2012 Political Season Will Be a Street Fight
By Lawrence Sellin, PhD
FamnilySecurityMatters.org
Americans should stop whining about the bias and
double standard of the mainstream media and the
barefaced lies told by politicians.
That is what they are, that is what they do and that
will not change. Recognizing reality, however, does
not mean that we should accept it or not act to
change it.
Make no mistake, the 2012 election will be a street
fight, whose outcome will determine if the
Constitution and the rule of law will prevail and if
genuine representative government will be restored.
The United States is ruled by a Democrat and
Republican oligarchy, where power effectively rests,
not with the American people, but with a relatively
small group of politicians and financiers, who
enhance their personal wealth and privilege by
looting the country and maintaining their domination
by adjusting the levers of government and using the
mainstream media to control public perception and
opinion.
From the perspective of the oligarchy, elections are
nothing more than an opportunity to redistribute
power between select Democrat and Republican elites.
To the financiers, it often does not matter who wins
as long as they can continue to influence policy
through their lobbies and by political donations.
The Democrat Party is now controlled by a cadre of
far-left ideologues, whose goal is to promote
socialist dogma and policies nationwide, which can
only be implemented at the expense of personal
liberty.
Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom,
socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all
possible value to each man; socialism makes each man
a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism
have nothing in common but one word: equality. But
notice the difference: while democracy seeks
equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in
restraint and servitude.”
Yet the opposition offers little more than sclerotic
big government Republicanism hardly distinguishable
from the policies proffered by the Democrats and
also designed to limit, rather than expand, liberty.
As de Tocqueville noted:
“After having thus successively taken each member of
the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned
him at will, the government then extends its arm
over the whole community. It covers the surface of
society with a network of small, complicated rules,
minute and uniform, through which the most original
minds and the most energetic characters cannot
penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man
is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided;
men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are
constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does
not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not
tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates,
extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each
nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of
timid and industrious animals, of which the
government is the shepherd.”
In order to sustain the status quo of a timid
citizenry, both the Democrat and Republican
establishments, together with the mainstream media,
remain willing to smother the truth, ignore the
Constitution and
flout the rule of law.
In particular, they fail to vet all candidates for
the offices of President and Vice President, perhaps
intentionally. Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of
the Constitution requires that all candidates for
President and Vice President be a “natural born
citizen.”
The binding Supreme Court precedent Minor vs.
Happersett (1874), which has never been superseded,
defines “natural born” as a U.S. born citizen of
citizen parents at the time of birth; that is, a
second generation American.
Despite the misinformation being doled out by the
Democrat and Republican establishments and the
mainstream media, there is no ambiguity regarding
the meaning of the “natural born” clause.
Side-stepping the Constitution seems to have become
“business as usual” regarding the manner in which
the elites in
If Congress and our government officials refuse to
adhere to the Constitution, then it is time for
ordinary Americans to organize and act accordingly.
A nationwide political insurgency must be launched
to counter the rampant corruption in
No American should vote for any candidate who will
not abide by their oath of office to “support and
defend” the Constitution.
It is a pivotal moment in American history. We all
need to stand tall for the Constitution and the rule
of law and compel those not willing to do so to
stand down.
Exposing the depth and extent of corruption in our
political system will face enormous opposition from
the Democrat and Republican oligarchy, but it is a
necessary and noble fight. And the truth will set us
free.
We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution
blows, the storm is on the horizon. – Alexis de
Tocqueville
Family Security Matters
Contributing Editor Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a
retired colonel with 29 years of service in the