By Lawrence Sellin ——Bio and Archives--May 20, 2011
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“Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign has started selling “Made in the USA” T-shirts showing images of both Obama and the long-form birth certificate. It is both clever and revealing. Obama often laughs off questions about his eligibility, but with obvious nervous laughter. Ask any police officer. It is a verbal clue of deception, a clear indicator of stress or fear. It is not, however, a comedy, but a tragedy. The United States is no longer what John Adams described as a government of laws and not of men. It has become the opposite. The government has violated its oath to defend the Constitution, interfered with the rule of law and scorned citizen attempts to petition for the redress of grievances. As Abraham Lincoln noted, the American people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. We are experiencing, in real-time, the destruction of the Constitution and a flagrant disregard for the rule of law by elected officials and government bureaucrats, who are deliberately hiding the truth from the American people. We must overthrow those responsible. For too long we have been silent and inattentive. The loyalty of the American people is to the country and the Constitution, not to shady officeholders or petty bureaucrats. The disdain demonstrated by the state-run media will also have its day of reckoning, as President Theodore Roosevelt stated:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”The American people must now send an unambiguous message to the political elite that the usurpation of power and the selective application of the law are not legitimized by acquiescence or repetition. As John Adams cautioned Americans:
“If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it… Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."We must not permit Obama to run for President in 2012 without a proper investigation of his background and the truth disclosed. If our government shirks its responsibility, then it is our patriotic duty as citizens to act. It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men - Samuel Adams.
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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a recently retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve. He is a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq.