Back to Basics

In Colonial America it was common for British soldiers, tax collectors and other representatives of the Crown to obtain a writ of assistance giving them the authority to enter any home, business or ship at any time of the day or night in search of contraband goods or to interrogate the residents and owners over payment of taxes or for most any other reason.

Writs of assistance were very vague search warrants and it was a simple procedure to obtain them. They could be had for any reason or no reason from the Colonial governor or from judges — all of whom held their positions at the whim of the King of England.

In 1761 James Otis Jr., the Advocate General of Massachusetts — whose job it was to defend the issuance of the writs in court — resigned his position and took the side of 63 Boston merchants in a court battle against the writs. He represented the merchants for free, and though he lost the case in a court stacked against him, he earned the title of patriot.

It was his five-hour speech in court that served “as the spark in which originated the American Revolution,” according to John Adams, who was sitting in the courtroom at the time.

“The child of independence was then and there born, every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance,” Adams said.

The issue was such an important one to the Colonists that it was mentioned as one of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence: “He (the king)… sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Tick, tick, tick.

I noted in an earlier post that President Obama’s economic address in the Rose Garden had been scheduled for 12:30pm Eastern. It is now past 1:00pm Eastern. Wonder what kind of tension there must have been on his economic team phone conference this morning?

Reader @nicklaus on Twitter quips that the recovery is “delayed,” so it’s entirely fitting that the laggard president’s address today is late, too.

Meanwhile, in case you missed, here are the depressing details of the next massive expansion of government aid to home borrowers:

The Obama administration plans to set up an emergency loan program for the unemployed and a government mortgage refinancing effort in the next few weeks to help homeowners after home sales dropped in July, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said.

“The July numbers were worse than we expected, worse than the general market expected, and we are concerned,” Donovan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program yesterday. “That’s why we are taking additional steps to move forward.”

The administration will begin a Federal Housing Authority refinancing effort to help borrowers who are struggling to pay their mortgages, and will start an emergency homeowners’ loan program for unemployed borrowers so they can stay in their homes, Donovan said.

Responsible renters, there’s nothing for you.

Flashback 2009: Washington’s recipe for more mortgage defaults

The days of race sensitivity should end.  No longer should a person be afraid to speak his or her mind over a racially tinged matter.  This has been the rule that blacks follow; saying whatever they wish about whites, whenever they please.

It is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways.  If a black can threaten to kill white babies, and do it with impunity, then there is no reason why whites should not have the same privilege to threaten black babies without recourse.  Of course, most blacks and whites would never do such a thing as they pride themselves in being sane and rational human beings.  I can’t say the same about Black Panthers in particular.  They are interested only in black power.

They are like the mouse that taunts and screeches at the elephant.  Because the elephant is timid, it looks and acts afraid when just lifting one hoof and slamming it down on the mouse would end the confrontation.

Oh, of course, there are cases where the mighty Black Power is evident; particularly at the voting polls against very senior white citizens that could get blown down by a strong wind.  The Black Panthers have met their prey and they strut about shouting Black Panther epithets and scary orders. But even there they prefer to be numerically superior for added protection.

The new “hate speech” law that our racist liberal Democrats rammed through Congress and our racist liberal president signed very willingly again seems to work only in one direction: against the whites, while it protects the blacks.  But they had better learn that they are less than 20 percent of our population while whites are around 70 percent.

Whites are known and praised for their tolerance and acceptance of imaginary or supposed grievances from blacks; but the blacks had better not push too hard with this new phony tool of “hate speech” law because tolerances can be dimmed by ill-conceived threats.

For so long now, blacks have taken for granted, total immunity for any and all transgressions; in particular, the black liberal Democrat politicians. Look at the current cases involving Representatives Charley Rangel and Maxine Waters; it’s disgraceful the way they feel that their sins and omissions of wrong-doing should just be swept under the rug and forgotten.

“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.” – Barack Hussein Obama, spoken at a White House dinner to celebrate the beginning of Ramadan!

Well, of course, he does. Why wouldn’t someone who thinks the sound of the call to evening prayers from a nearby minaret is one of the sweetest sounds in the world? Why wouldn’t someone who spent his formative years, age six to twelve, in Indonesia, the step-son of a Muslim father and the son of a Muslim father who had deserted his wife and child.

But, I hear you say, he spent twenty years in a Christian church in Chicago. Yes, with a preacher who said of 9/11 that “the chickens had come home to roost”; a preacher who embraced Black Liberation theology and maintained close friendships with Nation of Islam leaders in Chicago.

“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.”

What a pompous hypocrite. He’s been president since January 20, 2009 and has yet to have selected a church to attend in Washington, D.C., like every other president before him has done, but he makes sure to celebrate Ramadan.

That’s what you get when you elect a man named Barack Hussein Obama about whom you know nothing other than the fawning, worshipful puke served up by the liberal media all through the campaign and for most of his first year and a half in office.

Too late! The majority of voters selected a complete stranger; a man with virtually no available paper trail, including the one item most people can produce on request, a legitimate birth certificate.

From the USO Dallas/Ft. Worth Facebook page:

This morning at DFW Airport, George and Laura Bush greeted 150 (very surprised) troops as they arrived home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their expressions were so priceless!

Some pictures:

A few more photos (larger size) are here.

Welcome home to our troops and thanks to George and Laura Bush for greeting them!

Boom. Boom. Boom.

Can you hear it?

It’s the drumbeat for war. And it’s beating louder by the day.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

Eleven United States and one Israeli warships pass through the Suez Canal.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

A Western team of Christian medical volunteers that provided eye care to poor villagers in remote northeast Afghanistan was lined up, stripped, and shot to death by the Taliban.

Monsters. Evil monsters.

Via the Christian Science Monitor:

The execution-style killings of 10 people working for a Christian medical team in a remote region of northern Afghanistan fit into Taliban insurgents’ stated shift in tactics: Target Western civilians, especially Christians, as “foreign invaders.”

The Taliban took credit for one of the deadliest attacks yet on aid workers in Afghanistan, saying the Christian charity workers were proselytizing to poor villagers – a charge that the International Assistance Mission, which dispatched the team, denies.

The bodies of six Americans, a Briton, a German, and two Afghan interpreters were discovered Friday in a forested part of Badakhshan Province in remote northern Afghanistan – until now considered a relatively peaceful region known mostly to adventure travelers. The only person in the party not killed was a local translator who offered proof he was a Muslim by quoting the Koran, according to the Associated Press.

The attack represents the largest single toll of American civilian deaths in Afghanistan since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven members of a CIA team. It also points to the operational viability of Taliban insurgents’ stated intent to target foreign aid workers as combatants.

Via BBC, the Taliban spokesman crowed: “They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all.”

Via the NYT, more on the murder victims, including the six American doctors:

Tom Little raised three daughters with his wife in Afghanistan, avoided kidnappings during the Russian occupation, hid in his basement for months during the Taliban rule in the 1990s, survived rocket attacks and endured arrests for one reason, friends and family members said: to provide eye care for indigent Afghans.

It is almost unfathomable to me that television’s talking heads and pundits sill continue to scratch their respective noggins and ask why The Obama is talking — again — about raising taxes via letting President Bush’s tax cuts (for everyone I would add) expire. ‘To end them,’ the pundits offer, ‘will amount to the largest tax increase in US history — during the worst recession since the Great Depression.’ These same talkers refuse to accept the Occam’s Razor explanation — the principle that states the simplest (most obvious) explanation is usually the correct one. In this case, Occam’s Razor tells us that Obama has no intention of allowing America to recover. Instead, he is actively stealing all of the liberties, religious freedoms and wealth from We-the-People and placing it into his, his masters’ and minions’ pockets.

Note: Obama is overthrowing the US government and indefatigably working to destroy the United States of America — by doing away with the middle class and creating an impoverished slave (aka serf) class; a class of people who — if they want to eat and have housing — will be forced to worship The Obama and his personal idols.

If not the first, I was one of the first to name Obama and his dictator-command government as Marxist. It is and has been proven to be so, over and over again. Obama is now issuing Executive Orders on items that should Constitutionally be the purview of Congress. Dr. Laurie Roth broke the story that Obama is planning to combine and force through a gay marriage and illegals’ amnesty bill. And, The Obama and his bought-and-paid-for DOJ is now not only suing the State of Arizona for enforcing laws already on the books — over AZ SB 1070 a watered-down version of federal law — in order to protect US citizens (which The Obama refuses to do), but is also planning to bring the full force of the US government down on US Sheriffs who attempt to implement the law.

Note: Since Obama usurped the office of President of the United States, he has quickly, steadily and forcefully made up laws (aka Executive fiats) that go against the American people but, both support and embolden the enemies of the USA.

Obama & Co is stealing us blind and appears to be transferring billions of dollars to others outside of the USA. In other words, The Obama is moving the wealth of the USA to its enemies. This is Obama’s redistribution of wealth. Obama is illegally transferring money to his home country to support infanticide in Kenya. Daily, Obama is now mocking God, the American people and anyone who tries to stop him. A dictator is defined as “a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government.” Obama is a dictator. And this dictator is not — I repeat NOT — a US citizen. He is holding the office of POTUS illegally. Even The Obama’s wife Michelle says her husband’s home country is Kenya. Are there any even remotely intelligent Congress people and judges left who have the courage to challenge this horror that is intentionally destroying OUR country? Is the fear of truth in Washington D.C. so all-pervasive now that our legislators and jurists either run from or attempt to suppress it? Are any of our elected officials still blessed with love of God and country? Today, it does not appear so.

The only entities — other than We-the-People as a whole — who have the authority to bring this government against the people down are the United States. Amendment 10 to the US Constitution asserts “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” If we are to survive as a nation and correct the “long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism.” The document in which the prior quotation appears is the US Declaration of Independence and it goes on to say “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

Other than a second fighting American Revolution, the States now firmly appear to be our best hope. If your State is not a member, you can work toward its joining The 10th Amendment Nullification Movement. Obama is destroying America intentionally. If we need to nullify the US government, so be it. It’s time to fight back — and hard.