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The Conspiracy Of Suppression: A Man Of Science Examines Obama's Birth Certificate
Birther Report
2/21/2013
Excerpt:
David Solway: The Birth Certificate and the Conspiracy of Suppression
By David Sloway @ Diana West
Below is an original essay by David Solway, but first an introduction.
There are at least two basic ways to approach the signal, neutralizing event of American history.
Before I present examples of both by a singular guest-author, I realize I first have to specify what that signal event is. Our non-recognition is testament to many things, not least of which is the event's almost anti-climactic nature. We might think of the event as only the most visible manifestation, like a sore or lesion, of an underlying sickness in American society that more intangibly has rejected morality, bankrupted the law, and devalued the Constitution. Maybe the shame of it all is why we pretend this manifestation isn't there.
I refer to the president's all-but-certainly forged online birth certificate. How could a healthy society with a free press and functioning political system permit this quite apparent fraud to go officially unaddressed and forensically unassessed by any responsible federal authority? It could not. It would be impossible for a healthy democratic society to behave so irresponsibly so undutifully, so cravenly. Thus, we are not a healthy, democratic society; nor have we been for some time leading up to this signal presidential fraud. (The new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, is a history of that transformation.)
So, returning to the two approaches to this signal event: First, there is the personal approach, which grapples with (and sputters over) the realization that there is -- even in this age in which the frequent need for identity documents is universal -- one law for the mighty and another for the rest; second, there is the scientific approach, which rationally (but not necessarily dispassionately) assesses evidence and probability to conclude We, the People have been sold a nasty bill goods.
David Solway, the erudite and elegant Canadian essayist and poet, takes both approaches, posted here in two parts for the first time. It is no rap on this blog or Solway himself to point out that noted outlets of the "watchdog media," conservative wing, declined both pieces first. Nothing new, they say -- as though pure novelty were a requirement for news and analysis when we know from wall-to-wall coverage of everything from sequestration to Michelle Obama's bangs that's never the case. Meanwhile, they have hardly (if in any way at all) exhausted the novelty of the subject in the first place! Call it the Obama Nativity Paradox -- old news before it's covered. At least David Solway will never fall for that. - Diana West.
The Conspiracy of Suppression, Part 1:
Let's Get Real about the Famous Birth Certificate
The Conspiracy of Suppression, Part 2:
A Man of Science Examines the President's Birth Certificate
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...ppression.html
Birther Report
2/21/2013
Excerpt:
David Solway: The Birth Certificate and the Conspiracy of Suppression
By David Sloway @ Diana West
Below is an original essay by David Solway, but first an introduction.
There are at least two basic ways to approach the signal, neutralizing event of American history.
Before I present examples of both by a singular guest-author, I realize I first have to specify what that signal event is. Our non-recognition is testament to many things, not least of which is the event's almost anti-climactic nature. We might think of the event as only the most visible manifestation, like a sore or lesion, of an underlying sickness in American society that more intangibly has rejected morality, bankrupted the law, and devalued the Constitution. Maybe the shame of it all is why we pretend this manifestation isn't there.
I refer to the president's all-but-certainly forged online birth certificate. How could a healthy society with a free press and functioning political system permit this quite apparent fraud to go officially unaddressed and forensically unassessed by any responsible federal authority? It could not. It would be impossible for a healthy democratic society to behave so irresponsibly so undutifully, so cravenly. Thus, we are not a healthy, democratic society; nor have we been for some time leading up to this signal presidential fraud. (The new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, is a history of that transformation.)
So, returning to the two approaches to this signal event: First, there is the personal approach, which grapples with (and sputters over) the realization that there is -- even in this age in which the frequent need for identity documents is universal -- one law for the mighty and another for the rest; second, there is the scientific approach, which rationally (but not necessarily dispassionately) assesses evidence and probability to conclude We, the People have been sold a nasty bill goods.
David Solway, the erudite and elegant Canadian essayist and poet, takes both approaches, posted here in two parts for the first time. It is no rap on this blog or Solway himself to point out that noted outlets of the "watchdog media," conservative wing, declined both pieces first. Nothing new, they say -- as though pure novelty were a requirement for news and analysis when we know from wall-to-wall coverage of everything from sequestration to Michelle Obama's bangs that's never the case. Meanwhile, they have hardly (if in any way at all) exhausted the novelty of the subject in the first place! Call it the Obama Nativity Paradox -- old news before it's covered. At least David Solway will never fall for that. - Diana West.
The Conspiracy of Suppression, Part 1:
Let's Get Real about the Famous Birth Certificate
The Conspiracy of Suppression, Part 2:
A Man of Science Examines the President's Birth Certificate
View the complete Birther Report presentation at:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...ppression.html
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