Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another Obama constitutional criminal to get his black robes as payment for services rendered.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Another Obama constitutional criminal to get his black robes as payment for services rendered.

Legal Times reports that Harvard Law School professor David Barron, who previously served in a top-level position in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, was nominated today to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Barron, formerly acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel under Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., returned to Harvard in 2010. Barron joined Harvard Law School in 1999 as an assistant professor. He became a professor in 2004. Earlier in his career, Barron served as an attorney-adviser in OLC, the division whose lawyers provide legal guidance to executive branch agencies. Virginia Seitz, a former Sidley Austin partner, is the assistant attorney general in charge of the office now.

Barron and former OLC colleague Marty Lederman, who has since returned to Georgetown University Law Center, principally drafted a secret legal memo assessing the authority to target and kill a U.S. citizen abroad, The New York Times reported in October 2011. The Times said the OLC memo, written around June 2010, “laid out the administration’s justification” for targeting Anwar al-Awlaki. (The Justice Department has not publicly released the memo.)

As The Collapse Report asked last year: "Why Isn’t the Bar Association Dis-Barring David Barron and Martin Lederman For Telling Obama He Could Legally Murder?"

The pertinent question asked by a long-time reader who forwarded the above link to me is: "Given he was Acting Asst AG in the Office of Legal Counsel to Holder, did he have any connection with F&F?"

I will try to find out.

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"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Another Obama constitutional criminal to get his black robes as payment for services rendered.

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