by
Larry Klayman
12th January, 2013
Since the fraudulent re-election of Barack Hussein Obama as president
– the “mullah in chief” not eligible to be president as he is not a
natural born citizen – he has thrown his weight around as if he were our
king.
First, virtually unopposed by a functionally dead Republican
opposition, Obama rammed down the people’s throats considerable income
tax increases to modest and top income earners and small businesses,
increased the capital gains and estate taxes and eliminated so called
loopholes in the tax code – all to socialize the American economy by
having these individuals and businesses “pay their fair share” as
punishment for their success in a heretofore capitalist system. Now,
like drunken sailors, Obama and his socialist flunkies on Capitol Hill,
notably House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, promise that more tax hikes are on the way to further their
march toward dismantling our free-market freedoms and the body politic
of the nation.
Then, our first Muslim president
cleverly nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to be the next
secretary of defense, a man who while senator had a “proven” track
record as not only an anti-Semite and hater of Jews and Israel, but also
advocated rolling over to the neo-Nazi mullahs in Iran. Hagel
repeatedly not only mocked and disparaged the so-called “Jewish lobby”
that defends Israel in Washington, D.C., but also advocated not imposing
sanctions, however worthless in any event, on Tehran for its onward and
unchecked march to acquiring atomic weapons, which the Islamic regime’s
leaders have said they will use to wage a holocaust against the Jewish
state and its people. Hagel is a truly repugnant man who fits in well
with Obama’s own not too latent anti-Semitism and antipathy toward Jews
and true Christians in general. Incredibly, even the so-called Jewish
lobby – headed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
whose current president, Lee Rosenberg, is a sleazy “Chicago pol” and,
not surprisingly, a friend of Obama – has rolled over to Hagel, and
AIPAC has been rendered impotent in the upcoming confirmation hearing.
Finally, in the words of former Obama chief of staff and current
Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, not letting any good tragedy go to waste,
our fraudulent president – by his own threats and through Vice President
Joe Biden – has promised to his leftist supporters to act unilaterally
and issue executive orders to extinguish or curb the right to bear arms
guaranteed to all Americans by our Founding Fathers under the Second
Amendment to the Constitution. The pretextual “trigger” for this: the
recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where
young children were murdered by a mentally sick adolescent who somehow
obtained control of his similarly murdered mother’s firearms.
To lay the foundation for this unilateral act of defiance, abuse and
usurpation of our rights, immediately after the Sandy Hook tragedy Obama
announced and designated a so-called Gun Control Task Force, to be
headed by “his pliant imbecile,” Joe Biden. Since then, this task force,
which constitutes an advisory committee under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (“FACA”) (Pub. L. 92-463, 6 Oct. 1972), has met with
special interests on both sides of the gun-control issue. The problem
is, however, that these meetings are illegal, since they have not been
announced with the 15 days notice required by the FACA law, and have
excluded ordinary citizens. Instead the meetings are limited to
special-interest lobbyists who are adept at lining the pockets of the
Washington, D.C., political and legal establishment.
On Jan. 7, 2013, I filed a FACA request with the Office of the
President demanding access to these meetings on behalf of not just
myself as chairman and general counsel of Freedom Watch,
but also all Americans who desire to participate. Predictably, I have
not heard back from either Obama or his surrogates, so in the next few
days we will be forced to file a lawsuit over this blatant violation of
the rule of law. (Years ago, during the George W. Bush administration,
when Vice President Cheney refused to open up his meeting with lobbyists
on energy policy, I filed a lawsuit that made it all the way to the
Supreme Court.) The people simply have a right under FACA and our
Constitution to be privy to closed-door meetings with special interests
who, without oversight, will pervert our legal rights to serve their own
interests.
But quite apart from FACA and open government – to use the term
government loosely these days, since in practice we no longer have a
republic but a despotic monarchy – Obama’s threats to use executive
orders to remove or curtail our right to bear arms constitutes the final
straw. It is in effect a declaration of war against the American people
and our way of life.
For our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us the right to bear arms
primarily to protect us, should the need ever arise, against a
tyrannical government. Their primary motive was not to allow us to
defend ourselves against random criminals and madmen like Adam Lanza,
however useful guns would have been and are in this regard.
So when Obama and Biden effectively threatened to seize our guns, or
even just curtail our rights to gun ownership, they are making the same
mistake King George III made when he sent his armies to seize and
destroy the weapons caches of the colonies, which they had amassed to
defend themselves against a British crown that had also raised their
taxes without representation in parliament and committed other acts of
tyranny. This gun grab by the king was the final straw before
revolution, triggering the Declaration of Independence and subsequent
war.
The irony today, as it was in 1776, is that that these
miscalculations by our rulers will in the end serve to be their own
undoing and result in our liberation from their evil clutches. Let us
pray that Obama and Biden and the likes of Pelosi and Reid are so stupid
as to carry through with their threats, so that the masses will finally
be provoked to rise up as they did in colonial times. It is time that
their political ilk be legally removed from our nation’s capital – along
with their Republican accomplices like Chuck Hagel – before the nation
is totally transformed and destroyed.
These arrogant, malevolent, political tyrants should thus take heed
and beware of the words of our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of
Independence, that “In every stage of these Oppressions We have
Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions
have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is
thus marked by every act that may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be ruler
of a free people.”