They’re wrong.
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Those are one million people who can carry a handgun concealed or, if they choose, carry it openly under the Open Carry law Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law last year.
According to CBS-DFW, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) “received 136,000 License to Carry applications” from December 2015 through February 2016. That “140 percent jump in applications” when compared to the “57,000 [applications submitted] over that period last year.”
Central Texas Gun Works owner Michael Cargill believes the surge in applications is due to an overall sense of unrest in the nation right now. He credited that unrest to “fears of terrorism brought on by the shootings in San Bernardino” combined with the continued concern that President Obama is still pushing gun control.
The DPS has been forced to increase staff dedicated to concealed handgun licensing in order to keep up with the growing demand.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Ted Cruz & the Qualifications for President of the United StatesWith his declaration of candidacy for President, Senator Ted Cruz has unfortunately launched the Republican Party into the same realm of lawlessness traversed by the Democratic Party when its delegates nominated Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Neither man is eligible to be President based upon the qualifications listed in the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution makes a clear distinction between the citizenship requirements for a U.S. Representative (Article I, Section 1), U.S. Senator (Article I, Section 2), and the President (Article II, Section 1). While Representatives and Senators have more lenient citizenship requirements (they must only be “citizens” for a specified period of time), the President has to be a “natural born citizen.” Of all the millions of jobs in the U.S., only two jobs — President and Vice-President — require the worker to be a “natural born citizen.”1
The critical question is obviously this: What did the writers of the U.S. Constitution mean by the term “natural born” when they applied this unique requirement to the President? 2
The Founding Fathers relied heavily upon the work of Swiss philosopher Emerich de Vattel when drafting the Constitution. In 1758 Vattel wrote the following in The Law of Nations: “…natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens…The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children…in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country” (emphasis added).3 The Founders rightly understood that the most influential component of a child’s upbringing is his parents – and the cultural, philosophical, political, and religious influence of a child’s parents fundamentally establish the direction of his future conduct and decision making.
In the U.S. Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), which is the only defining precedent on the Constitution’s use of the term “natural born Citizen,” the Court concluded the following: “At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners” (emphasis added).4
Numerous writers are already trying to validate Ted Cruz’s eligibility, stating he can be President because he is a U.S. “citizen.” Is it enough for Senator Cruz to be a “citizen,” or is something more required by the term “natural born”? What are the categories of U.S. citizenship, and who might qualify to be President under those various types of citizenship status?
Category I. A person is a U.S. citizen if he is born in the U.S., even if neither parent is a U.S. citizen (as long as his parents are not foreign diplomats). This is the citizenship status of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who is listed alongside Senator Ted Cruz in national straw polls as a prospective Presidential candidate. Jindal’s parents were student visa holders from India when he was born; neither of his parents was a U.S. citizen. While Governor Jindal is obviously a patriotic American, another U.S. citizen of this same citizenship category was not — yet he could have been considered for the Presidency if the Founder’s definition of a natural born citizen is rejected. I refer to the radical al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a central figure involved in planning the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Anwar al-Awlaki was born in the U.S. to parents from the country of Yemen and was thus considered a U.S. “citizen.” He met the age and residence requirements to be President. Would you want to dilute the meaning of natural born citizen to allow Anwar al-Awlaki to be a candidate for President?
Category 2. A person is also a U.S. citizen if he is born in the U.S. or anywhere in the world to one parent who is a U.S. citizen. This situation is complicated, since the child is also often a dual (or even triple) citizen at birth, receiving the citizenship of the country where he is born as well as the citizenship of each parent. This is the situation of Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and possibly Rick Santorum5. Barack Obama was a dual U.S. – British citizen at birth (his father was a British subject of Kenya) and is even now a dual U.S. – Kenyan citizen after adoption of the Kenyan constitution in 2010. If we go back to Vattel’s statement, it is clearly evident from President Obama’s writings and economic and foreign policy decisions that the U.S. is not “his” country; rather, his allegiance is to the country of his Islamic father (Kenya), his Islamic step-father (Indonesia), and his Communist/socialist father-mentors. While I do not doubt the patriotism of Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum, who were all raised in the U.S, the current President should be ample evidence of the dangers of accepting this category of citizenship as being the same as a “natural born citizen.” Barack Obama’s loyalties are clearly to the ideologies of the nations of his fathers, who were not U.S. citizens.
Also problematic is the potential for this second citizenship category to result in dual citizenship. The U.S. Constitution was very carefully crafted by patriotic, wise men under Divine inspiration. It is no accident that the words “natural born” precede the citizenship requirement for the President, while being omitted from the listed qualifications for Representative and Senator. It was unthinkable that a nation newly freed from foreign oppression would allow a dual citizen to serve as head-of-state and military commander-in-chief!
Category 3. A person is a U.S. citizen if he is born to parents who are both U.S. citizens, regardless of his place of birth. This person is clearly a natural born citizen. As Vattel wrote, it is the child’s parentage that is significant, not the place of his birth. If both of a child’s parents are U.S. citizens, he will be rooted in American language and culture, even if he is born and raised in a foreign country (such as to parents who are in the Armed Forces, serving as missionaries, or working in U.S. diplomacy). This “foreign-born” circumstance of natural born citizenship was affirmed as recently as 2008, in the case of Republican nominee Senator John McCain, who was born to U.S. citizens who were serving on a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone. All but three, and possibly four5, of the current prospective Presidential candidates fit this citizenship category; voters need look no further than these candidates, but should omit from consideration all candidates from the other citizenship categories.
Category 4. A person may become a “naturalized” citizen after fulfilling various requirements of legal immigration, lawful residence in the U.S., and examination. Naturalized citizens may serve as U.S. Representatives or Senators, but they clearly do not have the same citizenship status as natural born citizens.
Ted Cruz and Barack Obama were both dual citizens at birth, not natural born citizens whose parents both owed allegiance to the United States. While I do not doubt Senator Cruz’s loyalty to the United States (and I appreciate his decision to relinquish his Canadian citizenship), he can never satisfy the “letter of the law” stated in the U.S. Constitution. Harvard law professors (writing in the Harvard Review to try to justify Ted Cruz’s eligibility), Congressional Research Services staff (Jack Haskell’s memorandum to Congress seeking to justify Barack Obama’s eligibility6), the courts, and Congress have no authority to change what the U.S. Constitution clearly states and intended: The President of the United States can only be a person whose parents were both U.S. citizens.
Ted Cruz claims to be a defender of the Constitution, yet he is violating that very document in seeking the Presidency. The Idaho Republican Party is unfortunately complicit in this constitutional violation by listing Ted Cruz (as well as Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, and potentially ineligible candidate Rick Santorum5) on their web site’s straw poll of prospective Republican Presidential candidates.7 Wise voters can reject Senator Cruz as a candidate, even if he chooses not to drop out of the race before the Republican primaries and caucuses begin in 2016. And we can support his efforts in the U.S. Senate, an office for which he is unquestionably eligible.
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By implication, the Vice-President must also be a natural born citizen, because the Vice-President shall assume the responsibilities of President under specified circumstances stated in the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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The European experiment is over, socialism in Europe has brought chaos, the rise of nationalism is expected. Right wing is ready for takeoff. New leaders from the right are positioning themselves as they wait in the wings. Merkel and company are watching their backs and they should be. Idolic towns are being over run by the criminal element, most if not all are Muslims. Rapes are common. With abandon, many of today’s Neville Chamberlains are taken to the back forty.
Brussels for example, the hotbed of Muslim extremism, is a powder keg. Districts in Belgium are 100% Muslim; there they hatch plans of destruction where no police dear to tredge. Suicide bombers, armed and ready to go at an instant. Politicians playing lip service, “we are resolved”, resolved for what? More killing, more devastation.
The Eunuch (A eunuch is a man who may have been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences) are about to taste the medicine of their own device. Not able to integrate into society, these Islamists blame the West for their place in life. When the blame is all theirs due to their embracement of a political agenda called Islam which is against all laws of nature. it is time for the rest of the world to call a spade a spade.
Mr. Wilders said: “I fear that we ain’t seen nothing yet. According to Europol 3,000 to 5,000 European jihadists, who went to Syria to fight in the ranks of IS and similar terrorist groups, have meanwhile returned to Western Europe. Some of them hid among the hundreds of thousands of Islamic asylum seekers that entered Europe from Asia and Africa.
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Aloof, how else can describe one who indulges himself. Belgium carnage kills dozens and Hussein awkwardly dances the tango. Americans are being killed, but our Muslim President is cheek to cheek with Argentinian eye candy.
Almost eight years in office and this demagogue is still standing tall because the likes of Boehner and McConnell, both saturated with anesthesia, stood by while being rolled. Deficits run amok, the world on the verge of WWIII, Constitution spat on, illegal interrogations, IRS targeting Tea Party folks, Clinton killing four brave soldiers in Benghazi, ISIS sympathiser cells waiting the call to Jihad in the homeland, but most of all the United States has now positioned itself as a minor player on the world stage – thanks to Obama.
Quit NATO now, Quit the United Nations now, Quit the International Monetary Fund now, Quit the New World Order now. Eviscerate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Agriculture and Energy. Bring our troops home. Secretary John Kerry, a Vietnam peacenik, talks words but the result is no Action; same as Hillary, the liar, Clinton who should be indicted for crimes against America. Jail the Bird now. The time has come for America to be for Americans. All others can leave now before they have a chance.
REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION
Europe is in the thick of it, wondering when the next suicide bomber will self destruct. What was once a sleepy Europe, a cultural paradise, a socialists envy has now turned into night watch and lock down. Neighbors suspicious of neighbors, foreigners of the Muslim bent being scrutinized more now than ever.
Underground death squads being formed for the eventual confrontation. Before being killed in a police raid, the ringleader of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks claimed he had entered Europe in a multinational group of 90 fighters, who scattered “more or less everywhere.” Estimates range from 400 to 600 Islamic State fighters trained specifically for external attacks, according to the officials, including Goulet. Some 5,000 Europeans have gone to Syria.
Europe on edge, waiting for the next attack. They now wonder if the multiculturalism experiment is dead. Immigrants from foreign lands with a culture more attuned to the tenth century B.C. do not find it easy to except 21st century thinking; they never have. Christian countries take in these immigrants believing they are helping the homeless. However, like inviting a pyromaniac into a gas station they will find it is too late to put out the fire.
Click here for the full story From Breitbart
Mr. Wilders said: “I fear that we ain’t seen nothing yet. According to Europol 3,000 to 5,000 European jihadists, who went to Syria to fight in the ranks of IS and similar terrorist groups, have meanwhile returned to Western Europe. Some of them hid among the hundreds of thousands of Islamic asylum seekers that entered Europe from Asia and Africa.
Addressing the Court in Holland five days ago.
Mr President, Members of the Court,
For more than eleven years, I have been living under death threats. Every day, I am reminded of this. Even today. This morning, I was driven here in a convoy of armored cars, with sirens, flashing lights, and surrounded by bodyguards. And not only today, but every day.
I will be brought home in the same way. Home is a safe-house. My office is a shielded room. And when I have to stand in court, it is here, in a bunker at Schiphol.
Below is a blog from January 2015.
Support for anti-Islamic Freedom Party of Dutch populist, Geert Wilders, has jumped to its highest level in more than a year after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris. In the wake of that bloodshed,(click) Wilderssaid that the West was “at war” with Islam and he called for tough measures against it. “If we don’t do anything, it will happen here,” he was quoted by the newspaper Het Parool as saying.
Click here for the latest on the Prophet by Bill Warner, Mohammed and the Unbelievers, CSPI Publishing, 2006, 172 pp., $17.95 (softcover).Intolerance and aggression are inherent in Islam.
There are large neighborhoods in the Paris suburbs called No-Go Zones, where non-Muslims dare not enter. There are similar areas in cities throughout Europe. They are microstates within states, governed by Shariah law, where young people go to madrassas instead of public schools.
Don’t be convinced by politicians who will try to sway your opinion utilizing their politically correct language so not to enrage the Muslim population; for instance Obama on the Fort Hood piece of human excrement that murdered 13 of our Servicemen calls it “work place violence.” His then puppet master doubles down on the dialogue.
White House spokesman Jay Carney to reporters. “Maj. Hasan had never deployed in support of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq, so he was obviously unable to absorb any sort of extremist message, and he targeted soldiers in a single location, which meant he clearly had issues relevant to that specific location or population.”
When asked if Hasan’s Muslim faith had any bearing on the decision to label that incident ‘workplace violence’ instead of a terror attack, Carney was adamant that it did not.
Listen to Obama here. Very important Q & A. This is very telling and important for those in the United States to understand.
A Pakistani Doctor speaks out. Click here for a very enlightening interview by Muslim Dr. Qanta Ahmed.
France has a big problem. So does Great Britain. So does the rest of Europe. And so does America. The problem is the several thousand young, native-born Islamist extremists who travel abroad to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, or Al Qaeda in Yemen and Pakistan, and come home to kill. And don’t forget we have a home grown terrorist in the White House via Kenya and Indonesia.
Fear has brought Europe to a standstill. Europeans are in the grip of Islamic Jihadists. Do they hide behind every bush? That is the question. Security in Europe is non existent. With the tsunami of Muslims infiltrating the Old Country it is inevitable that suicide bombers will exercise the will of Allah. Wave after wave of bombings have not hardened the minds of Merkel and Hollande.They fail to see the forest from the trees.
We are not an island until itself. Terrorists, invited to the United States by Obama and Clinton are in the planning stage seeking to spread fear and wreck havoc here in the United States. One lone wolf triggered by the call of Holy Jihad, is all it takes. And believe us, believe Trump, they will do the work of Allah with dispatch. On Obama’s watch 150,000 potential terrorists have been given the green light to come to America. They are everywhere, you see them, we see them. Wherever they are they make demands, they incite, they intimidate. They are not us folks, they are foreign to our nature, our culture and our way of life.
America should wise up to this extreme terrorist threat that has infiltrated our glorious country. On Obama’s watch another one million illegals have crossed the southern border alone, many of them from Jihadist Countries of Africa; such as Somalia, Yemen, Libya. Be vigilant, make sure your back is protected; watch for suspicious objects. Let us, with a shiv, jar your memory, that Ford Hood killer has not been called a Terrorist by Obama – “work place violence” is Obama’s definition of what happened. Obama has not protected us, what makes anyone think that Hillary Clinton will protect us. Did she protect our Four Brave Men in Benghazi. Wake Up America.
