It's all Bush's fault, right?

The price of ignoring the Constitution for the United States

by Mark Yannone

How exciting! Keith Olbermann takes some very powerful shots at George W. Bush. But where are the shots at the members of the United States Congress who violated their oaths of office when they pretended that they didn't need to declare war against Afghanistan and Iraq? The Constitution is clear: only Congress can declare war. That law is still in effect.

To make this crime perfectly obvious, in October 2002 Congressman Ron Paul proposed legislation to declare war on Iraq, and Congress refused to pass it.

Keith Olbermann's hard-hitting rant is merely hot pabulum designed to reinforce in the general public's mind the mistaken idea that Bush or any other president can behave as America's dictator.

Olbermann is no fool. He knows he is lying. He is being paid to lie by MSNBC.

Do you think the media company that lies about Ron Paul and refuses to acknowledge Ron Paul is going to pay Keith Olbermann to be a patriot on TV?

No.

Olbermann is at MSNBC to convince Americans that Bush has achieved what he cannot achieve, that he now has power that he didn't have before.

Olbermann criticizes Bush for signing a piece of paper as if that had any effect. It doesn't, and Olbermann knows it. To be the patriot he pretends to be, all he would have to do is appear on the screen with the words of the Constitution and point out that only Congress can make laws and that neither Bush nor Congress can change the Constitution.

Keith Olbermann wouldn't have a job if he did that.



Care to count the war criminals? Given the enormity of the crime, the punishment meted out by the court must certainly be death. That's quite a price to pay.

Did they get you too?

Traitors Who Entertain

by Mark Yannone

Former judge Andrew Napolitano consistently and defiantly argues that the only legitimate government is that which respects its citizens' rights in all cases. In late October 2007, Napolitano gave the keynote address at the Reason conference in DC, where he delivered a spellbinding speech that blended a masterful understanding of American history with a blazing outrage at the violations of our civil rights by the rapidly expanding police state. (36:38)

Pull back the curtain

Unfortunately, what you will not hear is adherence to constitutional law. Judge Andrew Napolitano mentions several times that various parts of the Constitution have been obliterated by Congress, and he mourns with the unsuspecting listening audience--the sheep, as he calls them--the death of various Amendments in the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution. One could almost take him seriously. Almost. But is that how the Constitution is amended, by acts of Congress signed by the president? No, it is not.

The Constitution describes clearly the processes for amending the Constitution. The processes are found in Article 5. If these procedures are not followed, then the Constitution remains intact and unblemished by the corruption attempted by Congress, the president, and FOX News' legal scholar, the blustering Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

In other words there are two ways to change the Constitution, with two variations in each method:

Method 1: A minimum of two thirds of the US House of Representatives AND a minimum of two thirds of the US Senate must agree on a proposed change to the Constitution, AND then a minimum of three quarters (38 of the current 50) of the state legislatures OR state conventions must agree to every word, comma, and period of the proposed change to the Constitution. Passage in the state legislatures is by simple majority in the state House AND in the state Senate. Passage in the state conventions is also by simple majority. Typically, a time limit of seven years is imposed for ratification, after which the proposal expires, worthless. This is the only method that has been used to date. The requirement for a state convention has been specified only once.

Method 2: A minimum of two thirds of the state legislatures (34 of the current 50), House AND Senate, must call for a Constitutional Convention. The convention proposes one or more amendments, which must then be approved by simple majority by a minimum of three quarters of the state legislatures (House AND Senate) OR by a minimum of three quarters of the state conventions. This method has never been used.

An outline of the means by which the United States Constitution can be changed looks like this:

• Congress proposes, state legislatures ratify.
• Congress proposes, state conventions ratify.
• State Constitutional Convention proposes, state legislatures ratify.
• State Constitutional Convention proposes, state conventions ratify.

Please note that the president of the United States has no role to play in changing the Constitution in any way. Such power is beyond the president's grasp, no matter how insane or incompetent or dictatorial he may be, and those who pretend otherwise should be held to account, to the full extent of the law.

Enter, snake number 2

Keith Olbermann would have you think otherwise, as he portrays himself as a patriotic American. Remember this one? This was a real beauty, and it helped the president and Congress enormously by convincing the public that what had just happened actually had the effect of law. He should have been laughing his head off instead and inviting the American public to laugh with him, ridiculing Congress and the president right out the door! But no. His public reaction was to take it seriously and give it all the legitimacy the sheep required. Did you buy it, like most Americans did?



Watch and listen as Keith Olbermann, brought to you by MSNBC, pretends that Americans have given the president "a blank check drawn against our own freedom." That was fiction. Our rights were--and still are--intact. No act of Congress and no signature of the president can change the Constitution. The president has no "blank check," no matter how ruffled Keith Olbermann's feathers appear to be. The Military Commissions Act is unconstitutional, void, and without effect of law. Learn to recognize that when it happens, because MSNBC is not going to tell you.



You're not convinced yet? You need more proof that these old media messengers are fakers? Here you go:



See also: High Court: Gitmo Detainees Have Rights in Court

Breaking news: Lying, illiterate Bush is unfit to serve

Maybe you suspected that. Maybe you weren't one of the 50+ million American citizens who voted for this lying idiot warmonger twice.



"You, sir, have no business being president." -Keith Olbermann, 12/06/07

Keith Olbermann on waterboarding

Former US Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin is waterboarded. His conclusion: it's torture.



Part 1: Bush, you're screwed.



Part 2: Bush, either you're stupid, or you're going to prison.

Massive crimes richly rewarded

The Promotion of Failure
Keith Olbermann's Top 9/11 Story

Instead of being held accountable for the severe consequences of their crimes, the PNAC neocons and their associates and enablers are promoted and richly rewarded.

Keith Olbermann: Aside from this, Bush is perfect

You'll excuse us, Mr. Bush, if we don't believe a word you say, won't you? [Watch] 2:27

It's time to try George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors

We have lived as if in a trance.

We have lived as people in fear.

And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing. [Watch]

The day dictator Bush got his wish

FICTION: Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President suspended habeus corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone--US citizen or not--an enemy combatant, lock him or her up, and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, everything the founding fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed today with the stroke of a pen.

George Washington University Constitutional Law professor, Jonathan Turley, joins Keith Olbermann to talk about the law that Senator Feingold said would be seen as "a stain on our nations history." [Watch]

CORRECTION: The only way to change the US Constitution is by duly ratified amendment. We've had none. The US Constitution remains intact and unharmed.

"Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument." (Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137)

See also: High Court: Gitmo Detainees Have Rights in Court

Keith Olbermann on the death of Habeas Corpus

Once again Congress (including my opponent, John Shadegg) delivered to the unelected president of the United States exactly what he wanted: another unconstitutional bill, this one known as the Military Commissions Act. As usual, many congressmen never read it. [Watch] 7:17

10/17/07 Update: Those who know the law can take comfort in knowing that any legislation that violates the Constitution is null and void, so even though the unelected, imposter president of the United States pretended to signed it into law in violation of his oath of office a week later, his signature had no effect. [Watch] 8:32

Update: It's interesting to note that the overwhelming majority of the Congress was reelected three weeks later even though most of them violated their oaths of office many times. The American people are poorly educated and unaware of the treason that has just been committed even though Keith Olbermann delivered this speech on national television the night before the election. [Watch] 4:50

CORRECTION: The only way to change the US Constitution is by duly ratified amendment. We've had none. The US Constitution remains intact and unharmed.

"Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument." (Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137)