Citizens for the Constitution;
Recently I was solicited by a lovely young lass at Albertson’s Supermarket in Carlsbad, CA, asking me to subscribe to the San Diego Union Tribune.
I told her that delivery of the paper to my home would only make expensive shredded mulch for my wife’s English garden – since the SD Union Tribune has a reputation for hiring left-wing, Marxist, Sharia Law-loving, Obots as columnists.
Sure enough, a few days later, SD Union Tribune Columnist, Logan Jenkins, proved most of my points with a libelous and ignorant hit piece on Article II Constitutionalists (who believe that ‘no Person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible for the Office of President’), while at the same time claiming that he had irrefutable proof that Obama was born in Hawaii.
A number of readers have contacted him asking him to provide that irrefutable proof (since over 180 million Americans have now asked to see it), but he has so far had nothing to offer but left wing-nut rancid-rantings and obfuscations.
His article cites my 3-minute public-comment speech before the Carlsbad, CA City Council on 24 August, 2010, wherein I asked the Council members, as my first line of defense of elected officials, to uphold their Constitutional oath, and demand that Obama prove that he is eligible to hold the Office of President and Commander in Chief. My comments can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_W1SwIdmQ.
His glaring errors and obfuscations are pointed out in (blue italics) following his statements in the article below. And if you are one of the 180 million Americans who are also interested in that irrefutable proof of Obama’s birthplace, Logan’s email address and phone number are included in his article below.
The Proof (or dis-proof) will set us Free.
Neil B. Turner Citizens for the Constitution
Logan Jenkins: In a council meeting, what language is too foul? It's a fair question
By Logan Jenkins
By Logan Jenkins
Monday, February 28, 2011 
“Any person making impertinent and slanderous remarks or who becomes boisterous while addressing the council shall be removed from the room.”
So declares the Carlsbad Municipal Code.
On Aug. 24, that genteel standard of decorum was put to a double test.
During the public-comment period, Neil Turner, a retired (not retired, I served 7 years as a helicopter pilot from 1957-1965) Army captain and member of the Minutemen, challenged the council to either present charges to the Grand Jury or “become complicit” in treason. (when elected representatives become aware of a crime in progress-and do nothing about it- they become chargeable with ‘Misprision of Felony/Treason/Crime specified’).
Throughout his three-minute address, Turner was calm, dignified, measured. Mayor Bud Lewis and council listened impassively to a gentleman accusing the president of breaking into and entering the White House. Turner implored the council to heed Lincoln’s words: “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
In light of the irrefutable facts — President Obama was born in Hawaii (prove it, say 180 million Americans); the so-called “birthers” are conspiracy fabulists — one can imagine a hotheaded, patriotic mayor ordering the removal of Turner from the chamber.
No need to worry. Turner’s right of free, even if wing-nut, speech was exercised despite his slanderous — and arguably seditious — message. (He called upon members of the armed forces to resist the “unlawful” commander in chief’s orders.) (FALSE. Logan must have listened to and misread my previous presentation on 27 July 2010 [seen here] to the Council, wherein I reminded all military and police officers of their oath to defend the Constitution, and to not obey any unlawful orders, lest they also be chargeable with Misprision of Felony).
Next up to the lectern was Richard Shapiro, a homeless 53-year-old man who believes it’s his mission to spread the raw word that the justice system is corrupt from top to bottom. While he concedes his public diatribes are “an exercise in futility,” Shapiro soldiers on. He’s spoken “a thousand times” before councils from the Bay Area to San Diego, he told me.
The problem is, Shapiro feels the need to use rough language in settings where decorum is highly valued.
On Aug. 24, Shapiro began his address by picking up on Turner’s point about silence. Most people, Shapiro said, are moral cowards, though he used an off-color word that’s often sanitized as “wussies.” (The word he used was ‘pussies’, hardly off-color, and could easily be a considered a shortened term for ‘pussy-footers’, or even ‘pusillanimous’, for their cowardly ‘yellow-striper’ actions).
Mayor Lewis, who had been through this R-rated movie before, immediately ordered two officers to grab the speaker. As he was being led away, Shapiro asked off-camera if he could say “heck” or “darn.” (In a subsequent meeting, Shapiro got a rise out of Lewis when he articulated the word “pusillanimous”, a $10 word for cowardly.)
Shapiro will be tried in April for three Carlsbad violations, culminating in the Aug. 24 blowup. Somewhat surprisingly, the District Attorney’s Office is prosecuting the infraction-level case, an indication, one gathers, of the DA’s deep commitment to decorum.
I grant you, Shapiro is a street-wise provocateur, a gloating pain in the gluteus maximus (Tsk. Tsk.), a homeless man’s George Carlin.
But in my etiquette book, it’s un-American to muzzle him, especially when more loathsome, if smoother, speech slides through like rancid butter. (I would daresay that Treason and Sedition, and your libelous statements, Mr. Jenkins, are far more ‘loathsome’).
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An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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