Equal Protection Under The Law – used to be

Obama “change” gains another sinister perspective – Equal Protection Under the Law, of the 14th Amendment, is not good enough for Obama and AG Eric Holder (who regards America as “a nation of cowards.” The US Constitution, described by Obama as having “a vast blind spot,” takes another chop-job.

Wikipedia Equal Protection Clause

Background

The words inscribed above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court are: “Equal justice under law.”The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868, shortly after the Union victory in the American Civil War. After the Thirteenth Amendment, which was proposed by Congress and ratified by the states in 1865, had abolished slavery, many ex-Confederate states adopted Black Codes following the war.

These laws severely restricted the power of blacks to hold property and form legally enforceable contracts. They also created harsher criminal penalties for blacks than for whites.[3]

In response to the Black Codes, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which provided that all those born in the United States were citizens of the United States (this provision was meant to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford), and required that “citizens of every race and color … [have] full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens.”[4] Doubts about whether Congress could legitimately enact such a law under the then-existing Constitution led Congress to begin to draft and debate what would become the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The effort was led by the Radical Republicans of both houses of Congress, including John Bingham, Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens. The most important among these, however, was Bingham, a Congressman from Ohio, who drafted the language of the Equal Protection Clause.

The Southern states were opposed to the Civil Rights Act, but in 1865 Congress, exercising its power under Article I, section 5, clause 1 of the Constitution, to “be the Judge of the … Qualifications of its own Members,” had excluded Southerners from Congress, declaring that their states, having rebelled against the Union, could therefore not elect members to Congress. It was this fact—the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted by a “rump” Congress—that allowed the equal protection clause, which white Southerners almost uniformly hated, to be passed by Congress and proposed to the states. Its ratification by the former Confederate states was made a condition of their reacceptance into the Union.[5]

By its terms, the clause restrains only state governments. However, the Fifth Amendment’s due process guarantee, beginning with Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), has been interpreted as imposing the same restrictions on the federal government.

Equal Protection is not progressive enough for Holder. Gays are to be protected, ministers not.

HATE BILL/HOLDER PROTEST SWAMPS SENATE!
By Rev. Ted Pike
3 July 09

Last Tuesday, I discovered Sen. Patrick Leahy was stacking the hate bill Judiciary hearing with pro-hate bill witnesses. I sent out an emergency alert, and all day Wednesday the Senate was “inundated” with protest calls (See, Hate Bill Protest Overwhelms Senate! Yet Homosexuals Calling, Too!).

Yet by Friday, like a flash flood, most calls ceased. One Senate office said NPN’s call was the only one against the hate bill all day. But that was before our new 10-minute video, “Holder Admits: No Equality under Hate Bill” was released Monday. Since then, calling has powerfully resurged.

Last night I sent an especially explosive e-alert, “Duke University Pedophile Would Benefit from Hate Bill.” I described how Duke University administrator Frank Lombard, a homosexual, adopted a black child and sexually assaulted him. He then pimped him for sex with other homosexuals. This is appalling enough. Then I explained how Attorney General Eric Holder testified in Senate Judiciary last week that the federal hate bill would give preferential service and protection to all homosexuals, including this monster. While providing special status to Lombard, it would deprive a policeman who apprehended him of such rights.

This was too much for many hundreds of readers. They stormed Senate offices today with protest. Phone lines were again jammed with what staffers described as “tons of calls.” This is happening when Congress is supposed to be quieting down—on the Fourth of July recess!

Others Blogging: Moonbattery Some Animals Are Less Equal Than Others

WorldNetDaily Holder: ‘Gays’ protected, ministers not

VDARE BLOG Featured: Holder’s chilling blunders on Hate Crime Bill

Economic Oppression Under Obama Intensifies

Huge swaths of what before was the successful public sector free enterprise zone, which made America great, have been carved out by Obama for his statist empire.

Now, Obama will double your energy costs, to feed his insatiable statist ambitions.

And proud he is of doing it!

Obama wants your cash, to spread around; and will use any excuse to take it – including “poisonous” carbon dioxide and non-existent global warming:

H/T: Obama says energy rates to Skyrocket! SBVOR

President proclaims self impressive

Not only is Obama the God of media control, he has probably the most superior hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and raw speed of motion of any human or despot ever.

In his Harvarad Constitutional Law studies, Obama specialized in fly swatting. Doubt me? Check his records (see below).

Yes, Obama, that was SOOO Impressive. What is your next trick? Dismembering Fox News, quick as Chrysler? Free enterprise which made America great is just another fly to be swatted by Alinsky-trained Obama.

Impressive narcicissim indeed. Perhaps the most impressive case of narciscissim ever in a president or despot. The fatal parasite is you, Obama.

Obama is so generally impressive, that none of his records can be released in public. In lieu of personal records, Obama has arranged this impressive bare-handed fly-swatting video (from the now fly-infested White House – What has 132 rooms and flies?).

Obama is still the great unknown [Gateway Pundit]

1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — not available, locked down by faculty
4. Harvard College records — Not released, locked down by faculty
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — “not available”
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – - Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not
released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Record of baptism– Not released or “not available”
14. Illinois State Senate records–”not available”.
15. US Senate record — mediocre yet the most liberal.

We know his house has flies, though.

Do Not Mess With Spending of The Obama Youth Corps

Financial oversight of The Obama Youth will not be necessary, admonishes Obama.

Transgress here, and your head will roll.

Accountability and transparency is the lexicon of Obama voter relations, and does not apply in the case of Obama’s vital, high security military operations within the US borders.

Don't mess with wealth-spreading activity

Story: Millions wasted by Obama

If you investigate the Obama Youth Corps, the best you can hope for is to wind up like Gerald Walpin, without a job. On the bright side, that’s the same deal Obama bestows on America.

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Mayor Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.

The AP reported:

President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.

Obama’s move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star, into the misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group that Johnson headed…

The president didn’t offer any more explanation, but White House Counsel Gregory Craig, in a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, cited the U.S. attorney’s criticism of Walpin to an integrity committee for inspectors general.

“We are aware of the circumstances leading to that referral and of Mr. Walpin’s conduct throughout his tenure and can assure you that the president’s decision was carefully considered,” Craig wrote.

Grassley had written Obama a letter pointing to a law requiring that Congress be given the reasons an IG is fired. He cited a Senate report saying the requirement is designed to ensure that inspectors general are not removed for political reasons.

Grassley said Walpin had identified millions of dollars in AmeriCorps funds that were wasted or misspent and “it appears he has been doing a good job.”

The IG found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.

Bottom line, America:  Don’t mess with the Obama Youth; He is watching.

Obama Energy Plan Strikes Paydirt

In your bank account, Obama strikes paydirt with his progressive energy policy, designed to SKYROCKET the price of all energy.

Here is the outstanding Obama administration success story of steadily increasing gasoline prices:

Obama's Energy Plan Success

Saudi King Abdullah is highly gratified by the energy successes of his servile African. The stupid Bush adminstration pests were all over King Abdullah to keep oil prices low, and coexist with the Jews. Allahu Akhbar, no more of that.

Americans should pay more for your oil, highness.

Obama Nails Citigroup

Like GM and Chrysler, Citigroup’s fate is now sealed. Obama’s czars and central committee will now take control of 34% of Citi’s voting shares; virtually a controlling block. Obama will be determining the manager’s salaries next week.

Investor (capitalist) Citigroup ownership will be diluted in favor of Obama state control by 80 percent.

Obama kicked off the subprime debacle in 1994 by suing Citibank in Chicago to write affordable mortgages to home buyers who couldn’t afford them. Nothing down, no documentation, loans which weren’t paid back.

Obama is so friggn’ stupid, that when he finishes ruining an oppressive, greedy, capitalist, free market establishment, he next buys it.

Maybe he is using your children’s money.

Citigroup falls to the Obama state

[...]Citi on Wednesday said it was moving forward with a plan to convert a large chunk of its preferred shares into common equity. The long-awaited move is expected to give the United States government a 34 percent ownership stake in the troubled bank.

Citi’s plan calls for about $58 billion worth of preferred stock and trust preferred securities, or TruUps, held by the government and private investors to become Citi common stock. The conversion will bolster the bank’s tangible common equity, which investors and regulators consider an important measure of capital strength.

Originally, Citi had planned to begin the stock swap in April, converting $52.5 billion of preferred stock into common stock at a price of $3.25 a share. Since then, the government stress tests determined that the bank needed to raise an extra $5.5 billion.

Citi’s delay in converting the stock has frustrated some investors and analysts and prompted all kinds of chatter about what might be going on behind the scenes. In a press release earlier this week, Citi called speculation that the conversion was delayed by federal banking regulators “entirely incorrect.”

Citi’s conversion is expected to flood the market with 18 billion new Citi common shares, diluting existing investors by 80 percent.

Obama Expounds on Women’s Rights

Obama, student of history AND women’s rights, lectures us that women around the world should at last have every right to don the hijab as ordered.

Of course, this means none will be identifiable on their driver’s license; Obama is also a Harvard (anti) constitutional lawyer and the constitution does not require a photo ID on the driver’s license when last he checked (so the constitution is correct for now).

Obama also sanctimoniously holds forth on the dignity of human beings.

Here is a graphic video of water-boarding, a key concern of Obama, invented by Obama’s ideal civilization, Islam:

Burying women to the waste, and stoning them to death, is nothing to worry about either. Genital mutilation of femal children is fine with human rights lecturer Obama. Brutal flagellation meted out to a woman for the high crime of getting raped is not to be brought up.

Rape victim lashed; Atlas Shrugs

By highlighting the most superficial aspect of women’s rights in the Muslim world, Obama dramatically underplayed the oppression women face.

The oppression humans face. Obama considers capitalist white America the oppressors of the world. He is seriously confused.

The story is here: TD Blog Obama Skips Golden Chance . .

President Attributes Arches to Islam

Muslims invented the mustache, too

The architectural kind of arch. Notice how the word “architectural” is obviously like “Mohamet;” (see the 2nd link below) must be Islamic, calculates profound idiot and President Obama.

Or at least he calculates this insulting low-grade BS will pass journalistic scrutiny; and here he is Qurect. If Obama is a student of history, why is he so pathetically unfamiliar with the origin of the arch; and printing and religious tolerance and racial equality and and and.

As a student of history, I also know civilisation’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

ROFLMAO, Obama, you lying scum. Even you are not that dumb. Slavery (slavery of Black Africans) is alive and well where you BOW to the lords of Islam, oh you student of history. Muslims paved the way for Europe’s Enlightenment? You are still on crack.

Story here: “Student of History” Barack Obama Flunks Islam 101

And here: Sorry Barack, but there were no Muslims on the Mayflower

The Astute Bloggers: ISLAM AND THE USA HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON

Obama Admin Finance “Expert” Laughed Out of China

Tim Geithner, highly respected in the Obama administration for his superb tax-cheating prowess, was empathetically LAUGHED OUT OF PEKING UNIVERSITY by more discerning recipients of his economic and financial perverse advice.

The much-heralded infrastructure of Obama’s Red Chinese ideological mentors does not approve of Obama’s superstar economic and financial guru Geithner, as it turns out.

Obviously, Geithner will continue at the helm of Obama’s economic Titanic. Making the American economy the butt of Red Chinese student derision is a positive thing; like an American (albeit Arab American) president bowing to an Arab king. Crisis is only an opportunity, to Obama.

Obama your president is the butt of Chinese (his ideological mentors) student humor!

For good reason.

Say, are any of your assets denominated in dollars?

Just askin’

Reuters Geithner BEGS CHINESE to believe their dollar assets are safe; to no avail; Chinese laugh their butts off.

By Glenn Somerville

BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency.

A major goal of Geithner’s maiden visit to China as Treasury chief is to allay concerns that Washington’s bulging budget deficit and ultra-loose monetary policy will fan inflation, undermining both the dollar and U.S. bonds.

China is the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bonds. U.S. data shows that it held $768 billion in Treasuries as of March, but some analysts believe China’s total U.S. dollar-denominated investments could be twice as high.

“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.

His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.

But later in the day, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said it was important for the two nations to show the world they are working together through their joint economic dialogue.

“We must through our dialogue send a clear signal that China and the U.S. are engaged in practical cooperation to address the crisis,” Wang told Geithner, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website (www.mfa.gov.cn).

“This is important for boosting confidence and encouraging global financial stability and economic revival,” said Wang.

In his speech, Geithner renewed pledges that the Obama administration would cut its huge fiscal deficits and promised “very disciplined” future spending, possibly including reintroduction of pay-as-you-go budget rules instead of nonstop borrowing.

“We have the deepest and most liquid markets for risk-free assets in the world. We’re committed to bring our fiscal deficits down over time to a sustainable level.

Newly Mustachioed Obama Thumps Quran at Jews, Christians

Muslim today; Ayers groupie tomorrow

Shape-shifter Obama joins Islam for the moment, sports obvious facial hair – and spouts Quranic verse, queued by his equally adaptable teleprompter.

Who or what is your Obama today? Not what he was, or needed to be, yesterday. The Obama electorate, his constituency, has a short memory. Short memory is a characteristic of this constituency, like facial hair is a preference of a majority of Islamic males worldwide. Islamic women need not express an opinion on this or any other topic, however.

What is Obama talking about now? Nuclear autonomy for the radical government of Iran; and by simple logical extension, North Korea?

From The Obama File:  Latest Obamanations

Obama sought a “new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world on Thursday but offered no new initiative to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

As soon as the speech is analyzed, there will be postings here.

• Lots and lots of quotes from the Quran — no word on whether he quoted these lines from heart, or whether TOTUS fed him those lines.

• Yup, the US of A is a meanie, we overreacted to 9/11, and we should get rid of our nukes — Iran can keep theirs.

• The people of Iraq are better off today — but that their liberation was wrong.

• Obama pandered to the Muslim world by dissing Israel in a major way, he downplayed the role of terrorism, made Hamas look like a rowdy Boys Glee Club, called for the internationalization of Jerusalem, and used the Palestinian party line to describe the Israeli presence not only in the West Bank and Gaza but its VERY existence.

• The Telegraph’s Stephanie Gutmann writes that the worst folly of President Obama’s speech at Cairo University is in the basic premise, to “continue the outreach and the effort to change the conversation with the Muslim world.” This supposedly monolithic “Muslim World” is Swiss cheese. All over the world, as I write this, followers of Fatah are pitted against Hamas, Sunnis against Shi’ites, Janjaweed against Darfurian civilians. There was a terrible war between Iran and Iraq, civil wars in Lebanon and Yemen, military coups d’état in eight Arab countries. Obama should stop mincing around and drop the euphemisms. His problems, our problems, many millions of Muslim’s problems are with radical Islamists — the Al Qaedas, the Hizb al Tahirs, the Hamas, and Hezbollahs of the world.

• What didn’t he say? — Obama never mentioned the absence of human rights, women’s rights, and religious rights in the Muslim world.

Obama is the champion of Islam; bowing and scrapping and growing his mustache.  Human rights, women’s rights, and religious rights, are the fleeting vestiges of the failed system, in place before Obama saved us.