Hey Readers!

Back on September 30th, 2011 I was outraged when I found out that President Obama ordered the assassination of alleged terrorist Anwar Awlaki. This was a United States citizen that was targeted by a drone and killed without due process of law. He had not been convicted of any crime nor had it been proven that he was even connected to one. He just happened to be on a “list.”

Well, on October 14th, 2011 Awlaki’s 16 year old son shared his Fathers fate. Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen by U.S. airstrikes while eating dinner with a group of his teenage friends. Yes, a group of teenagers…assassinated. What has this country become?

Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was born in Denver Colorado. He was an American citizen just as his Father Anwar. Here is an image of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki’s actual birth certificate showing where he was born. Even more proof of a US birth than our own President can produce.

Washington Post: In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki last month, his 16-year old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday, the Awlaki family decided to speak out for the first time since the attacks.

“To kill a teenager is just unbelieveable, really, and they claim that he is an al-Qaeda militant. It’s nonsense,” said Nasser al-awlaki, a former Yemeni agriculture minister who was Anwar al-Awalaki’s father and the boy’s grandfather, speaking in a phone interview from Sanaa on Monday. “They want to justify his killing, that’s all.

Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was trying to locate his father. He was probably very scared and worried as a son would be if his father was missing. Yet, again with no due process or proof of any wrong doing, he was assassinated. 16 years old! This just makes my blood boil.

When Anwar Awlaki was assassinated it made headlines all over the world, yet I never heard about Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki’s assassination until yesterday when I happened onto a blog that I read occasionally. Is it because the government knows this is wrong? Is it to try and cover up the fact that this is happening more than we know? Or was it because they do not feel this would be as well received by the American public and defeat their agenda?

It is hard for me to understand. I want to go to the White House and scream at the top of my lungs how wrong this is. How can we allow this to happen? How can the whole world not see what monsters the U.S. has become. Can we really be surprised that so many want to kill us? Can we not understand that this makes us weaker in our defense?

When we open the pages of this book, nothing good can come of it. A whole new precedence has been adopted, and most Americans do not even realize that WE can end up on the very same list just by speaking out against our government. We can end up on the same list for simply asking the wrong questions. When will we finally all stand up to this tyranny? Will it take this happening on our own soil to someone we know personally?

The person approving these attacks, Barak Obama, is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Should this now not be revoked? This man should be stripped of all titles and power as he is putting all of our safety on the line with these un-justified actions.

It seems that we have become so numb and blood thirsty in this country all in the name of “the war on terror.” We cheer when these things happen and celebrate cold blooded murder like it is Patriotic. If this is what we are to become, I fear for the future of this country. I fear for the future generations that will have this blood to clean from their innocent hands.

Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was just a teenager. He was on Facebook. He was a happy kid who liked Harry Potter movies, The Gladiator and Troy. He enjoyed  the series Lost, The Simpsons and Spongebob. He will never know adulthood.

Is this the foreign policy of peace and democracy? Is this the message we want to send to the world? Do we really want to be the bullies of the world? So many neo-cons think that we have to show our muscles or we will be perceived as weak. What if instead we showed our hearts. What if instead we taught peace by example?

Presidential candidate Ron Paul believes in a peaceful foreign policy. He understands that we cannot be the policeman of the world, and not just because we cannot afford it, but because it is not how you spread peace. All we are doing is putting ourselves in danger making enemies around the world, and this will eventually backfire on us unless we stop it now.

Ron Paul is the ONLY one who is going to do that. Please visit HERE and read about Ron’s foreign policy. It will actually strengthen our defense, not weaken it as you will hear from so many un-confident neo-cons who want to continue the American Empire.

What do you think about this? Did you even know this happened? What do you think we should do about it?

UPDATE 10.27.2011: 
Here is a CNN report on the assassination of the Awlaki’s.

UPDATE 10.29.11:
Please DEMAND that congress press for an investigation into this assassination. Not just because he was a US citizen, but because he was a child. Please sign this petition.
http://www.petition2congress.com/5410/investigate-death-abdulrahman-anwar-alawlaki/ 

On September 30, 2011, US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was hunted down by a US drone armed with Hellfire missles and killed. He was reportedly a terrorist and a threat to the United States.

However, how, exactly do we know he was a terrorist? Could this information be wrong? What if all Anwar al-Awlaki wanted was peace and freedom just as we desire here in the US, and he was simply speaking out against the US foreign policy and actions?

What if he was put on a list for no other reason but standing up for that right?

Was there proof that he had a violent past? I cannot seem to find anything outside opinions of the mainstream media pundits who say al-Awlaki may have communicated with known terrorists and may have even been involved in recruiting members of Al-Qaeda. If he was indeed a criminal and a “terrorist” then why was he not arrested and tried?

Is the assassination not illegal according to executive order #12333 issued by President Ronald Reagan, section 2.11 Prohibition on Assassination, which states that no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.

REFERENCE: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12333.html#2.11

Here is a video that was uploaded back in July, 2011 with Awlaki speaking about why the world resents America…please watch.

This is actually the second time we have heard the news of al-Alwaki’s death. Here are 2 articles from December of 2009 stating that Awlaki was killed in pretty much the same manner. What proof do they have this time? What are we to believe?

FOXNEWS Article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2009/12/24/imam-linked-ft-hood-rampage-believed-al-qaeda-killed-airstrike/

Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/200912246820930737.html

I think there are many questions that need answered. Kudos to Jake Tapper, Senior White House correspondent for ABC news. He simply asked if we were going to hear from the White House the evidence that this man, this US citizen, was indeed a terrorist.  Watch this video:

What do you think? Do you think this was justified in the name of the war on terror, or do you feel that he deserved due process? When it comes to assassinating US citizens, do you think that we deserve PROOF that he was a terrorist?

Ron Paul gives:

“Questions to consider:

1.  Do the American people deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?

2.  Could a larger question be: how can an Army Private gain access to so much secret material?

3.  Why is the hostility mostly directed at Assange, the publisher, and not our government’s failure to protect classified information?

4.  Are we getting our money’s worth from the $80 billion per year we spend on our intelligence agencies?

5.  Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths; lying us into war, or WikiLeaks’ revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?

6.  If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information, that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the First Amendment and the independence of the internet?

7.  Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on WikiLeaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?

8.  Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in the time of a declared war—which is treason—and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death, and corruption?

9.  Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it’s wrong?”

Read the full article here.

Demagoguing the Mosque by Ron Paul.

Here’s the whole story:

Poll: Most Say “Ground Zero Mosque” Is Inappropriate – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.

After Iraq’s successful invasion of Kuwait we reacted with gusto and have been militarily involved in the entire region, six thousand miles from our shores, ever since. This has included Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. After twenty years of killing and a couple trillion dollars wasted, not only does the fighting continue with no end in sight, but our leaders threaten to spread our bombs of benevolence on Iran.

For most Americans, we are at war — at war against a tactic called terrorism, not a country.

This allows our military to go any place in the world without limits as to time or place.

But how can we be at war? Congress has not declared war as required by the Constitution.

That is true, but our presidents have and Congress and the people have not objected. Congress obediently provides all the money requested for the “war.”

People are dying, bombs are dropped, our soldiers are shot at and killed.

Our soldiers wear uniforms; our enemies do not.  They are not part of any government. They have no planes, no tanks, no ships, no missiles, and no modern technology.

What kind of a war is this anyway? If it really is one. If it was a real war we would have won it by now.

Our stated goal since 9/11 has been to destroy al Qaeda. Was al Qaeda in Iraq? Not under Saddam Hussein. Our leaders lied us into invading Iraq and deceived us into occupying Afghanistan.

There’s still really no al Qaeda in Iraq and only a hundred or so in Afghanistan, yet there is no end in sight to the “war.” Could there have been other reasons for this war that is not a war?

Military victory in Afghanistan is illusive. Does anyone really know whom we are fighting and why?

Why has the war not ended? Nine years and it continues to spread. Some claim it is to keep America safe, that our soldiers are fighting and dying for our freedom, defending our Constitution. Are we being lied to in order to keep us in this spreading war, just as we were lied to in the 1960’s to keep us in Vietnam?

We own the Iraq government as we do Afghanistan’s. In Afghanistan we are fighting the Taliban-those dangerous people with guns, defending their homeland.

Once they were called the Mujahideen, our old allies, along with Osama bin Laden, in the fight to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980’s.

In that effort our CIA funded radical jihad against those nasty foreign occupiers-the Russians.

What gratitude? Those same people now resent our benevolent occupation-with a little violence thrown in.

The resistance to our presence grows as our perseverance wanes.

Our people are waking up but our officials refuse to recognize the longer we stay the greater is the support for those dedicated to the principle that Afghanistan is for Afghans, who resent all foreign occupation.

The harder we fight a war that is not a war, the weaker we get and the stronger becomes our enemy.

When an enemy without weapons can resist an army of great strength, the most powerful of all history, one should ask, who has the moral high ground?

Military failure in Afghanistan is to be our destiny. Changing generals without changing our policies or our policy makers perpetuates our agony and delays the inevitable.

This is not a war that our generals have been trained for. Nation building, police work, social engineering is never a job for foreign occupiers and never an appropriate job for soldiers trained to win wars.

A military victory is no longer even a stated goal of our military leaders or our politicians, as they know that type of victory is impossible.

The sad story is:

This war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well being and common sense, and at the rate we are going, it is going to end badly. What we need are honest leaders with character and a new foreign policy.

Furthermore, it’s in how these these two groups are treated that our government has failed America.

In a fair and sane world, the worker would get rewarded for his production and the moocher would get penalized for not producing. In an unfair and insane world (or where Marxism or Socialism might prevail), the worker gets penalized and the moocher is rewarded.

When the worker is taxed, is that a reward or penalty? When a new teacher spends after-hours making sure her students really learn, but gets less pay than the tenured teacher who could care less about her students, is she being rewarded or penalized. When the moocher is given welfare and subsidized rents, is he being rewarded or penalized? When a farmer is subsidized for not growing food, is he being rewarded or penalized?

When the worker gets penalized for producing, as in the examples above, will you get more production or less? And when the moocher gets rewarded for not producing, will you get more production or less? Our governments are guilty of both these actions and have been for decades. And American citizens who have the mindset that someone else owes them a living is expanding daily because of this (watch the video above to see what we’re up against.).

We must demand that our labor and production not be penalized, but rewarded. And stop the moochers from using the government to take from us. Workers of the world… UNITE!

Fundamental #17

1. Do everything you have agreed to do. (the basics of contract law)
2. Do not encroach onto anther’s liberty or property. (the basics of civil and some criminal law)

“DISCRETION, n. [L, a separating. See Discreet.]

1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct.”  1828

You have all read Section 8 by now.  Did you happen to see where this group of people from a political party can pass whatever legislation they want?  No, it is limited to the duties in Section 8. Did you see where this entity has the power to interfere in our personal lives at all?  NO!
Here is a list of things this government is not allowed to do when it comes to performing the functions as specifically spelled out in Section 8..

Section 9
"The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing
shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to
the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed
on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person."

    The "migration" here refers to moving a slave from one State to another.  The
importation refers to the import of a slave
 from another country. That is why
a slave could be taxed.  It was considered an importation of a commodity.  Both
practices would end in 1808.
    Migration is not mentioned any where else in the Constitution.  The States,
before the Constitution, controlled their own immigration.  Because it doesn't
mention in the Constitution who controlds immigration, you defer to the Tenth Amendment.
All powers not specifically given this government by this constitution are reserved to
the States.  The States control immigration, not some far off foreign government. 

"The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when
in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

There has to be a body, or evidence of a crime.

"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

Bill of Attainder:  "Blacks Law Dictionary" edition one:
"A Legislative Act
 directed at a designated person pronouncing him guilty of an
alleged crime, usually treason With Out trial or conviction according to the
recognized rules of procedure, and passing sentence of death and attainder upon him.
    "Bills of Attainder," as they are technically called, are such special acts
of the legislature as inflict capital punishment upon persons supposed to be guilty
of high of fences such as treason or felony, with out cinviction in the ordinary course
of judicial proceedings.  If an act inflicts a lesser degree of punishment then the act
is called a "Bill of Pains and Punishment.  Both are included in the prohibition in
the Constitution."

EX POST FACTO;
   This is the only foreign language word in the Constitution.  Why?  It is Latin,
a dead language, so you can't change its meaning.  It is a hugely important word.
It means, after the fact, or retroactive.  Lets say I purchased a shot gun
 today
and it is legal today. A law can be passed making it illegal tomorrow to buy a shot
gun.  I can't be prosecuted because it was legal when I purchased the gun.
    A real creep changed the meaning of this word anyway.  It was the only supreme
Court Justice to be impeached for his arrogance and partisan politics.  His name
was Samuel Portlan Chase, you know, Chase Manhattan Bank.  He defined it as only
pertaining to criminal law, not taxes. 

Next 27-B

Citizen Conway

{Before I go any further, you should know that there is no provision in our Constitution all;owing the transients occupying our Federal government to give our tax dollars in foreign aid.}

My fellow freedom fighters,
There is something very concrete that we can all do if we want our republic back.  Now that we all understand that a republic is the rule of law, you must also understand that we can’t have the rule of law if every one doesn’t respect the law.  People don’t respect the law, each other, themselves and private property or anything else unless they have a good base in  morals and ethics.  Other wise, we are begging for the rule of force.  You now understand why government attacks religion.  Government types understand that government is nothing but force.  Those that are in government want bigger government, more power, and more money for themselves.
They have ran the teaching of morals out of public schools under the some made up doctrine of the”separation of Church and State.”  That is an all out attack on the first Amendment that states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”  That is the separation of the State from religion.  They can’t prohibit the free exercise anywhere.  There is no “except on government property” clause here.  It also doesn’t say, “unless it offends someone else.”

“…governing powers have ever shown disposition to weaken and remove.  Of the first kind for instance, is freedom of Religion; of the second, trial by jury, habeas corpus laws, free press.”  Thomas Jefferson to N. Webster, 1790  (bold mine)  Now you know why government attacks religion first.  Government by its very nature is evil.  That’s why we wrote a Constitution to try and limit its scope.  The Bill of Rights would have better lent itself to our understanding if it had been called the “Bill of Further Limitations on this Government.”  I mean look at it, the tenth Amendment says that if we forgot anything, you can’t do that either!

Robert Winthrop, Speaker of the U. S. House, “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.”

George Washington, General of the Revolutionary Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, First President of the United States of America, Father of our nation,  ” Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”

Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence “[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

I have found a wonderful little booklet that I have personally seen turn around the lives of everyone that has the good fortune to get their hands on.  Each chapter is only one or two pages for those of the short attention span.  It has no connection to any religion and can be read anywhere.  It has chapters with titles like:”Take Care of Yourself,” Be Temperate”  “Don’t be Promiscuous, “Love and Help Children” “Be Industrious” “Be Worthy of Trust” “Support a Government Designed And Run For All The People” and  more..

People of all ages need direction today, particularly our children.  Now you know why.  We the People are under siege from every quarter, we always are.  Here is how to obtain these wonderful pamphlets:

“The Way to Happiness Foundation.” 1-800-255-7906 or 1-818-254-0600

201 E. Broadway,

Glendale, CA 91205 USA

For all of you already holding “The way to Happiness” classes for kids, you don’t know how integral  you are to restoring our Republic..

Do not do nothing!

John Conway