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1638. Another example of lying is when Muhammad used deception to trick his personal enemies into letting down their guard and exposing themselves to slaughter by pretending to seek peace. This happened in the case of Ka’b bin al-Ashraf (as previously noted) and again later against Usayr ibn Zarim, a surviving leader of the Banu Nadir tribe, which had been evicted from their home in Medina by the Muslims.</div>
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1640. At the time, Usayr ibn Zarim was attempting to gather an armed force against the Muslims from among a tribe allied with the Quraish (against which Muhammad had already declared war). Muhammad’s “emissaries” went to ibn Zarim and persuaded him to leave his safe haven on the pretext of meeting with the prophet of Islam in Medina to discuss peace. Once vulnerable, the leader and his thirty companions were massacred by the Muslims with ease, belying the probability that they were mostly unarmed, having been given a guarantee of safe passage (Ibn Ishaq 981).</div>
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1642. Such was the reputation of Muslims for lying and then killing that even those who “accepted Islam” did not feel entirely safe. The fate of the Jadhima is tragic evidence for this. When Muslim “missionaries” approached their tribe one of the members insisted that they would be slaughtered even though they had already “converted” to Islam to avoid just such a demise. However, the others were convinced that they could trust the Muslim leader’s promise that they would not be harmed if they simply offered no resistance. (After convincing the skeptic to lay down his arms, the unarmed men of the tribe were quickly tied up and beheaded – Ibn Ishaq 834 & 837).</div>
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1644. Today’s Muslims often try to justify Muhammad’s murder of poets and others who criticized him at Medina by saying that they broke a treaty by their actions. Yet, these same apologists place little value on treaties broken by Muslims. From Muhammad to Saddam Hussein, promises made to non-Muslim are distinctly non-binding in the Muslim mindset.</div>
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1646. Leaders in the Arab world routinely say one thing to English-speaking audiences and then something entirely different to their own people in Arabic. Yassir Arafat was famous for telling Western newspapers about his desire for peace with Israel, then turning right around and whipping Palestinians into a hateful and violent frenzy against Jews.</div>
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1648. The 9/11 hijackers practiced deception by going into bars and drinking alcohol, thus throwing off potential suspicion that they were fundamentalists plotting jihad. This effort worked so well, in fact, that even weeks after 9/11, John Walsh, the host of a popular American television show, said that their bar trips were evidence of ‘hypocrisy.’</div>
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1650. The transmission from Flight 93 records the hijackers telling their doomed passengers that there is “a bomb on board” but that everyone will “be safe” as long as “their demands are met.” Obviously none of these things were true, but these men, who were so intensely devoted to Islam that they were willing to “slay and be slain for the cause of Allah” (as the Qur’an puts it) saw nothing wrong with employing Taqiyya in order to facilitate their mission of mass murder.</div>
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1652. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) insists that it “has not now or ever been involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, or supported any covert, illegal, or terrorist activity or organization.” In fact, it was created by the Muslim Brotherhood and has bankrolled Hamas. At least nine founders or board members of ISNA have been accused by prosecutors of supporting terrorism.</div>
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1654. Prior to engineering several deadly terror plots, such as the Fort Hood massacre and the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was regularly sought out by NPR, PBS and even government leaders to expound on the peaceful nature of Islam.</div>
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1656. The Quran says in several places that Allah is the best at deceiving people. An interesting side note is verse 7:99, which says that the only people who feel secure from Allah are actually those who will perish in Hell. Taken literally, this would mean that those Muslims who arrogantly assume that they will enter heaven are in for a rude surprise (such are the hazards of worshipping an all-powerful deceiver).</div>
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1658. The near absence of Qur’anic verse and reliable Hadith that encourage truthfulness is somewhat surprising, given that many Muslims are convinced that their religion teaches honesty. In fact, it is because of this ingrained belief that many Muslims are quite honest. When lying is addressed in the Qur’an, it is nearly always in reference to the “lies against Allah” – referring to the Jews and Christians who rejected Muhammad’s claim to being a prophet.</div>
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1660. Finally, the circumstances by which Muhammad allowed a believer to lie to a non-spouse are limited to those that either advance the cause of Islam or enable a Muslim to avoid harm to his well-being (and presumably that of other Muslims as well). Although this should be kept very much in mind when dealing with matters of global security, such as Iran’s nuclear intentions, it isnot grounds for assuming that the Muslim one might personally encounter on the street or in the workplace is any less honest than anyone else.</div>
1661. </div>
1662. </div>
1663. </li>
1664. <li class="comment even depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23638" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23638" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1665. <cite id="dsq-cite-23638" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dani</cite></div>
1666. <div class="dsq-comment-body" id="dsq-comment-body-23638" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1667. <div class="dsq-comment-message" id="dsq-comment-message-23638" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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1669. Taqiyaa is shi’a way to hide what they have in their hearts against Muslims, they are non Muslims and Christianity are much better religion than shi’a religion, it is the terrorism itself.<br />
1670. Kitman is an Arabic word means keeping secrets and I never heard about that in the context you’re talking about however; here is the verse you’re talking about, the Quran is available for everybody and we would never hide a letter of it:</div>
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1672. Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.(34 almaida)</div>
1673. </div>
1674. </div>
1675. </li>
1676. <li class="comment odd alt depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23617" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23617" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1677. <cite id="dsq-cite-23617" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://batman-news.com <span id="dsq-author-user-23617" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">albeit</span></cite></div>
1678. <div class="dsq-comment-body" id="dsq-comment-body-23617" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1679. <div class="dsq-comment-message" id="dsq-comment-message-23617" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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1681. I don’t know how you can possibly defend your religion when these horrors that are posted above are read…If you do not accept that Jesus Christ is the Son of God than as well you do not know the Father in heaven because the two are One…Jesus healed the blind man and he rejoiced because he was once blind and now he can see…Once when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior than you too will be able to see…I truly hope that you invite the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God into your life and know and understand the truth…<br />
1682. Now concerning many Christian people and the way many of them live there lives it is not the way the Almighty would like I understand this…however if they followed the teachings in the bible more closely and conducted there lives in humility it would be far better and pleasing to God…Many pagan traditions have crept into the Christian churches and much of Christianity is corrupted because of it…</div>
1683. </div>
1684. </div>
1685. </li>
1686. <li class="comment even depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23652" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23652" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1687. <cite id="dsq-cite-23652" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dani</cite></div>
1688. <div class="dsq-comment-body" id="dsq-comment-body-23652" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1689. <div class="dsq-comment-message" id="dsq-comment-message-23652" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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1691. My friend, if you want to get a respond don’t write a book and copy and paste, I see stuff you would never see in those verses and hadith you paste here, if you want to discuss any verse I’m ready just give me your best one, I can’t explain the whole Quran for you in one day, it is 114 Surah, just give me your best one and I would be happy to answer and would bravely say if you were right.</div>
1692. </div>
1693. </div>
1694. </li>
1695. <li class="comment odd alt depth-5" id="dsq-comment-23594" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; list-style: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dsq-comment-header" id="dsq-comment-header-23594" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1696. <cite id="dsq-cite-23594" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joycey</cite></div>
1697. <div class="dsq-comment-body" id="dsq-comment-body-23594" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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1700. From the Hadith:</div>
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1702. Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”</div>
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1704. Bukhari (52:256) – The Prophet… was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, “They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans).” In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.</div>
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1706. Bukhari (52:65) – The Prophet said, ‘He who fights that Allah’s Word, Islam, should be superior, fights in Allah’s Cause. Muhammad’s words are the basis for offensive Jihad – spreading Islam by force. This is how it was understood by his companions, and by the terrorists of today.</div>
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1708. Bukhari (52:220) – Allah’s Apostle said… ‘I have been made victorious with terror’</div>
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1710. Abu Dawud (14:2526) – The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, “There is no god but Allah” and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)</div>
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1712. Abu Dawud (14:2527) – The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious</div>
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1714. Muslim (1:33) – the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah</div>
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1716. Bukhari (8:387) – Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally.”</div>
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1718. Muslim (1:30) – “The Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah.”</div>
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1720. Bukhari (11:626) – [Muhammad said:] “I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.”</div>
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1722. Muslim (1:149) – “Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause…”</div>
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1724. Muslim (20:4645) – “…He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa’id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!”</div>
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1726. Muslim (20:4696) – “the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.'”</div>
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1728. Muslim (19:4321-4323) – Three separate hadith in which Muhammad shrugs over the news that innocent children were killed in a raid by his men against unbelievers. His response: “They are of them (meaning the enemy).”</div>
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1730. Muslim (19:4294) – “When the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort him… He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war… When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them… If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”</div>
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1732. Bukhari 1:35 “The person who participates in (Holy Battles) in Allah’s cause and nothing compels him do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty ( if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise ( if he is killed).”</div>
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1734. Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, “Kill any Jew who falls under your power.” Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad’s men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.</div>
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1736. Tabari 9:69 “Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us” The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam.</div>
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1738. Tabari 17:187 “‘By God, our religion (din) from which we have departed is better and more correct than that which these people follow. Their religion does not stop them from shedding blood, terrifying the roads, and seizing properties.’ And they returned to their former religion.” The words of a group of Christians who had converted to Islam, but realized their error after being shocked by the violence and looting committed in the name of Allah. The price of their decision to return to a religion of peace was that the men were beheaded and the woman and children enslaved by the caliph Ali.</div>
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1740. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 327: – “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”</div>
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1742. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 990: – Lest anyone think that cutting off someone’s head while screaming ‘Allah Akbar!’ is a modern creation, here is an account of that very practice under Muhammad, who seems to approve.</div>
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1744. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992: – “Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.” Muhammad’s instructions to his men prior to a military raid.</div>
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1746. Saifur Rahman, The Sealed Nectar p.227-228 – “Embrace Islam… If you two accept Islam, you will remain in command of your country; but if your refuse my Call, you’ve got to remember that all of your possessions are perishable. My horsemen will appropriate your land, and my Prophethood will assume preponderance over your kingship.” One of several letters from Muhammad to rulers of other countries. The significance is that the recipients were not making war or threatening Muslims. Their subsequent defeat and subjugation by Muhammad’s armies was justified merely on the basis of their unbelief.</div>
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1766. <small><b>reblogged from<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1110375352"> </a></b></small><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840767/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840767/posts</a></b></span><br />
1767. <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><br /></b></span>
1768. <small><b>Vanity Essay</b> | 31 January 2012 | sourcery </small><br />
1769. <small>Posted on <b><span class="date">1/31/2012, 6:03:01 PM</span></b> by <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~sourcery/" style="color: #e00040;" title="Since 1998-07-31"><span style="color: black;"><b>sourcery</b></span></a></small><br />
1770. The Constitution requires that the President of the United States must be a <i>natural born citizen</i>:<br />
1771. Article II, section 1, pa. 5: "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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."<br />
1772. <br />
1773. If "natural born citizen" is a synonym for "citizen," <b>then there is no reason for adding the exception "or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution." None at all</b>. Being a citizen is not sufficient, unless you happened to be alive when the Constitution was adopted.<br />
1774. <br />
1775. So what, then, is a "natural born citizen"? To answer that question definitively will require a full examination of the concepts and history of citizenship.<br />
1776. <br />
1777. <b>Types Of Citizenship: Jus Soli, Jus Sanguinis, Natural Born, Native Born, Naturalized</b><br />
1778. <br />
1779. <i>Jus soli citizenship</i>: "Jus soli" is a Latin phrase meaning "law of the soil." <i>Jus soli</i> citizenship is any citizenship that inheres in a person based on the location of his or her birth.<br />
1780. <br />
1781. <i>Jus sanguinis citizenship</i>: "Jus sanguinis" is a Latin phrase meaning "law of the blood." <i>Jus sanguinis</i> citizenship is any citizenship that inheres in a person based on his or her ancestry.<br />
1782. <br />
1783. <i>Native born citizenship</i>: A native born citizen is one whose citizenship derives from the facts of his birth, and who becomes a citizen at the moment of birth. In both US and British law, those born within the sovereign territory of the country <b>or</b> born to parents who are citizens (subjects) of the country when the person is born are native citizens (subjects.) Native born persons are said to have "birthright citizenship." Note that one can be "native born" either by the "jus soli" principle or by the "jus sanguinis" principle.<br />
1784. <br />
1785. <i>Naturalized citizenship</i>: A naturalized citizen is one whose citizenship is granted as a political act—by law or by the decision or act of a sovereign.<br />
1786. <br />
1787. <i>Natural born citizenship</i>: A natural born citizen is one whose citizenship is not granted by law or by any act of a sovereign, but inheres naturally in the person from birth according to principles that don't depend on laws or decisions of a sovereign. The rest of this essay will fully justify this definition.<br />
1788. <br />
1789. The Constitution of the United States did not originally explicitly define who did or did not not qualify as citizens. It originally had clauses where the general term <i>citizen</i> occurs, and had one clause where the specific term <i>natural born citizen</i> occurs (quoted above.) But the Constitution does grant Congress the power to <i>define by law</i> who shall be citizens:<br />
1790. <br />
1791. <blockquote>
1792. Congress shall have power….To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization [Article I, Section 8]</blockquote>
1793. <br />
1794. Why did the Constitution limit the power it granted Congress over matters of citizenship to naturalization? Because Citizenship acquired solely by any law passed by Congress cannot logically be anything other than <i>naturalized</i> citizenship—by definition of <i>naturalization</i>. It's logically impossible for any act of Congress to <i>make</i> anyone a citizen by <i>natural law</i>. At most, such a law would be<i>declaratory</i> of natural law—because a citizen by <i>natural law</i> is a citizen no matter what laws Congress may or may not enact.<br />
1795. <br />
1796. In fact, given the Founders' understanding of natural law versus man-made law, it would have been a logical contradiction to grant Congress the power to change or define natural law on any subject, not just regarding citizenship—because natural law, by late 18th-century definition, cannot be made by a legislature or head of state. That's why Congress was granted no such powers in any domain at all. Such a power could be used, among other things. <i>to change the meaning of words, including those in the Constitution itself</i>. The dangers of that should be obvious.<br />
1797. <br />
1798. If Congress had the power to make anyone a <i>natural</i> citizen, it would also necessarily have the power to strip citizenship from anyone it chose. The fact it cannot logically have any such power—and is granted no such power by the Constitution—is one of the fundamental protections against tyranny. The power to revoke even <i>natural law</i> citizenship by law is the power to commit any act against anyone that the sovereign power of war permits.<br />
1799. <br />
1800. So why didn't the Constitution define the term <i>natural born citizen</i>? For the same reason it could only grant Congress the power to define <i>naturalized</i> citizens. For the Constitution to actually<i>define</i> the term "natural born citizen" would necessarily mean that that status would be granted by man-made law, and not by natural law. <i>That's</i> why the Constitution provides no definition, and why it must be a court that decides who is and who is not a <i>natural born citizen</i> by applying natural law principles—which is exactly how English common law handled questions of <i>natural</i>citizenship.<br />
1801. <br />
1802. But the ratification of the 14th Amendment introduced into the Constitution a rule of citizenship that declared anyone who (a) was born in the United States, and (b) was subject to U.S. jurisdiction at the time of his or her birth, to be a <i>citizen</i>. Since the 14th Amendment is a man-made law, and is not <i>natural law</i>, the 14th Amendment logically cannot make anyone be a <i>natural</i> citizen. Nor does it create the logical contradiction of attempting to do so, since it makes no mention of <i>natural</i> citizenship of any kind, and does not use the term "natural born citizen."<br />
1803. <br />
1804. The 14th Amendment created an implicit distinction among 14th Amendment native-born citizens, and statutory native-born citizens. A statutory native-born citizen is a person who does not qualify for birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, but receives U.S. citizenship, at birth, by laws enacted by Congress. For example, foreign-born children of American parents do not receive citizenship from the 14th Amendment; such children acquire U.S. citizenship, at birth, by statute.<br />
1805. <br />
1806. So those born outside the United States to parents who are US citizens at the time of the person's birth are both native citizens and also naturalized citizens, since their citizenship is a) granted to them by an Act of Congress, and b) effective from the instant of their birth, based on the fact that the person's parents were US citizens at that moment.<br />
1807. <br />
1808. Even those born in the United States, if they qualify as a citizen per the 14th Amendment, but do not also qualify as <i>natural born citizens</i> without reliance of the 14th Amendment, are <i>naturalized</i>citizens. Why? Because the US Constitution is a law whose formulation and adoption are political acts of man. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but it is not <i>natural law</i>. So it does not matter that the law that grants citizenship happens to be a clause of the Constitution—the grant of citizenship is nevertheless an act of <i>naturalization</i>, because it's a grant made by law—a political act, not one based on <i>natural law</i>.<br />
1809. <br />
1810. Those who were not citizens up until the moment of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, but who instantly became citizens upon ratification, cannot possibly have ever been <i>native-born</i>citizens. They were not citizens from the moment of their birth. And their grant of citizenship was a political act effected by the passage of a law, and not based on principles of natural law. The 14th Amendment <i>naturalizes</i> anyone who does not also qualify as a <i>natural born citizen</i>. And that's true <i>by definition of the term naturalization</i>, as will be fully and comprehensively shown later.<br />
1811. <br />
1812. Therefore, to handle all the possible classes of citenship in the US, it is necessary to distinguish between <i>natural law</i> citizens, <i>Constitutional</i> citizens and <i>statutory</i> citizens, and also to distinguish between <i>native</i> citizens and <i>non-native</i> citizens:<br />
1813. <br />
1814. <blockquote>
1815. <table border="1"><tbody>
1816. <tr><td></td><td><b>Native (from birth)</b></td><td><b>Non-native (post birth)</b></td></tr>
1817. <tr><td><b>Natural Law</b></td><td>Native citizen per natural law<br />
1818. Natural born citizen</td><td>Non-native citizen per natural law<br />
1819. (Those who become citizens of a newly-created nation)</td></tr>
1820. <tr><td><b>Constitutional Law</b></td><td>Naturalized native citizen per Constitutional definition</td><td>Naturalized non-native citizen per Constitutional definition<br />
1821. —Does not (currently) exist—</td></tr>
1822. <tr><td><b>Statutory Law</b></td><td>Naturalized native citizen per statutory definition</td><td>Naturalized non-native citizen per statutory definition</td></tr>
1823. </tbody></table>
1824. </blockquote>
1825. <br />
1826. Of course, in other countries, other classes of citizenship may exist, and classes of citizenship that exist in the US may not. For example, some countries don't have Constitutions or even legislatures, and others have monarchs who may have the power to grant citizenship (a power the US President lacks.)<br />
1827. <br />
1828. We can use the term "Constitutional natural born citizen" to refer to someone who is a "natural born citizen" according to the natural-law based definition intended by those who wrote and ratified the Constitution. The term must be understood in that sense when it appears in the Constitution or in a Constitution-related document such as a Supreme Court decision.<br />
1829. <br />
1830. We canl use the term "statutory natural born citizen" to refer to someone who is deemed a "natural born citizen" by Federal or State law.<br />
1831. <br />
1832. These distinctions are not my invention. The <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86757.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual—7 FAM 1130</a> (page 9) says:<br />
1833. <br />
1834. <blockquote>
1835. ...the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes</blockquote>
1836. <br />
1837. If we were to define "natural born citizen" to mean anyone who is a "citizen at birth", our definition of "natural born citizen" would be statutory because it would depend on the statute or law which defines "citizen at birth." Under existing law, all children born outside the United State to parents who are citizens are "citizens at birth". Therefore, using our hypothetical definition of "natural born citizen" as anyone who is a citizen at birth, all those born abroad to US-citizen parents would be <i>statutorily</i> defined as "natural born citizens" because their status as citizens at birth would be granted by statute. So that definition of "natural born citizen" would mean that Congress could change the meaning of "natural born citizen" by changing the rules of naturalization. <b>It would also mean that Congress, simply by changing the naturalization rules, could also change who was or was not eligible to be President.</b><br />
1838. <br />
1839. That cannot be what the Founders intended. Had it been, they would simply have granted Congress the power to dictate who shall or shall not be a citizen (or any sort,) and who could or could not be President. But they pointedly did not grant Congress any power to determine who would or would not <i>naturally</i> be citizens, nor who would be eligible to be President. The only power they granted Congress regarding citizenship was to make rules regarding <i>naturalization</i> of citizens (the making of citizens who would not be citizens <i>naturally</i>.) And they granted Congress no power to determine Presidential eligibility rules at all.<br />
1840. <br />
1841. It may be—and this essay so argues—that all <i>natural born citizens</i> are also <i>native born citizens</i>. But the reverse cannot be true without not only creating logical contradictions, but without granting Congress powers that were clearly intended to be denied to them.<br />
1842. <br />
1843. <b>Original Intent</b><br />
1844. <br />
1845. On 25 July 1787, <a href="http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=ltr_joj4101&person=joj" style="color: #e00040;">John Jay wrote a letter to George Washington</a>, recommending that the new Constitution should require that the President be a "natural born citizen". The stated purpose of this requirement for eligibility was to exclude "foreigners" from exercising Presidential powers:<br />
1846. <br />
1847. <blockquote>
1848. “Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government; and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.”</blockquote>
1849. <br />
1850. Also on 25 July 1787 (the very same day,) James Madison <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_725.asp" style="color: #e00040;">made the following comment</a> to the delegates of the Constitutional Convention then in progress in Philadelphia (the topic of the debate was whether or not it would be a good idea to have Congress , State legislatures, the Governors of the States or courts—Federal or State—choose the President):<br />
1851. <br />
1852. <blockquote>
1853. Mr. MADISON. ...Besides the general influence of that mode on the independence of the Executive, 1. [4] the election of the Chief Magistrate would agitate & divide the legislature so much that the public interest would materially suffer by it. Public bodies are always apt to be thrown into contentions, but into more violent ones by such occasions than by any others. 2. [5] the candidate would intrigue with the Legislature, would derive his appointment from the predominant faction, and be apt to render his administration subservient to its views. 3. [6] <b>The Ministers of foreign powers would have and [7] make use of, the opportunity to mix their intrigues & influence with the Election. Limited as the powers of the Executive are, it will be an object of great moment with the great rival powers of Europe who have American possessions, to have at the head of our Governmt. a man attached to their respective politics & interests. No pains, nor perhaps expense, will be spared, to gain from the Legislature an appointmt. favorable to their wishes. Germany & Poland are witnesses of this danger. In the former, the election of the Head of the Empire, till it became in a manner hereditary, interested all Europe, and was much influenced by foreign interference. In the latter, altho' the elective Magistrate has very little real power, his election has at all times produced the most eager interference of forign princes, and has in fact at length slid entirely into foreign hands.</b> The existing authorities in the States are the Legislative, Executive & Judiciary. The appointment of the Natl. Executive by the first, was objectionable in many points of view, some of which had been already mentioned. He would mention one which of itself would decide his opinion. The Legislatures of the States had betrayed a strong propensity to a variety of pernicious measures. One object of the Natl. Legislre. was to controul this propensity. One object of the Natl. Executive, so far as it would have a negative on the laws, was to controul the Natl. Legislature, so far as it might be infected with a similar propensity. Refer the appointmt. of the Natl. Executive to the State Legislatures, and this controuling purpose may be defeated. The Legislatures can & will act with some kind of regular plan, and will promote the appointmt. of a man who will not oppose himself to a favorite object. Should a majority of the Legislatures at the time of election have the same object, or different objects of the same kind, The Natl. Executive would be rendered subservient to them.—An appointment by the State Executives, was liable among other objections to this insuperable one, that being standing bodies, they could & would be courted, and intrigued with by the Candidates, by their partizans, <b>and by the Ministers of foreign powers</b>. The State Judiciarys had not [8] & he presumed wd. not be proposed as a proper source of appointment. The option before us then lay between an appointment by Electors chosen by the people—and an immediate appointment by the people. He thought the former mode free from many of the objections which had been urged agst. it, and greatly preferable to an appointment by the Natl. Legislature. As the electors would be chosen for the occasion, would meet at once, & proceed immediately to an appointment, there would be very little opportunity for cabal, or corruption. As a farther precaution, it might be required that they should meet at some place, distinct from the seat of Govt. and even that no person within a certain distance of the place at the time shd. be eligible. ...</blockquote>
1854. <br />
1855. With one exception to be noted shortly, it was only after Jay's letter to General Washington, and Madison's comment at the convention, that the Convention began to mention citizenship requirements for any Constitutional officers, even though they had begun to consider eligibility issues about a week previously. It should be noted, however, that during the early days of the Convention several very different initial drafts of proposed Constitutions were presented, all but one of which were rejected. The last one to be presented, by Alexander Hamilton, is known as the<a href="http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=No+person+shall+be+eligible+to+the+office+of+President+of+the+United+States+unless+he+be+now+a+Citizen+of+one+of+the+States%2C+or+hereafter+be+born+a+Citizen+of+the+United+States.&pbx=1&oq=No+person+shall+be+eligible+to+the+office+of+President+of+the+United+States+unless+he+be+now+a+Citizen+of+one+of+the+States%2C+or+hereafter+be+born+a+Citizen+of+the+United+States.&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=2433l2433l0l1l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=9a0c6f3ce62500b5&biw=1514&bih=959" style="color: #e00040;">British Plan</a> (because it was modeled closely after the British governmental architecture.) Although that proposal was totally rejected, it also happens to have been the only one whose text included any eligibility requirements for the Chief Executive. That plan required that that person be "born a citizen."<br />
1856. <br />
1857. The Convention's "committee of the whole" went into recess from 27 July through 5 August. When it resumed on August 6, the "committee of detail" presented the first draft of the Constitution that included eligibility requirements for any Constitutional officers: the members of the House and Senate had to be <i>citizens</i> for specified periods prior to serving (thus implicitly allowing naturalized citizens to serve, a point that was actually discussed in detail in the "committee of the whole.") But the only constraint on who could be President was that he "shall not be elected a second time."<br />
1858. <br />
1859. Finally, on 4 September, the Convention considered <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_904.asp" style="color: #e00040;">proposed changes from one of the sub-committees</a> where the "natural born citizen" eligibility requirement for the President was introduced to the "committee of the whole." The differences between the initial language and what later became the text of the ratified Constitution are minor and of no bearing on the meaning of "natural born citizen":<br />
1860. <br />
1861. <blockquote>
1862. (5) 'Sect. 2. No person except a natural born citizen or a Citizen of the U. S. at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of President; nor shall any person be elected to that office, who shall be under the age of thirty five years, and who has not been in the whole, at least fourteen years a resident within the U. S.'</blockquote>
1863. <br />
1864. Based on the above evidence, we can conclude that John Jay's letter to Washington, and the comments of Madison and later others at the Convention, establish the fact that the Framers were worried about the undivided loyalty of the President, and thought that the requirement that he be a "natural born citizen" would be sufficient to prevent anyone with foreign allegiance (anyone who could be claimed as a subject or citizen of a foreign sovereign) from serving as President. But how could that be, if "natural born citizen" means what many claim it does, namely "a person born in the United States, with parents who aren't employed in any official capacity by a foreign sovereign"?<br />
1865. <br />
1866. Some nations claim you as their citizen or subject based on where your were born, some based on who your parents were (father and/or mother,) and some based on both together. By requiring that the President be born at a location where the US is sovereign, any foreign "natural law" or "law of nations" claim on the President to allegiance based on his place of birth is precluded. By requiring that the President be born to parents who are solely US citizens, any foreign "natural law" or "law of nations" claim on the President to allegiance based on his parentage is precluded.<br />
1867. <br />
1868. There is no denying the fact that a person born in the United States could have multiple nationalities, and owe allegiance to multiple sovereigns, since either parent could have multiple citizenships, any of which could by the law of that nation transfer to the child by the principle of <i>jus sanguinis</i>. Many nations claim anyone with at least one parent (sometimes it must be the father, sometimes it must be the mother, sometimes both) who is a citizen or subject of that nation as a citizen/subject also. However, if both your parents are citizens (or subjects) of the same sovereign, if neither parent has any foreign citizenship, and if you were born in that same sovereign's territory, then and only then is it impossible for any other sovereign to have a <i>birthright</i> claim to your allegiance under the law of nations as commonly understood.<br />
1869. <br />
1870. Therefore, it should be evident that if the purpose of the requirement to be a "natural born citizen" is to prevent anyone with foreign citizenship from serving as President, it cannot achieve that end unless, by definition, the phrase "natural born citizen" excludes anyone who might have acquired foreign citizenship by means of any one of the three modalities recognized by the law of nations: 1) <i>jus soli</i> (born on foreign soil), 2) <i>jus sanguinis</i> (born to a parent with foreign citizenship), or 3) naturalization by a foreign country. John Jay's request to Washington makes no sense otherwise, since in that case his suggested eligibility requirement would not preclude what he was seeking to prevent.<br />
1871. <br />
1872. It should be noted that a person can become a citizen or subject of a foreign country by <i>naturalization</i> after one has has been born. To be logically consistent with the intent of the Founders, those US citizens—even if born in the US to parents who were both US citizens—who have any foreign citizenship, no matter when or how acquired, should not be eligible to be President. This issue has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's a question of loyalty and avoidance of even the appearance of conflict of interest. Nothing more, and nothing less.<br />
1873. <br />
1874. Consider again Article II, section 1, pa. 5: "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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."<br />
1875. <br />
1876. That clause limits who may be President to persons who meet the following requirements:<br />
1877. <ul>
1878. <li>Those who are 35 years old or older, AND</li>
1879. <li>Those who have been a resident of the US for 14 years or longer, AND<ul>
1880. <li>Those who are natural born citizens, OR</li>
1881. <li>Those who were US citizens at the time the Constitution was adopted</li>
1882. </ul>
1883. </li>
1884. </ul>
1885. <br />
1886. Why did the Constitutional Convention include that last exception, allowing those who were citizens at the time the Constitution was adopted to be President?<br />
1887. <br />
1888. Before answering that question, consider the case of Congressman Smith. He was born in South Carolina before the American Revolution. At the time of the Revolution, he was not yet an adult. His parents were British loyalists, and fought against the Revolution. But after the Revolution and the adoption of the Constitution in 1788, he was elected to Congress. But his right to be seated was challenged on the basis that he was not a citizen, due to the actions of his parents.<br />
1889. <br />
1890. James Madison himself <a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_2_2s6.html" style="color: #e00040;">spoke in defense of the fact that Mr. Smith was a citizen</a>. The reasoning he used is decisive with respect to understanding the reason for the exception in the Constitution to the "natural born citizen" requirement.<br />
1891. <br />
1892. Madison essentially argued that Mr. Smith was a citizen because of where he was born, and because he was a minor when his parents sided with the British loyalists against the American Revolutionaries. He focused on that point, because he obviously felt that any adults who sided with the British loyalists would not qualify as citizens, regardless of where they were born (he explains the reason for that.) Bear in mind that the Constitution allows naturalized citizens to serve in Congress, there is no requirement that one have "birthright citizenship" (whose normative definition means either "jus soli" OR "jus sanguinis" citzenship (OR, not AND.)) But Madison nevertheless argued that Mr. Smith was a citizen from birth, by reason of his place of birth alone, and explicitly not due to his parentage, because (as Madison argues) his parents never were US citizens at all.<br />
1893. <br />
1894. Madison's argument prevailed, and Mr. Smith was seated as a Congressman. The Congress accepted Madison's argument that Mr. Smith had birthright citizenship solely due to the location of his birth in South Carolina—when South Carolina was a British Colony, and not yet a State of the United States. <b>By that same logic, most residents of the US at the time the Constitution was adopted were native citizens of the US by their place of birth alone.</b><br />
1895. <br />
1896. Note that, according to Madison's argument, those who were citizens of any State became citizens of the US instantly, automatically and by operation of natural law and the law of nations the moment two events occurred: 1) The society in which they were citizens came under the sovereignty of the United States, and 2) they were adults who accepted, and did not reject, allegiance to the United States. However, their status as US citizens began only at that moment, and not before. By Madison's rule, anyone born on soil where the United States is <i>currently</i> sovereign, and who has not denounced or rejected US citizenship, is a citizen of the United States (although he didn't say what kind.). However, <b>most people who were alive when the Constitution was adopted would have had parents who were not US citizens when they were born</b>, because the United States did not exist until 1776 at the earliest. Whether the United States that came into existence in 1776 is the same <i>nation</i> as the one whose government was constituted in 1788 by the current US Constitution is an interesting question, but there is no need to answer it here.<br />
1897. <br />
1898. The only persons who were indisputably born on soil in which the United States was sovereign when the current US Constitution was adopted <b>and</b> whose parents were US citizens at the very moment when those persons were born would, under the most lenient possible interpretation, have been no older than 12 years of age in 1788 when the US Constitution was ratified. Under the strictest interpretation, they would have been mere infants. In contrast, most of those who were citizens when the Constitution was ratified would have satisfied the requirement to have been born on US soil— because the soil on which they were born would have become US soil no later than the moment the Constitution was ratified, if not before (per Madison's rule.)<br />
1899. <br />
1900. So, based on Madison's argument (which Congress accepted,) if "natural born citizen" means simply "native born" or "born a citizen" or "born on soil where the United States is <i>currently</i>sovereign" then any citizen of the US at the time the Constitution was adopted would satisfy the "natural born citizen" requirement, so there would have been no need for the exception, and its inclusion in the Constitution makes no sense, especially in historical context, where no small number of residents of the US were at least potentially British subjects per British law, and the<i>undivided</i> loyalty of many of them to the United States was under serious suspicion (as demonstrated by the case of Congressman Smith.)<br />
1901. <br />
1902. But if "natural born citizen" means "born on US soil, with parents who were US citizens <b>when their child was born</b>," then it would in fact be true that no one older than 12 years of age (at most) could have satisfied the "natural born citizen" requirement in 1788 (when the Constitution was ratified,) in which case there is a good reason for the exception. Without that exception, and assuming a semantic for "natural born citizen" as stated, George Washington would not have been eligible, nor would most of the Presidents after him until well into the 19th century.<br />
1903. <br />
1904. In addition to the debates at the Constitutional Convention, John Jay's letter to General Washington, and the text of the Constitution itself, there is also the testimony of Founder and historian David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 to May 8, 1815,) who was an American physician, patriot, and historian from South Carolina and a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and 1785-1786. He was the Acting President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was one of the American Revolution’s first major historians. A contemporary of Washington, Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights one acquires only by being personally involved in the events of the Founding period.<br />
1905. <br />
1906. In <b>1789</b> (the year after the Constitution was ratified,) Dr. Ramsay published an essay entitled "<a href="http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3392061" style="color: #e00040;">A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen</a>," a very important and influential essay on defining a “natural born Citizen.” In his <b>1789</b> article, Ramsay first explained who the “original citizens” were and then defined the “natural born citizens” as the children born in the country to citizen parents. He said concerning the children born after the declaration of independence, “[c]itizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken part in the late revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens….” Id. at 6. He added that “citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the declaration of independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring….” Id. at 7. He continued that citizenship “as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776….” Id. at 6.<br />
1907. <br />
1908. Based on Dr. Ramsay's definition of "natural born citizen," there can be no doubt why it was necessary to include the time-limited Constitutional exception that permitted those who were citizens when the Constitution was adopted to be President. Without that exception, those who would have qualified as natural born citizens, and so been Constitutionally eligible to be President, would have been no older than 12 years of age in 1788.<br />
1909. <br />
1910. Given Dr. Ramsay's position of influence and especially given that he was a highly respected historian, Ramsay would have had the contacts with other influential Founders and Framers and would have known how they too defined “natural born Citizen.” Ramsay, being of the Founding generation and being intimately involved in the events of the time would have known how the Founders and Framers defined a “natural born Citizen” and he told us that definition was one where the child was born in the country of citizen parents.<br />
1911. <br />
1912. Note Dr. Ramsay's phrase “as a natural right." Modernly, it seems strange to us to associate questions of citizenship with "natural rights." We consider questions of citizenship to be purely political matters, not questions of "laws of nature" such as those investigated by physicists. But that was not at all true in 18th century European culture, nor had it been the case in English common law for many hundreds of years prior. At the time, science was still in its infancy, and its stunning and then-very-recent success inspired those who lived through the initial scientific revolution to seek "natural laws" to explain and justify their hypotheses, theories, concepts and policies. And the tradition of English common law was grounded quite firmly in rendering decisions based on what was "true by nature," as opposed to what was true by political decree. That attitude was especially strong among those who founded the United States and wrote its Constitution. They were determined to throw off the chains of tradition and arbitrary authority, and to establish their society and government based on invariant, self-evident principles arrived at by reason and conformance with objective reality. They used the term "natural" in a way similar to the way we modernly use the term "scientific," in the sense of "justified by reason and the way the world works, not by tradition or arbitrary human policy" (which isn't quite the formally correct definition, but is nevertheless what most people mean when they use the term.)<br />
1913. <br />
1914. That's why the political writings of the time constantly and incessantly refer to "natural law." The point was to claim that the concepts, principles, rules or laws under discussion were derived by reason and logic from objective facts, and not merely the remnants of irrational cultural traditions or political edicts. It was the Age Of Reason, and <i>naturalness</i> was its standard of validity and truth.<br />
1915. <br />
1916. When the US Constitution was written, the "natural law" that dealt with issues such as nationality and allegiance to a sovereign was called "the law of nations." Modernly, we call this "international law." In 1788, the preeminent codification, description and explanation of "the law of nations" was a work written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerich_de_Vattel" style="color: #e00040;">Emerich de Vattel</a>, entitled <a href="http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel.htm" style="color: #e00040;">THE LAW OF NATIONS, <i>or principles of the law of nature applied to the conduct and affairs of nations and sovereigns</i></a>. The Founders were not only familiar with de Vattel's treatise, they relied on it extensively when they wrote laws and Constitutions (of their respective States, not just the Federal one.)<br />
1917. <br />
1918. In Section 212 of de Vattel's treatise, he states the following:<br />
1919. <br />
1920. <blockquote>
1921. § 212. Of the citizens and natives.<br />
1922. “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or <b>natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens</b>. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”</blockquote>
1923. <br />
1924. Note that de Vattel defines "natural born citizen" as the purest form of citizenship, requiring both <i>jus soli</i> ("law of the soil") citizenship and <i>jus sanguinis</i> ("law of the blood") citizenship—with BOTH parents being citizens.<br />
1925. <br />
1926. But de Vattel wrote in French, not in English. In <a href="http://www.birthers.org/img/Vattel.jpg" style="color: #e00040;">French</a>, the words he used instead of the English "natural born citizens" were "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>." Literally, "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>" translates as "the natural ones, or original inhabitants." Note that "les naturels" does <b>not</b> translate as "natives." For “naturel” to mean native the word would need to be used as an adjective. In the quoted section, it is used as a noun. In fact, when de Vattel defines "natural born citizens" in the second sentence of section 212 after defining general or ordinary citizens in the first sentence, you see that he uses the word "indigenes" meaning "natives" (in the sense of "original inhabitants") along with "Les naturels" in that sentence. He used the noun "naturels" to emphasize clearly who he was defining as those who were born in the country of two citizens of the country, because if your parents were <i>indigenes</i> ("original inhabitants," "natives") then your status of being a member of their society, of their <i>nation</i>, would devolve upon you by the <i>jus sanguinis</i> principle of <i>natural</i> law—making you a <i>natural</i> inhabitant, citizen and member of the society. Also, when we read Vattel, we must understand that Vattel's use of the word "natives" in 1758 is not to be read with modern day various alternative usages of that word. You must read it in the full context of sentence 2 of section 212 to fully understand what Vattel was defining from natural law, i.e., natural born citizenship of a country. Please see the photograph of the original French for Chapter 19, Section 212, <a href="http://www.birthers.org/img/Vattel.jpg" style="color: #e00040;">here in the original French</a> if you have any doubts.<br />
1927. <br />
1928. The text of de Vattel's treatise was translated into English more than once, some of those translations being published well before the American Revolution. None of those pre-Revolutionary translations rendered "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>" into English as "natural born citizens" The first that did so was published in 1797, 10 years following the Constitutional Convention, 8 years following the adoption of the Constitution, and 8 years following the publication of Dr. Ramsay's essay on US citizenship—where "natural born citizen" is defined by the Founder/historian to have precisely the same meaning as the one de Vattel establishes for "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>."<br />
1929. <br />
1930. We can reasonably assume that the other Founders and Framers would have defined a “natural born Citizen” the same way that Ramsay did, for being a meticulous historian he would have gotten his definition from the general consensus that existed at the time.<br />
1931. <br />
1932. And we can also reasonably conclude that the professional translator who rendered "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>" into <i>American</i> English in 1798 for an edition of the book to be published and distributed in the United Sates as "natural born citizens" would have been fully aware of the occurrence of that phrase in the brand-new US Constitution, and that he had the same reasons as Dr. Ramsay to use the same definition of "natural born citizens" as was generally accepted among speakers of <i>American</i> English at the time.<br />
1933. <br />
1934. Based on the facts and reasoning presented above, there can be no other sound conclusion but that "natural born citizen" must have been intended to have the same meaning as de Vattel defined for his term-of-art phrases "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes</i>." It cannot be coincidence that Dr. Ramsay's 1789 definition of "natural born citizen" is the same as the one de Vattel gives for his French phrase "les <i>naturels</i>, ou <i>indigenes,</i>" and which a professional translator translated into English as "natural born citizen" just a few short years after the "natural born citizen" requirement was written and ratified in the new US Constitution. The fact that that semantics for the term is very consistent with the stated purpose of the "natural born citizen" requirement to prevent a person from having allegiance to a foreign sovereign provides the confirming motive and <b>original intent</b>.<br />
1935. <br />
1936. The evidence from the historical record and from the text of the Constitution itself is clear and compelling, as regards to both semantics and intent:<br />
1937. <br />
1938. <ol>
1939. <li>The reason the Constitutional Convention required that the President (and later, by Amendment, the Vice President) be a "natural born citizen" is that they wanted to minimize the possibility that the person who would be head of State, chief executive and Commander-In-Chief of the US armed forces might be subject to conflicts of interest, legal obligations or loyalties with respect to any foreign sovereigns or foreign powers;</li>
1940. <li>Whatever the Founders meant by "natural born citizen," it was more restrictive than "citizen," and so restrictive that it was necessary to add an exception to the Constitution allowing those who were citizens when the Constitution was adopted to be eligible to be President, provided they satisfied all the other constraints;</li>
1941. <li>The only explicit definition of "natural born citizen" in the historical record that was provided by one of the Founders defines it as meaning a person born in the country to citizen parents. No testimony from any other Founder or delegate of the Constitutional Convention exists that claims any other definition.</li>
1942. </ol>
1943. <br />
1944. However, in spite of all the foregoing evidence, there remain those unconvinced. Why is that?<br />
1945. <br />
1946. <b>The Core Of The Controversy</b><br />
1947. <br />
1948. In 1891, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aUzu-nTbs9gC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=biography+%22Prentiss+Webster%22&source=bl&ots=8b-UBxTGQw&sig=5qRcJseaXqh7qCRpbICk9Pu-dVQ&hl=en&ei=SjxcS__5F8aW8Aak1fD7BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CA8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Prentiss Webster</a> (1851-1898) published <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DOs9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Prentiss+Webster&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">A Treatise On the Law Of Citizenship In The United States</a>. The author makes the argument that there are two schools of thought regarding the philosophical and conceptual basis for the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. The controversy over the meaning of "natural born citizen" is but one aspect of this larger disagreement.<br />
1949. <br />
1950. It should be noted that the 1891 publication of <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DOs9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Prentiss+Webster&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">A Treatise On the Law Of Citizenship In The United States</a> happened 23 years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment, and seven years before the Supreme Court decided the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> case (which used the English common law definition of "natural born subject" to justify its interpretation of the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" that occurs in the first sentence of the 14th Amendment.) The difference of opinion between the two factions is starkly evident in the majority and minority opinions in that case. We will examine the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> case in greater detail later.<br />
1951. <br />
1952. According to one school of thought identified by Webster, the principal philosophical and conceptual foundation of the United States founding documents was English common law. According to the other school, the US founding documents were based on pan-European "natural law" theory, as exemplified by what the US Constitution refers to as the "law of nations" (which refers to a theory of international law based on natural law concepts, not to any particular publication.)<br />
1953. <br />
1954. Modernly at least, the proponents of neither school are absolutists. Those who favor English common law as the principal foundational seed don't deny at least some influence of pan-European political theory based on natural law principles. And those who believe that pan-European "natural law" theory was the principal framework the Founders used to establish the governmental architecture of the United States generally agree that there were some principles, concepts and terms also borrowed from English common law. The crux of the disagreement is focused primarily on whether the terms and concepts involving citizenship are based on English common law or on the "law of nations" developed in Europe based on natural law principles.<br />
1955. <br />
1956. Those who reject the idea that "natural born citizen" means "born in the country, to parents both of whom are citizens of that country" argue that the term "natural born citizen" is simply the Americanized form of the term "natural born subject" as defined in English common law. They argue that the term was Americanized by substituting the word "citizen" for "subject"—because the US has citizens, not subjects—and that no other semantic or legal change was intended.<br />
1957. <br />
1958. Both those who believe that US citizenship concepts and terms derive from English common law and those who believe they are based on the pan-European "law of nations" have written many articles, books, legal briefs and court decisions based on their point of view. So it's easy to find citations in support of either thesis. Nevertheless, it is possible to determine which faction has <i>de jure</i> won the argument.<br />
1959. <br />
1960. <b>Was English Common Law The Foundation Or Basis For The US Constitution?</b><br />
1961. <br />
1962. English common law was the basis for the common law of the original British colonies, and then of the original States of the Union, but was <b>not</b> the basis for the common law of the United States Federal government. The framers rejected the notion that the United States was under English Common Law: “The common law of England is not the common law of these States.” —<a href="http://www.constitution.org/rc/rat_va_16.txt" style="color: #e00040;">George Mason</a>, one of Virginia’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention.<br />
1963. <br />
1964. James Madison wrote <a href="http://www.constitution.org/jm/17871018_wash.htm" style="color: #e00040;">a letter to George Washington</a>, shortly after the end of the Constitutional Convention (Oct 18, 1787). The letter was in defense of the work of the Constitutional Convention against criticisms by George Mason. One such criticism was that the "the common law was not secured" by the proposed Constitution—meaning that the Congress could enact statutes that would override the common law. Madison's response to that charge (text [enclosed within square brackets] has been added as clarification):<br />
1965. <br />
1966. <blockquote>
1967. The common law is nothing more than the unwritten law, and is left by all the constitutions [of the several States] equally liable to legislative alterations. I am not sure that any notice is particularly taken of it in the Constitutions of the States. If there is, nothing more is provided than a general declaration that it shall continue along with other branches of law to be in force till legally changed. The Constitution of Virga. [Virginia] drawn up by Col Mason himself, is absolutely silent on the subject. An ordinance passed during the same Session, declared the Common law as heretofore & all Statutes of prior date to the 4 of James I. to be still the law of the land, merely to obviate pretexts that the separation from G. Britain threw us into a State of nature, and abolished all civil rights and Obligations. Since the Revolution every State has made great inroads & with great propriety in many instances on this<i>monarchical</i> code. The "revisal of the laws" by a Committee of wch. Col. Mason was a member, though not an acting one, abounds with such innovations. The abolition of the right of primogeniture, which I am sure Col. Mason does not disapprove, falls under this head. What could the Convention have done? <b>If they had in general terms declared the Common law to be in force, they would have broken in upon the legal Code of every State in the most material points: they wd. have done more, they would have brought over from G.B. a thousand heterogeneous & antirepublican doctrines, and even the ecclesiastical Hierarchy itself, for that is a part of the Common law</b>. If they had undertaken a discrimination, they must have formed a digest of laws, instead of a Constitution.</blockquote>
1968. <br />
1969. Nevertheless, the claim began to be made not long after the Constitution was ratified that English common law was "in force" at the Federal level. The Founders strongly objected:<br />
1970. <br />
1971. <blockquote>
1972. Of all the doctrines which have ever been broached by the federal government, the novel one, of the common law being in force & cognizable as an existing law in their courts, is to me the most formidable. All their other assumptions of un-given powers have been in the detail. The bank law, the treaty doctrine, the sedition act, alien act, the undertaking to change the state laws of evidence in the state courts by certain parts of the stamp act, &c., &c., have been solitary, unconsequential, timid things, in comparison with the audacious, barefaced and sweeping pretension to a system of law for theU S, without the adoption of their legislature, and so infinitively beyond their power to adopt. If this assumption be yielded to, the state courts may be shut up, as there will then be nothing to hinder citizens of the same state suing each other in the federal courts in every case, as on a bond for instance, because the common law obliges payment of it...<br />
1973. Before the revolution there existed no such nation as the U S; they then first associated as a nation, but for special purposes only. They had all their laws to make, as Virginia had on her first establishment as a nation. But they did not, as Virginia had done, proceed to adopt a whole system of laws ready made to their hand. As their association as a nation was only for special purposes, to wit, for the management of their concerns with one another & with foreign nations, and the states composing the association chose to give it powers for those purposes & no others, they could not adopt any general system, because it would have embraced objects on which this association had no right to form or declare a will. It was not the organ for declaring a national will in these cases. In the cases confided to them, they were free to declare the will of the nation, the law; but till it was declared there could be no law. So that the common law did not become, ipso facto, law on the new association; it could only become so by a positive adoption, & so far only as they were authorized to adopt. [<a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefLett.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=127&division=div1" style="color: #e00040;">"COMMON LAW AND THE WILL OF THE NATION"</a> ~Thomas Jefferson, Letter To Edmund Randolph Monticello, Aug. 18, 1799; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letters; Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library]</blockquote>
1974. <br />
1975. James Madison argued forcefully against the idea that the English common law had been Constitutionally or otherwise incorporated into the Constitution or Federal law:<br />
1976. <br />
1977. <blockquote>
1978. Did then the principle or operation of the great event which made the colonies independent states, imply or introduce the common law as a law of the Union?The fundamental principle of the Revolution was, that the colonies were co-ordinate members with each other, and with Great Britain, of an empire, united by a common executive sovereign, but not united by any common legislative sovereign. The legislative power was maintained to be as complete in each American parliament, as in the British parliament. And the royal prerogative was in force in each colony, by virtue of its acknowledging the king for its executive magistrate, as it was in Great Britain, by virtue of a like acknowledgment there. A denial of these principles by Great Britain, and the assertion of them by America, produced the Revolution.<br />
1979. There was a time, indeed, when an exception to the legislative separation of the several component and coequal parts of the empire obtained a degree of acquiescence. The British parliament was allowed to regulate the trade with foreign nations, and between the different parts of the empire. This was, however, mere practice without right, and contrary to the true theory of the Constitution. The conveniency of some regulations, in both those cases, was apparent; and as there was no legislature with power over the whole, nor any constitutional pre-eminence among the legislatures of the several parts, it was natural for the legislature of that particular part which was the eldest and the largest, to assume this function, and for the others to acquiesce in it. This tacit arrangement was the less criticised, as the regulations established by the British parliament operated in favour of that part of the empire which seemed to bear the principal share of the public burdens, and were regarded as an indemnification of its advances for the other parts. As long as this regulating power was confined to the two objects of conveniency and equity, it was not complained of, nor much inquired into. But, no sooner was it perverted to the selfish views of the party assuming it, than the injured parties began to feel and to reflect; and the moment the claim to a direct and indefinite power was ingrafted on the precedent of the regulating power, the whole charm was dissolved, and every eye opened to the usurpation. The assertion by Great Britain of a power to make laws for the other members of the empire in all cases whatsoever, ended in the discovery that she had a right to make laws for them in no cases whatsoever.<br />
1980. Such being the ground of our Revolution, no support nor colour can be drawn from it, for the doctrine that the common law is binding on these states as one society. The doctrine, on the contrary, is evidently repugnant to the fundamental principle of the Revolution.<br />
1981. ...<br />
1982. It is readily admitted, that particular parts of the common law may have a sanction from the Constitution, so far as they are necessarily comprehended in the technical phrases which express the powers delegated to the government; and so far also, as such other parts may be adopted by Congress as necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers expressly delegated. But, the question does not relate to either of these portions of the common law. It relates to the common law beyond these limitations.<br />
1983. <b>The only part of the Constitution which seems to have been relied on in this case is the 2d Sect. of Art. III.</b> "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."<br />
1984. …<br />
1985. There are two passages in the Constitution, in which a description of the law of the United States is found. The first is contained in Art. III. sect. 2, in the words following: "This Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority." The second is contained in the second paragraph of Art. VI. as follows: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land." The first of these descriptions was meant as a guide to the judges of the United States; the second, as a guide to the judges in the several states. Both of them consists of an enumeration, which was evidently meant to be precise and complete. <b>If the common law had been understood to be a law of the United States, it is not possible to assign a satisfactory reason why it was not expressed in the enumeration.</b> [James Madison, principal author, <a href="http://www.constitution.org/rf/vr_1799.htm" style="color: #e00040;">REPORT OF 1799. VIRGINIA. HOUSE OF DELEGATES.</a>]</blockquote>
1986. That should make it abundantly clear why in <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/33/591/" style="color: #e00040;">Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (Pet. 8) 591 (1834)</a>, the Supreme Court held:<br />
1987. "It is clear <b>there can be no common law of the United States</b>. The Federal government is composed of twenty-four sovereign and independent states, each of which may have its local usages, customs and common law. There is no principle which pervades the Union and has the authority of law, that is not embodied in the constitution or laws of the Union. <b>The common law could be made a part of our Federal system only by legislative adoption</b>."<br />
1988. <br />
1989. In a recent speech to the Federalist Society, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia confirmed that English common law did not "control" at the national or Federal level after the United States gained its independence from Great Britain:<br />
1990. <br />
1991. <blockquote>
1992. The common law is gone. The federal courts never applied the common law and even in the state courts it's codified now. (Audio/Video: <a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/pubid.1193/pub_detail.asp" style="color: #e00040;">Justice Scalia speech</a>, Nov 22, 2008)</blockquote>
1993. <br />
1994. <b>Is "Natural Born Citizen" Equivalent To "Natural Born Subject" As Defined By English Common Law?</b><br />
1995. <br />
1996. If so, it would have to be an exception to the clear words of the Founders and the controlling Supreme Court precedents that deny that Federal law is based on the English common law. Could that be? And what was the English common law definition of a "natural born subject," in any case?<br />
1997. <br />
1998. In Britain, there are only two types of law: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law" style="color: #e00040;">common law</a>" and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Parliament_in_the_United_Kingdom" style="color: #e00040;">Acts of Parliament</a>. In the absence of an Act of Parliament, the common law applies. But any Act of Parliament overrides the common law. Britain has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="color: #e00040;">no Constitution as a separate and distinct document</a>. In the British system there is no higher <i>written</i> law superior to an Act of Parliament, although core legal principles such as the rule of law are considered to be superior even to Parliament. Some laws and court rulings have attained an <i>informal</i>, but nevertheless quite strong, status as forming part of the British Constitution.<br />
1999. <br />
2000. Every decision of any British court could potentially establish a new precedent in the common law—even decisions based solely on statutes. Conversely, Parliament could and did enact statutes that were intended to canonically declare and codify the common law as it already existed. However, it was not always clear whether that was or was not the intent (or legal effect) of a statute (or of one of its clauses or provisions.) Similarly, an Act of Parliament or court decision could evolve over time to have the weight and authority of a Constitutional provision, and so become a part of the informal British Constitution.<br />
2001. <br />
2002. The legal rules regarding English (and then British) citizenship ("subjecthood") originally evolved exclusively as common law, as there were no Acts of Parliament on the topic.<br />
2003. <br />
2004. The term "natural" in "natural born subject" refers to the fact that common law <i>in theory</i> was based on principles of what was <i>naturally</i> true, right or just. Of course, "in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is." So in practice, common law and natural law were not always the same. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law" style="color: #e00040;">Natural law</a> was entirely <i>theoretical</i>, whereas the common law was actual, enforceable law. Natural law was the <i>ideal</i>, but common law is what was <i>real</i>.<br />
2005. <br />
2006. The relationship between the British concept of natural law and the <i>body</i> of English common law would be analogous to the the relationship between the text of the US Constitution and the decisions of the Supreme Court which interpret that text. Caveat: few analogies are perfect, and this one is no exception.<br />
2007. <br />
2008. "Natural born subject" <i>originally</i> meant a person whose status as a subject was due to a) the application of "natural" law, and b) acquired as a direct and immediate consequence of the facts of a person's birth. So anyone whose status as a British "natural born subject" was due solely to either a) an Act of Parliament, or b) an order of the King or Queen, was therefore a "naturalized" subject. The term "naturalization" referred to the fact that the person was transferred artificially by political decision into a status which others had "by nature" without any need to rely on political edicts. So those made "natural born subjects" by statutory definition were said to be <i>naturalized</i>, but anyone whose status as a "natural born subject" was based on the "common law" (which was<i>theoretically</i> based on natural principles) was not a "naturalized" subject, but rather an <i>actual</i> "natural born subject." So that's the reason that the act of making someone a subject (or citizen) by either an act of the legislature or by order of the sovereign is called "naturalization" in English. "Naturalization" is simply shorthand for "defining someone as a <i>natural</i> born subject" by order of political authority—as opposed to using "natural law" principles <i>theoretically</i> based on what is true by nature (which, in practice, meant using natural law's actual realization, the common law.) Referring to that act as "naturalization" makes no sense otherwise.<br />
2009. <br />
2010. Common law evolves over time. So did the English common law definition of a <i>subject born</i> (an "actual" <i>natural born subject</i>.)<br />
2011. <br />
2012. <b>Original Meaning Of "Natural Born Subject" In English Common Law</b><br />
2013. <br />
2014. It is common and natural for the meanings of terms to change over time, as new circumstances make old meanings less useful, and motivate new meanings that have greater utility in new environments and situations. Originally, there were no statutes defining "natural born subject," and so there was no statutory meaning, and the term only had a common law definition.<br />
2015. <br />
2016. A commentary by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rastell" style="color: #e00040;">John Rastell</a> (c.1475-1536) states that the original common law defined anyone born on English soil, regardless of whether his parents were English or alien, as an Englishman:<br />
2017. <br />
2018. <blockquote>
2019. Alien is he of whom the father is born, and he himself also born, out of the ligeance [territory] of our lord the king; but if an alien come and dwell in England which is not of the king's ememies and here has issue [child], this issue [child] is not alien but English; also if an Englishman go over the sea with the king's license and there has issue [child], this issue [child] is not alien. (Expositiones terminorum (1527), as quoted by <a href="http://tandfprod.literatumonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440369608531154" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (1996), spelling modernized for readability)</blockquote>
2020. <br />
2021. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton" style="color: #e00040;">Thomas de Littleton</a> (1407-1481), birthplace alone determined whether someone was a subject or alien by birth:<br />
2022. <br />
2023. <blockquote>
2024. In his Tenures (c. 1450-60), [Littleton] defined aliens as those 'born out of the liegance of our lord the king...'. He further elaborated that 'born out of the liegance' meant 'born in such country as is out the king's liegeaunce...' Statutes enacted in the <a href="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Tudors.html" style="color: #e00040;">Tudor</a> years [1485-1603] were in complete agreement with Littleton's definition in that alien status was defined by birthplace only. (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.149).</blockquote>
2025. <br />
2026. It was common for Parliament to eventually codify the common law by statute. That's one reason it's so easy to be quite wrong regarding what was true according to the common law and what was not. The fact that there was a statute asserting the law did not necessarily mean that common law had not reached the same conclusions earlier. And of course, different factions could disagree that a court's ruling was a fair determination of natural law—just as different factions in the United States disagree whether a Supreme Court ruling is a fair interpretation of the text of the Constitution. Occasionally, a faction whose point of view does not prevail in an initial court decision later succeeds in getting an adverse decision reversed.<br />
2027. <br />
2028. In 1628, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke" style="color: #e00040;">Sir Edward Coke</a> (1552-1634) wrote a commentary on Littleton's work. Coke's commentary, often referred to as <i>Coke upon Littleton</i>, reiterated Littleton's viewpoint that all children born on English soil were "subjects born", regardless of whether their parents were subjects or aliens:<br />
2029. <br />
2030. <blockquote>
2031. If an Alien commeth into England and hath issue two sonnes, these two sonnes are Indigenae subjects borne, because they are borne within the Realme. (<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/A_readable_edition_of_Coke_upon_Littleto.html?id=DJIDAAAAQAAJ" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a> (1628), p.630)</blockquote>
2032. <br />
2033. For much of English history, the English Channel kept England isolated from the rest of the world. English subjects rarely gave birth overseas, and aliens rarely gave birth in England. In general, birth on English soil was synonymous with birth to English parents. However, as travel, commerce and immigration increased, the simplistic "rule"—that birthplace alone determined nationality—became impractical and unrealistic:<br />
2034. <br />
2035. <blockquote>
2036. The rule [that every person born within the dominions of the Crown was an English subject], when originally established, was not unsuited to the isolated position of this island, and the absence of intercourse with foreign nations in Saxon times. No children of English parents being born abroad, or children of foreign parents being born within the realm, the simple rule that to be born within the dominions of the Crown constituted an Englishman answered every purpose. But when the foreign possessions of our kings and the increase of commerce had led to greater intercourse with the Continent, and children of English parents were sometimes born abroad, the inconvenience of the rule which made place of birth the sole criterion of nationality soon became felt. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-1802-1880-Nationality-considered-legislation/dp/B004IOO1PO" style="color: #e00040;">Cockburn</a>, p.7)</blockquote>
2037. <br />
2038. <b>Calvin's Case: New Court Precedent Changes Common Law Definition Of "Natural Born Subject"</b><br />
2039. <br />
2040. In Calvin's Case (1608), allegiance, rather than birthplace, became the new criterion of English nationality at birth. The justices ruled that parental allegiance, not the place of one's birth, determined one's legal status at birth. Regardless of where you were born, you were not an English subject by birth unless your parents were within the king's allegiance (obedience) at the time of your birth:<br />
2041. <br />
2042. <blockquote>
2043. ...any place within the king's dominions may make a subject born, <b>but any place within the king's dominions without obedience can never produce a natural subject</b>. (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), p.208)…it is nec coelum, nec solum [neither sky nor soil], but ligeantia [allegiance] and obedientia [obedience] that make the subject born (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), p.179)</blockquote>
2044. <br />
2045. Most children born on English soil were English subjects, only because most children born on English soil were born of parents who were within the king's allegiance. One consequence of the new common law precedent established by the decision in <i>Calvin's Case</i> was that if parents did not owe allegiance (obedience) to the king, there was no way—either by natural law or by man-made law—that their children could acquire English subjecthood at birth, regardless of the children's birthplace:<br />
2046. <br />
2047. <blockquote>
2048. Et si desit obedientia non adjuvet locus [And, if obedience is lacking, the place does not help]. (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), p.224)</blockquote>
2049. <br />
2050. So what was meant by "allegiance"? Allegiance (also called ligeance) was a relationship between an individual and the king. In this relationship, the individual was obligated to serve and obey the king, and the king, in turn, was expected to govern and protect the individual:<br />
2051. <br />
2052. <blockquote>
2053. ...ligeance is the mutual bond and obligation between the King and his subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them. (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), p.176)</blockquote>
2054. <br />
2055. After the court decision in <i>Calvin's Case</i>, when children were born on English soil, their legal status, at birth, was based on their parents' allegiance (ligeance). Parental allegiance was determined as follows:<br />
2056. <br />
2057. <ul>
2058. <li>Subjects were within "permanent" allegiance of the English king. Their children, if born on English soil, were natural-born subjects by natural law.</li>
2059. <li>Alien friends were within "local" allegiance of the English king. Local allegiance was temporary; it existed only while the alien friend was on English soil, and expired as soon as he or she left the king's realm. Nevertheless, local allegiance was sufficient to meet the parental allegiance requirement. According to a law enacted in 1604, the English-born children of alien-friend parents were "denizens" (natural-born subjects by man-made statute):<br />
2060. <blockquote>
2061. <b>Aliens Children.</b><br />
2062. L. 1. B. To place the Children, born within this Realm, of foreign Parents, in Degree for the first Birth or Descent only, as Aliens made Denizens, and not otherwise. <i><small><a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=8318#sec1363" style="color: #e00040;">House of Commons Journal Volume 1</a>, 21 April 1604</small></i></blockquote>
2063. </li>
2064. <li>Foreigners included members of foreign-controlled religious orders, ambassadors from foreign countries, members of foreign royalty, and foreign merchants. Foreigners were not within the king's allegiance or protection, although they were given <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/safe-conduct" style="color: #e00040;">safe-conduct</a>. Their children, even if born on English soil, were not English subjects.</li>
2065. <li>Alien enemies included, but were not limited to, subjects of a foreign power that was hostile towards England. Alien enemies were not within the allegiance of the English king. Their children, even if born in England, were not subjects.</li>
2066. </ul>
2067. <br />
2068. <b>The <i>jus soli</i> principle</b>: At first glance, the English common law "rule" appears to have been <i>jus soli</i>—subjecthood determined by birthplace alone. Almost all children born on English soil were, at birth, natural-born subjects, regardless of whether their parents were subjects or aliens. But the underlying principle of Calvin's Case was that parental allegiance, not the place of one's birth, was the primary criterion of one's legal status at birth:<br />
2069. <br />
2070. <blockquote>
2071. The fundamental principle of the common law with regard to English nationality was birth within the allegiance, also called "ligealty," "obedience," "faith," or "power" of the King. The principle embraced all persons born within the King's allegiance and subject to his protection. Such allegiance and protection were mutual—as expressed in the maxim protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem—and were not restricted to natural-born subjects and naturalized subjects, or to those who had taken an oath of allegiance, but were predicable of aliens in amity so long as they were within the kingdom. Children, born in England, of such aliens were therefore natural-born subjects. But the children, born within the realm, of foreign ambassadors, or the children of alien enemies, born during and within their hostile occupation of part of the King's dominions, were not natural-born subjects because [they were] not born within the allegiance ... of the King. (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html" style="color: #e00040;">U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark</a>, 1898)</blockquote>
2072. <br />
2073. As a general rule, children born on English soil were English natural-born subjects (whether by common law or by statute.) But there were exceptions to this rule. While characterizing these exceptions as "unimportant", <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/A._V._Dicey" style="color: #e00040;">Albert Venn Dicey</a> (1835-1922) acknowledged that the underlying reason for these exceptions was that birthright subjecthood stemmed from allegiance, not the place of one's birth:<br />
2074. <br />
2075. <blockquote>
2076. The exceptional and unimportant instances in which birth within the British dominions does not of itself confer British nationality are due to the fact that, though at common law nationality or allegiance in substance depended on the place of a person's birth, it in theory at least depended, not upon the locality of a man's birth, but upon his being born within the jurisdiction and allegiance of the king of England; and it might occasionally happen that a person was born within the dominions without being born within the allegiance, or, in other words, under the protection and control of the crown. (Albert Dicey, The Conflict of Laws, 1896, as quoted in <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0169_0649_ZO.html" style="color: #e00040;">U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark</a>, 1898)</blockquote>
2077. <br />
2078. The meaning of ligeance is inseparably intertwined with the meaning of "natural-born subject". According to the majority opinion in Calvin's Case, ligeance ("allegiance") is the defining characteristic that separates subjects from aliens. Ligeance is "the onely mark to distinguish a subject from an alien" (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), pp.197-8). A subject has natural or acquired ligeance; an alien does not.<br />
2079. <br />
2080. As a general rule, anyone born within the ligeance of the king is a "natural subject" of the king:<br />
2081. <br />
2082. <blockquote>
2083. ... they that are born under the obedience, power, faith, ligealty, or ligeance of the King, are natural subjects, and no aliens. (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke</a>(1608), p.177)</blockquote>
2084. <br />
2085. But what does the phrase "born within the ligeance" mean?<br />
2086. <br />
2087. Prior to 1608, the meaning of ligeance was ambiguous. In some contexts, it meant the king's territory. In other contexts, it referred to an individual's (or an individual's parents') faith, loyalty and obedience:<br />
2088. <br />
2089. <blockquote>
2090. Before ligeance was employed to refer to a tract of land, the term had already been used to refer to a certain quality of interpersonal relationship. Glanvill, for instance, used the term to explain the pre-eminent relationship between a tenant and his 'liege' lord. Also, the treaty between Henry II and William, king of Scots (the Treaty of Falaise, 1174) ... indicates that the term was used to refer to the relationship of fidelity rather than a piece of land. ... Bracton also uses the term to refer to something other than a geographical tract.<br />
2091. … But in the late thirteenth century, we begin to see that the territorial extent of the King's legitimate power is also called ligeance. According to fourteenth century legal terminology, out of the ligeance (hors de la ligeance) could mean 'out of England'. Likewise, within the ligeance (deinz la ligeance) often meant 'within England'. ... It appears that the term was used in an ambivalent manner by the early fourteenth century. In other words, the term carried a certain amount of ambiguity with it. (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), pp.137-139)</blockquote>
2092. <br />
2093. Two examples illustrate the confusing dual meaning of ligeance:<br />
2094. <br />
2095. <ul>
2096. <li>Rex v. Philip de Beauvais (1321): Philip inherited an estate from his father. The king's representative, Geoffrey Scrope, argued that Philip's father was born outside of the king's ligeance (territory). By English law, English real estate belonging to a foreign-born individual became, upon the individual's death, the property of the king.<br />
2097. Serjeant Shardlow, the attorney for the defense, argued that Philip's father's parents (Philip's grandparents) were married in England, did homage to the English king, and died in the king's homage. Therefore, Philip's father was born within the king's ligeance (loyalty and obedience).<br />
2098. <br />
2099. Shardlow used the dual meaning of ligeance to circumvent English inheritance laws. His strategy worked, but only temporarily. The judge ruled in Philip's favor, but the ruling was overturned on appeal. Philip eventually forfeited his inheritance to the king. (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.139).</li>
2100. <li>De Natis ultra Mare (1351): This statute, enacted by Parliament in 1351, granted inheritance rights to a child born outside of the king's ligeance (territory), as long as the child's parents, at the time of child's birth, were within the king's ligeance (loyalty and obedience):<br />
2101. <blockquote>
2102. All children heirs who will from henceforth be born out of the ligeance [territory] of the king, provided that, at the time of the birth, their fathers and mothers are, and will be, of the faith and ligeance [loyalty and obedience] of the King of England, [shall] have and enjoy the same benefits and advantages of having and carrying the inheritance within the said ligeance ... (Statue De natis ultra mare, 1351, as quoted by <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.121)</blockquote>
2103. </li>
2104. </ul>
2105. <br />
2106. By the fifteenth century, it appears (as documented above) that ligeance had come to mean territorial extent only.<br />
2107. <br />
2108. But the meaning of ligeance underwent a transformation during the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan succession debates (words tend to acquire whatever meaning that society, or those in power, need them to mean.) The controversy over who would succeed Queen Elizabeth to the throne (she had no children) helped to forge a consensus of legal opinion that a child's personal status at birth—whether subject or alien—was properly based on the faith, obedience and loyalty of the parents at the time of the child's birth, not the territory in which the child was born. The English word<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allegiance" style="color: #e00040;">allegiance</a> (a variation of ligeance) first appeared in the <i>Elizabethan Succession Tracts</i>. Even today, "allegiance" implies loyalty, not a geographical location:<br />
2109. <br />
2110. <ul><br />
2111. <li>In 1563, John Hales (a Protestant) published a tract arguing that neither Margaret of Lennox nor Mary Stuart (each of whom was Catholic) should be Queen Elizabeth's successor. Margaret of Lennox was born in England; Mary Stuart was born in Scotland. According to Hales, both women were ineligible to the English throne, not because of their respective places of birth, but because neither woman's father was an Englishman. Hales argued that children naturally follow the condition and estate of their fathers; and the proposition—that any child born in England is automatically an English subject at birth, regardless of the parents' condition or estate—"cannot be justified by any reason". (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.160)</li>
2112. <li>In 1567, Catholic lawyer, Sir Edmund Plowden, agreed that one's subjecthood was properly based on allegiance, not one's place of birth. He argued that, even though Mary Stuart was born in a foreign country, she did "homage" to the King of England, and therefore she was within the king's ligeance (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.170).</li>
2113. <li>A Protestant rebuttal pamphlet, titled Certaine Errours Uppon the Statute, accused Plowden of confusing "homage" and "ligeance". Homage is a matter of human law. It is a relationship that someone chooses to enter into, at some point after her or his birth. Ligeance, on the other hand, is established only at birth and is strictly a matter of natural law (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), pp.172-173).</li>
2114. </ul>
2115. <br />
2116. By the time Calvin's Case was decided in 1608, the English legal community had already reached a consensus of opinion that the allegiance of your parents, not the place of your birth, determined whether you were a subject or alien when you were born:<br />
2117. <br />
2118. <blockquote>
2119. By the time of Calvin's Case, it was no longer sensible to doubt that allegiance was the decisive criterion of a person's legal status. ... The bond of faith thus became the pivotal element of legal reasoning. (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QidHO7WfRxMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keechang+Kim,+Aliens+in+Medieval+Law#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Kim</a> (2000), p.178)</blockquote>
2120. <br />
2121. The ruling in Calvin's Case reflected the prevailing viewpoint that one's birthplace, by itself, did not confer subjecthood; that without some measure of parental obedience or allegiance, it was impossible (by natural law or man-made law) for a child to be an English subject at birth, even if such child was born on English soil. In his <a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=911&chapter=106337&layout=html&Itemid=27" style="color: #e00040;">Report on Calvin's Case</a>, Lord Coke quoted—often word-for-word—directly from the Elizabethan Succession Tracts:<br />
2122. <br />
2123. <blockquote>
2124. ...any place within the king's dominions may make a subject born, but any place within the king's dominions without obedience can never produce a natural subject. (Coke(1608), p.208)...it is nec coelum, nec solum [neither sky nor soil], but ligeantia [allegiance] and obedientia [obedience] that make the subject born (Coke(1608), p.179)</blockquote>
2125. <br />
2126. In 1608, the English court (in Calvin's Case) defined "ligeance" as a personal relationship between a king and his subjects, whereby the king governs and protects his subjects, and his subjects give the king their faith, loyalty and obedience:<br />
2127. <br />
2128. <blockquote>
2129. ...ligeance is the mutual bond and obligation between the King and his subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them. (Coke(1608), p.176)<br />
2130. ... This word ligeance is well expressed by divers several names or synonymia which we find in our books. Sometimes it is called the obedience or obeisance of the subject to the King... Sometimes ligeance is called faith... (Coke(1608), p.176)<br />
2131. <br />
2132. ...ligeance, and faith and truth which are her members and parts, are qualities of the mind and soul of man... (Coke(1608), p.182)<br />
2133. <br />
2134. ...it followeth, that seeing the King's power, command, and protection extendeth out of England, that ligeance cannot be local, or confined within the bounds thereof. (Coke(1608), p.188)<br />
2135. <br />
2136. ...ligeance is a quality of the mind, and not confined within any place... (Coke(1608), p.188)</blockquote>
2137. <br />
2138. According to Lord Coke's Report on Calvin's Case, there were four kinds of ligeance: natural, acquired, local, and legal. Anyone who was born with "natural" ligeance was subject born. Persons who owed "acquired" ligeance were subjects made. Alien friends owed "local" ligeance to the king. Alien enemies, and foreigners, did not owe any ligeance to the king.<br />
2139. <br />
2140. One's ligeance affected the legal status of one's children. Children born on English soil were subjects (<i>subjects born</i> or <i>subjects made</i>) at birth only if their parents were within the king's natural, acquired or local ligeance. Children born in a foreign country were English subjects only if their fathers owed natural ligeance to the king (but were still <i>subjects made</i>, since the status of subjecthood in such cases was conferred by an Act of Parliament, known as De Natis ultra Mare (1351))<br />
2141. <br />
2142. Lord Coke often used "obedience" as a synonym of ligeance. By itself, the word ligeance (therefore the word "obedience") generally implied subjecthood. Lord Coke defined ligeance as a relationship between a subject and his king:<br />
2143. <br />
2144. <blockquote>
2145. ...ligeance is the mutual bond and obligation between the King and his subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them. (Coke(1608), p.176)</blockquote>
2146. <br />
2147. Ligeance was "the onely mark to distinguish a subject from an alien" (Coke(1608), pp.197-8). Those who were within the king's ligeance were subjects. Those who were outside of the king's ligeance were aliens. The exception to this rule was local ligeance. Persons who owed local ligeance to the king were aliens. Local ligeance conferred subjecthood to the children of aliens, but did not confer subjecthood to the aliens themselves.<br />
2148. <br />
2149. Every English subject owes either "natural" or "acquired" ligeance to the king. "Natural" and "acquired" ligeance (obedience) are "actual" in the sense that they confer actual property rights to the individual and impose actual life-long obligations of service to the king.<br />
2150. <br />
2151. In contrast, aliens owe "local" ligeance (obedience) to the king. Local ligeance (obedience) is "wrought by the law" (Coke(1608), p.177). In general, the term "by law" is a contradistinction of "actual". Something which is so "by law" is not necessarily so "in fact".<br />
2152. <br />
2153. Persons who owe local ligeance (obedience) to the king are aliens. They do not receive subjecthood, they do not acquire real property rights, and they do not owe permanent (perpetual) allegiance to the king. Their obligation of allegiance is only temporary; it expires as soon as they depart from the king's territory.<br />
2154. <br />
2155. Lord Coke characterized local ligeance as "extremely uncertain":<br />
2156. <br />
2157. <blockquote>
2158. localis ligeantia est ligeantia infima et minima, et maxime incerta [local allegiance is something mean and small, and extremely uncertain]. (Coke(1608), p.179)</blockquote>
2159. <br />
2160. <b>The English Common Law Definition Of Natural Born Subject In The 18th-Century</b><br />
2161. <br />
2162. Following the decision in <i>Calvin's Case</i>, other than in special cases, a child was a <i>common law</i> <i>subject born</i> (a subject by natural law) if it met two requirements at the time of its birth: a birthplace requirement (the child had to be born within the king's realm), and a parental obedience requirement (the child's parents had to be under the "actual obedience" of the king):<br />
2163. <br />
2164. <blockquote>
2165. There be regularly (unless it be in special cases) three incidents to a subject born. 1. <b>That the parents be under the actual obedience of the King</b>. 2. That the place of his birth be within the King's dominion. And, 3. The time of his birth is chiefly to be considered; for he cannot be a subject born of one kingdom that was born under the ligeance of a King of another kingdom, albeit afterwards one kingdom descend to the King of the other. …any place within the King's dominion without obedience can never produce a natural subject. (<a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Coke (1608)</a>, p.208)</blockquote>
2166. <br />
2167. So, per Lord Coke, to be a subject born:<br />
2168. <ol>
2169. <li>The person must have been born "in the King's dominion" (on British soil, to use modern terminology);</li>
2170. <li>The person's parents must be under the actual obedience of the King (or Queen, as the case may be)—<b>at the time of birth</b>.</li>
2171. </ol>
2172. <br />
2173. Timothy Cunningham's Law Dictionary (1771) was the only law dictionary that James Madison ordered for the Continental Congress. It was one of the most popular comprehensive English dictionaries of the late eighteenth century, and was found in many personal libraries, including those of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. It was contemporaneously used by various American Supreme Courts for clarification of legal terms. (<a href="http://www.boalt.org/bjil/docs/BJIL27.2_Berry.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Berry</a>, pp.347-8). Under the "Aliens" section of his Law Dictionary, Cunningham defined "natural-born subject" as one who is born within the king's realm, of parents who are under the king's "actual obedience":<br />
2174. <br />
2175. <blockquote>
2176. All those are natural born subjects, whose parents, at the time of their birth, were under the actual obedience of our king, and whose place of birth was within his dominions. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/complete-law-dictionary-abridgment-extensive-published/dp/1140941623" style="color: #e00040;">Cunningham</a>, p.95, in section entitled "Aliens")</blockquote>
2177. <br />
2178. The exact same definition of "natural-born subject" is found in <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/64/101064033/" style="color: #e00040;">Matthew Bacon</a>'s A New Abridgment of the Law, Volume 1, published in 1736. (<a href="http://ia700305.us.archive.org/26/items/newabridgementof01baco/newabridgementof01baco.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Bacon, Matthew</a>, p.77).<br />
2179. <br />
2180. When the U.S. Constitution was being written, Giles Jacob's New Law Dictionary (1782) was "the most widely used English Law dictionary" (<a href="http://www.boalt.org/bjil/docs/BJIL27.2_Berry.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Berry</a>, pp.350-1). Jacob defined "subject born" (an actual natural-born subject) as anyone born within the king's realm, of parents who are under the king's "actual obedience":<br />
2181. <br />
2182. <blockquote>
2183. There are two incidents regularly that are necessary to make a subject born: first, that his parents, at the time of his birth, be under the actual obedience of the king; Secondly, that the place of his birth be within the king's dominions. (<a href="http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~rarebook/r_Jacob.html" style="color: #e00040;">Giles Jacob, A New Law Dictionary, 1782.</a>, p.40)</blockquote>
2184. <br />
2185. Actual natural-born subjects (subjects born) were subjects by natural law. They were born on English soil, to parents who were under the "actual obedience" of the king. They were born with natural allegiance to the king.<br />
2186. <br />
2187. Similarly, those who were under ("subject to") the King's "actual obedience" owed allegiance to the King (or Queen) according to natural law (as the British viewed it.) Natural law, per the British, held that those who were subjects of the King owed him obedience, submission, loyalty, and faith. They were his subjects, because they subjected themselves to his authority and jurisdiction as their liege lord. So, according to 18th-century English common law, an <i>actual</i> natural-born subject, a <i>subject born</i>, was someone born on British soil to parents who were loyal British subjects (whether "subjects born" or "subjects made") at the time of birth.<br />
2188. <br />
2189. Those born on British soil to parents who were "alien friends" (permanent legal residents) were <i>naturalized</i> "natural born subjects," made so by Act of Parliament. So they were <i>subjects made</i>, not<i>subjects born</i>. According to the <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=8318#sec1363" style="color: #e00040;">House of Commons Journal Volume 1</a>, 21 April 1604, said statute was enacted in 1604:<br />
2190. <br />
2191. <blockquote>
2192. <b>Aliens Children.</b><br />
2193. L. 1. B. To place the Children, born within this Realm, of foreign Parents, in Degree for the first Birth or Descent only, as Aliens made Denizens, and not otherwise.</blockquote>
2194. <br />
2195. Both Cunningham and Jacob understood that the English-born children of alien parents were statutory denizens. They were deemed to be natural-born by statute, but were not natural-born in any factual or natural-law sense:<br />
2196. <br />
2197. <blockquote>
2198. ...if one born out of the king's allegiance, come and dwell in England, his children begotten here, are not aliens, but denizens. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/complete-law-dictionary-abridgment-extensive-published/dp/1140941623" style="color: #e00040;">Cunningham</a>, p.95, in section entitled "Aliens")<br />
2199. ... And if one born out of the king's obedience come and reside in England, his children, begotten and born here, are not aliens but denizens. (<a href="http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~rarebook/r_Jacob.html" style="color: #e00040;">Giles Jacob, A New Law Dictionary, 1782.</a>)</blockquote>
2200. <br />
2201. The word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denization" style="color: #e00040;">denizens</a> in both of the above citations removes all doubt that the subjecthood of those born in England to alien parents <i>from the 17th-century onward</i> is an act of naturalization granted by statute.<br />
2202. <br />
2203. In 1608, Francis Bacon wrote that English law "naturalized," at birth, <b>English-born children of alien parents</b>, as well as foreign-born children of English parents. In both cases, the children were, at birth, natural-born subjects. But their natural-born subjecthood was conferred by statutory law, not natural law:<br />
2204. <br />
2205. <blockquote>
2206. Furthermore as the law of England must favor <i>naturalization</i> as a branch of the law of nature, so it appears manifestly, that it doth favour it accordingly. For it is not much to <b>make a subject naturalized by the law of England</b>: it should suffice, either place or parents. If he be <b>born in England</b> it is no matter though his <b>parents be Spaniards, or what you will</b>: on the other side, if he be born of English parents it skilleth not though he be born in Spain, or in any other place of the world. In such sort doth the law of England open her lap to receive in people to be <b>naturalized</b>; which indeed sheweth the wisdom and excellent composition of our law ... (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yjo1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA641&lpg=PA641&dq=Francis+Bacon+Case+Post-Nati+Scotland&source=bl&ots=bBBLG9oaoL&sig=m3AFL3bvJaJ5BS5-GijJCQFWTp4&hl=en&ei=LizEStXgKNLp8Qb0npg8&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=Francis%20Bacon%20Case%20Post-Nati%20Scotland&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Bacon, Francis</a>, pp.664-665)</blockquote>
2207. <br />
2208. In <a href="http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel_01.htm" style="color: #e00040;">de Vattel's understanding</a>, English-born children of foreign parents were "naturalized" at birth. These children became English natural-born subjects, not by natural law, but by a naturalization statute enacted by Parliament:<br />
2209. <br />
2210. <blockquote>
2211. Finally, there are states, as, for instance, England, where the single circumstance of being born in the country <b>naturalizes</b> the children of a foreigner. (<a href="http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel_01.htm" style="color: #e00040;">de Vattel</a>, § 214)</blockquote>
2212. <br />
2213. English-born children of alien parents were natural-born subjects in the sense that they had property rights. But such children did not have the same economic and municipal rights as did English-born children of English parents. Prior to 1737, English-born children of alien parents could not become "citizens" (freemen) of an English city or town.<br />
2214. <br />
2215. When someone was born in England and <i>both</i> of his parents were aliens at the time of his birth, he was deemed a natural-born subject, but nevertheless had to pay aliens' duties:<br />
2216. <br />
2217. <blockquote>
2218. There is a curious passage in Hale's Treatise Concerning the Customs concerning aliens' customs [duties] in the 17th century. He says "If an alien come into England and have issue [child] here, he [the child] is a natural-born subject. Yet ... such a natural-born subject hath been decreed heretofore to pay aliens' duties..." Hargrave, Tracts, vol. I (1787) 210. Cf. the similar tendency to treat the native members of the foreign Protestant congregations as aliens.... The statute 12 & 14 Car. 2, c. 11 furthered the policy by disabling infant children of aliens from trade. (<a href="http://www.uniset.ca/naty/parry.htm" style="color: #e00040;">Parry</a>, footnote 327).</blockquote>
2219. <br />
2220. By the time William Blackstone (1723-1780) wrote his Commentaries (1765-1769), Parliament had enacted laws which conferred subjecthood, at birth, to foreign-born children of English fathers:<br />
2221. <blockquote>
2222. ...all children, born out of the king's ligeance [territory], whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any exception; unless their said fathers were attainted, or banished beyond sea, for high treason; or were then in the service of a prince at enmity with Great Britain. (<a href="http://people.mags.net/tonchen/birthers.htm#blackstone" style="color: #e00040;">Blackstone</a>)</blockquote>
2223. <br />
2224. The <a href="http://www.uniset.ca/naty/BNA1730.htm" style="color: #e00040;">British Nationality Act of 1730</a> states:<br />
2225. <br />
2226. <blockquote>
2227. ...That all Children born out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, or which shall hereafter be born out of such Ligeance, whose Fathers were or shall be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively, shall and may, by virtue of the said recited Clause in the said Act of the seventh Year of the Reign of her said late Majesty, and of this present Act (7 Ann. c. 5. s. 3.), be adjudged and taken to be, and all such Children are hereby declared to be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatsoever.</blockquote>
2228. <br />
2229. The <a href="http://www.uniset.ca/naty/BNA1772.htm" style="color: #e00040;">British Nationality Act of 1772</a> states:<br />
2230. <br />
2231. <blockquote>
2232. ...That all Persons born, or who hereafter shall be born, out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, whose Fathers were or shall be, by virtue of a Statute made in the Fourth Year of King George the Second, to explain a Clause in an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, for naturalizing Foreign Protestants, which relates to the natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, intitled to all the Rights and Privileges of natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England or of Great Britain, shall and may be adjudged and taken to be, and are hereby declared and enacted to be, natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as if he and they had been and were born in this Kingdom: ...</blockquote>
2233. <br />
2234. When the U.S. Constitution was written, the law "on the books" was that English-born children of alien parents were denizens, and those born in foreign lands to <i>fathers</i> who where "natural born subjects" (whether born or made) were <i>deemed by statute</i> (legal fiction) to be "natural born subjects." Both classes of persons—those born in England to alien parents and those born to British subjects in a foreign land—were <i>subjects made</i> not <i>subjects born</i>, because they were not natural-born subjects in fact based on either natural law principles or English common law.<br />
2235. <br />
2236. So if it were intended by the Founders that US citizenship law be modeled after British citizenship law, then the foregoing evidence allows for one and only one system of translation between the two legal ontologies of citizenship:<br />
2237. <br />
2238. <blockquote>
2239. <table border="1" style="width: 80%px;"><tbody>
2240. <tr><td align="center"><b>English common law term</b></td><td align="center"><b>American Law term</b></td><td align="center" width="40%"><b>Explanation</b></td></tr>
2241. <tr><td align="center">Natural born subject</td><td align="center">Citizen</td><td width="40%">Because of the way terminology and practice evolved, English law used <i>natural born subject</i> as its <i>general</i> term for citizen. The term <i>naturalization</i> was coined because the Acts of Parliament that first overrode common law regarding citizenship declared persons to be "<i>natural</i>born subjects" by legislative edict instead of by common law. So <i>naturalization</i> was the act of legally declaring someone to be a <i><b>natural</b> born subject</i> as a legal fiction.</td></tr>
2242. <tr><td align="center">Subject born</td><td align="center">Natural born citizen</td><td width="40%">These terms clearly and undeniably are excellent analogs of each other</td></tr>
2243. <tr><td align="center">Subject made</td><td align="center">Naturalized citizen</td><td width="40%">These terms clearly and undeniably are excellent analogs of each other</td></tr>
2244. </tbody></table>
2245. </blockquote>
2246. <br />
2247. However, in spite of the strong correspondence that the analysis above has revealed between the semantics of the 18th-century English common law definition of "natural born subject" and the definition of "natural born citizen" as given by Dr. Ramsay (where the parents must have been citizens,) that does not prove that the only difference between the two terms is the one between a citizen and a subject. It doesn't even prove that it was the intent of the Founders to define "natural born citizen" based in any way on English common law.<br />
2248. <br />
2249. <b>The Founders' Rejection Of British Citizenship Principles</b><br />
2250. <br />
2251. There can be no question that the Framers of the US Constitution strongly believed in natural law principles. Nor can there be any question that the concept of natural law is at least one foundational concept that was shared by both English common law and by pan-European concepts of natural law and the law of nations. The disagreements between English common law and pan-European natural law theories involved what was held to be true by nature and reason. Also, most European societies had no common law tradition—their courts typically operated on what is called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" style="color: #e00040;">civil law</a>, which is a body of codified laws generally created initially as a unified whole, and not one that evolves incrementally over time based on court decisions. In a civil law system, any changes to the law are made by some authority other than the civil courts.<br />
2252. <br />
2253. The legal systems of each of the American States operated originally based not just according to the mechanics of common law, where court decisions make new law with every precedential holding of a court, but also by incorporating the precedential holdings of British courts. And it's true that the US Federal courts operate as a common law system, in that precedential court holdings make new law. However, as proven above, the US Federal government and the US Constitution did <b>not</b> incorporate the past precedential holdings of British courts—because the Founders of the United States disagreed with the British on fundamental issues regarding what was true by nature and reason.<br />
2254. <br />
2255. One reason that the Founders disagreed with British tradition regarding the principles of natural law is because the US was founded as a Constitutional Republic, not as a monarchy. The foundational principles were different, and in fact were an explicit rejection of key foundational principles of English law and English government. That was one very strong reason that the US Founders rejected <i>the body</i> of English common law, even though they did not reject common law as a <i>system of evolving the law incrementally by means of court decisions</i>. And as a practical matter, each colony was founded at different times, adopted English common law as its own at different times, and then evolved its own common law going forward, independently of Great Britain and the other colonies. So there was no common "common law" among the founding States—not even concerning matters of citizenship.<br />
2256. <br />
2257. Words and terms of art have the meanings they do because of their utility in the culture and society that uses them. New words and phrases are created with particular meanings, and existing words and phrases are given new meanings, because those new meanings serve the purposes of those who use them, and old meanings no longer do. The Founders of the United States undeniably wanted and needed to start a brand new legal tradition, based on the principles of government in which they believed, and not based on those of the nation whose government and political traditions they had fought and died to repudiate and discard.<br />
2258. <br />
2259. Breaking their allegiance to the King, severing the ties of community and nationality, establishing a new anti-monarchist Republic based on a new political philosophy cannot fail to require new principles, new words and new meanings for old words. So, even if English common law <i>terminology</i> served as the foundational seed for the US Constitution, there would still be every reason to assume that the Founders would have made any necessary and proper changes to the legal principles and to the semantics of any terms of art they they may have incorporated from English common law (which, of course, they may have done even if they used the pan-European theories of natural law, and the "law of nations." as the foundational framework for the new nation they created.)<br />
2260. <br />
2261. Questions of citizenship are inextricably linked to the relationship between a state and its people, which depends fundamentally on the political theory according to which the people of a nation constitute and operate their government. English common law evolved to fit a political theory according to which it was a <i>natural law</i> that a nation would be ruled by a sovereign who was a single human being (a king or queen,) and a <i>natural law</i> that, in exchange for the protection of the sovereign and his permission to reside in the territory the sovereign <i>rules by divine right</i> a person must from the moment of birth onward be "in allegiance to the king," which means to demonstrate loyalty and obedience to him (or to her, if the sovereign is the Queen.)<br />
2262. <br />
2263. English natural-born subjects owed <b>perpetual allegiance</b> to the king based on the circumstance of their birth, regardless of their own self-determination. Therefore, if you believe that English common law guided the formation of the U.S. national government, to be consistent you should also believe that U.S. citizenship was based on the principle of owing allegiance to the sovereign based on the circumstances of one's birth regardless of one's own will, and that U.S. citizens therefore do not have the right of expatriation.<br />
2264. <br />
2265. On the other hand, European political and natural law theorists, such as de Vattel, taught that children, at birth, acquire citizenship by descent from their fathers, and that expatriation is a basic human right. Thus, if you believe that European theorists influenced the Founding Fathers as they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, to be consistent you should also believe that the Founding Fathers' understanding of citizenship included the <i>jus sanguinis</i> principle and the right of expatriation.<br />
2266. <br />
2267. After gaining independence, the original thirteen States retained aspects of English common law, including the <i>statutory</i> rule which granted citizenship to children of alien parents who, though not yet citizens, had sworn an oath of allegiance to the State and had established permanent legal residence, or domicile, within the State:<br />
2268. <br />
2269. <blockquote>
2270. While all States could be said to have recognized birth within the State as a means of conferring State citizenship to all persons, it is important to realize these States also required of aliens who desired to become domiciled within their limits to first renounce any allegiances to other governments and pledge their allegiance solely to the State. Therefore, a child born to domiciled parents was "born within the allegiance" of the State even if the parents had not yet been naturalized. (<a href="http://federalistblog.us/2007/09/revisiting_subject_to_the_jurisdiction.html" style="color: #e00040;">What 'Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof' Really Means</a> ~ Madison(2007))</blockquote>
2271. <br />
2272. However, the early framers of the Federal government seemed disinclined to follow the English understanding of sovereignty and allegiance. For example, Thomas Jefferson rejected the English common law notion of perpetual allegiance, and affirmed each individual's right of expatriation:<br />
2273. <br />
2274. <blockquote>
2275. That our citizens are certainly free to divest themselves of that character, by emigration and other acts manifesting their intention and may then become the subjects of another power and be free to do whatever the subjects of that power do. (Thomas Jefferson, as quoted by <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DOs9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Prentiss+Webster&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Webster</a>, p.76)</blockquote>
2276. <br />
2277. If the Framers of the Constitution intended to closely follow English common law with regards to matters of citizenship, then of course the ontological model of US citizenship would be intentionally analogous to that of British law at the time the Constitution was drafted If so, then anyone born in the United States to parents who are US citizens would have a citizenship status analogous to a <i>subject born</i>, and their status as citizens would be <i>beyond possibility of dispute</i>.<br />
2278. <br />
2279. However, the Constitutional status (per original intent, not per current court precedent) of those born in the United States to parents who are permanent legal residents would be far less clear, simply because of the uncertainties regarding the distinctions between common and statutory law, between declaratory and non-declaratory statutes, and regarding the meaning of "actual obedience." Some would qualify as <i>naturalized</i> citizens (<i>subjects made</i>), but some would not.<br />
2280. <br />
2281. What would be irrefutable, however, is that those born to parents who were mere "foreigners" (as opposed to "alien friends,") or who were "alien enemies," would <b>not</b> qualify even as <i>citizens</i> if the meaning of that term is in fact intended to be analogous to the semantics of "natural born subject" as defined in 18th-century British law. That would exclude persons whose <i>fathers</i> were not <b>legal permanent residents</b> of the United States (except in cases where the person's father was unknown.)<br />
2282. <br />
2283. On the other hand, if the Founding Fathers were guided by European political and natural law theorists, such as de Vattel, the original meaning of "natural born citizen" probably included the <i>jus sanguinis</i> principle; in which case, you cannot be a U.S. natural born citizen unless your father was a U.S citizen at the time of your birth.<br />
2284. <br />
2285. In 1884, an article was published in The American Law Review written by George D. Collins, Esq. Attorney Collins was the Secretary of the California Bar Association. His name was recognized nationally for cases in the federal courts, and also due to his regular publishing of articles via The American Law review. The article was entitled "<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/19071886/Are-Persons-Born-Within-the-United-States-Ipso-Facto-Citizens-Thereof-George-D-Collins" style="color: #e00040;">ARE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES IPSO FACTO CITIZENS THEREOF?</a>", and was an in depth discussion and review of the legalities of US citizenship. Attorney Collins states:<br />
2286. <br />
2287. <blockquote>
2288. There is nothing in the constitution to indicate that the term "citizen" was used in reference to the common-law definition of "subject," nor is there any act of Congress declaratory of the common-law doctrine, and the subject of citizenship being national, questions relating to it are to be determined by the general principles of the law of nations.</blockquote>
2289. <br />
2290. The Founders not only rejected the idea that English common law in general was the basis of the US Constitution, they also specifically objected to the use of the British definition of "natural born subject." They actually fought yet a second war against the British over precisely the issue of whether or not the British definition of "natural born subject" applied to US citizens: The War of 1812!<br />
2291. <br />
2292. One of they key disagreements between the US and Britain that led to the War of 1812 was the practice of the British Navy of impressing into British naval service sailors (and even passengers) they found on ships at sea. "Drafting" people into military service (to use the modern term) was predicated on the British definition of "natural born subject." Under British law then and now, anyone either born on British soil <b>or</b> born to parents who were British subjects was also a British "natural born subject," and hence owed allegiance to the British Crown, and so could be "impressed" (drafted) into British military service.<br />
2293. <br />
2294. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many US citizens had either been born on British soil according to British law (the American colonies were British soil according to British law until the Crown signed the peace treaty with its former colonies,) or else had parents who were British subjects <i>at the time of their birth</i>. The US government strenuously objected to having its citizens kidnapped from ships at sea in order to be impressed into the British Navy, rejected the argument that Britain had any right to do this based on the British definition of "natural born subject," and insisted that on US ships at sea, only US law applied, and on non-British ships, only the "law of nations" applied. And this objection by the US would only have been logically consistent if the US had categorically rejected the British definition of "natural born subject," and if that rejection involved issues in addition to the difference between a subject and a citizen.<br />
2295. <br />
2296. In addition to going to war, the US took other measures to deal with the problem of having its sailors impressed into the British Navy: On February 9, 1813, the US House of Representatives passed a <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llhj&fileName=008/llhj008.db&recNum=663&itemLink=D?hlaw:17:./temp/~ammem_cgb3::%230080664&linkText=1" style="color: #e00040;">law that required that all the officers and three fourths of the seamen on a ship of the United States be <b>natural born citizens</b></a>. Whatever "natural born citizen" meant to the founding generation (many of whom were still alive and serving in Congress at the time,) the US Congress of 1813 thought that requiring a person to be such would prevent the British definition of "natural born subject" from applying to such a person—which means that a "natural born citizen" of the US could not have been born on British soil, nor could a "natural born citizen" of the US have even one British parent.<br />
2297. <br />
2298. <b>US Supreme Court Decisions Concerning Citizenship and "Natural Born Citizens"</b><br />
2299. <br />
2300. The Constitution vests the judicial power of the United States with the US Supreme Court. By definition, "judicial power" is the power to judge questions of law, both with respect to what the law means in general and with respect to how the law should apply to a particular set of facts and circumstances. The US Constitution names itself as a law, and therefore the Supreme Court has the power to judge its meaning and application pursuant to the Constitutional grant of judicial power to the courts of the United States. The Supreme Court ruled in 1803 that the judicial power that the US Federal courts were granted in the Constitution necessarily included the power to use the Constitution as a "meta-law" governing the meaning and validity of the actions of the President, the Congress and lower courts. That ruling is referred to as "Marbury vs. Madison," and the ruling in that case set the precedent of what has come to be called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_States" style="color: #e00040;">judicial review</a>," which is the principle that Federal courts have the power to retroactively invalidate Congressional statutes by finding them in violation of the superior law known as the US Constitution.<br />
2301. <br />
2302. One of the precedent-setting holdings of Marbury vs. Madison was the following:<br />
2303. <blockquote>
2304. It cannot be presumed that any clause in the Constitution is intended to be without effect, and therefore such construction is inadmissible unless the words require it. ~ <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0005_0137_ZO.html" style="color: #e00040;">Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137</a></blockquote>
2305. <br />
2306. That each clause of the Constitution must be consequential, and not superfluous, is one of the foundational principles of exegesis that the Supreme Court uses in interpreting the Constitution. One consequence of this principle is that the Supreme Court will not interpret a later Amendment in such a way so as to render any clauses present before that Amendment was added impotent or irrelevant, unless it is abundantly clear that such was the intent of the later Amendment—perhaps because the later Amendment explicitly states that an earlier clause is repealed, or perhaps because the later Amendment contradicts an earlier clause, and the conflict can only be resolved by assuming the implied intent was to repeal or nullify the other clause.<br />
2307. <br />
2308. Note that it is logically impossible for a clause to have substantive, material and consequential effect unless each clause also has unique effect: If the effect of a clause were not unique, then it could be removed without substantive effect or consequence.<br />
2309. <br />
2310. With that interpretive principle in mind, consider what the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment has to say regarding US citizenship:<br />
2311. <br />
2312. <blockquote>
2313. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.</blockquote>
2314. <br />
2315. Firstly, note that the sentence says nothing about "<b>natural born</b> citizens"—that term does not appear. Nor does it say anything about who is or is not eligible to serve as President of the United States. It does not take away from or add to the power of Congress with respect to making naturalization rules (it does prevent Congress from denying citizenship to anyone "born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," but that leaves unchanged the power of Congress to naturalize whomever it pleases.). Nor does the Amendment state that it is repealing any clause in the original Constitution or in any of the subsequent Amendments. Instead, it specifies the following rules regarding Federal and State citizenship:<br />
2316. <ol>
2317. <li>Any person born in the United States who is also "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is Constitutionally defined as a US citizen</li>
2318. <li>Any person <i>naturalized</i> in the United States who is also "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is Constitutionally defined as a US citizen.</li>
2319. <li>A citizen of the United States is Constitutionally defined as also a citizen of the State in which he or she resides.</li>
2320. </ol>
2321. <br />
2322. Secondly, the interpretive rule established by <i>Marbury vs. Madison</i> (requiring each clause to have both <b>unique</b> and substantive, non-superfluous effect) prevents the word "citizen" from being a synonym for "natural born citizen." Since the 14th Amendment explicitly and specifically defines "citizen" (the word occurs with no prefix,) the Constitutional meaning of "natural born citizen" must be different. Which, as will be shown, is what the Supreme Court has repeatedly held.<br />
2323. <br />
2324. We know from history that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment was intended to accomplish the following purposes:<br />
2325. <br />
2326. <ol>
2327. <li>To define as US citizens those who had recently been slaves, but whose citizenship was not recognized by the States in which they resided</li>
2328. <li>To prevent States from claiming that such persons were not citizens of the State in which they lived, even if they were US citizens</li>
2329. </ol>
2330. <br />
2331. There is no evidence that the 14th Amendment was intended in any way to change the Constitutional qualifications for serving as US President. That said, it should also be noted that any children of those who were <i>naturalized</i> by the 14th Amendment, if born on US soil, would be <i>natural born citizens</i>, and so eligible to be President.<br />
2332. <br />
2333. Many at the time argued that the freed slaves were already citizens by natural law. Nevertheless, the Amendment was proposed and ultimately ratified because the natural law argument was not accepted by some of the States with respect to former slaves. Nevertheless, those who accepted the natural law argument did not view the 14th Amendment as granting citizenship to those who had not had it, but rather as affirming the citizenship of the former slaves in a way that could not be contested by those opposed. The point is that the Amendment was not proposed and ratified because the nation had concluded that the previous citizenship rules needed to be changed (obviously, those opposed to the idea that the former slaves should be recognized as citizens wanted no such "change"), but rather because there was such strong disagreement with respect to what the rules actually were, and how they should be applied. Note, for example, that the 14th Amendment defines anyone naturalized as a citizen pursuant to Congress' authority to make naturalization rules as a Constitutional citizen. But such persons were already "Constitutional citizens," because the Constitution grants Congress the power to grant citizenship. So in the case of naturalized citizens, the only possible effect of the 14th Amendment was to prevent States from claiming that US citizens residing in that State were not citizens of the State.<br />
2334. <br />
2335. Although the Fourteenth Amendment ended the argument regarding the citizenship of the former slaves, it did not end it for other cases. Why not? Because in addition to the clear <i>jus soli</i>requirement established by the 14th Amendment that a person must be born in the United States in order to be a citizen, the Amendment additionally required that the person be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. What does "subject to the jurisdiction" mean? That became the next disputed issue, and its resolution required a Supreme Court decision.<br />
2336. <br />
2337. In 1873, the Supreme Court said that the U.S.-born children of foreign citizens are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, therefore are not U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment:<br />
2338. <br />
2339. <blockquote>
2340. 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.' ... The phrase, 'subject to its jurisdiction' was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States. (<a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/case30.htm" style="color: #e00040;">Slaughter-House Cases</a>, 1873)</blockquote>
2341. <br />
2342. In 1884, the Supreme Court reiterated that an individual is a 14th Amendment citizen only if the United States has complete jurisdiction over such individual at the time of her or his birth or naturalization:<br />
2343. <br />
2344. <blockquote>
2345. The persons declared to be citizens are "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The evident meaning of these last words is not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance. And the words relate to the time of birth in the one case, as they do to the time of naturalization in the other. Persons not thus subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at the time of birth cannot become so afterwards except by being naturalized... (<a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/112/94/case.html" style="color: #e00040;">Elk v. Wilkins</a>, 1884)</blockquote>
2346. <br />
2347. Then in 1898, the Supreme Court had to decide yet again whether a petitioner was or was not a US citizen. It was the first such case the Court considered following the ratification of the 14th Amendment where the first sentence of the 14th Amendment was used to hold that a person was in fact a citizen. Interestingly, the text of the decision itself falsely claims that there was a prior case that had already done the same, but that claim is provably false. That's actually a crucial point, as will be shown later.<br />
2348. <br />
2349. The 1898 case involved the citizenship status of Mr. Wong Kim Ark, who was born in the United States to Chinese parents who never acquired US citizenship. His citizenship was challenged both because neither of his parents were US citizens, and also because of a law restricting Chinese immigration and prohibiting immigrants from China from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. The<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark" style="color: #e00040;">court decided that Wong Kim Ark was a citizen</a> based on the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, and that "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" means a) physically present on United States soil, AND b) the person was born to parents who were private individuals not employed in any official capacity by a foreign sovereign.<br />
2350. <br />
2351. The court's interpretation of "subject to the jurisdiction" has been strongly criticized on a number of grounds by those who argue that the intended meaning was "not subject to any foreign power."<br />
2352. <br />
2353. Firstly, in delivering the majority opinion in <i>U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark</i>, Justice Gray admitted that he had "presumed" that, in the 14th Amendment, the word "jurisdiction" means territorial and legal jurisdiction only. <b>Evidence regarding the Framers' original intent, as expressed during the Congressional debates over the 14th Amendment, was deemed "not admissible"</b>:<br />
2354. <br />
2355. <blockquote>
2356. The words 'in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,' in the first sentence of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, must be presumed to have been understood and intended by the congress which proposed the amendment ... as the equivalent of the words 'within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States'... Doubtless, the intention of the Congress which framed and of the States which adopted this Amendment of the Constitution must be sought in the words of the Amendment, and the debates in Congress are not admissible as evidence to control the meaning of those words. (<i>Wong Kim Ark</i>, 1898).</blockquote>
2357. <br />
2358. So the Supreme Court in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> did not consider evidence showing that the originally intended meaning of "jurisdiction" was sole and complete jurisdiction. The Court's refusal to consider such evidence was "<a href="http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html" style="color: #e00040;">inexcusable</a>":<br />
2359. <br />
2360. <blockquote>
2361. A refusal to consider reliable evidence of original intent in the Constitution is no more excusable than a judge's refusal to consider legislative intent. (Justice John Paul Stevens, as quoted by <a href="http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html" style="color: #e00040;">Madison(2006)</a>)</blockquote>
2362. <br />
2363. Secondly, the decision violated the principle of <i>stare decisis</i>, because it flatly contradicted its decisions in the <a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/case30.htm" style="color: #e00040;">Slaughter-House Cases</a> and in <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/112/94/case.html" style="color: #e00040;">Elk v. Wilkins</a>. Justice Gray tried to argue that the circumstances in the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> case were sufficiently different that a different decision was justified, but his reasoning is specious and violates the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_contradiction" style="color: #e00040;">Law of Non-Contradiction</a>.<br />
2364. <br />
2365. Thirdly, Justice Gray's majority opinion violates the rule that it is <i>inadmissible</i> to presume that any clause of the Constitution is without effect. That is easily proven by an examination of the Court's definition of "subject to the jurisdiction":<br />
2366. <br />
2367. <blockquote>
2368. The words "in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution must be presumed to have been understood and intended by the Congress which proposed the Amendment, and by the legislatures which adopted it, in the same sense in which the like words had been used by Chief Justice Marshall in the well known case of The Exchange and as the equivalent of the words "within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States," and the converse of the words "out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States" as habitually used in the naturalization acts.</blockquote>
2369. <br />
2370. Justice Gray used the conjunction (logical operator) <b>and</b> to connect the two predicate clauses "within the limits…of the United States" and "under the jurisdiction of the United States." Use of the conjunction <b>and</b> requires that both clauses must apply as constraint predicates. He said "within the limits <b>and</b> subject to the jurisdiction of the United States." If "subject to the jurisdiction" means<b>only</b> "within the (territorial) limits," then it is redundant to say "within the (territorial) limits <b>and</b> subject to the jurisdiction." But if the two predicate clauses denote distinct constraints, then "subject to the jurisdiction" must mean something other than "within the (territorial) limits."<br />
2371. <br />
2372. The Court also claimed that its formulation "within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States" was quoted from Justice Marshall's opinion in <i>The Exchange</i>. But no such quote appears anywhere in the text of <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/11/116/case.html" style="color: #e00040;">THE EXCHANGE V. MCFADDON, 11 U. S. 116 (1812)</a>. In fact, the opinion of Justice Marshall clearly and emphatically distinguishes between being in the territory of a sovereign and being subject to the jurisdiction of a sovereign. A person or object can be subject to the jurisdiction of a sovereign even when not in that sovereign's territory, and can also fail to be subject to the jurisdiction of a sovereign even when in that sovereign's territory—and there are also gray areas, where an object or person is partially but not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the sovereign of the territory where the person or object is located. But in any case, nothing said by Justice Marshall in <i>The Exchange</i> pertains directly to whatever the Framers of the 14th Amendment meant by "subject to the jurisdiction," nor does that case involve questions of citizenship.<br />
2373. <br />
2374. All persons are subject to U.S. legal and territorial jurisdiction while they are in the United States, although not all to the same extent. A visiting head of state, a foreign ambassador, a visiting warship, a foreign merchant on a business trip, a foreign tourist, an alien with legal US residency, a naturalized US citizen with additional foreign citizenships and a US citizen without any foreign citizenships may be all be "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" while within the territory of the United States, but certainly not all to the same extent or degree! However, if the word "jurisdiction" in the 14th Amendment is interpreted to mean territorial and legal jurisdiction only, regardless of extent or exclusivity, then all persons born or naturalized in the United States are automatically under U.S. jurisdiction at the time of their birth or naturalization. <b>But this would mean that the phrase, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is redundant and without any unique effect</b> (remember, <i>Marbury vs. Madison</i> requires that every clause in the Constitution must have substantive and unique, non-redundant effect):<br />
2375. <br />
2376. <blockquote>
2377. In the Fourteenth Amendment, there are two requirements: birth or naturalization in the United States and within the jurisdiction of the United States. If all persons who are born in the United States were ipso facto born within its jurisdiction, then the jurisdiction clause would be rendered superfluous. But a singular requirement of a written constitution is that no interpretation can render any part of the constitution to be without force or meaning. (Edward J. Erler, "From Subjects to Citizens: The Social Compact Origins of American Citizenship", in Ronald Pestritto and Thomas West, eds., <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NCwvLfKT9qMC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=%22From+Subjects+to+Citizens:+The+Social+Compact+Origins+of+American+Citizenship%22&source=bl&ots=lkl-HLTaUH&sig=yTcqKu37XRsHrAjMOzR-fISwPRc&hl=en&ei=I_QYTpzpOJSgsQOj8vXwAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22From%20Subjects%20to%20Citizens%3A%20The%20Social%20Compact%20Origins%20of%20American%20Citizenship%22&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">The American Founding and the Social Compact</a>, 2003., pp.191-192)</blockquote>
2378. <br />
2379. Finally, in the majority's Opinion of the Court, English common law was "in force" when the United States was founded, "continued to prevail" under the Constitution, and controlled the Constitutional meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction." According to the <i>jus soli</i> principle of English common law, U.S.-born children of "domiciled" (permanent legal resident) alien parents are citizens by birth.<br />
2380. <br />
2381. In the minority's Dissenting Opinion, the law of nations controlled the Constitutional meaning of citizenship. According to the <i>jus sanguinis</i> principle promoted by European natural law theorists, a child is naturally a citizen at birth only if its parents were citizens at the time of its birth, regardless of the child's place of birth.<br />
2382. <br />
2383. In the Wong Kim Ark case, the difference of opinion among the justices was rooted in their differing understandings of America's history and founding principles. The split decision in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> illustrated Prentiss Webster's main point: that one's understanding of Constitutional citizenship reflects one's belief as to which philosophical system—English common law, or European political and natural law theory — guided the framers of the U.S. Constitution—at least in so far as questions of citizenship are concerned.<br />
2384. <br />
2385. Until the 14th Amendment was passed and its citizenship rule was finally applied for the first time by the Court in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> in order to define someone as a citizen who otherwise would not have been, it was <b>not</b> the case that anyone born in the US was Constitutionally a citizen. What was in fact true, and therefore what the Court <i>must have meant when it claimed that English common law was "in force" when the United States was founded</i>, was that Congressional statute and State law granted citizenship to people born here whose parents were not US citizens at the time of birth. However, the fact that the naturalization statutes passed by Congress <b>excluded non-Whites until after the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> decision, and the fact that the various State laws universally limited citizenship by race, generally excluding anyone but Europeans, proves that English common law regarding citizenship was absolutely not in force even in the laws of the States, let alone at the Federal level.</b><br />
2386. <br />
2387. Yes, the grant of citizenship to some, but not all, persons born in the US to non-citizen parents has <i>some similarity</i> to the English common law definition of "natural born subject," but there were three major differences:<br />
2388. <br />
2389. Firstly, the State laws and Congressional statutes granting citizenship asserted race-based exclusions, <b>which English common law never did</b>. That fact is mentioned by Justice Gray in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i>. For example, <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840767/posts" style="color: #e00040;">Title 2, Chapter 3, Section 1 of the Code of Virginia, Section 1</a>:<br />
2390. <br />
2391. <blockquote>
2392. All free white persons born in this state, all free white persons born in any other state of this Union, who may be or become residents of this state, all aliens being free white persons naturalized under the laws of the United States, who maybe or become residents of this state; all persons who have obtained a right to citizenship under former laws, and all children, wherever born, whose father, or if he be dead, whose mother shall be a citizen of this state, at the time of the birth of such children, shall be deemed citizens of this state.</blockquote>
2393. <br />
2394. Secondly, although the State laws didn't require that the parents be citizens, <b>they did require that the parents must have formally renounced all foreign citizenship and allegiance</b> in order for their US-born children to become citizens, which also was never required of "natural born subjects" under British law. That fact is also mentioned by Justice Gray in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i>.<br />
2395. <br />
2396. Thirdly, English common law <i>denied</i> the status of "natural born subject" to <i>anyone whose parents were not Christians</i> no matter where they were born. In his <a href="http://files.libertyfund.org/files/911/0462-01_LFeBk.pdf" style="color: #e00040;">Report on Calvin's Case</a>, Lord Coke asserted that non-Christians—including Muslims and Jews—were "perpetual enemies" of the king, therefore their children, even if born in England, were not <i>natural-born subjects</i>:<br />
2397. <br />
2398. <blockquote>
2399. Christianity being part and parcel of the law of England, those who did not profess it could not have the rights of Englishmen but, whether born within the king's allegiance or not, must be aliens, nor could they be alien friends, but must be regarded as alien enemies, even though they might be here under the special permission of the king. Lord Coke, in his report of the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber in Calvin's case, thus lays down the law: "All infidels are in law perpetui inimici, perpetual enemies (for the law presumes not that they will be converted, that being remota potentia, a remote possibility), for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and the Christian there is a perpetual hostility, and can be no peace ..." (Henry Straus Quixano Henriques, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MfK5ES_bkNMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Henriques&cd=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">The Jews and the English law, 2005.</a> p.186)</blockquote>
2400. <br />
2401. So interpreting Justice Gray's opinion in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> as holding that the term <i>citizen</i> in the 14th Amendment must have the semantics of <i>natural born subject</i> as defined in English common law would require excluding non-Christians from being citizens, no matter where born. That is simply an absurd proposition given United States history and tradition, and given the clear and compelling language of the First Amendment. So either Justice Gray didn't mean to define the term <i>citizen</i> as used in the 14th Amendment to have the same semantics as <i>natural born subject</i> in English common law (other than the semantic difference between <i>citizen</i> and <i>subject</i>,) or else the opinion is so shockingly wrong that it must be reversed.<br />
2402. <br />
2403. Finally, if the Constitution directly granted citizenship to whomever was born here "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States (regardless of what that means) <b>before</b> the passage of the 14th Amendment, then why was the Amendment passed with a tripartite clause asserting citizenship rules as its first sentence whose import was identical to pre-existing Constitutional rules of citizenship? It <b>cannot</b> be the case that <b>any</b> clause of the 14th Amendment makes no change to Constitutional law. Again: <i>Marbury vs. Madison</i> requires that every clause in the Constitution must have substantive and unique, non-redundant effect. We are not allowed to assume that <b>any</b> clause of the 14th Amendment is redundant or does not change Constitutional law in some way. Since each clause in an Amendment to the Constitution regarding citizenship must make some substantive change to the Constitutional citizenship rules that was not previously true <i>at the level of Constitutional law</i>, it therefore follows that each clause of the 14th Amendment that defines who is a Constitutional citizen <b>must</b> either be changing the Constitutional definition of citizen from some previous, but different definition—or else it must be asserting a de novo definition of a citizenship term not previously defined by the Constitution.<br />
2404. <br />
2405. Of course, the 14th Amendment has more to say, and so has other effects. Nevertheless, what's the effective change to the Constitutional law made by <b>each clause of the 14th Amendment, especially for each clause defining who shall be Constitutionally a citizen</b>? What were the Constitutional rules regarding citizenship before the ratification of the Amendment, and what additions or changes to Constitutional law were made by each of its clauses that pertain to citizenship? What was changed by requiring that a citizen be born or naturalized "in the United States"? What was changed by requiring that such persons must also be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States? What would be the effect of removing the "born subject to the jurisdiction of the Unite States" clause? And what would be the effect of removing the "born in the United States" clause?<br />
2406. <br />
2407. Suppose that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment said "All persons born or naturalized subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Would that still limit US citizenship <b>only</b> to those born on US soil? Or would it then include those born beyond the borders of the United States to parents who were United States citizens? If "subject to the jurisdiction" under that hypothetical wording includes persons born beyond the borders of the United States based on the principle of <i>jus sanguinis</i>, then the phrase should have the same meaning and effect when it occurs in the conjunctive clause "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States <b>and</b> born in the territory thereof." And inverting the order of the clauses should make no difference, since <b>and</b> is commutative.<br />
2408. <br />
2409. One resolution to the conundrum of what Justice Gray meant when he said that English common law was "in effect" when the Constitution was adopted is to assume that he viewed the 14th Amendment as intended to raise to the level of Constitutional law the same rules of citizenship which had generally prevailed in the several States and in Congressional naturalization statutes. That is in fact what the Framers of the 14th Amendment themselves said was their intent. If so, then the only real disagreement between the majority and minority opinions in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> involved solely the question of what those Congressional and State citizenship laws entailed, and the import and effect of the rules of citizenship they mandated.<br />
2410. <br />
2411. But in any case, the fact remains that controlling Supreme Court precedent regarding the first sentence of the 14th Amendment carefully and judiciously avoids any holding that the definition of citizen therein specified pertains to the term "natural born citizen."<br />
2412. <br />
2413. And, even if the intent of the 14th Amendment were in fact to use the English common law definition of "natural born subject" as the Constitutional definition of "citizen," the following would still be true:<br />
2414. <br />
2415. <ol>
2416. <li>As conclusively proven above, to be a <i>natural born subject</i> under British law based on <i>jus soli</i>, one not only had to be born on the soil of the realm, one's parents also had to be either citizens or <i>aliens</i>—and an "alien" in modern US terminology is a legal (permanent) resident (so the wrongful attempt to use the English common law semantics of <i>natural born subject</i> doesn't even get that right—also see below);</li>
2417. <li>In strong analogy to English common law, the State laws in general (from the 18th century until even today) deny citizenship to those who, when born, had parents who were foreigners who had not been granted legal resident status, using the term "transient aliens" to distinguish them from 'resident aliens' or 'alien friends':<blockquote>
2418. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=93s4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: #e00040;">Political Code of the State of New York</a>: “The citizens of the state are:1. All persons born in this state and domiciled within it, except the children of transient aliens and of alien public ministers and consuls."<a href="http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2005/gov/240-245.html" style="color: #e00040;">California Government Code Sections 240-245 Article 1. General</a>: "The citizens of the State are: (a) All persons born in the State and residing within it, except the children of transient aliens and of alien public ministers and consuls."</blockquote>
2419. </li>
2420. <li>The 14th Amendment by its own text defines only the term "citizen," not the term "natural born citizen." The semantics of <i>natural born subject</i> includes both <i>subject born</i> (<i>natural</i> citizen) and <i>subject made</i> (<i>naturalized</i> citizen.) It would be logically incorrect to fail to incorporate the analogous distinction between <i>natural</i> and <i>naturalized</i> citizen into the semantics of the term<i>citizen</i> as used in the 14th Amendment, if the intent was in fact to make the word 'citizen' be analogous to the term 'natural born subject' as used in English common law.</li>
2421. <li>To be a <i>subject born</i>, one must not only be born on the soil of the realm, one's parents must also be citizens of the realm.</li>
2422. </ol>
2423. <br />
2424. <b>The Supreme Court Defines "Natural Born Citizen"</b><br />
2425. <br />
2426. The earlier Supreme Court decision, which was wrongly referenced in the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> decision as having used the 14th Amendment to decide a person's citizenship, is known as <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html" style="color: #e00040;">Minor vs. Hapersett, 88 U.S. 162</a>. That decision did in fact use the 14th Amendment as the basis for its <i>second</i> principal holding concerning the right to vote, but <b>not</b> for its <i>first</i> principal holding concerning whether or not the petitioner was a US citizen (court decisions can involve multiple holdings, which are the precedent-setting decisions the court makes in order to decide the legal and/or factual issues before the court in a particular case.)<br />
2427. <br />
2428. In <i>Minor</i>, the court held that the 14th Amendment granted no one at all any right to vote, regardless of sex, age or citizenship. Previous cases had already held that there was no Federal right to vote. The second principal holding in <i>Minor</i>, as well as the holdings in previous cases, are the reason that the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments were later proposed and adopted, the language of which forbids the denial of the <i>privilege</i> of voting based on race, previous condition of servitude, sex or age (for those 18-years of age or older.) The 19th Amendment, for example, requires that if one sex is granted the privilege to vote, the other sex must be granted that same privilege equally.<br />
2429. <br />
2430. But the court in <i>Minor</i> determined that before it could decide the issue of whether the petitioner (who was an adult White woman) had any Federal right to vote based on the 14th Amendment, it first had to decide whether or not she was a citizen, and if so on what basis? Understanding why the court approached the issue that way is crucial: Firstly, if women as a class be not US citizens, then the second sentence of the 14th Amendment that forbids States from denying citizens any privileges of US citizens would not apply to them, since it only applies to those who are US citizens. Secondly, the court was concerned with whether or not the citizenship of women as a class depended on the 14th Amendment. In other words, the question was whether or not, in the absence of the 14th Amendment, would any women at all be citizens? That second issue mattered for two reasons:<br />
2431. <br />
2432. <ol>
2433. <li>The legal principle known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_restraint" style="color: #e00040;">judicial restraint</a>:<blockquote>
2434. If women as a class were not citizens before the adoption of the 14th Amendment, then the Court would have to decide whether the first sentence of the 14th Amendment granted women "born in the US and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" US citizenship. But if the woman who was the petitioner in the case at hand could be held to be a US citizen even without applying the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, then the principle of <i>judicial restraint</i> would behoove the Court to avoid deciding whether or not the 14th Amendment grants any women US citizenship. Judicial restraint requires that courts not make precedent-setting holdings when the issues in a case do not require it.<br />
2435. The court has always interpreted the principle of <i>judicial restraint</i> as sufficient reason to use the original (unamended) text of the Constitution before relying on the text of any subsequent Amendments, if such is possible. That's especially true in the absence of any prior precedents based on a particular clause of the Constitution. They seek to avoid making a "first instance" interpretation of any clause when there are other precedents that can be used instead (where it can be shown that no reasonable meaning of the unused clause could possibly change the outcome.) In this case, since the 14th Amendment definitely did not deprive anyone of citizenship, there was no reason to rely on its first sentence to determine citizenship, if it could be determined that the petitioner was a citizen based on the original text of the Constitution.</blockquote>
2436. </li>
2437. <li>The court reasoned that, if women can be citizens without applying the 14th Amendment, then the 14th Amendment cannot fairly be interpreted as granting them any rights or privileges of citizenship that they have not always possessed, even before the ratification of that Amendment. In fact, <b>this is the crucial point the court relied on in order to reach its second principal holding (that the 14th Amendment did not grant anyone the right to vote)!</b><br />
2438. In the words of the court in <i>Minor</i>:<br />
2439. <br />
2440. <blockquote>
2441. It is clear, therefore, we think, that the Constitution has not added the right of suffrage to the privileges and immunities of citizenship as they existed at the time it was adopted. This makes it proper to inquire whether suffrage was coextensive with the citizenship of the States at the time of its adoption. If it was, then it may with force be argued that suffrage was one of the rights which belonged to citizenship, and in the enjoyment of which every citizen must be protected. But if it was not, the contrary may with propriety be assumed. <i>[pp. 171, 172]</i><br />
2442. <blockquote>
2443. </blockquote>
2444. </blockquote>
2445. </li>
2446. </ol>
2447. <br />
2448. The Court in <i>Minor</i> held that the petitioner was in fact a US citizen, and had been such from birth, before the ratification of the 14th Amendment. The reasoning the Court used to reach that holding is actually central to the question of the Supreme Court's definition of "natural born citizen," and so that reasoning (and the Court's definition of "natural born citizen") needs to be examined in more detail.<br />
2449. <br />
2450. But before we do, let us first consider another issue: Is what this essay asserts to be a holding in <i>Minor</i>—that the petitioner was a US citizen based on the original (unamended) text of the Constitution (and in fact had been such since birth, before the ratification of the 14th Amendment)—actually a precedent-setting holding? Or was it, as has been claimed elsewhere, merely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictum" style="color: #e00040;">dictum</a>, and therefore not binding US Supreme Court precedent?<br />
2451. <br />
2452. To answer that question, we first refer to the most recent Supreme Court precedent regarding the principles to be used to distinguish between <a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/def/d047.htm" style="color: #e00040;">dicta</a> and holdings that establish binding precedents, which can be found in a case decided in 1996 known as <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/519/79/case.html" style="color: #e00040;">Ogilvie Et Al., Minors v. United States</a>, 519 U.S. 79 (1996). Justice Breyer's majority opinion in that case stated that when the Court discusses a certain “…reason as an ‘independent’ ground in support of our decision”, then that reasoning is not simply dictum:<br />
2453. <br />
2454. <blockquote>
2455. “Although we gave other reasons for our holding in Schleier as well, we explicitly labeled this reason an ‘independent’ ground in support of our decision, id., at 334. We cannot accept petitioners’ claim that it was simply a dictum.”</blockquote>
2456. <br />
2457. The holding in <i>Minor</i> that the appellant, Mrs. Minor, did not have any Federal right to vote was based on the following facts, all of which must be true for the primary holding to be valid:<br />
2458. <br />
2459. <ol>
2460. <li>The 14th Amendment added no new rights to US citizens, other than the right to prevent the States from violating those rights, whatever they happened to be. This finding was based on the text of the 14th Amendment.</li>
2461. <li>All women born under the same essential circumstances as Mrs. Minor had always been citizens of the United States, even before the ratification of the 14th Amendment. This finding was based on the court's interpretation of what the Constitution says about citizenship.</li>
2462. <li>Women were almost universally denied the right to vote. Other citizens also are commonly denied the right to vote, including minors and felons. This was a finding of fact.</li>
2463. </ol>
2464. <br />
2465. The chain of reasoning was that a) if voting were a right that any and all citizens have, then it should be apparent that all those recognized as citizens are granted suffrage; b) women generally had not been granted suffrage, either because they were not citizens prior to the ratification of the 14th Amendment or because not all citizens have the right to vote—so the question presented by the case can be decided by determining whether women were citizens even before the ratification of the 14th Amendment; c) women whose circumstances of birth are the same as those of Mrs. Minor are citizens, and have always been citizens even before the ratification of the 14th Amendment; d) therefore, voting is not a right of all citizens, since women have always been citizens and yet denied the right to vote (as are others who are citizens.)<br />
2466. <br />
2467. Per <i>Ogilvie</i>, if the Court uses any finding or decision as "independent grounds" for any of its precedential holdings, then these findings or decisions are also precedential holdings—and that rule is<i>transitive</i>: any finding or decision used as "independent grounds" for a later holding is itself a holding, recursively back to ever earlier findings and decisions. That makes it undeniable that the court's definition in <i>Minor</i> of the term 'natural born citizen' is in fact a precedential holding.<br />
2468. <br />
2469. The <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZS.html" style="color: #e00040;">syllabus of the <i>Minor</i> case</a> lists the following as one of the holdings:<br />
2470. <br />
2471. <blockquote>
2472. 2. In that sense, women, if born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, have always been considered citizens of the United States, as much so before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution as since.</blockquote>
2473. <br />
2474. The fact that that decision is listed in the syllabus of the case is evidence that the Court considered its decision on the citizenship question to be a precedent-setting holding, and not a dictum.<br />
2475. <br />
2476. FInally, there are other Supreme Court cases that cite the definition given in <i>Minor</i> as controlling precedent regarding the meaning of 'natural born citizen.' One such is <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=154&invol=116" style="color: #e00040;">EX PARTE LOCKWOOD, 154 U.S. 116 (1894)</a>:<br />
2477. <br />
2478. <blockquote>
2479. In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162, this court held that the word 'citizen' is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation, and, in that sense, women, if born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, have always been considered citizens of the United States, as much so before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution as since; but that the right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, and that amendment did not add to these privileges and immunities. Hence, that a provision in a state constitution which confined the right of voting to male citizens of the United States was no violation of the federal constitution.</blockquote>
2480. <br />
2481. <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> also cites the holding in <i>Minor</i> regarding the definition of <i>natural born citizen</i>…and does so favorably, not using any language that could possibly be construed as intended to change or overturn the definition of <i>natural born citizen</i> as given in <i>Minor</i>.<br />
2482. <br />
2483. So the citizenship holding in <i>Minor</i> is binding US Supreme Court precedent, beyond any possibility of denial. Although the second principal holding regarding the right to vote was later mooted by the 19th Amendment, the first principal holding regarding the basis for establishing US citizenship without any reliance on the 14th Amendment or any other law (e.g. a Congressional naturalization statute) still stands as binding Supreme Court precedent which has never been overturned nor obviated by subsequent Amendments to the Constitution.<br />
2484. <br />
2485. In <i>Minor</i>, the Supreme Court <b>held</b> that the petitioner was and had been from birth a <i>citizen</i> by providing its official interpretation of the phrase "natural born citizen," specifically referencing the qualifications to be US President from Article II section 1, and then applying the definition of "natural born citizen" to the petitioner and coming to the conclusion that she satisfied all the conditions to be a "natural born citizen."<br />
2486. <br />
2487. Here's the text:<br />
2488. <br />
2489. <blockquote>
2490. Additions might always be made to the citizenship of the United States in two ways: first, by birth, and second, by naturalization. This is apparent from the Constitution itself, for it provides [n6] that "no person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President," [n7] and that Congress shall have power "to establish a uniform rule of naturalization." Thus new citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization.<br />
2491. The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. …</blockquote>
2492. <br />
2493. The Court concluded that, since the term "natural born citizen" was used in the Constitution as one of the qualifications to be President, that anyone who qualified as a "natural born citizen" necessarily was <i>named by the Constitution</i> as a citizen. So the Court proceeded to research the meaning of "natural born citizen" to see whether it could rule the petitioner to be a citizen based on the definition of that term. Pursuant to its research, it then <b>defined</b> "natural born citizens" as "all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens."<br />
2494. <br />
2495. Note that the Court in <i>Minor</i> states in its definition that "natural born citizens" are distinct from "aliens or foreigners." That's actually a very important semantic distinction. To see why, it is necessary to understand the 18th-century common law meanings of the words <i>alien</i> and <i>foreigner</i>:<br />
2496. <br />
2497. According to <a href="http://blackslawdictionaryonline.com/" style="color: #e00040;">Black's Law Dictionary</a>, the word "foreigner" can be used in a municipal context and in an international context. In a municipal context, anyone who is not a member of a community is a "foreigner" in that community. In an international context, anyone owing allegiance to a foreign state or sovereign is a "foreigner":<br />
2498. <br />
2499. <blockquote>
2500. FOREIGNER. In old English law, this term, when used with reference to a particular city, designated any person who was not an inhabitant of that city. According to later usage, it denotes a person who is not a citizen or subject of the state or country of which mention is made, <b>or any one owing allegiance to a foreign state or sovereign</b>. (Henry Campbell Black, A Dictionary of Law, First Edition, 1891, p.506)</blockquote>
2501. <br />
2502. In 2009, the <a href="http://www.boalt.org/bjil/" style="color: #e00040;">Berkeley Journal of International Law</a> published a comprehensive historical analysis of the words "foreigner" and "alien", as used in English and American legal writings during the late eighteenth century. Research by Anderson Berry found that the word "foreigner", when used in an international context, has a general meaning and a specific meaning. In the general sense, anyone who was born in a foreign country or is a citizen or subject of a foreign country is a "foreigner". But in the specific sense, "foreigner" is used in contradistinction to "alien".<br />
2503. <br />
2504. <blockquote>
2505. ...the overwhelming majority of sources available to the drafters of the judicial bill [of 1789] define an "alien" as an individual who: 1) is foreign-born, and 2) resides in a sovereign's territory other than the one where he was born. A "foreigner" is defined as an individual who: 1) is foreign-born, or more specifically, is a foreign citizen or subject, or 2) is a foreign-born individual residing extraterritorially [outside the sovereign's territory]. (Berry, pp.337-8)</blockquote>
2506. <br />
2507. "Aliens" are persons who relocate permanently to one country, while they are still citizens or subjects of some other country. Presumably, aliens intend to renounce their allegiance to their country of origin and become naturalized citizens of the country of their new permanent residence. In contrast, "foreigners" are temporary visitors who retain citizenship and permanent residence in their home country and intend to someday return to their home country.<br />
2508. <br />
2509. In the general sense, the eighteenth-century meaning of "foreigner" was not limited to persons born in a foreign country. If you are a citizen or subject of a foreign country, you are a "foreigner," regardless of your residence or place of birth.<br />
2510. <br />
2511. So someone who is a citizen of the United States could also be a foreigner, if he or she retains or acquires foreign citizenship. Even if born in the US, a US citizen could be or become a foreigner simply by also having or later acquiring foreign citizenship. A US citizen—even from birth—could also have foreign citizenship from birth—either by having been born outside the US, <b>or by having even one parent who is an alien or foreigner</b>. So the fact that the Supreme Court has <b>defined</b> "natural born citizens" as <b>distinct</b> from "aliens or foreigners" excludes anyone from qualifying as a "natural born citizen" who has foreign parentage (because of the <i>jus sanguinis</i> principle of natural law, which by definition of <i>natural law</i> applies regardless of the laws of any country,) anyone who has foreign citizenship, or anyone who was not born in the United States.<br />
2512. <br />
2513. Starting with the very next sentence following the first quote from the case given above, the Court then continues to discuss the fact that yet other persons could be citizens who don't qualify as "natural born citizens." To understand the message the Court intends to convey, it is important to remember that the issue on which the court was focusing was whether or nor the petitioner was a<b>citizen</b> regardless of the first sentence of the 14th Amendment. The definition of "natural born citizen" was relevant solely because a) Article II, section 1 establishes "natural born citizen" as the strictest class of citizenship, and b) anyone who qualifies as a "natural born citizen" necessarily qualifies as a citizen:<br />
2514. <br />
2515. <blockquote>
2516. … Some authorities go further and include as <b>citizens</b> children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts [regarding citizenship, but <b>not</b> regarding "natural born citizenship"], but never as to the first [<b>because anyone who qualifies as a "natural born citizen" is a citizen beyond dispute</b>]. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The words "all children" are certainly as comprehensive, when used in this connection, as "all persons," and if females are included in the last they must be in the first. That they are included in the last is not denied. In fact the whole argument of the plaintiffs proceeds upon that idea.</blockquote>
2517. <br />
2518. The Court notes in passing that those born in the United States, regardless of the citizenship status of their parents, may nevertheless qualify as <b>citizens</b>. The fact it uses the word "citizens" in that clause instead of using the phrase "natural born citizens" <b>categorically falsifies</b> any claim that the Court intended to convey the idea that anyone born of non-citizen parents might possibly be "natural born citizens." The doubt the Court was expressing concerned whether or not such persons might even be <b>citizens</b> at all.<br />
2519. <br />
2520. The <i>Minor</i> Court provided no name for the class of citizens "born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents," but did refer to them using the general term "citizens." Based on the legal principle of interpretation known as <i>generalia specialibus non derogant</i> ("the general does not detract from the specific,") the use of the <i>general</i> term "citizen" must not be conflated with the use of the specific term "natural born citizen," unless the text makes it explicit that such was intended.<br />
2521. <br />
2522. The text in <i>Minor</i> not only states no such thing, it in fact states precisely the opposite. In addition to defining "natural born citizen," the opinion also separately defines the term "citizen," giving a different definition:<br />
2523. <br />
2524. <blockquote>
2525. The very idea of a political community, such as a nation is, implies an association of persons for the promotion of their general welfare. Each one of the persons associated becomes a member of the nation formed by the association…<br />
2526. For convenience it has been found necessary to give a name to this membership. The object is to designate by a title the person and the relation he bears to the nation. For this purpose the words ‘subject,’ ‘inhabitant,’ and ‘citizen’ have been used, and the choice between them is sometimes made to depend upon the form of the government. Citizen is now more commonly employed, however, and as it has been considered better suited to the description of one living under a republican government, it was adopted by nearly all of the States upon their separation from Great Britain, and was afterwards adopted in the Articles of Confederation and in the Constitution of the United States. When used in this sense it is understood as conveying the idea of membership of a nation, and nothing more. [pg. 166]</blockquote>
2527. <br />
2528. It cannot be the case that any court that provides one definition for "citizen" but a different definition for "natural born citizen" intended to use those terms interchangeably. Nor can the fact be challenged that the <i>Minor</i> decision defines the term <i>citizen</i> as 'member of a nation, <b>and nothing more</b>,' but defines <i>natural born citizen</i> as 'born in the US, to parents who were US citizens—distinguished from aliens and foreigners.' The two definitions are not the same at all. One is general. The other is specific. Per <i>generalia specialibus non derogant</i>, the general must not detract from the specific.<br />
2529. <br />
2530. In the above quoted paragraphs from the <i>Minor</i> opinion, the Court explicitly distinguishes two classes of <i>native-born</i> citizenship:<br />
2531. <br />
2532. <ol>
2533. <li>Citizenship given to "children born in a country of parents who were its citizens…distinguished from aliens or foreigners"—"never" any "doubt" about the citizenship of this class;</li>
2534. <li>Citizenship (possibly) given to "children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents"—who, since they are a distinct class from the first, must have at least one parent who was not a citizen; "as to this class there have been doubts"</li>
2535. </ol>
2536. <br />
2537. There is also obviously (at least) yet a third class: Persons naturalized after birth, who cannot be "native born."<br />
2538. <br />
2539. The <i>Minor</i> Court's opinion doesn't <i>explicitly</i> say whether the second class—those who are native-born but have at least one parent who was not a citizen—are <i>naturalized</i> citizens. There are and were <i>laws</i> that <i>define</i> such persons as citizens—for example, the 14th Amendment. But unless such persons are citizens by <i>natural law</i>, and not just by Constitutional or statutory law, they cannot be <i>natural-born</i> <b>by definition</b>.<br />
2540. <br />
2541. But in any case, the <i>Minor</i> decision categorically <i>excludes</i> anyone who can be considered an alien or foreigner from being a <i>natural born citizen</i>. And, as shown above, anyone not born in the US, or anyone who has foreign citizenship, is either an alien, a foreigner, or both. And so are their children, because the <i>natural law</i> citizenship principle of <i>jus sanguinis</i> endows any such children with whatever citizenship either one of their parents has—unless the parent has renounced and relinquished any and all foreign citizenships, as all those who become <i>naturalized</i> US citizens are required to do. So that excludes anyone with an alien or foreign parent, where such parent has not become <i>naturalized</i> as a US citizen before the child's birth, from being a "natural born citizen" of the United States.<br />
2542. <br />
2543. Of course, the Court's discussion regarding the doubtful status as <i>citizens</i> of those born in the US to non-citizen parents is dicta, because it was not used as grounds for any of their holdings in the case. They actually state that "doubts" regarding the citizenship of those without two citizen parents have no relevance to the case before them—thereby explicitly labeling their discussion of any hypothetical class of citizens beyond the class "born in the US of citizen parents" as dicta.<br />
2544. <br />
2545. After defining <i>natural born citizen</i> and mentioning the unresolved issue of those born in the country with at least one non-citizen parent, the court continues by comparing the facts of the petitioner's birth against the definition of "natural born citizen" that it determined to be Constitutionally and historically correct, and concludes that, since the petitioner was born in the US to parents who were US citizens at the time of her birth, she was in fact a "natural born citizen"—and so also necessarily a citizen—of the United States.<br />
2546. <br />
2547. Since the petitioner was born in the US, and since both her parents were US citizens when she was born, there was no need to consider whether any alternative definitions or theories of citizenship could be used to assign citizenship. The Court saw no need to concern itself with citizenship acquired by <i>naturalization</i>, nor with any other classes or types of citizenship based on any other theories, "natural law" and/or English common law definitions or other Constitutional clauses, such as the first sentence of the 14th Amendment. Therefore, they exercised proper judicial restraint and left those questions undecided.<br />
2548. <br />
2549. Since the citizenship issue in <i>Minor</i> was decided by defining "natural born citizen" based on the text of Article II, section 1, but the citizenship issue in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> was decided based on the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, the two decisions do not conflict with each other. Therefore, <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> <b>does not supersede</b> <i>Minor</i>.<br />
2550. <br />
2551. It is worth noting that, had the petitioner in <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> been a "natural born citizen," failure to simply use the precedent established in <i>Minor</i> to rule that Wong Kim Ark was a citizen would have been a failure to abide by judicial restraint. The fact that the <i>Wong Kim Ark</i> Court, unlike the <i>Minor</i> Court, decided that it was necessary to decide the citizenship issue using the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, instead of using the "natural born citizen" clause, demonstrates that a person who satisfies the 14th Amendment's qualifications for citizenship does not necessarily qualify as a "natural born citizen." The only reason to make a "first instance" interpretation of the first sentence of the 14th Amendment would be because the question could not be settled using any existing precedent, such as the one in <i>Minor</i>.<br />
2552. <br />
2553. The settled law of the land is that the US President must be a natural born citizen, and that to be a natural born citizen, you must have been born in the United States to parents both of whom were US citizens when you were born.<br />
2554. <br />
2555. You may disagree with the goal of the Constitutional Convention, and/or with the means they chose to achieve it. But it's not a technicality, not an anachronism no longer relevant in modern times, nor is it racist. Especially in modern times, it enables persons of any race or ethnic heritage to become President. And it's what the Constitution requires.<br />
2556. <br />
2557. You may also disagree with binding precedent regarding the meaning of "natural born citizen" as established in <i>Minor</i>. But in our system, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court's interpretation of it, are the "supreme law of the land." And if one faction gets to disregard the Constitution and/or the Supreme Court because they disagree, then that sets a precedent where all other factions can do the same. And get away with it. Is that really what you want?<br />
2558. <br />
2559. Addendum:<br />
2560. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&quot;Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise &amp;amp; seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expresly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.&quot; John Jay, NY,NY - 1787&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;When the US Constitution was written, the &quot;natural law&quot; that dealt with issues such as nationality and allegiance to a sovereign was called &quot;the law of nations.&quot; Modernly, we call this &quot;international law.&quot; In 1788, the preeminent codification, description and explanation of &quot;the law of nations&quot; was a work written by Emerich de Vattel, entitled THE LAW OF NATIONS, or principles of the law of nature applied to the conduct and affairs of nations and sovereigns. The Founders were not only familiar with de Vattel&#39;s treatise, they relied on it extensively when they wrote laws and Constitutions (of their respective States, not just the Federal one.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;In Section 212 of de Vattel&#39;s treatise, he states the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;§ 212. Of the citizens and natives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;“The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/feeds/6910744640071723776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/02/research-done-for-you-over.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/6910744640071723776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8060615334222084776/posts/default/6910744640071723776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lamecherryfan.blogspot.com/2016/02/research-done-for-you-over.html' title='RESEARCH DONE FOR YOU OVER THE CONSTITUTIONAL MEANING OF NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'/><author><name>Joe Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06100893224597772450</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060615334222084776.post-796791590858971085</id><published>2016-02-05T19:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2016-02-05T20:10:00.522-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ineligible Ex-Canadian Rafael Ted Cruz, You Disrespect Americans, You Pay</title><content type='html'>Anyone who presents himself or herself as an eligible candidate, when they know they are not eligible to run for President of these United States (not the corporation...which has it coming as well), is asking for an ass-kicking.&lt;br /&gt;
2561. <br />
2562. And Ted Cruz, the Canadian-cum-Cuban, has an ass-kicking coming.  As an attorney who only relinquished his Canadian citizen a few years ago, he wants to shove shit in Americans' mouths while telling them that they need to be "good Christians" and do what they're told - to vote for him or be scolded or graded badly.<br />
2563. <br />
2564. WTF??!! Really?<br />
2565. <br />
2566. Get ready, Teddie, because good old Americans are ready to kick your ass all the way back to the country of your birth...and you'd better be ready to beg for your citizenship back, because the best we can figure...<br />
2567. <br />
2568. YOU ARE A MAN (P. O. S.) WITHOUT A COUNTRY.<br />
2569. <br />
2570. PIZZ OFF, SCARFACE.<br />
2571. <br />
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2574. <br />
2575. <br />
2576. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">"A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized, either by treaty, as in the case of the annexation of foreign territory, or by authority of Congress..." </span><br />
2577. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">~ Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray (1898) </span><br />
2578. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2579. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">Luria v. United States, 231 U.S. 9 (1913): </span><br />
2580. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2581. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency. </span><br />
2582. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2583. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">“Every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866)) </span><br />
2584. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">Natural Born Citizen per the United States Congress in 1866 </span><br />
2585. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2586. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">(Born in the United States) (US Citizen Parents, meaning BOTH Dad and Mom) </span><br />
2587. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">again, in 1875 The United States Supreme Court </span><br />
2588. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2589. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. </span><br />
2590. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">-Chief Justice Waite in Minor v. Happersett (1875) </span><br />
2591. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2592. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">Here is the Canadian Law that Rafael Edward Cruz was born under. </span><br />
2593. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2594. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">Persons Born in Canada After December 31, 1946 But Before February 15, 1977 </span><br />
2595. <br style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
2596. <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.9px;">The Former Act stated that a person born after the 31st day of 1946 was a natural-born Canadian citizen if he/she was born in Canada or on a Canadian ship. Section 3(1)(d) preserves this provision of the Former Act by confirming that a person who was a citizen immediately before February 15, 1977 continued to be a Canadian citizen."</span><br />
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2599. For more insight, go to the above link and read the enlightening comments.<br />
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2604. The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan – The genocide of the Peoples of Europe</h1>
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2609. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mass immigration is a phenomenon, the causes of which are still cleverly concealed by the system, and the multicultural propaganda is trying to falsely portray it as inevitable. With this article we intend to prove once and for all, that this is not a spontaneous phenomenon. What they want to present as an inevitable outcome of modern life, is actually a plan conceived around a table and prepared for decades, to completely destroy the face of the continent.</span></div>
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2611. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pan-Europe</strong></div>
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2613. Few people know that one of the main initiators of the process of European integration, was also the man who designed the genocide plan of the Peoples of Europe. It is a dark person, whose existence is unknown to the masses, but the elite considers him as the founder of the European Union. His name is Richard Coudenhove Kalergi. His father was an Austrian diplomat named Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi (with connections to the Byzantine family of the Kallergis) and his mother the Japanese Mitsu Aoyama. Kalergi, thanks to his close contacts with all European aristocrats and politicians, due to the relationships of his nobleman-diplomat father, and by moving behind the scenes, away from the glare of publicity, he managed to attract the most important heads of state to his plan , making them supporters and collaborators for the “project of European integration”.</div>
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2615. In 1922 he founded the “Pan-European” movement in Vienna, which aimed to create a New World Order, based on a federation of nations led by the United States. European integration would be the first step in creating a world government. Among the first supporters, including Czech politicians Tomáš Masaryk and Edvard Beneš and the banker Max Warburg, who invested the first 60,000 marks. The Austrian Chancellor Ignaz Seipel and the next president of Austria, Karl Renner, took the responsibility for leading the “Pan-European” movement. Later, French politicians, such as Léon Bloum, Aristide Briand, Alcide De Gasperi, etc will offer their help.</div>
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2617. With the rise of Fascism in Europe, the project was abandoned and the “Pan-European” movement was forced to dissolve, but after the Second World War, Kalergi, thanks to frantic and tireless activity and the support of Winston Churchill, the Jewish Masonic Lodge B’nai B’rith and major newspapers like the New York Times, the plan manages to be accepted by the United States Government. The CIA later undertakes the completion of the project.</div>
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2619. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The essence of the Kalergi plan</strong></div>
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2621. In his book «Praktischer Idealismus», Kalergi indicates that the residents of the future “United States of Europe” will not be the People of the Old Continent, but a kind of sub-humans, products of miscegenation. He clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.</div>
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2623. Kalergi proclaims the abolition of the right of self-determination and then the elimination of nations with the use of ethnic separatist movements and mass migration. In order for Europe to be controlled by an elite, he wants to turn people into one homogeneous mixed breed of Blacks, Whites and Asians. Who is is this elite however? Kalergi is particularly illuminating on this:</div>
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2626. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The man of the future will be of mixed race. The races and classes of today will gradually disappear due to the elimination of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-negroid race of the future, similar in appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples and the diversity of individuals. Instead of destroying European Judaism, Europe, against her will, refined and educated this people, driving them to their future status as a leading nation through this artificial evolutionary process. It’s not surprising that the people that escaped from the Ghetto-Prison, became the spiritual nobility of Europe. Thus, the compassionate care given by Europe created a new breed of aristocrats. This happened when the European feudal aristocracy crashed because of the emancipation of the Jews [due to the actions taken by the French Revolution]</em></div>
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2629. Although no textbook mentions Kalergi, his ideas are the guiding principles of the European Union. The belief that the peoples of Europe should be mixed with Africans and Asians, to destroy our identity and create a single mestizo race, is the basis of all community policies that aim to protect minorities. Not for humanitarian reasons, but because of the directives issued by the ruthless Regime that machinates the greatest genocide in history. The Coudenhove-Kalergi European Prize is awarded every two years to Europeans who have excelled in promoting this criminal plan. Among those awarded with such a prize are Angela Merkel and Herman Van Rompuy.</div>
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2631. The incitement to genocide, is also the basis of the constant appeals of the United Nations, that demands we accept millions of immigrants to help with the low birth rates of the EU. According to a report published on January 2000 in «Population division» Review of the United Nations in New York, under the title “Immigration replacement: A solution to declining and aging population,” Europe will need by 2025 159,000,000 migrants.</div>
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2633. One could wonder how there can be such accuracy on the estimates of immigration, although it was not a premeditated plan. It is certain that the low birth rate could easily be reversed with appropriate measures to support families. It is just as clear that it is the contribution of foreign genes do not protect our genetic heritage, but that it enables their disappearance. The sole purpose of these measures is to completely distort our people, to turn them into a group of people without national, historical and cultural cohesion. In short, the policies of the Kalergi plan was and still is, the basis of official government policies aimed at genocide of the Peoples of Europe, through mass immigration. G. Brock Chisholm, former director of the World Health Organization (OMS), proves that he has learned the lesson of Kalergi well when he says: “What people in all places have to do is to limit of birthrates and promote mixed marriages (between different races), this aims to create a single race in a world which will be directed by a central authority. ”<br />
2634. Conclusions</div>
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2636. If we look around us, the Kalergi plan seems to be fully realized. We face Europe’s fusion with the Third World. The plague of interracial marriage produces each year thousands of young people of mixed race: “The children of Kalergi». Under the dual pressures of misinformation and humanitarian stupefaction, promoted by the MSM, the Europeans are being taught to renounce their origin, to renounce their national identity.</div>
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2638. The servants of globalization are trying to convince us that to deny our identity, is a progressive and humanitarian act, that “racism” is wrong, because they want us all to be blind consumers. It is necessary, now more than ever, to counter the lies of the System, to awaken the revolutionary spirit Europeans. Every one must see this truth, that European Integration amounts to genocide. We have no other option, the alternative is national suicide.</div>
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2640. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Translator’s note: Although the reasons due to which Kalergi made the choices he made are of no particular interest to us, we will try to answer a question that will surely our readers have already asked: Why a European aristocrat with Flemish, Polish, Greek-Byzantine roots and even with some samurai blood in his veins (from his mother) was such body plans and organ in the hands of dark forces? The reasons, in our opinion, are multiple, idiosyncratic, psychological and … women.</strong></em></div>
2641. <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
2642. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We therefore observe a personality with strong snobbish attitudes, arrogance, and, allow me the term, “degenerate elitism.” Also, the fact that his mother was Asian, perhaps created internal conflicts and frustrations, something that can happen to people with such temperament. But the most decisive factor must have been the “proper teenager”, which incidentally of course, was beside him, and became his first woman (at age 13): The Jewess Ida Roland, who would later become a famous actress.</strong></em></div>
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2646. The award of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Prize to President Van Rompuy</div>
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2648. On November 16th 2012, the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, was awarded the Coudenhove-Kalergi Prize, during a special conference in Vienna, to celebrate 90 years of pan-European movement. The prize is awarded every two years to leading personalities for their outstanding contribution to the process of European integration.</div>
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2650. A decisive factor that helped him win the prize was the balanced way in which President Van Rompuy executed his duties in the new position of President of the European Council, which was established by the Treaty of Lisbon. He handled this particularly sensitive leading and coordinating role with a spirit of determination and reconciliation, while emphasis was also given to his skilful arbitration on European affairs and unfailing commitment to European moral values.</div>
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2652. During his speech, Mr Van Rompuy described the unification of Europe as a peace project. This idea, which was also the objective of the work of Coudenhove-Kalergi, after 90 years is still important. The award bears the name of Count Richard Nicolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972), philosopher, diplomat, publisher and founder of the Pan-European Movement (1923). Coudenhove-Kalergi was the pioneer of European integration and popularized the idea of a federal Europe with his work.</div>
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2654. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the winners of the award, the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (2010) and the President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga (2006), are included.</strong></div>
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2656. This article is a translation of an Italian article, originally posted on <a href="http://golden-dawn-international-newsroom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-genocide-of.html" style="background: transparent; color: #3b6e40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease, border 0.2s ease, color 0.2s ease, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Identità</a>.</div>
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2660. Another version of this theory may be found here.<a href="http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/news-articles-31.shtml#Refugee" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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