THE
DEAFENING SILENCE THAT SIGNALS OUR DEMISE
Get ready for the last straw.
First, though, I’d like to suggest that anyone
reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the
back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a
“forbidden” column.
Yup, I am about to say something about the
Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one
rich and urgent topic that doesn’t see the light of day in certain so-called
news outlets – and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated
columns fail to appear when covering news of the White House press conference
where the president’s long-form birth certificate was unveiled, news of
courtroom proceedings in various states on Obama’s ballot eligibility and news
of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigators presenting evidence that the online Obama
birth certificate is a forgery.
So be it. This was, as noted, the last straw.
I refer to something radio host Sean Hannity
said on his show this week. He was speaking in rebuttal to a Democrat arguing
that racism was a problem among conservatives. As evidence, the Democrat
brought up the “birther issue” – the label used to encapsulate any topic
related to Obama’s identity documents and constitutional eligibility.
Erroneously, it is a label that narrowly connotes, and derisively so, only the
belief that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
In fact, the whereabouts of Obama’s nativity
is in no way the main bone of “birther” contention, despite the blinkered focus
on it by the enforcers of silence. Of far greater concern to me, for starters,
is the purportedly original documentation President Obama belatedly provided
the American people to attest to his identity.
I refer to the electronic image of a long-form
1961 Hawaiian birth certificate posted at the White House website. After
studying various evidence and demonstrations (which I’ve written about in
previous “forbidden” columns), I’ve concluded that this online image is in all
probability a forgery.
So has Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse out in
Maricopa County, Ariz. So, too, has the Israel Science and Technology website,
a national database and directory of science- and technology-related sites in
Israel established by Benjamin Netanyahu’s former science adviser, molecular
biologist Israel Hanukoglu, Ph.D.
If these investigations are correct, we are
looking at the greatest fraud in modern history as put over by the flimflam
administration and enabled by armies of accessories practically everywhere else.
There is a second issue to consider that also
has nothing to do with what is commonly meant by the “birther” issue. Having
weighed the arguments, it seems to me that by virtue of having a British
subject for a father, Barack Obama Jr. is constitutionally ineligible to be
president of the United States, no matter where he was born.
With a British father, Obama cannot meet the
constitutional requirement of having been “natural born,” which is a different
and more restrictive category than “native born.” Similarly ineligible, I would
add, are Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and, alas, Ted Cruz of Texas,
both of whom have parents who were not citizens when they were born.
So, getting back to the Obama case, tell me
where the “racism” is in these concerns. Where is it? Identity theft per se is
hardly a pathology of black America. Meanwhile, British paternity, even if it
does, in Obama’s case, come via Africa, is the very disqualifier the founders
had in mind on crafting the “natural born” criterion more than two centuries
ago to guard against a president with divided loyalties. Where is the racism in
trying to address these weighty matters of the Constitution, law and state?
Nowhere. “Racism” is simply a buzzword to
further stymie the already strangled “birther” issue.
So how did Hannity reply to the argument that
conservatives were “racist” due to broaching the “birther” argument?
He challenged his interlocutor: “Name three prominent
conservatives who were advancing the birther issue.”
With this reply, Hannity accepted the charge
that the whole subject is “racist,” and the argument that this “racist” subject
is also baseless. It was the last straw.
Which means what exactly? Nothing. Hannity is
right. Aside from Alan Keyes, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and a
Republican candidate for the Senate and the presidency, no prominent Republican
– from John McCain to Mitt Romney to John Boehner to Ron Paul – and no
prominent conservative, from William Bennett to Sarah Palin to Rudy Giuliani,
ever faced or raised the issue.
Similarly, no think tank, no committee in
Congress, no judicial body, no civic group and no mainstream media organization
has advanced any responsible inquiry into these troubling questions. And forget
about the Electoral College.
We’re supposed to pretend the questions don’t
exist, that the dodgy doc floating on the White House website is the real deal
– and I haven’t even mentioned other discrepancies in the Obama narrative.
Silence, the conventional wisdom tells us, combats racism.
What chance does any free society in such deep
denial have to continue? Not much. How tragic and frightening to realize that
this same denial is evidence that our attachment to freedom and the
Constitution vanished long ago.
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