Americans are given the right of free speech in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States – the first of the Bill of Rights without which the Constitution might not have been ratified.
Sarah Palin uses her First Amendment rights to speak up against causes for which she has knowledge, wisdom and experience. The sad part is that she has to rely on an Internet social network, Facebook, to express her First Amendment rights. This platform is the only way she has of getting her words, thoughts and ideas to the general public. It is a given that if it doesn’t involve someone maligning Sarah Palin, nothing she says will be covered by the ONP – Obama National Press.
There are remarkable precedents for using a writer’s platform to exhibit First Amendment rights.
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question, (and in matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry,) and as the king of England hath undertaken in his own right, to support the parliament in what he calls theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.
In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious or unfriendly, will cease of themselves, unless too much pains is bestowed upon their conversion.
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is
THE AUTHOR.
Do you recognize these words? Thomas Paine wrote this introduction to Common Sense. Mr. Paine didn’t have the benefit of the First Amendment at the time he published his writing; therefore, he was not “at liberty” to even sign his name to his work. Thank goodness for this writing as well as the others which led to our First Amendment rights giving Sarah Palin the right to sign her writings today.
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
This, the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, set in motion the circumstances which eventually provided our First Amendment rights.
“But you know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
This line is from a speech given by candidate Barack Obama. One of his many gaffs, this one was made in response to….you guessed it – Sarah Palin. In her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention where she was officially nominated the vice-presidential candidate, she made this remark: “I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
Former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift isn’t alone in her opinion that Obama’s remarks were intended to refer to Mrs. Palin as a pig. Asked why she assumed that Obama was comparing Palin to a pig, Swift referred to Palin’s “pit bull in lipstick” joke at the convention.
“As far as I know she is the only candidate that wears lipstick” and this “seems like a very gendered remark.”
In an excellent editorial, John Charlton wrote:
“This is the logic invoked by the American Grand Jury Movement, most of whose critics ignore these more fundamentals (sic) laws and rights. However, to be consistent with the theory of Pre-constitutionalism, such institutions should in no way submit to constitutional institutions, nor are they requireed (sic) to do so, since the authority which empowers them is superior to the Constitution; and the rights which they exercise to act to uphold it are likewise prior and superior to all constitutional powers and obligations.”
If you are not familiar with the work of the American Grand Jury, I urge you to check out their web site. The Jurors are duly sworn before a Notary Public and are responsible for hearing evidence. After considering the evidence a vote is taken and if they have found merit in the charges they offer a Presentment which states the charges considered and their findings.
On May 9, 2009, the American Grand Jury, following the requirements of Article Five of the Constitution heard evidence and handed down an indictment of Fraud and Treason against Barack Obama.
American Grand Jury has hosted and concluded 15 Grand Juries to date, including regional Grand Juries for Illinois, Arkansas and Texas. The majority of national Grand Juries hosted included members from as many as 40 States. With each Sitting, the number of Grand Jury members has increased and represent a broader cross section of the United States. Two of the most recent and largest Grand Juries were called “Super” juries with membership of 173 and 266 respectively. The Super Jury II concluded on October 7th. The Presentments and evidence handed down by this super jury will be available to the public within the next 3 to 4 days.
The Presentment from the Second Sitting can be downloaded here. You as a citizen of the United States have the responsibility of making a crime known to the authorities in your city and to State officials, and you can do that by making copies of the Presentment and serving them (just as a process server would do) to your county Sheriff, Circuit or Superior Court Clerk or Judge, or even to your Senators and House of Representative members on the State and Federal level.
There is nothing at stake here except your First Amendment rights and indeed the entire Constitution of the United States of America.
I urge you, my pit bull friends, to put on your lipstick and speak out against this fraud that has been perpetrated on our nation and the American people.
** My thanks to Jury Foreman Bob Campbell for assistance with this article. **
Marie A Cole
