PROVOCATION

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his
Seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over
The country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never
Spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this
Letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People
Meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free
And pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and
after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest
home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor allowing me to keep alive
the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind,
Blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do but
You seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.  You fly around
The world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

*  “We’re no longer a Christian nation”

* “America is arrogant” – (Your wife even announced to the world, “America
Is mean-spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23
Generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other
Reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you but I don’t think you like America nor do I
See an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do for the obvious gifts this
Country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous
Thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”  Which ones
Did you mean?
1. Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and
Shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British?
2. Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man that
500,000 men died for in the Civil War?
3. I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers,
Brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in
WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us
Around because we stand for freedom.
4. I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than
Discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood
When they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.  Shape up and start
Acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get
Shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue .You were elected to
Lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt
Leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to
Conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow
Soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you
Did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in
Massachusetts who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the
Police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics
By calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to
Defend your country with your life but you’re the Commander-in-Chief
Now, son. Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for
40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re
Not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is
Not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge
Ever presented to any president.
You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated
Economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we
Are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don’t want to
Think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN?
“Law of Nations” Book One, Chapter 19, 212 (1758)
http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel_01.htm

“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.”

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer 

Undermining Our Values 

1. Calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act on the White House website. 
2. Calling on the White House website for the expansion of federal hate crimes to include homosexual behavior. 
3. Calling on the White House website for policies like the “Fairness Doctrine” that could silence conservative and Christian talk radio. 
4. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of human embryonic stem cell research. 
5. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of abortions overseas. 
6. Pledging $50 million to the United Nation’s Population Fund, which supports China’s Draconian one-child policy. 
7. Proposing new rules to gut conscience clause protections for pro-life doctors and other medical personnel who don’t want to be forced to perform abortions or other procedures that violate their values. 
8. Proposing increased funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. 
9. Calling on the White House website for “a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year,” (mandatory volunteerism). 
10. Inviting homosexual families to the White House Easter Egg Roll. 
11. Allowing his attorney general to call for the reinstatement of Clinton-era restrictions on the Second Amendment. 
12. Breaking his promise not to appoint lobbyists to his administration. He hired 17 in his first two weeks. 
13. Breaking his promise to sign legislation only after a five-day period of public comments. 
14. Asking that the monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised speech at a Catholic university in which Obama quotes the Sermon on the Mount. 

Undermining Our National Security

15. Apologizing for America in Europe and Latin America. 
16. Bowing before the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia. 
17. Pledging to base America’s foreign policy toward Iran on “mutual respect” in a video to the Iranian people and Iran’s Holocaust-denying dictator. 
18. Returning the bust of Winston Churchill given to George Bush after 9/11 by our British allies. 
19. Giving British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the leader of America’s most loyal ally, a box of DVDs that don’t work in British DVD players. 
20. Ordering Guantanamo Bay closed without any idea of where to send the terrorist suspects held there. 
21. Suggesting that some of those terrorists now at GITMO may kill again, but may also be released onto U.S. Soil and set up with welfare benefits. 
22. Caving to communist Cuba by relaxing travel restrictions and remittances for Cuban Americans before any Cuban political prisoners have been released. 
23. Shaking hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. 
24. Sitting silently though a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Nicaragua’s communist president, Daniel Ortega. 
25. Releasing And al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected of masterminding the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. 
26. Releasing classified CIA memos outlining our interrogation techniques. 
27. Telling our CIA agents not to be discouraged when he acknowledges their “mistakes.” 
28. Declaring a new openness to “truth commissions” and prosecuting intelligence officials involved in enhanced interrogations of terrorists. 
29. Proposing to send a $900 million foreign aid package to Palestinians in Gaza. 
30. Asking Congress to relax the law so that some of that money could go to the terrorist organization Hamas. 
31. Calling for the U.S. to eliminate its nuclear weapons. 
32. Telling Russian President Demitri Medvedev that America’s commitment to missile defense is negotiable. 
33. Dropping the term “enemy combatants” for GITMO detainees. 
34. Dropping the term “terrorism” for “man-made disaster.” 
35. Dropping the term “Global War on Terror” for “overseas contingency operations.” 
36. Giving his first interview as president to the Arab language network Al-Arabiya. 
37. Telling the Muslim world that his “job” was to communicate “that the Americans are not your enemy,” when it’s Muslim extremists who have declared war on us. 
38. Proposing that military veterans use private insurance for the cost of a service-related injury before they would be eligible for coverage through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Undermining Free Enterprise 

39. Signing the trillion-dollar plus so-called “stimulus” bill, which the Congressional Budget Office said would actually hurt long-term economic growth. 
40. Saying Caterpillar wouldn’t lay off workers if his trillion-dollar stimulus bill passed Congress. Obama signed the bill on Feb. 17th. On March 17th, Caterpillar laid off nearly 2,500 workers. 
41. Hosting a “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” one week after signing the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill. 
42. Railing against “outrageous recklessness and greed” of AIG bonuses that were legally protected in the so-called “stimulus” bill he signed four days after it passed, not five as he promised. 
43. Breaking his promise on earmark reform by signing the $410 billion “omnibus” spending bill with billions in earmarks. 
44. Proposing a $3.6 trillion budget that doubles the national debt in five years and triples it in ten years. 
45. Proposing a “carbon cap and trade” scheme that will raise energy taxes by hundreds of billions, even trillions, of dollars. 
46. Burning more than 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Iowa for Earth Day to promote “wind power.” 
47. Proposing $634 billion in higher taxes for socialized health care. 
48. Proposing to raise taxes on small business owners. 
49. Saying the White House is open to the idea of taxing employer-sponsored health care benefits as income. 
50. Signing a massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, calling it “a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.” 
51. Establishing the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research to give bureaucrats the power to ration health care and tell your doctors what care you can and cannot have. 
52. Signing the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which the Sierra Club praised specifically because it “will safeguard millions of acres … from oil and gas leasing.” 
53. Suggesting he has found $1.5 trillion in bogus “savings” by not spending money in Iraq that we were not planning to spend years from now. 
54. Ordering his Cabinet to “cut” $100 million in spending in 90 days, after proposing nearly $5 trillion in spending in his first 90 days. 
55. Proposing to limit tax deductions for home mortgage interest. 
56. Proposing to limit tax deductions for charitable donations. 
57. Refusing to allow banks to repay TARP money. 
58. Bailing out AMTRAK with a 10% increase in its taxpayer subsidies. 
59. Bailing out the United Auto Workers Union with billions of taxpayer dollars to GM and Chrysler. 
60. Bailing out the United Auto Workers by giving it a majority ownership stake in Chrysler. Yes, the union will own the company. 
61. Bailing out Big Labor by issuing an executive order mandating that infrastructure projects paid for with “stimulus” funds must use union labor, guaranteeing higher costs for the taxpayer. 
62. Bailing out Big Labor again by repealing regulations requiring the disclosure of how union dues are spent. So much for “transparency.” 
63. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then vowing that the government will back auto warranties. 
64. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then firing the CEO of General Motors. 
65. Allowing states to set their own fuel efficiency and emissions standards, making it harder for struggling auto makers to compete. 

Personnel Is Policy 

66. Nominating Timothy “The Turbo Tax Evader” Geithner as Treasury Secretary to oversee the IRS. 
67. Nominating as attorney general Eric Holder, who urged Bill Clinton to pardon tax evader Marc Rich and 8 FALN terrorists. 
68. Nominating David Ogden, a prominent attorney for the pornography industry, to be Deputy Attorney General. 
69. Nominating Tom Daschle, who owed more than $140,000 in back taxes, as Health and Human Services Secretary. 
70. Nominating Kathleen Sebelius, who is ardently pro-abortion and owed $8,000 in back taxes, to be HHS Secretary. 
71. Nominating Janet Napolitano, who said, “crossing the border is not a crime per se,” as Homeland Security Secretary. 
72. Nominating Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. Last September, Chu said, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” which at that time were roughly $8.00 a gallon. 
73. Nominating Ron Kirk, who owed more than $6,000 in back taxes, as Trade Representative. 
74. Nominating Bill Richardson, who was embroiled in an ethics scandal, as Secretary of Commerce. 
75. Nominating Nancy Killefer, who also owed back taxes, to be the government’s “Efficiency Czar.” 
76. Nominating Rosa Brooks, a leftwing acolyte of George Soros, as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. 
77. Nominating Harold Koh, an ardent supporter of using international law in the interpretation of our Constitution, to be the top legal advisor to the State Department. 
78. Nominating Carol Browner, who was a member of the Socialist International, to be “Climate and Energy Czar.” 
79. Nominating John Holdren, an environmental extremist and advocate of population control, as the White House Science Advisor. 
80. Nominating Dawn Johnsen, who is so pro-abortion she once compared pregnancy to slavery, to direct the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. 
81. Nominating Charles Freeman, an anti-Israel, pro-Arab apologist, to be head of the National Intelligence Council. 
82. Nominating Tony West, who represented American Taliban John Walker Lindh and exposed the Bush Administration’s terrorist surveillance program, to the Justice Department’s Civil Division. 
83. Nominating Annette Nazareth to be Deputy Treasury Secretary, who withdrew after a month-long probe into her taxes. 
84. Trying to nominate pro-abortion Catholics to be ambassador to the Vatican, a move even John Kerry opposed. (my note — the Pope refused to accept Caroline Kennedy as their ambassador.)
85. Appointing Ellen Moran of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List as his White House communications director. 
86. Appointing Melody Barnes, a board member of Emily’s List and Planned Parenthood, as his director of the Domestic Policy Council. 
87. Appointing Harry Knox of the Human Rights Campaign (the largest homosexual rights lobbying group) to the White House’s Faith Based Advisory Council. 
88. Appointing Adolfo Carrion as Director of White House Office of Urban Affairs, even though he is under investigation for kickbacks in a scandal nearly identical to one that cost GOP Senator Ted Stevens his election. 
89. Nominating David Hamilton as his first appointment to a federal appeals court. Judge Hamilton has issued a number of controversial rulings, including prohibiting the Indiana House of Representatives from opening sessions with prayers in the name of Jesus. 

Other Obama Outrages 

90. Telling congressional Republicans to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. 
91. Coordinating attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer out of the White House. 
92. Hosting weekly parties at the White House, serving up $100-a-pound Wagyu beef during what Obama called, “the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” 
93. Laughing it up on 60 Minutes as the country is mired in a recession. 
94. Allowing Air Force One to buzz the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan, creating panic in New York City. 
95. Disparaging Special Olympians on the Tonight Show. 
96. Allowing his Department of Homeland Security to issue a report accusing pro-life, smaller government conservatives and returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans of being “rightwing extremists.” 
97. Promising to push for comprehensive immigration reform, i.e., amnesty. 
98. Killing the school voucher program in the District of Columbia, while sending his two daughters to an elite private school, rather than D.C.’s public schools. 
99. Moving the Census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House. 
100. Relying too much on his teleprompter. 

April 29, 2009

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration.  Your conduct on
Your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an
adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America.  You are responsible to the citizens of the United States.  You are not responsible to the people of any other Country on earth.

I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world.  What do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about, if not the Consideration of the people of Europe?  Are you unaware history?  What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?  Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States Does not consider itself a Christian country?  Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage.  Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is a disgrace to all
Americans.  Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the King of Saudi Arabia.  You fail to show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the King of Saudi Arabia.  How dare you Mr. Obama!  How dare you!

You cannot find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you do not want to offend the Germans, but you make time to visit a Mosque in Turkey.  You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German People from themselves.  That is despicable!

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be apologizing to every citizen of this country for your lack of knowledge.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the
American automobile manufacturers, yet you do nothing about the real Thieves in this situation, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses.  What do you intend to do about them?  Anything?  I seriously doubt it.

To make matter worse, you call the Dow Jones Averages just a “tracking poll” while most retired workers in this country, whose life savings are invested there, Must swallow the loss of half of what they spent a lifetime saving for their final days! It was an obscene remark and one that clearly shows your lack of understanding for the economic situation that you are making worse every day.  Nobody has given them A few more dollars in their paychecks…what a joke!

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay Raises those lawmakers gave themselves?  I understand the average House Aide got a 17% bonus.  The average worke took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with their employer.  You have not said anything about that.  Who authorized that? I surely did not!

Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210
Million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that is $45 million more than the AIG bonuses.  In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million – not a bad take.   Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this Group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right Now.

I resent that you take my fellow citizens and me as brain-dead and not caring about what you do.  We are watching everything you are doing and we are being increasingly fed up with all of you.  I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities.  I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beloved country.

Sincerly,

Morris Clopton

HOPE & CHANGE vs. REALITY

By Morris L. Clopton 12 March 2009

President Obama and his regime have promised Hope and change.  Do you really want the change that President Obama promises and is providing. Are you so ineffective and inefficient in your life that you want, even demand that the government provide you a living?

Where is the pride in workmanship, desire to succeed, and initiative to do whatever it takes to succeed on our own?  Do you really want the government involved in every aspect of your daily life?  Why have we allowed our great nation to degenerate into a welfare state where even our president continually talks about what a sorry nation we are?  I personally do not want a president who is not proud of the country he serves and strives to make it better rather than tear it down.

Do you want a government controlled board making decisions as to which doctor you can go to, what medicine you can have, what surgery you can have, etc. rather than your primary doctor making these life sustaining decisions?  Have you become so dependent on the government that you willfully give up every right that your ancestors fought and died to give you? Have you become a pawn on the government’s chessboard of life with no control over your own actions?

Do you wonder why your government has not let the inefficient and ineffective companies fail rather take your tax dollars and those of generations to come to bail them out? The old adage “the cream will rise to the top” is true in business also. Think about this, when you owe someone or some entity you become a slave to that person or entity.  The government wants control over the banks, companies and ultimately the population in order to further their power base and retain their collective power.  Why do you think our ancestors rebelled against King George and his onerous taxation with such things as the Boston Tea Party?  Because they realized, as we should that the government has no right to tax us beyond a means to pay.

President Obama knows the correct way to rebuild the nation, decrease the national debt, pay for Social Security and provide the only fair tax for the population.  President Obama refuses to institute the “Fair Tax” even though he is aware of the myriad of benefits that such a tax would bring to the people and the nation.

I challenge you to inform yourself, know your rights as a citizen of the United States, search out the details of the Fair Tax, the details of the stimulus bills with all their earmarks and pork and tell your representative and senator what your thoughts and ideas are.

Cowards vs. Realities

By Morris Clopton, 3 March 2009

A depiction of America as a country of cowards by our distinguished Attorney General, Eric Holder leaves much to be desired.  Mr. Holder would have us believe that he and President Obama have a real grasp of America and the thoughts and opinions of the populous.  However I challenge both Mr. Holder and President Obama to read not rewrite the fantastic history of this great nation.

It is my belief that both Mr. Holder and President Obama choose to ignore facts not because they are not aware of those facts but because they do not fit the misrepresentations of the American people that they choose to present.  We are the greatest nation on the face of the earth because of our founding fathers and their belief in God and the principles set for in the bible.  Why doesn’t Mr. Holder and President Obama praise the efforts of this nation which have enabled black Americans to become, CEO’s, President’s, Generals, Inventors, Poets, Writers, Actors, Actresses, Teachers, Ministers, Pastors, and probably many other positions of leadership or personal gain that I am not aware of.

I am sixty-six years old and have served my country via the military and the defense industry for over forty years. It has been my experience that any person regardless of his color, creed, or sexual orientation has the opportunity through self discipline and hard work can and will succeed in their chosen fields of endeavors. If they have no self discipline and live in a world of dependency on the government there is no self initiative to succeed rather just sit on their posterior with their hand out to Uncle Sam or local government for their sustenance.

Why does the president of the greatest nation in the world seek to destroy everything our forefathers have struggled and died for with his racial prejudices?  I challenge the reader of this article to look beyond the charisma and skin color of President Obama and delve into what he is really saying.  Ask yourself why you are called raciest if you challenge any black American about any policy of procedure that is destroying the marketplace in America.  The liberal democrats would have us accept that more taxation is better when in fact it is destroying our workforce, with major companies moving offshore because they can’t continue to operate in a socialist, tax ridden economy.  Capitalism has built America, an America the democrats want to destroy through more government control, more taxes, and more dependence on the government when in reality all we want is for government to get out of our lives and allow us to succeed with out intelligence and hard work.

To quote Stephen Covey “you and you alone are responsible for how you respond to any stimulus.”  Do not be lead astray by false promises and spending of your descendents future by your government.  Become informed, know what is going on and let your representative and senators know your thoughts on their actions.