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Big Foot and Mayday

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

On May 1st, 2011, Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been ambushed and killed by a Navy Seal team and, only a little while later, his body was dumped in the Indian Ocean.

In a little-known but related story, the White House also announced that a Special Forces team ambushed and killed Big Foot in a remote area of Washington State, but on the ride back to base the body fell out of the helicopter into Puget Sound.

A spokesperson confirmed that locating Big Foot would not have been possible but for the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on a limited number of spotted hoot owls which the CIA confirmed had been used as couriers.  The spokesman insisted that the torturing of the hoot owls was well within the limits authorized by special panel of White House aviary lawyers, and that the intelligence gained using these techniques was credible and necessary.

It is widely known that Big Foot has been terrorizing the Yukon Territory for decades.

Some Tea Party activists have decried the government’s actions, saying Big Foot’s death was a wrongful use of Executive power since the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution requires that due process of law must be followed before life, liberty, or property can be taken. However, Obama’s actions enjoyed widespread support from members of the conservative media who pointed out that the marines who tortured the hoot owls and killed Sasquatch were brave and handsome, and should get priority seating on all commercial airplane flights.

Those who have complained that Big Foot was killed without ever having been charged with a crime, or convicted by a court of law, have effectively been silenced by a conservative media that has marginalized such complaints as frivolous and un-American.

Reporting from Washington, this is Michael Anthony Peroutka for Institute on the Constitution, bringing you The American View.

The Supreme Court: Just Another “Wizard of Oz”?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

Recently, arguments were made before the Supreme Court both for and against the constitutionality of what is known as “ObamaCare.”

You probably heard much of the screeching and shouting about this topic in the news. But I would like you to think about something that you probably didn’t hear – and maybe haven’t thought about – concerning this issue and other issues that come before the Supreme Court:

No matter what opinion the Supreme Court issues in this case, or in any case before them, that decision does NOT have the force of law.

Though a Supreme Court ruling is not unimportant, it is legally binding and enforceable only with respect to the parties in this particular case!
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Children Are the Path to Successful Tyranny

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

You can’t subjugate a Christian people. They won’t stand for it! A Christian culture will recognize and reject tyranny before tyranny can get a foothold. This is because a Biblically-literate and -devoted people will not allow their civil government to tyrannically usurp the jurisdictions of self government, family government, and church government.

A Christian people, by virtue of their understanding of God’s creation, their knowledge of history, their comprehension of the divine origin of law, and their assurance of heavenly citizenship, will never suffer earthly leaders who do not speak and act lawfully. A Christian people would not be so foolish as to allow those who mock law and justice to lead them.
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Government-Run Schools Very “Successful” In Achieving Goal Of Getting Rid Of Christianity

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

In all this talk about the public schools — what some of us call the “government-run schools” — there is one salient fact that cannot be denied. They are, almost universally, a blazing and brilliant success.

You don’t believe me? You have doubts? You say to me, “But Michael, don’t you know that the history of the public schools has been a record of abject failure? Don’t you know that the schools have been steadily drugging and dumbing-down our children for generations until these united States are a laughing stock among civilized countries when it comes to the performance of our students? Don’t you know that instead of teaching Reading, Writing and Arithmetic our schools have been laboratories for all kinds of social experimentation and places where sexual perversion is encouraged and even demonstrated to the children? Don’t you know that our schools are physically-dangerous places to be, and that armed guards, special security procedures, and occasional lockdowns are becoming the norm? Aren’t you aware that schools are forever demanding more resources and producing more and more illiterate and otherwise unprepared young adults who cannot compete intellectually or culturally? Michael, you must be kidding —You’ve got to stop skipping your medication! Don’t you know that the public schools have been destroying America?”

Yes . . . I know. Let’s talk about it.
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The Larceny Is Larger than You Think!

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

Suppose you wake up tomorrow morning, walk downstairs and find a thief in your living room rifling through your furniture. He has already pocketed some cash from your desk drawer, and in his satchel he has tucked away your silverware, your jewelry, and your rare coin collection. You’ve caught him in the act! You’ve pulled out your Smith and Wesson, and you’ve called the police.

While waiting for the authorities to come and incarcerate him, he offers you what he calls an accommodation. “I’ll grant you a waiver on the coin collection,” he says, taking it out of the satchel. “You can keep it for one more year.”

Grateful for his generosity, you thank him profusely. Of course, you allow him to leave peacefully. And you explain to the police that you are so happy to have your coin collection for one more year, you really don’t mind that he took all your silverware, and your jewelry, and your cash. You are now able to tell your wife and your children and all your neighbors how you, with your tough negotiating and your swift action, totally thwarted that burglar.

I don’t think so.

Here’s the comparison that I’d like you to consider:

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Maryland Legislature Commits Suicide

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Michael Anthony Peroutka

After a decade of peering over the dangerous cliff of delusion, the Maryland Legislature, by vainly attempting to alter the definition of marriage, has finally succeeded in jumping to its own destruction.

Of course, no earthly government body can redefine marriage any more than it can redefine the law of gravity. This is because both the institution of marriage and the force of gravity are part of what our founders referred to as the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” That is to say, they are part of God’s Creation, and their definitions are outside the jurisdiction of man.

Any pretended legislation claiming that such a change has occurred is null and void, and of no effect. No matter how much ink gets spilled on paper in Annapolis, no change has occurred in either the laws of gravity or the definition of marriage.
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