Rise of the State - Trading Constitutional Republic for Big Brother (Chuck Baldwin, 2003)R BIG BROTHER

Trading Constitutional Republic for Big Brother

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin, June 2, 2003, NewsWithViews.com

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     The principle of limited federal authority is the bedrock principle upon which our government was created. America's founders envisioned a nation of strong, independent but united states, and a very limited and myopic central system.
     However, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, the vision of the Founding Fathers was destroyed. The principle of limited federal authority was cast aside and a nation preoccupied with unlimited federal power and authority took its place.
     As a result, we have lived under a European-style federal system for nearly a century and a half. America today has become the very kind of country that our forebears fought to break free from.
     Conservatives would have us believe that President Bush and the Republican Party are working to reverse the rush toward bigger and bigger government. They aren't. In fact, Bush and Company are putting the pedal to the metal when it comes to promoting a bigger-than-ever federal system. In fact, Bush has used the events of 9/11 to strip Americans of more liberties than any President during the 20th Century, including Bill Clinton or Franklin Roosevelt.
     For example, Bush has selectively suspended the right of habeas corpus, which means the right to know the charges one is being held under. Through his attorney general, Bush has also authorized using federal agencies to conduct searches and seizures without requiring them to first obtain proper warrants. This is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional!
     Furthermore, the Bush government now even has the power to investigate American citizens with absolutely no probable cause. Under Bush's policies, a citizen could even have his or her citizenship revoked if they were found to violate these newly enacted and loosely defined anti-terrorism laws.
     Obviously, you will not find these kinds of policies in the U.S. Constitution. They are right out of Orwell's "1984" and Hitler's Third Reich. But it doesn't stop there.
     Now, President Bush wants to give the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency the authority to demand personal and financial records of individual citizens. Beyond that, sources are reporting that private pressure groups are currently being organized to collect taxes for the IRS. They will be paid by commission, of course.
     Furthermore, bankers are already being told that beginning this fall all new customers will be subjected to a required background check which will be forwarded to the federal government. That's right! Your banker is soon to be a private snoop for the federal government.
     In addition, have you noticed all the check-points going up everywhere? One can hardly travel more than a few miles without finding himself in a long line where various and sundry police agencies probe and even search his or her person and property. If you look closely, you will notice that federal agents are included in practically every one of these random check-points. The old Communist command, "Show me your papers," has become a routine American demand.
     This administration is quickly turning what was once a constitutional republic into a federal police state. But what is worse is that the architect of this tyranny, President George W. Bush, seems to enjoy the support of the vast majority of Christian conservatives.
     It is extremely difficult to imagine how willingly we forfeited the fundamental principle of limited government upon the altar of pseudo-conservatism and disarming Christian rhetoric.      Yet, that is exactly what we seem to have done.
© 2003 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved

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o'teleprompter - Put the Constitution on it! 'toon

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2012 - Ron Paul Releases First TV Ad — And It’s Epic (Posted on 'The Blaze' Th.14Jul11 by Jonathon M. Seidl)

From: kd Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Subject:  Ron Paul...EPIC

This may be the guy, wish he had some chance of winning....KD

article source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ron-paul-releases-first-tv-ad-and-its-epic/

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
     Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is using his first campaign television ad to promote his opposition to a compromise on raising the federal debt ceiling.
     In the ad, the Texas congressman criticizes both Republicans and Democrats for striking deals in the past, and notes that he always has voted against raising the federal limit on borrowing.
video source: http://youtu.be/UUNIeOB0whI

     It‘s an important issue to conservatives who make up the Republican Party’s base.  The ad is set to air in early primary voting states.  Paul is running for the Republican nomination for a second time.  He also ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988.  Reducing the federal budget and the national debt have always been his key issues.
     Uploaded to Youtube by ronpaul on Jul 13, 2011

     Presidential Candidate Ron Paul's first television ad of the 2012 campaign highlights his role as the national leader of the strong opposition movement against raising the country's debt ceiling.
     Ron Paul is the only national leader with the experience, record, and credibility to stand up to the debt limit scheme, cut the spending now, and save our dollar.
     Find out more about Ron Paul at www.RonPaul2012.com and learn how you can help him win the Republican nomination for President and Restore America Now.

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o'who? - "Which passport did he use?" & "A Man Without a Past" & 'Forged Birth Certificate?'

http://youtu.be/qVFdgY8BIvU Allen West: Obama's Passport Travel Records to Pakistan

http://youtu.be/HJqLe0qBjHs Uploaded by BirtherReportDotCom on Jun 14, 2011 50-year typographer and document expert Paul Irey explains in detail his computer analysis on Obama's fraudulent birth certificate posted on the White House server.  The interview aired on TruNews radio 6/14/2011. • http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/06/50-year-typographer-and-document-expert.html • http://www.ObamaReleaseYourRecords.com - • http://www.BirtherReport.com

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article sources: 
• http://www.westernjournalism.com/adobe-engineer-doubts-obama-birth-certificate/
• http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=314717
Adobe engineer doubts Obama birth certificate
Posted on Western Journalism by NewsEditor on June 24, 2011, article By Jerome R. Corsi © 2011 WND

CERTIFIGATE

     Gary Poyssick, an expert on Adobe Systems Inc. software, continues to maintain there is something "fishy" about the Obama long-form birth certificate released by the White House.
     "What the White House released is not a simple scan," Poyssick told WND. "Something digital came between the paper and the glass."
     Poyssick had a working relationship with the San Jose-based tech company when it counted no more than 14 employees, and he continues to advise and write on Adobe software products
     Poyssick, who today devotes his energies to running The Online Fisherman in Tampa, Fla., has written more than 50 titles about Adobe software, the printing industry, coding and programming, website development and workflow management.
     His initial reaction was to declare the birth certificate an outright forgery.
     "I could have done a much better replica myself, if the president had asked," Poyssick told The Political Sandbox blog when the birth certificate first appeared and he opened the document in Adobe Illustrator. "The guy that did this is a bimbo in that he forgot to 'flatten' his works to soften the background edges so the fake letters blended, softly into the green paper.
     Observing that the birth certificate document had multiple layers when opened in Adobe Illustrator, Poyssick was amazed the White House had released an electronic PDF file that had not been "flattened" so as to remove all evidence that it had been modified.
     If the image had been scanned from the original, as the White House claimed, then what Poyssick expected to see was a "bitmap" image that is essentially a one-dimensional grid, without multiple layers.
     Now, Poyssick acknowledges that the layers and other artifacts he initially observed, such as "clipping masks," could have been produced if Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, software had been turned on when the document was scanned.
     Poyssick describes "clipping masks" by the analogy of an image in which a girl with long hair stands in the breeze in front of a gas station and junky cars.
     "The image – and the woman – are beautiful, except for the Ford Falcon in the background," he explains. "To isolate and 'silhouette' the hair, and place her on the beaches of Jamaica, one would use 'clipping masks.'"
     In his second post yesterday, Poyssick agreed that turning on OCR software could generate the layers and clipping masks he first observed.
     Still, he asks, why would anybody turn on OCR software?
     OCR software is designed to read printed words into word processing software so the text can be manipulated.
     "A file resulting from OCR software intercepting the original 'on the glass' is not the same as a 'regular everyday scan," Poyssick wrote yesterday. "Anyone wanting to investigate the document – be they journalists or simply curious to see the truth – would need a 'flat' scan without layers, and certainly without clipping masks."
     He told WND that layers and clipping masks were not his only problem with the Obama birth certificate document.
     What about the green pattered security paper on which the document was printed?
     "Scanners have white plastic behind the scanned document, not patterns identical to 1961 ledger paper," he wrote. "You would have had to put an identical piece of paper behind the original Long Form to create such a background pattern."
     The problem is that the alignment to match the lines perfectly, as seen in the long-form birth certificate supplied by the White House, would be nearly impossible to achieve by hand.
     "The resolution of the surrounding pattern is also – on close examination – different than the ledger paper on the Long Form," he noted.
     Then there is the issue of bitmap vs. letterpress images in the characters seen on the document.
     "Some of the letters are very soft, while others are very jagged," he observed. "All the characters on the page should look the same, and would if the scan were done using normal accepted workflows."
     Poyssick noted that letterpress letters are created by a metal arm physically striking the surface of the paper, resulting in the printed characters having a soft look.
     "The fact that there are some 'hard edged' characters on the document and some soft letters on the document is evidence that some of the letters were processed differently," he wrote. "There is no telling whether it was done by software or by human intervention."
     Finally, Poyssick singled out the issue of kerning, a process in which the horizontal space between certain letters is altered to make reading easier.
     "Old typewriters provided exactly the same horizontal space for each letter of the alphabet," he argued. "An example is the capital letter 'T' and its common companion, the lower-case 'o.'"
Manual typewriters were unable to "tuck" the lower-case "o" underneath the "cap" of the letter "T."
     But word processing programs, in contrast, that can be programmed to examine subsequent letters can adjust the horizontal space between letters in a process known as "kerning."
     "In conclusion, I cannot say the document is a forgery or that conditions could not have generated clipping masks in the PDF file I originally saw from the White House," he summed up. "Equally important, however, nobody can say it was an original."
     Poyssick insisted that document authentication could only be done from a scan of the original long-form birth certificate unaltered by the OCR process, together with the layers and clipping masks the process can generate.
     The problem is that the original document has never been shown to the public, as it remains hidden away in the vault of the Hawaii Department of Health in Honolulu.
     But even though Poyssick is trying to be even-handed in his evaluation, his concerns are evident.
     "The reality is that clipping masks are commonly used not to scan a document for preview or printing, but to merge or compose one or more images," he says in the final analysis. "It is – in my opinion and my opinion only – a document that was, in fact, merged from several originals."
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Read more: Adobe expert doubts Obama birth certificate http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=314717#ixzz1QK2Moq7O

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