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9:40 AM
by Gerald Klaas
So today the Supreme Court Justices meet to decide whether to hear the case regarding Obama's birth certificate (Donofrio v Wells). It still amazes me that there is more coverage of Obama's blackberry than there is about questions of whether his executive orders and future appointments will be valid. There is huge potential for a Constitutional Crisis, but not a peep from major media. Luckily, individual citizens and the world still watch.....
From UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/barack-obama-citizenship-supreme-court
From Canada: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6654
From India: http://www.domain-b.com/people/in_the_news/20081204_barack_obama%20.html
From Ghana: http://news.myjoyonline.com/international/200812/23568.asp
From Caribbean: http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com/middle_top_news_detail.php?mid=1784
Where's the US media on this?
I'm trying to follow the ideals of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay On Civil Disobedience. Thoreau refused to cooperate with The Machine of oppressive government and encouraged all moral people to do the same. He referred to this "civil disobedience" as creating friction in the machine. Given enough friction for a long enough period of time, the machine will break.
Courses I teach at the local Community College