The Peregrin Falcon

Since today is a day for the celebration because on the morning of May 5,1862 near Puebla Mexico a force of 4000 Mexican soldiers smashed and defeated a combined the French and traitorous Mexican army of 8,000; which sounded the end of French intervention in Mexico. (http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/travel/2009/05/cinco-de-mayo-facts.html)

I figured I could find an equally compelling example of how the United States may be loosing what our forefathers fought and died for by contrast.

If you read this blog then you know by now that I am a fan of David Arnett of Tulsa Today. We may not always agree, but I can usually count on him to be the most informed of those I would disagree with. The post from March the 3rd however, is one which I agree enough with to re-post.

The author is Joan Swirsky and the article is The President Who Hates His Country. Below is an excerpt of the whole, and I have included the link if you want to read the entire article for yourself.

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SOME DARE CALL IT TREASON

It is one thing to question a president’s patriotism, but even more serious to accuse him of treason. In an open letter to Obama on Treason, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1975) minces no words in accusing the president of sending Army forces to Samson, Alabama, and Boston in violation of the Constitution. Here are excerpts of his letter:

“I have observed and extensively recorded invidious attacks by military-political aristocrats against the Constitution for twenty years. Now you have broken in and entered the White House by force of contrivance, concealment, conceit, and deceit. Posing as an imposter president and commander in chief, you have stripped civilian command and control over the military establishment…

“We come now to the reckoning. I accuse you and your military-political criminal assistants of TREASON. I name you and your military criminal associates as traitors. Your criminal ascension manifests a clear and present danger. You fundamentally changed our form of government. The Constitution no longer works….

“I identify you as a foreign-born domestic enemy. You are not my president. You are not my commander in chief.

Fitzpatrick is not alone. John Smith – http://johnsmith.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/25/obama_is_a_traitor.thtml – a blogger on www.Townhall.com, titled a recent article “Obama Is a Traitor.” Commenting on the president’s release of the “torture” memos, Smith says:

“Given the actions of Barack Obama in recent days, one has to wonder how many soon-to-be released State secrets have been gathered by radical left-wing traitors and hidden in the dark recesses of Washington, awaiting the Manchurian Candidate’s command to publish them…

“The motivation for Obama’s recent intentional disclosure of Top Secret CIA memoranda…was an act committed solely to increase his own political power through appeasement of the radical left…or was it …guided by the twisted moral imperative uniquely embraced by the Left, which dictates that only those actions that serve to limit individual liberty, punish patriotism, and destroy the traditions and culture of the United States of America are good?…

“Were Obama’s actions motivated by a deeply rooted desire to harm this Nation?…

“Article III of the Constitution defines Treason against the United States as “… levying War against them or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort…”

“Top Secret information is the highest level of classification that we have on a national level. By definition, such material, if made public, will cause “exceptionally grave damage” to national security…

“The willful disclosure of Top Secret information is an act of Treason against the United States….A sitting President of The United States of America has committed Treason.”

Fitzpatrick and Smith are among a rising tide of voices – in and outside of the military – who have observed with growing horror Obama’s proclivity to destroy our capitalist economic system, subvert the U.S. Constitution, endanger our military and intelligence services, and obsequiously embrace America’s sworn enemies.

Dr. Jack Wheeler, a consummate Washington insider, goes one step further. “The evidence that the President of the United States is a traitor is mounting. The evidence that the President of the United states is a mortal danger to America’s national security is mounting. The evidence that the President of the United States will not defend America from threats and insults from every two-bit fascist dictator in the world …is not only mounting, it is overwhelming.”

Writer Amy L. Geiger-Hammer states: “I do wonder if Obama should be called a traitor or just incompetent…does he ever talk about what a great country America is?”

And UK journalist Gerald Warner echoes that rising tide: “If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter. Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. “

IS AMERICA LOST?

Multiple lawsuits to find proof that Obama is Constitutionally ineligible to be president are ongoing and will ultimately determine if he is an American or Kenyan or Indonesian or UK “natural-born” citizen. To this date, he has spent over a million dollars blocking the suits about his still-missing birth certificate, and there is increasing evidence that the birth certificate attested to by FactCheck.org, FightTheSmears.org, and DailyKos.com are forgeries.. And of course we still have not seen Obama’s Selective Service record, medical records, multiple visas, college transcripts, et al.

If Obama is proven to be the fraud and interloper many suspect, every one of his edicts, bills, laws, dictates, Supreme Court selections, et al, will be overturned, leaving America to cope with serious problems – under the leadership of the incomprehensible Joe Biden – but nothing approaching this hate-America president’s far-left socialist domestic programs and appease-our-enemies foreign policy.

The huge national turnouts at the Tea Parties of April 15 were only the beginning of a movement that was spurred by ordinary Americans waking up to Obama’s destruction of our economy, his attempts to reshape America into a banana republic, the grave damage he’s inflicted on our military and intelligence services, and his unsavory predilection for embracing our enemies and apologizing non-stop for the most magnificent nation on earth.

In short, they are waking up to the president who hates his country.

Editor Charlotte Baker predicts that “the Tea Parties and other, more aggressive, protests will grow exponentially, and that the Obama juggernaut can and will be stopped.” It’s crucial, she says, “for all Americans to recall the history they learned in school – at least before the Left hijacked what used to be known as `education.’ The Europeans, Japanese and Russians were all taken over by one form or another of totalitarianism because their combined history was one of absolute rulers – kings, czars and `divine’ emperors. They were totally conditioned to tyranny.

“But the monstrous anti-American gang that rigged the voting system on November 4, 2008– as they do routinely in Obama’s Chicago Machine politics – to push Obama into We-the-People’s White House, have shown – even before his inauguration – the kind of overreaching that arrogant tyrants always demonstrate. Hitler, Mao, Tojo and Stalin all got away with overreaching, but they weren’t brutalizing Americans.

“Tolerating totalitarianism is simply not in the genetic code – the DNA – of Americans! Baker adds. “Freedom and Liberty run in our blood!”

Indeed!
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About the author:
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 May 2009 )

http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1953&Itemid=2

Recently I was sent one of those dreaded “check this out” emails. The kind that I have repeatedly reminded my fellow staff workers to not send to me under any circumstance. We have a new person in our office who has not had my lecture on the spreading of computer virus via lol cats, so she sent me a email with a simple title. The title was Ed Freeman.

Ignoring my own advise I read the email that began “You’re an 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam .” I was instantly pulled in to the story and needed to know the truth behind the story. After a little investigating, I came across this actual story from The Idao Statesman written by Katy Moeller.

Here is the story that I truly wish more people have read and that I am sure was completely missed by the mainstream media, both during his Medal of Honor ceremony carried out by former President George W. Bush, and after his death last August in 2008.

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IDAHO VETERAN OF THREE WARS, MEDAL OF HONOR HERO DIES

Among those who visited Ed Freeman in a Boise hospital were those he had saved.

BY KATY MOELLER - kmoeller@idahostatesman.com
Published: 08/21/08

As Ed “Too Tall” Freeman lay ill in a Boise hospital over the past few weeks, many came to pay their respects to the 80-year-old national war hero and former helicopter pilot. One unexpected visitor offered a very personal thank you to Freeman, a veteran of three wars and recipient of the highest military award - the Congressional Medal of Honor - for his actions on Nov. 14, 1965, at Landing Zone X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam. “A guy came into the hospital and said, ‘You don’t know me, but I was one of those people you hauled out of the X-Ray,’” said Mike Freeman, 54, one of Ed’s two sons. “He said, ‘Thanks for my life.’ “
Freeman died Wednesday.

His Medal of Honor citation credits him with helping save 30 seriously wounded soldiers in 14 separate rescue missions in an unarmed helicopter. Since the Medal of Honor was created during the Civil War, 3,467 have been awarded, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The heroics of Freeman and the others involved in the Ia Drang campaign are immortalized in the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers,” which is based on the book “We Were Soldiers Once … And Young.” A sequel, “We Are Soldiers Still,” was released this month.

Freeman, a Mississippi native who married an Idahoan, began his military career at 17 with a two-year stint in the Navy during World War II. “He joined the Navy and hated it. The ocean thing was not his bag,” Mike Freeman said. So he joined the Army, serving four years in Germany before getting deployed to the Korean conflict.

The 6-foot-4 tell-it-like-it-is Southerner got the name “Too Tall” because he was told he was too tall to be a pilot. That didn’t stop him from pushing to fly. “He was tenacious about getting into flight school. He drove them insane until they let him in,” Mike Freeman said.

He proved his mettle by becoming one the Army’s most heralded helicopter pilots. Two streets at Fort Rucker, Ala., where Freeman trained to be a helicopter pilot, were recently named in honor of Freeman and Maj. Bruce P. Crandall, his commanding officer in the Ia Drang campaign.

In the early 1960s, Freeman served as aviation adviser to the Idaho Army National Guard. “He was a super instructor. He was not one of these guys who get excited very easily,” said retired Maj. Gen. Jack Kane, former commanding general of the Idaho National Guard. Kane, a second lieutenant in 1963-64, got his first helicopter lessons from Freeman. Decades later, Kane attended the 2001 Medal of Honor ceremony for Freeman at the White House.

“It was, really, a super-moving moment,” said Kane, who was in a meeting at the Pentagon when Freeman called to invite him to the ceremony.

Freeman retired from the military in 1967 and a few years later moved to Idaho with his wife, Barbara, and sons, Mike and Doug. But he didn’t give up flying. He went to work for the Department of Interior’s Office of Aircraft Services. Mike Freeman said his dad made sure that helicopter pilots contracted by Department of Interior agencies were up to snuff. “Anyone who flew for the government had to get past him,” he said.

Freeman retired from flying in 1991 with more than 25,000 hours of flying time, including 18,000 in helicopters, according to his family and a 2002 newsletter published by the Idaho Military Historical Society and Museum. That’s nearly three years in the air.

Freeman became a highly sought-after speaker, and he still gets hundreds of letters each year from admirers of all ages. He rarely missed Friday lunches at Boise’s Din Fung Buffet, where a group of Purple Heart veterans met each week for the past seven years. “We’re a bunch of loose cannons. We have our own opinions, but everything is in jest,” said Dick Bengoechea, 84, who was a U.S. Army tank driver in Germany during World War II.

On Friday, a miniature helicopter and Medal of Honor book will be placed at the head of the group’s table in memory of Freeman. One of the traits Bengoechea admired about Freeman was his candor.

“He didn’t care about rank,” Bengoechea said. “If he thought he was right, he didn’t care if he told a general he was wrong. He was a man’s man.”

Freeman, a Republican who his son says was anything but politically correct, was much more than a great patriot.He was a devoted family man whose many passions included Volkswagens (he had many over the years, including The Thing) and fly fishing with his grandson, Scott. In the past year and a half, Parkinson’s disease ravaged Freeman’s body. With the help of his sons, he was able to live at home until he became gravely ill three and a half weeks ago.
“He was a caring guy who cared about his family,” Mike Freeman said. “I’ll miss that a lot.”

Katy Moeller: 377-6413

http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/477355.html