PUBLISHERS NOTE: One month after the Federal Observer commenced publication in July of 2001, we were privileged to begin carrying the works of one of the most prolific and talented writers in America, Dorothy Anne Seese. Due to failing health, in recent years, Dorothy has ceased writing, and yet we are proud to publish this recent effort on her part. What you are about to read, Is a letter written to her Pastor. (J. B.)

April 28, 2009 – Following the publication of When Will America Have Had Enough, I received an e-mail from an individual, most incensed that I would write such “rot” concerning the eligibility of Also Known As (AKA) Obama to the office of president.  Didn’t I know that Janice Okubo of the Hawaii Health Department, when queried by the “Tribune”, had stated that the birth certificate held by Hawaii was issued by Hawaii?

Having never heard of Janice Okubo or her supposed revelation before, and thinking I might have missed something important in my research, it seemed prudent to see what I could find.  My search came up with an archived article in the “Chicago Tribune” in which Janice Okubo’s name appeared.  The article is titled Obama birth certificate rumor debunked and was published October 30, 2008.

And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America, having lost their morals, their initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as The One.. He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, “I am sent to save you. My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. For I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed.”

April 28, 2009 – The year was 1787, the city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation, although for the most part, the delegates attending this monumental meeting of minds realized that a mere revision of the existing Articles would not suffice. The consensus among many was that a completely new document be written to correct the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation.

Possibly as an omen of the rough times ahead, Rhode Island refused to send any delegates to participate in the convention, as they were content with the existing system of government, as weak and inefficient as it may have been.

April 27, 2009 – Our freedom and liberty is under assault on a daily basis. Every day there seems to be a new government inspired manipulation, or obfuscation, by this whacked out omnipotent government whose totalitarian reach is really starting to annoy me, as it encroaches on my freedom and liberty.

You know, the next time I hear some nauseous little liberal chirping about: ” I don’t necessarily agree with what he said but I would die to defend his right to say it,” I think I’m going to take him up on it!

April 25, 2009 – In eight more months, it will be time for hourly reruns of Ralphie’s life story, the 1983, A Christmas Story starring Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon and that obnoxious little four-eyed kid, who Santa (rightfully) kicked down the slide, my neighbor, Peter Billingsley.

Although I never really could stand this movie, I liked the part where Ralphie stuck his tongue to the bridge (been there, done that), and of coarse, the Christmas dinner at the Chinese restaurant at the end of the film “’Tis the season to be jorry. Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra!”. But the real quest within the film, was by the little brat himself – the search for the Holy Grail: the official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle/BB gun. Yesiree Bob – the beaut-ee-full steel blue one.

April 25, 2009 – Once upon a time…

In Memory of Our God

April 24, 2009 – Just shy of twenty years ago, on June 5, 1989, in the incident in Tiananmen Square, China, a lone and very brave, if not somewhat foolish man, stood out in front of a row of battle tanks, using his body as a symbol of protest against dictatorial authority.  This nameless man managed to stop the advance of the tanks by moving in front of the first tank, every time it positioned to go around him.  Later, the man jumped up on the tank and had a conversation with the driver.  On-lookers managed to pull him off of the tank and he was absorbed into the watching crowd.  One eyewitness to the event believes that the man was hauled away by secret police, tortured and then executed, as the man never appeared in public again and the Chinese government could not, or would not, produce him.  Although many accounts purport to know what happened to him, the “tank” man’s name or his final fate, has never been verified.

April 24, 2009 - As I mentioned in my last installment, the proposals to draft a Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation were made within days of each other. The war for independence was still in its early stages and the fight would continue for years.

It speaks volumes about the mindset of the Continental Congress that it took them only two days to edit and agree upon the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, yet it took more than a year to agree upon a revised, and much weakened, version of the Articles of Confederation.