Obama's First 8.5 months

It seems that Obama's popularity among American voters has dwindled after watching the economic stimulus package fail to help most laborers and middle class Americans. The surprise is that so many Democratic and Independent voters have now grown cold of Obama's management of our country's economy as well as health care options. One expert challenged Obama to put his own family on "his" health care proposal for Americans and see if it would work for he and his family? Highly doubtful. People who voted for change have now grown fearful that Obama's change is toward socialism like France rather than democratic as per the U.S. Constitution. On the day after the 9/11 tragedy, the 9/12 project had 60+ thousand people show themselves in Washington D.C. protesting Obama care as well as wanting to throw out Democrats from the House and Senate in 2010. Obviously change is in the air. Which way that air blows will be interesting to track. Those who voted for Obama can now thank themselves for placing a powerful and democratic U.S. into a possible weak, financially broke super-power heading towards collapse and economic tragedy. The real question; is there time to turn things around before Obama, Acorn, and Obama's Czars ruin our childrens future and destroy the United States that was once home of the brave, and the land of the free.

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It is interesting that the U.S. superpower cannot take care of the medical needs of its population yet other countries such as Norway, Sweden have excellent care for all their citizens. However, the most disturbing fact is that doctors take a Hippocratic oath to take care of the sick, and do no harm. Yet, when they become employed by insurance companies, U.S. doctors refuse service to as many people as possible to save insurance companies money.

So, when U.S. candidates for Presidential office speak of "family values" knowing this as well as speak about "human values" who are they kidding? Refusing medical treatment to the poor for lack of health insurance as well as managing people's health based on money do not represent "family values" nor "human values". Let's face it, U.S. values are based on $$$ money.

That's why the rich don't serve in the Armed Forces and are not representative on the War on Iraq. And, that's why Republicans and Democrats talk a lot about "family values" and "medical care" but the only thing they agree on in Washington is to give themselves a $$$ pay raise with more money while the poor get poorer. Real family values as well as human values. Webster defines that as "greed".

What happened to this once great country?

Sen Orrin Hatch said on one of the early Sunday morning programs that Libby Scooter should have been pardoned. I have always liked and respected Sen. Hatch, but today he forgot history. Yes, history. You see, Sen. Hatch defended his position by mentioning Pres. Clinton's pardon of Marc Reich and many others on the last day of Pres. Clinton's tenure as President.

Sen. Hatch therefore believes that he can justify his position today by faulting the Democrats back when Mr. Clinton was President. The error in his logic and reasoning is that Pres. Bush's decision to commute Libby Scooter's jail sentence is independent of Mr. Clinton's decisons as President back when Mr. Clinton was President. In other words, just because Mr. Clinton erred in his pardons doesn't justify Pres. Bush's actions today. In fact, Sen. Hatch sounds like an immature child who says " well Billy did it back then so George can do it now". The fallacy is that we learned that Pres. Clinton was wrong and historically he made a mistake. So, instead of learning from the mistake, Sen. Hatch wants to play partisan politics and claims Pres. Bush not only should have commuted Libby Scooter's jail sentence but also should have pardoned him. This is absolute arrogance and at taxpayer and citizen expense.

Sen. Hatch's logic is like saying well a new Democratic President can declare a war against Country X even though it would be a mistake to do so because Mr. Bush declared war on Traq even though he, Pres. Bush, was mistaken on the war on Iraq. In short, Sen. Hatch proposes that one should not learn from history but keep repeating past mistakes especially keeping tally of partisan politics for the sake of just using it for political advantage. Not only is this wrong, but it tramples on logic, reasoning, and accountability. It gives Pres. Bush a free pass to by -pass the judicial branch of government and being the"Decider" like John Wayne in a cowboy movie.

What Sen. Jatch and Pres. Bush forgot is that the cowboy is "extinct" and we are living in the information age with global communications, technology, and jobs. Sen. Hatch and Pres. Bush don't realize that htey are extinct just as dinosauers not only in the U.S. but to the entire world as well.

We need good luck, because we, the U.S., are being led by a group of extinct, incompetent, cavemen who in the New World of globalization and technolgy don't know north from south. Sen. Hatch and Pres. Bush will one day wake up like Rip van Winkle and say,

"My Gosh, what happened to our country? Where are we?"

If one considers the war on Iraq, one might have to think about the great sacrifice many, many, many American young men and women have sacrificed their lives( as well as the quality of life in case they come back disabled) as well as their families. There is no way one can ever thank those young men and women for the great sacrifice they are offering their country!

And, equally troubling is the fact that the majority of U.S. troops in this war are young immigrants hoping for citizenship as well young U.S citizens from the middle and lower socio-economic groups. The troubling fact is that the war on Iraq is being waged by a disproportionate U.S. population. There is a large significant percentage gap from the wealthiest demographic class of Americans. This would mean that the freedom that the wealthiest class is enjoying in the U.S. is being fought by young people not representative of the wealthiest class. Consequently, there's an inequity in the make-up of U.S. forces that is fighting for U.S. freedom and the protection of U.S. assets. And,the majority of casulaties and injuries sustained so far in this war is not from the wealthiest of America's economic classes. This would indicate that there's definitely a great division of responsibility for protecting U.S. freedom and U.S. assets that does not include the wealthiest class of Americans. There is a gap, then enjoyed by a select class of people based on economics. This means that there comes a great economic benefit for being rich:
(1) life itself, or
(2) not possibly becoming disabled due to not going to war.

In any case, it turns out that being in the wealthiest class entitles today's citizens in this class to enjoy all the U.S. Constitution has to offer, most importantly, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without the liabilities that go into protecting the very rights the Constitution guarantees to all its citizens with the wealthiest class not paying any "human" price for those rights.
One could say they are enjoying the wealthiest of lives with virtually no liabilities.

Our forefathers would definitely see the inequity here as "all men are created equal" would mean there's an equal responsibility for all U.S. citizens to pay for freedom in the U.S.

Right now, the wealthiest class are not paying a proportionate share of that responsibility, and have a "free" pass with no responsibility for that freedom.

Elian Gonzalez and Beyond: History Forgotten

U.S society lives in a country with a system of laws based on the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the courts. This is one of the traits of democracy that makes the U.S. special. According to search warrant filed with the U.S. District Court , Southern District of Florida, Case number, CA03-23268, under Judge Banstra as per Newsmax on April 24, 2000, the Gonzales’s’ family claimed that at no time did federal agents knock on their front door, nor did they announce their presence. More importantly as per NewsMax the INS had asked the 11th Circuit Court for permission to get Elian from his uncle's house and were denied by the 11th Circuit Court. Instead then Attorney General, Janet Reno, asked for a search warrant from
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees U.S. citizens like the Gonzalez family the right to privacy in their own home. In order to raid a home with no known criminals as per the Judicial Watch Group's legal counsel, headquartered in Washington, D.C., they reported that warrants have to be executed properly in order to be valid. Larry Layman, General Counsel for The Judicial Watch Group, claimed the warrant was invalid for a variety of reasons:
1. The non- profit organization formed to protect citizens rights claimed that the government’s procurement of a search warrant was inappropriate because search warrants are for inanimate objects.Elian Gonzalez was a six year old boy.
2. After the raid when INS Commissioner Doris Meissner was asked on CBS’s Face the Nation “What were you searching for?” She answered: “The boy”.
3. They also had an arrest warrant for Elian but, one gets an arrest warrant to seize a person, but Elian was not a criminal but a six year old child. An arrest warrant would have been inappropriate according to an article written by Jack Thompson called the “Search Warrant “Trick”” for the news organization NewsMax.
4. When Eric Holder, number two under Attorney General Janet Reno at the Justice Department, was asked by Judge Andrew Napolitano why the government did not acquire a court order authorizing the raid from the 11th Circuit Court, Holder said,” We didn’t need an order.” The Judge correctly informed Holder that they did need a court authorization because they had asked one from the11th Circuit Court and were not given one according to Thompson’s article in NewsMax.
5. Bob Schieffer of CBS News, on the Sunday program called Face the Nation, recognized that the raid was not a search but was the first time in American history where a change of custody from one family member to another had occurred without a court order and at the point of a submachine gun. (NewsMax article by Jack Thompson on April 24, 2000.)
6. Jack Thompson for the organization, NewsMax, further reported on April 24, 2000 that the warrant, in order to be issued, required that the Justice Department claim that Elian could not be found and was a hidden person.But, everyone on Earth knew where Elian was as the entire media was parked right in front of Elian’s house taking photos and videos for the entire world to see the child.
7. The 11th Circuit Court refused to give a court order authorizing a raid on the house according the Judicial Watch Group. This is why the inappropriate and illegal search warrant was obtained by a lowly magistrate at the state level not federal level where the words” concealed person” are required on any search warrant. Elian was not concealed; his whereabouts were absolutely known. This is why the search warrant was illegally obtained and void according to Thompson’s article.
8. Thompson’s article for NewsMax further determined that there was no legitimate judicial approval for taking the boy from the house since there was no approval given by the11th Circuit Court. And, Elian being taken from the house by INS agents was illegal according to the Thompson article in NewsMax when it became publicly known about the “Search Warrant Trick.”
Time magazine has photo essay photos showing some interesting photos during the raid. In fact, a federal judge ruled Elian Gonzalez’s Miami relatives can pursue their lawsuit against the U.S. government solely on grounds that gun-wielding agents may have used “excessive force'” during the April 22, 2000, raid to seize the Cuban boy according to a on an online web service that promotes independent, grass roots conservativism and is against government fraud and corruption called the Free Republic.
Part of the report from the Free Republic group at their website states: “U.S. District Judge Shelby Highsmith, citing a Chicago Police case, said ``the Gonzalez’s have alleged sufficient facts to support such a claim' that the government may have violated their constitutional rights.” And, the Judicial Watch Group interviewed innocent by-standers and people who claimed they were beaten and tear gassed by armed INS agents during the raid by Janet Reno’s armed agents”.
Again, if there were equal protections under the law, the raid of the Gonzalez home as well as excessive force with machine guns would not have been used.
Also, Elian Gonzalez had made it to the U.S. and was therefore guaranteed the right to life under the Constitution. Would a child in the U.S. be turned over to a pedophile, or would a child be returned to Hitler in Nazi Germany? Then, how in the world could the U.S. government be fooled into returning a child back to a communist country with no human rights and with very well known human rights abuses?
Elian Gonzalez’s rights were trampled as well as were the the wishes of his mother who drowned getting Elian to freedom. How could things have gotten better for all U.S. citizens if the country could sit by and watch this happen to a poor six year old boy in 2000.
Take a look at the country today? What happened to this super-power of justice? What happened to this country in just seven years?

Justice Is Blind

Under the U.S. Constitution, and the day after Independence Day, one can only wonder the state of justice in the U.S. today? For if, Libby Scooter can actually have his jail time commuted, then there are people who commit felonies who are convicted by a jury and then avoid jail by:

(A) knowing powerful people in government
(B) have a lot of money
(C) involved in croynism
(D) all of the above

Well, if one were to do a statistical analysis of felons, one would find that 99.9% have never had their sentence commuted or pardoned. Consequently, does the U.S really have equal due process and justice for all under the law?