At the risk of appearing sacrilegious, I here employ the phrase used by Pontius Pilate to mock Christ shortly after He had been scourged by his Roman captors. I do so not to compare the person of whom I will here speak with the Redeemer of Israel, but for the same reason Pilate employed the phrase – to mock its intended recipient. Indeed, Ken Bennett, has been anything but a “redeemer” in his accidental-but-potentially pivotal role. In fact, the far more apt comparison would be with the man who misguidedly first uttered the phrase: Pontius Pilate. Behold the man!
The comparisons are significant. Firstly, Pilate did not wish to be in the role in which he found himself. It was thrust upon him by circumstances. He was not a brave man, and he had no desire to step into the breach. Perhaps that could be said of most men, but unlike Pilate and his contemporary Sonoran Secretarial counterpart, true men throughout history have stepped forward and done what needed to be done – in spite of any initial reluctance to do so – either on their part or that of others…perhaps even all others!
As for the Answer from Arizona, having been in on the notorious email chain from its outset, I can attest firsthand that his reluctance was predictable. Some on the feed were optimistic as a result of his willingness to engage, and to take any action at all, but I had little doubt from his responses that it was pure (impure, actually) political posturing. Albeit we continued to supply him with ample documentation from the Hawaii Revised Statutes, state and federal Rules of Evidence, and a September 2000 report by the Federal Government’s own Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (entitled Birth Certificate Fraud) in support of both his right and his responsibility to require proof of eligibility from the State of Hawaii for its obviously-favorite son.
Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey has famously noted that “There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet.” He might also have noted that those who fail to do so might indeed be considered “ordinary”, but can in no way be considered “great”…or be considered men at all, for that matter.
James Allen, in his classic monograph, As A Man Thinketh, correctly observed that “Circumstances do not make the man. They reveal him to himself.” (He had apparently read the Greek philosopher Epictetus who had observed the same thing some eighteen centuries before.) So neither Pilate the Prefect, nor Bennett the Secretary (somewhat befittingly) can place the blame for their classic failures elsewhere.
Secondly, both Pilate and Bennett sought to wash their hands of their responsibility in their pivotal roles, or at the very least to minimize the significance of their betrayals. Pilate, of course, did so literally, becoming the classic example of any such futile attempt at self-acquittal. In the case of the man who would be Arizona’s next governor, however, it didn’t stop there. The State of Arizona’s CAA (Chief Administrative Assistant) apologized that he’d even had to be involved, or been responsible, for his state’s involvement!
Let’s see if we can sort this out. The “secretary” does what he feels compelled to do because enough of his “constituents” (defined as such only by his overly inflated political ambitions) urge him to do something far more substantive than he would ever dream of doing on his own (actually require tangible proof of candidate Obama’s eligibility). But then, while saying “I did all that I could do, legally!” he goes on to apologize to the rest of his “constituents” (other prospective voters) if he has “in any way embarrassed the state” by his actions.
So, unlike his 33 AD Roman counterpart, our contemporary prefect, alleging an inability to do anything to stop the obvious injustice, only regrets that he may have “embarrassed the state” by even pretending to be concerned over the matter! Translation: unlike Pontius Pilate, Ken Bennett’s ultimate concern hasn’t so much been with feigning that he did all that he could, but rather, with letting “reasonable (read uniformed) folks” know that he never seriously intended to do the right thing in the first place!
The irony, of course, is that Pilate knew that he had condemned an innocent Man, while Bennett was and is fully aware that he has allowed an obvious fraud (and, therefore, felon) to walk free. Make that to be placed on his state’s sacred ballot to once more seek to attain and occupy the most powerful position on Earth, where he can continue to dismantle both the country and the Constitution which Mr. Bennett has sworn to support and defend! As with Prefect Pilate, Bennett’s hands were never so unclean….
Against this backdrop, the secretary recently addressed Republican Legislative District 12 at their June 14th meeting. One can view a YouTube video of the meeting at the Western Center for Journalism, in which the Secretary remarkably begins with: “I think this is very important what happens in this country over the next few months…. As I think of where this country is headed, it scares me to death – what my children and grandchildren; I have two grandsons…and what’s happening is just very very scary.”
He then even more absurdly goes on to quote Barack Obama, as he references the sign on former President Harry Truman’s desk that read “The buck stops here!” He finishes quoting the man he could have legally kept from occupying the AZ ballot – and ultimately the Oval Office – with: “America has…a failure of leadership! Americans deserve better!” And then adds “Yes we do!” I, of course, couldn’t have agreed more, so I immediately fired off the following email to Mr. Bennett:
Dear Ken,
My next writing about this will be available on-line, but [I] wanted to give you a heads up. The preposterous suggestion that some of us were asking you to “demand that the State of Hawaii deliver Mr. Obama’s original birth certificate to your office” is a complete fabrication. As the person who spearheaded that whole chain of emails, Ken, and the one who did provide chapter and verse of the Rules of Evidence, which clearly indicate that when there is “probable cause” to suspect that copies of documents are fraudulent, examination of the original is the (obvious) legal recourse [I can easily document what we (and I) specifically requested].
So, unless you are simply of less-than-average intelligence, Ken, you clearly misrepresented the facts, in order to make it appear that you had done all that you could legally do…while “fearing for the future of our nation,” and bemoaning the “failure of leadership” on the part of Mr. Obama himself. With “respect,” as you put it, Ken, your own “failure to launch” has been on a scale which I have not seen rivaled in my own “brief” lifetime. I will agree with you, however, that your grandchildren have much to fear…but perhaps for reasons other than those you suggested.
In your defense, Ken, as you are obviously far more Republican than Constitutionalist, your complete lack of grasp of this entire matter is not entirely surprising. Meanwhile, for the record, the clear reason why Sheriff Joe and Mike Zullo used the carefully selected terms “probable cause to suspect forgery” is that this isn’t there (sic) first rodeo, and they know better than to supply evidence of “prejudging” the investigation before its conclusion; not that there was ever any doubt as to the “authenticity” of the forgery…but I digress.
Tom Ballantyne – Informed Citizen (with Excellent Recall….)
Finally, the illustrious AAS (Administrative Assistant of State) has in recent days bemoaned the denial of the Supreme Court of “Arizona’s request for a stay from the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling that federal voter-registration law supersedes Arizona’s voter registration requirements.” The irony here is staggering. The press release from the Secretary himself continues:
Arizona filed the request in advance of the forthcoming appeal to the ruling in which the 9th Circuit struck down Arizona’s requirement that residents provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote on the federal form. (Emphasis added.)
Mr. Bennett concludes with this gem:
There isn’t a corner of this state where people are not concerned with voter fraud [How about identity fraud, Ken, in order to appear on the state’s ballot in the first place?] and opposition to the simple act of providing proof that you are legally eligible to participate in our elections is hard to fathom. [Indeed it is, Ken; indeed it is!] (Emphasis added.)
What’s hard to fathom, Ken, is that you would simply take the word of the State of Hawaii when it clearly refused to answer your request (although I don’t recall ever actually seeing it published to date) that it “verify” that the document at WhiteHouse.gov is the same as the one in their archives, stating only that “the information…matches the original record in our file.” (Astonishingly, the “verification” from Alvin Onaka, Hawaii’s State Registrar, does not even include baby Obama’s date of birth!)
Without going into it in great detail here, here is the preface to Article IX, Rule 901 of the Federal Rules of Evidence: “(a) In General. To satisfy the requirement of authenticating or identifying an item of evidence, the proponent must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item is what the proponent claims it is.”
In the “Notes” included with the rule itself we read: “Wigmore describes the need for authentication as ‘an inherent logical necessity.’ ” [John Henry Wigmore (1863-1943) was the author of Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law.] (Emphasis added.)
Continuing with Rule 901 we read (for those who require further “evidence”!):
(b) Examples. The following are examples only — not a complete list — of evidence that satisfies the requirement:
(7) Evidence About Public Records. Evidence that:
(A) a document was recorded or filed in a public office as authorized by law; or
(B) a purported public record or statement is from the office where items of this kind are kept.
(8) Evidence About Ancient Documents or Data Compilations. For a document or data compilation, evidence that it:
(A) is in a condition that creates no suspicion about its authenticity;
(B) was in a place where, if authentic, it would likely be;
I will begin to wrap this up by stating that it is obvious to all (and an “inherent logical necessity,” according to the country’s foremost expert on trial evidence in its history) that the need for authentication of evidence – and in this case evidence in the form of a document – is itself self-evident. I will also note that anyone who could authenticate the veracity of key evidence in support of a claim would hasten to do just that, thereby removing all doubt as to its authenticity.
Least I forget, however, our friend Mr. Bennett added one further absurdity to his apparently gleeful and immediate acceptance of the “verification” that he received from the Hawaii Department of Health when addressing the local Republican District meeting a few weeks back. He noted, while assuring all present in Breitbart-like fashion that he was “not a birther,” and that he “believe[d] that he [the alleged president] was born in Hawaii.” [Like every other in-the-tank Republican - John McCain, Jeff Flake, et al. - the good secretary gives no legal or even reasoned basis for this fully-undocumented assertion in the face of overwhelming (and fully-documented) evidence to the contrary. He just "believes it" or accepts it - purely on faith, apparently!]
He went on to state with both (zealous?) prescience and the kind of legal acumen that one would hope to find in the man who, on behalf of the citizens of Arizona as well as those of the nation, was seeking to establish legal verification of the eligibility of the man seeking the highest office in the known world, that he “actually believe[d] he [Mr. Obama] was fibbing [!] when he said he was born in Kenya, when he was trying to get into college, and doing things like writing a book, and on, and on, and on…so if there was weird stuff going on, I actually think it was back in his college days because I think he has spent one and a half, or two million dollars, through attorneys, to have all of the college records, and all of that stuff sealed. So if you’re spending money to seal something, that’s probably where the hanky panky was going on. If you’re sending your attorneys out to Hawaii to get a copy of the certificate and posting it on your website, perhaps…or I actually think he was born in Hawaii.” [How utterly brilliant!]
So, the president, his handlers, and his surrogates can sleep well, knowing that at least in the case of the hapless Arizona Secretary of State, their ploy of spending several thousand dollars of taxpayer money to fly their attorney to Hawaii to pick up a document that can be both copied and mailed for $10 worked to convince this Einstein that the document she (Attorney Judith Corley) “physically” picked up and brought back with her had to be real-all of the proof to the contrary, produced by the Cold Case Posse within mere blocks from his office, notwithstanding!
And for the record, Ken, the millions of dollars spent on attorneys were for covering up not just his college records, as you so cleverly suggest, but for covering up virtually his entire past. And that included in large measure keeping any hard-copy certified birth certificate, with a raised seal, from ever seeing the light of day. (And one Savannah Guthrie of NBC handling a hard copy of something, in a room full of his supporters, er, “reporters,” proves little…notwithstanding her nifty promotion a few days ago.)
Ken Bennett is not alone, however. He is the very picture of today’s Republican Official. He is virtually indistinguishable from John McCain, Jon Kyl, Jeff Flake, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, even Jan Brewer…and I could go on naming names indefinitely – all Republicans and all apparently afraid of their own shadows. Interestingly (and sadly), this even includes such AZ candidates as Wil Cardon, Matt Salmon, and Kirk Adams, all Republicans running as Washington “outsiders” while caving on this issue!
Until the once “Grand” but definitely “Old” Party gets the memo that the most powerful constituency in its ranks, the Tea Party, is no longer willing to compromise on either the Constitution or the Rule of Law, the GOP will continue its inexorable slide into oblivion. And we, the true mainstream of America, will not be a part of it much longer (because we don’t have much longer!)
Mitt Romney will clearly be better than his opponent, if elected, but if he feels the continuing need of virtually all party loyalists to appease the enemies of all that we hold dear, he may be the last Republican to get that chance! Meanwhile, Mr. Bennett needn’t waste either his time or his money entertaining any aspirations of being Arizona’s next governor. What he has become of late is the poster-boy for the Peter Principle…and I’m afraid there’s nowhere else for him to hide!
Meanwhile, I’m still awaiting your response to my latest email, Ken. As offered on many occasions previously, a number of us would still be happy to sit down and discuss this with you face to face….
Tom Ballantyne is the author of three previous books: The Secret of Life Series, Uncommon Sense…Apparently!, and the just-released, recently-updated Oh Really, O’Reilly!
Oh Really, O’Reilly! “The Spin Starts Here…Apparently!” is available in full, or in Part I of II, and Part II of II at Tom’s website:
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When your neighbor loses his job…
Depression –
When you lose yours…
Recovery –
When Obama & Holder go to prison!
Sad but true Raymond
President Obama decided to do one of his public addresses against the backdrop of an American farm, but the ceremony couldn't get started because of all the flies buzzing around his head. Obama demanded to know why the flies wouldn't leave, so the farmer explained to him, "Well, those are called circle flies. They always circle around the back end of horses." Obama angrily replied, "Hey, are you saying that I'm a horse's behind?" The farmer answered, "No Sir, Mister President. I would never call someone a horse's behind. It's hard to fool them flies though."
Too funny, too true, too sad for us.
obzo and Holder should have been imprisoned for treasonous acts 18 months ago, although in obozo's case since it is extremely unlikely that he is an American citizen by any definition whatsoever it might prove difficult to succeed in a trial for treasonous acts.
Obama isn't going to jail — I'll bet a million bucks he won't.. The only people who are going to jail are
you traitor pig conservatives. (Just look at Lakin, Darren Huff, Walter Fitzpatrick, and many others as examples)
I will personally escort each and every one of you evil bastards to the local fema camp…
Don't like me? Come try to stop me.
are you for this president? if you lied on your job application for a important job and got caught? you would be fired. why is he any better, he did his best and spent a lot of money to hide his birth certificate. having said that, he was elected on the bases of job creation for America. What happen to that? he gave taxpayer's money to all the wrong people and the list goes on and on. we can not afford another 4 more years of the same nonsense. enough is enough! He got to go
we are americans and we will fight for our country, we will not let some dictator ruin America. I hope he gets the hint he is not wanted anymore as a leader of our country.
John give us your address and we will stop you!
Your a sick and evill Obutthole ass kiser who should be on Ritlan
Thank you, Tom. About time someone spoke up concerning the republican Party. I gave up on them during Bush II's term and became a registered Conservative.
Raymond we know obummer is full of it thats why he draws the flies.
Intrigue, lies, fraud, criminal acts, lawlessness all from the spineless with no conviction of right and wrong, no honor, no character, no integrity of heart. Somebody need to show some true leadership somewhere or we tank.
If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 25 years than from his birth certificate.
Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels has seen to that. On Monday, July 2, she filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court demanding that Jon Husted, Ohio secretary of state, remove Obama’s name from the ballot until Obama can prove the validity of his Social Security Number.
Daniels, who has vetted thousands of Social Security Numbers for numerous other clients, has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number.”
To acquire appropriate standing in court, Daniels has gone to the trouble of establishing herself as a valid write-in candidate for president. Before she is through, this 70-something mother of seven, who has been a licensed Ohio PI since 1995, may cause Obama more trouble than the Romney campaign.
Listen to an interview with Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9QeJqSneA&f…
I saw this video! Her work is AWESOME. She has a solid paper trail filled with irrefutable facts. That being said, it will only take another traitorous judge to ignore the evidence and decide in favor of the O, anyways. I applaud her efforts, but she needs the system to be honorable enough to work correctly. Frankly, after the Supreme court and Florida's rulings, I just don't see that happening.
I unwillingly agree that yet another judge will blow this irrefutable evidence under the bus — so, instead, the Youtube vid will send the message worldwide that Odamo et al are the quintessential collective dictator if not devils incarnate..The last shoe to drop is the confiscation of assets — all of them — at the moment of crisis..plan carefully and hold no taxable assets..consider the possibility that there will be nothing first before real Americans can re-born our nation..
Well, let's just lay it down and prop our feet on it, you flat told it like it is….ole Ken crapped on the Constitution just like obie and the rest of the washington dc gang of mercenaries. So, how do we fix it?
We talk a lot, but we do nothihng, and that's what they are all counting on…..lazy Americans without backbones and gumption. We watch our country shatter into a zillion pieces and we don't even have the courage to get a broom and try to sweep it up and put it back together.
It's easy to see that we will be in FEMA camps or destroyed by perfectly timed bombs of the domestic terrorist types, or a flu virus that is so virulent that it terrified the scientists doing the mutating; the question that begs to be answered is…WHY did we let it get so far out of hand; and then we simply sit on our backsides listening to the death knell.
We can blame the Republicans or the dems or oblamer or even Kruschev, but the real blame lies right here at our own feet. We should have taken a stand…..and now we are too late.
Everyone seems to be relying on the coming election to set things right. What "game plan" do any of us have if those elections are cancelled, martial law declared and tanks with foreign soldiers manning them begin rolling into our cities and towns? Be prepared to walk into the streets of your suburb with your weapon to defend – again – what your forefathers won for you, the first time around. And it won't be nice and clean like a netflix movie. People will bleed and it will be real blood. They will feel the pain of having been shot, or crushed by tanks. People will die and stay dead. There will be no director to yell "CUT!" and then everyone stands back up and goes for a coffee. The next time you see those loved ones and neighbors will be in Heaven. Our forefathers lived much closer to the life/death cycle than we modern folk do. I wonder if we will be able to defend our country as well as they did, or if we will freeze up and decide to just "go along" because it will be easier to do. We'll decide "to adjust" because we won't want to pay the high price Freedom requires.
That's assuming people WILL defend their country. I lean more to the belief that people will run to a corner in the basement and shiver from the fear rising in their cowardly throats.
My only wonder is if they will come out long enough to bury the few that did stand in the street, free for the last time, to defend the last moments of freedom in America.
Yes there will be blood, but not rivers worth. Just a few, widely scattered spots.
At least they will die free. Something no one else in America will ever be able to say again.
The citizens of this once great country need to march up to Washington and physically remove all the traitors of our government. Just like the people of France did to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and the Italian people did to Mussolini. We need to put a stop to the evil. No more lies!
Americans, no not the phony weak minded ones, the REAL Americans. It is not too late to do something. The odds of there not being an election in Nov. keeps climbing every day. And if somehow there is, it will be so blatantly ripe with Voter Fraud, that We The People will revolt. But we must prepare NOW! Join up with one of the Constitutional Militias, or your state guard. If nothing else, go for your county sheriff's reserve force (as long as your shrf. is an oathkeeper). We need to organize, plan and train. Become a prepper, otherwise you'll end up in one of those 800+ Fema Camps that the Illegal admin. has been supplying and staffing. Read and re-read the Constitution and your Bible. God Save The Republic!
Please understand that the State Guard is NOT the same as a militia or State militia.
I have been asking the same questions ever since I saw, for a fact, that those who we put in office to tend to the nations business are hiding in the darkest hole they can find, with no intention of doing anything to stop this horrible anti- JESUS CHRIST tide of evil sweeping across and not one of them is doing anything to stem the tide, or so it seems.
Time for talking is over! It's time to act!! Atleast for Americans that still believe and refuse to bend over.
For more, go to; http://www.wellregulatedamericanmilitia.com http://www.modernmilitiamovement.com
http://www.SheriffRandyMack'sConstitutionalPosse.com
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
First link is dead.
for the first time in my life I am scare of what is happening to our Country, this president has too much power he is a dictator. I belive that we must vote, he needs to be voted out of office. this president is getting a lot of help from others selfserving politicians. God willing if we win and get him out of office, I hope the American people will not forget those politicians who are traitors that worked hard on his behalf to destroy our country and the future of our children and grandchildren. I will do my part and I will vote againt him because he must be defeted!! or else we will all suffer more of his ugliness. I belive their is a evil agenda behind all of this
What the hell are you talking about, you are so hung up on literary BS that you have lost sight of what your trying to say. Keep it simple, make your point. I gave up on trying to figure out what the hell you were trying to say because you were lost in your own manicure.
so many people dislike this president, he will not win. I do belive that he is hated by most Americans even more than Bush. is a proven fact that his word means nothing, empty promises
Bennett said why he ruled against keeping oblameo off the ballots. He said he didn't like receiving emails telling him to keep him off.
He said "It seems to me that the only remedy that will make everyone happy is keeping Obama off the ballots whether warranted or not."
He allowed oblameo on the ballots for spite, nothing more, nothing less.
Seeks this guy is one sick turkey who speaks with forked tongue.Can you imagine a judge having a a jury convict someone and the judge telling everyone he's setting the crimnal free just for spite because the jury told him he was guilty.
Come on Ed, I thought you'd be used to it by now. Holder and oblameo have been set free how many times now?
one sick turkey—lol
It just goes to prove that Bennett doesn't even need to "throw his hat into the ring" for Governor, since he won't do as his prospective Constituents asked him to do, which was to investigate this TREASONOUS fraud case. If he is unable/unwilling to follow the law on this, what else would he be unable/unwilling to do if he made it into office of Governor for those he is supposed to be protecting.
Knowing how Arizonians feel, I bet he doesn't have to worry about being reelected now. He can kiss his career goodbye.
Consider:
If BarryO is voted out, then he is a lame duck.
If you think he is a nightmare as president, then beware of him as a lame duck.
The Lord God Almighty says
REPENT Americans
Turn from all of your sinful ways and
Return to God
Seek to do His will and to serve Him only.
Amen and amen …
speaking of traitors, what about these celebrities raising a lot of monies for this anti America president?
I am disgusted with these celebrities that they would support this president by raising millions of dollars so he can continued to bring down America. What is wrong with them? are they blind? I hope people will not go and support their movies, concerts, etc.
Billyjean, the time is near for his return he is blinding the bad and revealing the wicked to the good. The wicked are clueless to the times we live in and the bible reveals his approximation of return through scripture. The righteous are sick to their stomach at what our representatives are doing. The wicked think they are fooling us but God is fooling them. The wicked are trying to put us in bondage dependent on them they will be surpised when they find themselves in bondage from our savior. Amen!
Are you talking about the celebrities that are for Democracy as we currently have, or the majority who are communists/socialists and abhor constitutional law traditions like freedom of religion and limited central government. You must be old enough to make a decision about what movie to view so wrap your head around the fact that there are people out there that are bent on destroying everything that is good about this country, and they aren't just in Hollywood. Believe it or not its estimated there are some 35-40 current representatives in Washington that are openly associated with socialist/communist and/or anti-God doctrine. Whats wrong with the voters in those districts? We should all be disgusted, especially whoever sat on their back side and let this lying bozo get elected. Smarten up this time and PLEASE vote for the only person who can beat Obama-Romney-he may not be the Conservative we all want but he is a better alternative than 4 more years of this clown. No one President will be our saviour but lets put someone in charge who believes in AMERICA and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.