Take a short break from blogging and all kinds of crazy things happen.  Prince William gets married amid great pomp and circumstance, Obama miraculously offers up a birth certificate his good friend the governor of Hawaii said didn’t exist and we finally manage to kill Osama Bin Laden.  And the most amazing thing is that they are all connected!

Once upon a time, say 150 years ago, Prince William would have been heir to the throne of the most powerful nation on earth.  Now the British Empire is but a shadow of its former self and if the anachronistic British monarchy manages to hang on through Prince Charles inevitable reign, Prince William will inherit a much neutered role and kingdom.  But the legacy of Britain lives on in America where a new king has been crowned.

The president represents the executive branch of government and is charged with executing the laws of the land.  There are guidelines in the Constitution dictating who can be president and what their exact responsibilities are.  Many on the left, and not a few independents, weren’t sure that Obama met the most basic of qualifications – that of being a natural born United States citizen.  The ramp up of pressure to prove his citizenship by political newcomer Donald Trump and growing attention by the Jurassic Press into this issue finally forced Obama’s hand to reveal a long form birth certificate.  Notice I didn’t say it was his, because all we’ve seen is a copy of a copy.  For those who haven’t trusted Obama and felt his best instincts were at odds with the best interest of America, that isn’t good enough.  As a truly great president once said, “Trust but verify”.  It would be like taking the man at the door’s word that he is a cop simply because he quickly waved a badge in your face.  Closer investigation may reveal that he actually was, or it may prove that all he’s holding is a child’s toy replica from Toys R Us and is attempting to rob you blind.  But you will not know which it is until you look at the badge more closely.

And that is how we’ve allowed this once great nation to slip from being a constitutional republic back into a second-rate monarchy.  When we aren’t willing to hold our leaders accountable to live by the law, we’ve put them above the law and in essence turned them into kings.  Both sides of the political spectrum have been just as complicit in this betrayal of our national birthright.  The left is so afraid of losing power that they aren’t willing to question whether their man is legit.  If it was proven that Obama wasn’t an American citizen, all that hope and change would go right down the drain as would any future aspirations of power.  And the right is so afraid of being labeled as kooks that they aren’t willing to dig deeper.  Rather than bravely hold to the role as the loyal opposition, they’ve attempted to minimize any of their own who were brave enough to challenge Obama on this issue.  And so we end up with a man whose father claimed British citizenship, sitting on a newly minted throne, ordering assassinations of political targets.

We as a nation had every right to kill Osama Bin Laden.  The Biblical truth, “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword” applies perfectly to the brand of evil practiced by this extremist.  While all of the facts haven’t been completely reported, the American monarchy once again bungled a slam dunk national moment of triumph.  By allowing the team that went in to kill Bin Laden, they missed a chance for national healing.  Just as with the birth certificate issue, we don’t really have proof.  Photos can be doctored.  DNA laboratories can be bought off.  But pulling Osama out of hiding in cuffs in front of TV cameras and hauling him off to Gitmo to await sentencing would have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that we had succeeded.  Saddam Hussein was afforded the luxury of a (show) trial and then executed.   We should have done the same with Bin Laden.  Those that take King That One at his word may have a sense of closure about 9/11 now, but those who don’t, and I daresay that includes many in the international community, may not completely believe that we actually found and killed Osama.   He will now live on as a mythical figure transcending apparent death because we weren’t smart enough to actually handle this the right way.  There is no doubt Bin Laden should have been killed, but it should have been by lethal injection after ample evidence was given to the American public and the world, that we actually had succeeded in capturing him. 

This is what happens when you sell out your foundation.  I have a feeling it won’t be long until we see more kingly action taken by Obama.