Can Obama be
Impeached?
By JB Williams
As the nation searches for the proper peaceful remedy to the
crisis known as Obama, good people of good intentions often research a common
subject and arrive at a different conclusion. Such has been the case on the
topic of whether or not Barack Hussein Obama can be impeached.
In a WND column dated July 14, 2011 titled Why Obama Cannot be Impeached,
the writer states, “Rage continues to
build across this country over the obvious forged birth certificate Barry
Soetoro, aka Barack Obama, released April 27, 2011, as do calls for his
impeachment. However, Obama cannot be impeached.”
The author’s position is based upon statements from Dr. Edwin Vieira, a Harvard
trained attorney, who’s works are focused primarily on land rights and
militias. Dr. Vieira issued his position in a 2008 piece written
and released before the 2008 election, Vieira suggests that once Obama takes
office via fraud, he cannot be impeached, on the basis that impeaching a usurper of the office would
somehow validate his tenure in office. Is he right?
To be sure, the Obama Crisis presents a highly unusual set
of circumstances, rising to the level of constitutional crisis in a number of
ways. The proper peaceful remedy is indeed worthy of research and debate. Only
once the people agree on a proper
course of action, can action be taken… so, it is imperative that the people reach agreement on this
matter.
Who is right in the debate is much less important than
reaching an actionable position of agreement. The endless debate on the subject
only leaves all concerned citizens paralyzed by confusion and lack of coherent
direction in how to solve the crisis.
It is for this reason that I have returned to historical
data on the subject of impeachment in search of the foundations for impeachment
remedies found in Article II – Section IV of the U.S. Constitution.
“The
President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be
removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or
other high crimes and misdemeanors.” – Article
II – Section IV of the U.S. Constitution
I fully understand and even agree with the claim that Barack
Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) gained access to the Office of President via
massive fraud, including identity fraud, campaign fraud and campaign finance
fraud, just for starters.
I further agree that Mr. Obama’s acts during his
unconstitutional and illegal seizing of the Oval Office, as well as his
unconstitutional acts while in office, rise to the level of impeachable
offenses, high crimes, usurpations and likely even treason.
But I do not agree that Obama/Soetoro cannot be removed from
office via impeachment. In fact, I believe that Obama can only be removed from
office via impeachment. Here’s the basis for my belief…
James Madison explained the requirement for impeachment
during the debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787: “Some provision should be made for defending
the community against the incapacity, negligence, or perfidy of the chief
magistrate. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or
oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
In Federalist Paper No. 65, Alexander Hamilton explained
that “impeachment of the president should
take place for offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in
other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a
nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they
relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.”
And indeed, in Commentaries on the
Constitution, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story (1811-1845) explained: “The offenses to which the remedy of
impeachment has been and will continue to be principally applied are of a
political nature... What are aptly termed political offenses, growing out of
personal misconduct, or gross neglect, or usurpation, or habitual disregard of
the public interests.”
Common throughout historical references to the impeachment
process is the concept that a violation
or breach of public trust, or habitual
disregard for the public interest is the fundamental definition of other high crimes and misdemeanors, as it relates to the Founders
intended use of the impeachment clause found in Article II.
The legal debate over use of impeachment concerning immunity
from criminal prosecutions of any individual occupying the Oval Office is
covered quite extensively here. In conclusion,
seizing the Oval Office by way of fraud, usurpations of the office, and acting
in a manner at odds with public interests, constitutional authority or in
breach of the public trust, are all impeachable offenses.
In Federalist Paper No. 70, Hamilton further explained: “Men in public trust will much oftener act
in such a manner as to render them unworthy of being any longer trusted, than
in such a manner as to make them obnoxious and subject to legal punishment.” –
“Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from
Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or
Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless
be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishment, according
to Law.”
In short, the Oval Office (not the individual occupying the
office) has protections against criminal charges or prosecutions during the
tenure of office, be it legitimate tenure or not.
“In 1973, the Justice Department
concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President
would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform
its constitutionally assigned functions. We have been asked to summarize and
review the analysis provided in support of that conclusion, and to consider
whether any subsequent developments in the law lead us today to reconsider and
modify or disavow that determination. We believe that the conclusion reached by
the Department in 1973 still represents the best interpretation of the
Constitution.” – Full legal reference
here…
This means that before any occupant of the Oval Office can
be charged with or prosecuted for crimes, they must first be removed from
office via impeachment, so that the business of the people can continue while
the individual is being prosecuted for criminal activities.
The fact that Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) was
able to gain access to the Oval Office by way of fraud, does not change the very
real fact that before he can be charged with his crimes, he must first be
removed from office via impeachment. Impeachment places in question, every act
taken by Obama while illegally holding office. It does not in any way validate those
acts.
There is no doubt in my mind after five years of
investigations in to the person known as Barack Hussein Obama, that he is
indeed an imposter, a usurper of the Oval Office. There is no doubt in my mind
that every act he has committed while holding office illegally, should be null
and void upon his removal from office via impeachment and subsequent criminal
indictment.
This is within the letter of the law and all historical
reference to subject.
In the process of seizing the Oval and in his administration
of Oval Office duties, Barack Hussein Obama has committed high crimes and
misdemeanors. Not only can he be impeached, he must be impeached, removed from
office and charged with his crimes, held fully accountable for his actions.
But nobody wants to touch this matter with a ten foot pole,
because the constitutional crisis created by Obama and the Democrat Party are
of monumental proportions.
The constitutional line of succession to the Oval Office
will not hold in this case as every individual in that line of succession was
in one way or another, involved and complicit if the most egregious fraud ever
perpetrated on the American people.
The only way to solve this crisis is to impeach Barack
Hussein Obama and then charge him with his crimes. Unfortunately, everyone in
the constitutional line of succession must also be removed from office and
charged with their complicity in the Obama crisis.
Unless and until the people force these actions to be taken
by congress, America no longer belongs to the American people, any imposter can
hold the highest office in our land, no one will be free and the rule of
constitutional law is nonexistent.
As long as people continue to endlessly debate the obvious, no
such actions will be taken and there will be no way to save America from what
is essentially a silent and unchallenged coup d'état.
The list of usurpations and administration crimes would
require an encyclopedia to fully chronicle at this late stage. Recent breaking
news of massive violations of American constitutional rights by nearly every
federal agency which Obama has turned against the people of the United States
eliminates any possibility that these events are just independent agency
coincidences.
The longer the American people dilly-dally with senseless
debates over remedies, the more evil is able to sink its grip deeper and deeper
into all governmental powers. It’s time for the debate to end and action to
begin…
We can only charge an occupant of the Oval Office with
crimes after they have been removed from office. There are only three ways to
remove an individual from the Oval Office…
1. The
Election Booth
2. The
John Wilkes Booth method
3. Impeachment
Obama knows this even if his opponents don’t. As a result, Obama
mocks the American people, whom he believes lack the intestinal fortitude
to dare remove him from office. If you think your Sheriff can save you, think
again… We must save ourselves!
Impeach Obama & Co. now, or lose your country forever!
For starters, get behind Rep.
Tom McClintock and Rep.
Jim Bridenstine, and then force your representatives and senators to move
to impeachment immediately.
This crisis is not like wine, it will not get
better with time. The time for debate is over. The time for action has arrived!
Impeach while that is still an optionJB Williams
Co-Founder
www.PatriotsUnion.org
www.VeteranDefenders.org
www.ThePatriotsNews.com
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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action organizations The United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles. Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
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