Sheriff Arpaio - ‘I Suspect a Forgery.’ Now what?
By Lawrence
Sellin, PhD
FamilySecurityMatters.org
At a March 1, 2012 press conference,
Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio
said:
"President Barack Obama's long-form
birth
certificate released by the White House
on April 27, 2011, is suspected to be a
computer-generated forgery, not a
scan of
an original 1961 paper document as represented
by the White House when the long-form birth
certificate was made public."
In addition, the Arpaio
report stated that Obama's Selective Service
card was most likely also a forgery and the
records
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
cards filled out by airplane passengers arriving
on international flights originating outside the
United States for the week of President Obama's
birth, including the dates Aug. 1, 1961 through
Aug. 7, 1961 are inexplicably missing from the
National Archives in
Washington,
D.C.
Ready, aim, shoot the
messenger.
Implementing the politics of personal
destruction, the mainstream media has led the
charge, first to discredit Arpaio and then to
ignore the evidence.
Most of the mainstream media simply
regurgitates the opinions of the news outlets
Associated Press and
Reuters.
The first sentence of the AP
article says:
“America's self-proclaimed toughest
sheriff finds himself entangled these days in
his own thorny legal troubles: a federal grand
jury probe over alleged abuse of power, Justice
Department accusations of racial profiling and
revelations that his department didn't
adequately investigate hundreds of Arizona
sex-crime cases.”
Reuters begins its report:
“A tough-talking Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery.”
Following the lead of AP and Reuters, CBS, NBC and ABC interspersed their own reports of the press conference with efforts to discount the evidence of an Obama felony by discrediting Arpaio.
“The
publicity-hungry Arpaio…The 79-year-old
Arpaio, who has been accused by the Justice
Department of racial profiling and who is being
probed by a federal grand jury over potential
abuse of power… Arpaio has also been criticized
for allegedly inadequately investigating
hundreds of sex crimes cases…Arpaio's
probe comes amid a federal grand jury
investigation into the sheriff's office on
criminal
abuse-of-power allegations since at least
December 2009… the U.S. Justice Department has
accused Arpaio's office of racially profiling
Latinos… Critics also have sought Arpaio's
resignation over allegations that more than 400
sex-crimes cases over a three-year period ending
in 2007 were either inadequately investigated or
weren't investigated at all…
Arpaio faces a federal grand jury
investigation on criminal abuse-of-power
allegations; the Justice Department has accused
him of racial profiling Latinos. And there has
been an accusation that hundreds of sex-crime
cases were inadequately investigtated (sic) by
his department.”
The singular raison d'être of
the mainstream media has been, for a long time,
to protect the political interests of the
Democratic Party.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party of
today bears no resemblance to the one I remember
from my youth in a blue collar New Jersey
neighborhood.
It has been hijacked by left-wing
ideologues who will say anything, do anything,
right or wrong to enhance their power even at
the expense of democracy and the rule of law.
Consequently, the American people are
now in a Cold War to force a corrupt
political-media machine to adhere to the
Constitution, restore representative government
and save the Republic.
The Democrat and Republican
establishments and the mainstream media will do
anything within their power to bury the evidence
because they have a clear vested interest in
doing so. Revealing the full truth about public
figures would drive a stake into the heart of a
hopelessly corrupt political system.
It would, furthermore, expose the
American media for being little more than the
propaganda arm of extreme left-wing Democrats
promoting the goal of a de facto
one-party state for the U.S., reminiscent of the
role played by the Communist Party newspaper
Pravda in propping up the dysfunctional Soviet
Union.
Fully vetting our country’s top
politicians will be a giant step in the right
direction.
Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership“ and “Political Establishments and the Culture of Dependency”. He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com