All modern presidential elections have two parts the popular vote (the people) and the Electoral College vote (the states). We have documented in many previous columns the evidence that the 2020 presidential election was a two-part Coup d’état in both elections November 3, 2020 and January 6, 2021, the latter a fedsurrection which installed Joe Biden in the Oval Office without the objecting process mandated by the College vote. That the January 6th Select Committee of Trump haters functioned to thwart and destroy any possibility of the coup being revealed. That was the principle reason Committee members were all pardoned by Biden after they destroyed over 100 documents revealing their role in its coverup. LiberyUnderFire has covered all of this in dozens of past columns. But the Coup was not finished. MAGA, as a movement, had to be incarcerated and destroyed under the label of domestic terrorism.
The U.S. Constitution gave the federal government no authority over law enforcement. Amendment 10 makes all power not listed State power. Biden worked hard to federalize all law enforcement by attempting to fund it. This way it can be politicized then weaponized. If weaponized it results in tyranny as it did for the J6ers. In China, with cameras everywhere, the government can find any person in the county within seven minutes. States must refuse federal funding and influence thus control. There should be no federal fusion centers.
This began immediately with the J-6 detainees but expanded gradually over the next several months and years to all Deep State objectors. This is why they were still arresting J-6 participants last fall, almost four years after the event. “On his first full day in office, President Biden, directed his national security team to lead a 100-day comprehensive review of U.S. Government efforts to address domestic terrorism,” which Biden claimed “has evolved into the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.” As a result of that 100-day review with Deep State people like James Clapper and John Brennan participating, “the Biden Administration released the first-ever “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”(The White House, June 15, 2021). This for him, and the rest of the Deep State, were those who might oppose, reveal, or undo their Coup d’état.
Biden’s directive had four major pillars. The first, the DOJ and FBI’s “robust system to methodically track domestic terrorism cases nationwide.” The second, “For the first time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has designated ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ as a National Priority Area within the Department’s Homeland Security Grant Program, which means that over $77 million will be allocated to state, local [governments] to prevent, protect against, and respond to domestic violence.” Third, another $100 million is allocated to the DOJ, FBI, and DHS “to target the threat” and to “ensure that the Federal Government has the analysts, investigators, prosecutors,” to “thwart domestic terrorism.” Finally four, “The U.S. Government will also work to find ways to counter the polarization often fueled by disinformation, misinformation, and dangerous conspiracy theories online” (Ibid.). Of course, this means major government censorship. That is what this document shows.
So who are these dangerous domestic terrorists the Biden administration was spending at least $170 million dollars to punish and purge from our society? Was it those holding the 350,000 plus children who disappeared during the Biden Administration likely to pedophiles in the United States? How about those on Epstein’s client list, or Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs? Or those most responsible for the 2020-21 election Coup d’état? Or the murderers he pardoned? NO, NONE OF THESE!! They were identified in yet another DHS Biden Administration Memo on Terrorists. This memo identifies extremists as those “with one or more of the following criteria – among many others – each of which is described as ‘violent.’” It defined “the following as terrorists: military veterans, anti-war individuals/groups, tax resistance movement groups, militia, alternative media, opponents of open border policies, single issue groups or individuals, patriot movements (Christian patriots, patriot groups, and constitutionalists).” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3554b,Jan. 23, 2025, 23:15). These were essentially MAGA people.
The memo continues, “The DHS has establish[ed] dozens of ‘Fusion Centers’ in cities and states across the country to monitor domestic activity. Local, state, and federal agents from DHS, CIA, and DOJ share information concerning the activities of citizens. Activities monitored by Fusion Centers overlap with those stated in the DHS Report/Lexicon (above) and further includes the following (which tend to vary state-to-state): frequent references to the constitution. support of third party candidates, support for an audit of the Federal Reserve, opposition to a carbon tax to be paid to a world bank, opposition to US submission to the United Nations and/or the World Health Organization. The FBI’s InfraGard program. In addition to collecting data internally, FBI agents work within the private sector with businesses which report on citizens ‘suspicious activities’” (purposely emboldened for emphasis) (Ibid.). These are who Biden’s DHS labeled as domestic terrorists—MOST AMERICANS.
The DHS has established dozens of Fusion Centers in cities and states across the country to monitor domestic activity. Local, state, and federal agents from DHS, CIA, and DOJ share information concerning the activities of citizens. The New York City Fusion Center declared Oath Keepers and other liberty groups extremist threats. What business do CIA agents have in domestic law enforcement? NONE!! Others classified as domestic terrorists included veterans, Christians, patriots and constitutionalists– basically MAGA.
How would they hunt out these extreme domestic terrorists? Mostly by speech, in full violation of Amendment 1 of the Constitution. The Intercept reported that the Department of Homeland Security, “is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous and found “years of internal DHS, memos, emails, and documents – obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents— illustrates an expert explosion effort by the agency to influence tech platforms. In 2022 they announced a new ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ a panel designated to police misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.” It was too much for the public and shutdown the same year but it would have been revised as soon as they had more control (“The Intercept Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation,” By Ken Klippen Stein, Lee Fang, Oct. 31, 2022).
The Biden Administration was a tyrannical government. Fortunately for the rest of us, only January 6ers, and pro-lifers (imprisoned under ‘The FACE ACT’) experienced this side of the Biden agenda but it was showing up in school board meetings as well as in their hostility toward Catholics (X22 Report, Ep. 3554b, Jan. 23, 2025, 23:15 and 36:57). Trump pardoned both groups. These documents show they intended its acceleration. Had Trump not won and removed Biden/Harris’s illegitimate Deep State government those domestic terrorists groups or individuals listed above—which included most of America—would be feeling the full tyrannical wrath of the government now and for at least the next four years. You and I were the domestic terrorists.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 806.
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President Donald Trump has ignited the birthright citizenship issue by an executive order mandating that we return to the Constitution as written by ending the practice. It is titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” Consequently 22 Democrat state AG’s have sued the Trump Administration (PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS Executive Order Jan. 20, 2025). Generally Republicans agree with this action and Democrats do not.
The post Civil War amendments all dealt with what to do with the former slave residents the North had made free against the will of the South; the 11 states holding them in bondage, and although now free, wanted to keep them as still subservient in citizenship and voting. The 13th Amendment (Dec. 6, 1868) constitutionally ended slavery, the 14th (July 9, 1868) gave them, and their yet unborn, citizenship, and the 15th (Feb. 3, 1870) the right to vote—together they equalized ex-slaves by law. The amendments must be treated together. None had anything to do with immigration—the word was not mentioned.
On January 20th President Trump signs an executive order that would end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. The text of the order states that it applies only to newborns. It is not retroactive for people who are already U.S. citizens. According to a lawsuit filed by virtually every Democrat state AG in the country, there are about 150,000 children born each year to two parents who are illegal aliens. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Trump wants to return to Amendment 14 which denied this practice.
Actually, birthright citizenship is prohibited by the 14th Amendment. On Sept. 28, 2025 LibertyUnderFire.org published “Are ‘Anchor’ Babies Constitutional?,” and we have followed with several like columns over the years. The concept of “anchor” babies refers to those whose parents are illegal immigrants into the United States and while here have a baby. That baby then inherits full citizenship and even the right later, as an adult, to sponsor his/her own illegal parents in their quest for citizenship. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Is this practice constitutional? No, and although miss-practiced widely the last several decades, has never been original intent or practice.
For the casual reader the amendment seems to validate such if we omit the middle highlighted six words : “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The debate for or against the practice of allowing citizenship for babies of illegal’s born in the U.S. rages on with virtually, no expert or otherwise, going to the source of the alleged authority—the crafters of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, architect of the 14th Amendment actually structured the Amendment (one of two defining the legal status of freed slaves after the Civil War, the other being the 13th which gave them freedom) to prevent that very interpretation. He wrote: “This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and [already as were ex-slaves] subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. THIS WILL NOT, OF COURSE, INCLUDE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE FOREIGNERS, ALIENS [emphasis added], who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” It was he who insisted that the qualifying phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” be inserted into Section I. Those sneaking across our borders in the cover of darkness (now in open daylight) are clearly foreigners and thus specifically excluded from automatic citizenship. Notice the exclusion of babies born of ambassadors while here as well.
The early record of Senate deliberations on the 14th Amendment shows this to be the view of the Senate. There is no such thing as automatic citizenship from this amendment without serious and unscholarly distortion of it. In fact, Lyman Trumbull, co-author of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, addressing the definition of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” asked, What do we mean by complete jurisdiction thereof? Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.” Those crossing our borders illegally have jurisdiction or allegiance elsewhere and thus cannot have automatic citizenship—nor can their babies.
Citizenship was denied Native Americans until 1924 as they owed allegiance to their Sioux or Apache or Blackfoot, or whatever, Indian nations and thus were not yet “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of the nation they lived within. Certainly one must cease to be at war or conflict with the conquering country. So just being on U.S. soil did not make them citizens automatically until the “jurisdiction thereof” part of the Amendment was satisfied.
All Deep State media showed or quoted only the message they wanted remembered highlighted in yellow, ignorantly or knowingly leaving out the eligibility requirement of six words essential to the gift “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were created to incorporate the newly freed ex-slaves in the South. None of these amendments had anything to do with immigration or contained even the word yet Deep State Democrats saw this group as a way of supersizing to a permanent single party thus encouraged this serious perversion of the Constitution.
Many of our Mexican friends send portions of their paychecks home to Mexico and plan to return to their native land upon retirement with pensions and/or social security sent to their “first” country from the country they extracted the wealth from—the U.S. Some vote in Mexican elections from here. It is indeed hard to argue that they are not instead subject to the jurisdiction of another land other than the United States—and most admit it. Unfortunately for them the U. S. Constitution specifically denies such citizenship.
Democrat AG’s from 22 states are now taking Trump to court for this “long-standing right.” This is likely to progress to the Supreme Court where it will be defeated if the court holds to original intent as understood and practiced for at least the first hundred years of the amendment’s history. No new amendment is needed to get us back to original intent. Trump’s executive order on this matter is within his authority and enough. Only ignorance took us off the Constitution to begin with. It remains the law of the land as written. Only the grossest distortion or intent by those in power and a population grossly ignorant of their founding document could miss this. The president swears by oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” which, in this case, he is doing.
Next time we read Amendment 14, Section 1 lets not omit “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof ” and treat it as though it has no meaning. Again, the word immigration is not in this or the other two post Civil War Amendments. If we want citizen birth rights lets say so in a new constitutional amendment. Don’t just make it up where it was never created.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 805.
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The president “ shall have the power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” (U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2). Both reprieve and pardon require a known past action judged offensive and punishable in a court of law, then, after some time, punishment is reduced or forgiven.” The pardons Joe Biden gave to five members of his family at 11:45 A.M. during the last 15 minutes of his presidency—even during the inaugural address of his successor do not qualify. None had been indicted, prosecuted or sentenced by a judge as having committed a crime. Their pardons, like their brother Hunter’s, (tried but not yet sentenced) were for 11 years beginning in 2014 and extending to 2025. These are “preemptive pardons” meaning intended to preempt or forestall an indictment, trial or sentence. This to prevent punishment before a crime is known so it won’t be known or punished. Is the president himself committing “offenses against the United States?”
All members of the January 6, 2021 Select Committee were pardoned. These are: Chair of the Committee Bennie G. Thompson center, with Liz Cheney to his left and Adam Kinzinger to her left. Others were, Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Elaine Luria, Pete Aguilar, Zoe Lofgren, and Stephanie Murphy—seven Democrats and two RINOS Cheney and Kinzinger. They too campaigned and voted for Kamala Harris for president. Patriots were not represented. These are accused of having destroyed over 100 documents of evidence before they dissolved and the GOP took control of the House of Representatives These allegedly functioned to complete the 2020 Coup d’état —thus treason—and to destroy Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Outside a tyrannical government innocent people don’t need presidential pardons.
Some remember the Republicans being the first to erode the pardon clause when Jerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon “for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.” Although everyone knew about the Watergate break-in, Nixon had been investigated by the House Judiciary Committee for eight previous months and it was widely covered by all forms of media, prior to the pardon. Yet, he had not been disciplined at the time of the pardon. I opposed that pardon for the same reasons. Still, that pardon did not conceal his known criminality as with Biden’s. His punishment was to be forced to resign as President (Jerald Ford Proclamation 431, The American Presidency Project).
What did any of the Biden’s do in 2014 that necessitates an 11 year pardon—the same as Hunter’s? We do know that the Biden’s were interwoven in Ukraines history, that Under Department of State Victoria Nuland, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. President Barack Obama engineered a successful Coup d’état in that country (“The War Behind the War in Ukraine,” LibertyUnderFire.org April 1, 2022). That Hunter Biden, who had zero credentials in oil production served on the Burisma board of directors of that country because he was the son of the Vice President (Joe Biden)—a direct link to the “Big Guy” as Tony Bobulinski testified before Congress. That Ukraine became the first Deep State country ruled entirely by them where they could build 13 biolabs, launder money and perform other activities without restriction. LibertyUnderFire.org has published many columns on these stories see “Was Joe Biden the Actual Leader of Hunter’s Crime Syndicate?” March 27, 2024. And, that millions of dollars went through some 20 Biden shell companies into the coffers of the Biden family (“Biden Family Made Millions from Influence Peddling,” LibertyUnderFire.org July 7, 2023).
Giving pardons to those involved in the same crimes as himself in effect immunizes himself with the same pardon and aids the concealment of his crimes. This is obstruction of justice as well. Preemptive pardons before judgement for a crime is a serious perversion of the Constitution.
Biden also pardoned all members of the January 6 House Select Committee as we predicted. These were also preemptive pardons. They are accused of destroying over 100 documents of evidence before they dissolved and the GOP took control of the House of Representatives . These allegedly showed that the Committee functioned to complete the 2020 Coup d’état —thus treason. They suppressed evidence that Trump had offered 10,000 troops to protect the Capitol January 6, 2021, that it was a fedsurrection to disrupt the required objection process of the Electoral College vote when they reassembled, thus seating Biden without it. They focused instead on Trump as THE INSURRECTIONIST to imprison him or at least keep him from running again and thus to destroy the MAGA movement. We covered this last week (“How Can One Accused of Treason Himself, Pardon Others Accused of the Same?”LibertyUnderFire.org.). January 6, 2021 completed the overthrow of the US. Government followed by the four-year rule of a president never actually elected by the people or the Electoral College.
These were pardoned at 11:45 A.M. during the last 15 minutes of his presidency—even during the inaugural address of Biden’s successor. Each was pardoned for 11 years beginning in 2014. Millions of dollars went through some 20 Biden shell companies into the coffers of the Biden family who made millions from influence peddling sharing state secrets. Again, innocent people don’t need presidential pardons.
What follows is a synopsis of what happens to one pleading the 5th. “A presidential pardon does not waive a persons 5th amendment right against self-incrimination for future crimes. But a person accepting a pardon… can be forced to testify truthfully about the pardoned crimes, since they are no longer at risk of prosecution under federal law. Once pardoned a Fifth Amendment privilege does not apply to giving testimony against others for the pardoned crime. Since the pardoned individual no longer needs Fifth Amendment protection from self-incrimination… That is no longer relevant… By accepting a pardon, a person has admitted guilt to the pardoned crime. A precedent, the Supreme Court established in 1915 Burdick vs United States.”
Continuing, “This fact, without any other evidence gives the DOJ and the FBI a “provadive cause” to start a new investigation by interviewing and interrogating the pardoned person under oath. All a DOJ or FBI official would have to do is to put a piece of paper in front of the pardoned person and ask that person to enumerate all crimes committed, plus requiring the pardoned person to give the names and details of all criminals accomplices involved…. What happens if they lie to the DOJ? They can be put into prison for lying.” (X22 Report, Ep. 3522b, Dec. 12, 2024, 55:00)
Charlie Kirk News reports, “They Fear Trump will put them in Jail.” To which Julie Kelly responds, “Perjury. Destruction of evidence, Tapering with witnesses. Fraud. Yes, they should be afraid. Because they broke the laws (X22 Ep. 3506b, Nov. 21, 2024, 43:57). We are in unchartered territory when a President and some members of Congress are accused of treason. But it is certain that pardons were never designed to conceal ones own criminality.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 804.
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About those pardons, let me put in print what almost everyone is secretly asking and nobody has yet answered . “How can one accused of treason himself, pardon others accused of the same?” Hunter Biden’s laptop documented 459 crimes many of them revealing treasonous crimes with foreign countries. Joe Biden as a senator, as vice president, and as a citizen (2016 to 2021), had classified documents in at least five places unlawful for him to have at all. Classified information was marketed to several countries including Russia and China our likely enemies, for profit. Father supplied it and was fully involved in Hunter’s business dealings which were on going throughout these many years. Selling state secrets is treason. We’ve published much on this subject over the years. Joe’s pardoning of Hunter helps Joe conceal his own same crimes.
Joe Biden as a senator, as vice president, and as a citizen (2016 to 2021), had classified documents in at least five places unlawful for him to have at all. Only the president while president, unless declassified, can have these documents in his possession. Classified information was marketed to several countries including Russia and China our likely enemies. Chair James Comer of the House Oversight Committee announced,“we can now confidently trace at least $10 million in total from foreign nationals” to the Biden’s.
Donald J. Trump won the 2020 presidential race. No primary documents have surfaced and no studies have shown since, that the Deep State did not cheat in that election. In fact, all documents from the 2021 Maricopa County Presidential Ballot Audit, to video “2000 Mules” to last October’s news break in Arizona that 218,000 illegal aliens in that state alone voted, showed the opposite to be true (Adrian Fontes, Sec. Of State, press Release Sept. 30, 2024, X22 Report Ep. 3464b, 1 Oct. 2024). Even Georgia’s Dekalb GOP v Raffensperger court case last Fall proved Dominion machines capable of being hooked to the Internet debunking this as not possible, and the likelihood that it changed hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden in that election. LibertyUnderFire.org has published many columns documenting extreme abnormalities in this election and had we found otherwise we would have published that also.
Even the presidential election of Nov. 5, 2024 “proved” cheating in 2020 very likely. Allegedly Biden got 81 million votes. Barack Obama’s highest number was 69 million, the highest in Democrat turnout previously, surpassing Kamala Harris’ recent 66 million, Hillary Clinton’s 65 million and Obamas’ 2nd term 65 million (X22 Report, Ep. 3494b, Nov. 7, 2024, 32:20). The difference between Obama’s 69 and Biden’s 81 was 12 million fake votes. Those 12 million plus fake Democrat votes installed many Democrat members of Congress as well as Biden. It is very likely, without them, the Republicans swept both houses of Congress in 2020. Technically all laws generated thereafter and all executive orders signed by the unelected president should be removed, including Biden appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
My point. If unelected, Biden had no appointing powers. Nor does he have any pardoning powers. This more so than ever if he is pardoning others as part of a crime he himself is the lead instigator of, such as would be the case on classified documents only he could get. Everything as much as practical, should be as if Biden never served. The appointments or pardons were never his to make thus should stand as null and void. Treason, Hunters or his, can’t be pardoned.
The 2020 Presidential election was rigged—a Coup d’état. Those involved successfully overthrew the U.S. government in a revolution beginning Nov, 3, 2020 and concluded Jan. 6 2021 with the disrupted, thus uncompleted, Electoral College vote. The Biden presidency was illegitimate. (“Let’s be Blunt, Past Treason Greatly Stalks the Election of 2024,”LibertyUnderFire.org, 101624). Thus followed four years of illegitimate rule. Biden was never elected president of the United States. If a successful Coup d’état. is not treason what is? The word cheating is not in the Constitution but treason is.
According to the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” 18 U.S. Code § 2381 defines Treason further as “betrayal of one’s own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies.” Certainly creating a false vote followed by an insurrection organized and led by federal agents and blamed on mostly nonviolent people legitimately exercising their 1st Amendment right “of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” assembled to encourage an honest Electoral College vote fits this definition Every patriot in America knows he could have been arrested if there.
Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State under Barack Obama, knowingly used her unsecured home server for government business—allowing potential enemy countries access. After a subpoena for her server was issued 33,000 email messages were reportedly “BleachBit,” and some devices hammer hit to destroy messages, some reportedly classified. This proves she knew what she was doing was wrong, otherwise, why would she destroy the evidence? FBI Director James Comey called her “extremely careless.” She, like Biden, had problems believing that the law applied to her. The State Department said it found a total of 588 violations involving information then deemed to be classified, but could not assign fault in 497 cases. At the time Clinton was running for president against Trump.
The Code continues, “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason.” In this case, the enemy is mostly from within known today as the Deep State and hundreds were arrested and incarcerated for constitutionally peaceably assembly.
Returning to the Constitution itself, “No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.” As we have already noted above, and in dozens of previously published columns, virtually everything testifies to the overt act of treason, the fraudulent vote, and the planned disruptions of the Electoral College vote to omit the required objection process when they reassembled. Stunned by the fedsurrection, they did not.
Others too may want pardons for their participation in the Coup d’état. Biden is weighing preemptive pardons for the January 6, 2021 Unselect Committee—especially Liz Chaney, and Adam Schiff. They are accused of destroying hundreds of documents that allegedly showed the Committee functioned to complete the Coup d’état by suppressing evidence that it was a fedsurrection and keeping the focus on Trump as THE INSURRECTIONIST to imprison him or at least keep him from running again. There are many others wanting pardons such as: Anthony Fauci, James Comey, John Brennon, James Clapper, Joe’s brother Jimmy and Sister in law and some who will need them perhaps even Barack Obama and the Clinton’s. Biden would like to pardon the entire Deep State. How far will justice reach, we will have to see?
So we ask again, “How can one accused of treason himself, pardon others accused of the same?” He can’t. Treason constitutionally can not be pardoned.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 803
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“Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech or of the press….” has been the law of the land since 1791 when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. The Biden / Harris Administration essentially removed it by denying it in the name of mis or dis information. President-Elect Trump promises to restore this “God given right” immediately upon taking office. Until then we assume continued censorship and disregard for the 1st Amendment.
Trump is the most censored president in American history. Instead, the Deep State’s echo chamber spewed only mis and dis (hate) information messages of him for nine years. No wonder free speech is his first policy-related announcement since his landslide victory, it had been denied him for so long. His rising twice to power against these odds are indeed modern miracles. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong Democrat, said of this speech, “This alone puts DJT in company with the greatest U.S. presidents since Lincoln.”
Why is freedom of speech so important? Donald Trump answers, “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one, they’ll go down.” He announced a five step plan “to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans” emphasizing, “reclaim is a very important word … because they’ve taken it away.”
What specifically provoked this action? “In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of Deep State bureaucrat Silicon Valley tyrants, left wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress final information on everything from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately….” Freedom of speech must be in place to remove the Deep State from power.
President-Elect Trump will implement his five step plan to restore this “God given right” immediately upon taking office. “First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis or dis information, and I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
“Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law and anti trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory and constitutional offenses. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, —and we have to do this right now —to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign and every Silicon Valley Tech giant ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.”
Biden and Trudeau view free speech as a threat to democracy that needs to be stamped or driven out. But democracy has no guard rails to protect liberty. The Founders created a republic not a democracy that gives us God given rights. No wonder the Deep State seeks to destroy our Constitution—a free societies’ guard rails prohibiting free speech removal. The document clearly says, “Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech.
Trump continues with his third and forth actions. “Third, upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism, while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.
“Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called miss and disinformation. The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any US universities [are] discovered to have engaged in censorship activity or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.”
We must stop Deep State’s easy access to U.S. user data. “Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year calling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.”
And finally, a digital Bill of Rights. “Fifth, the time is finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information requests, such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow banned or otherwise restricted. No matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself.”
Trump ends, “When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech, we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.” This is Constitutional, clear, concise and powerful; undiluted freedom can return. Trump gave this speech Dec. 15 2022, but it was largely censored. By this date he had been banned by the following media outlets: Discord, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, Tiktok, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube. He reposted it November 9, 2024; censorship largely remains.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 800.
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This is the season to be grateful and to acknowledge our many blessings, even in the midst of extreme difficult times for so many of our neighbors and friends. Even our own circumstances may have brought us beneath what we think we can endure. During such times it is sometimes hard to find things to be grateful for or to find the hand of God in anything. Finding someone whose life circumstances are much worse sometimes helps a little. One such was Martin Rinkart. He authored the beloved Christian hymnal “Now Thank We All Our God” which has given fellow Christians strength in their trials for almost 400 years.
In 1637 the Swedes and Germans were in the midst of The Thirty-Year War (Catholics vs. Protestants) and refugees from that encounter were flooding into Eilenburg, Saxony where Martin Rinkart was serving as Archdeacon of his native German town. A horrible plaque gripped the area leaving some 8,000 persons dead in a single year. Rinkart had to assist “at the beds of the sick and dying.” Although fortunately he maintained his own health during this time of death, he “had to read forty or fifty funeral services a day” including the services of two of his fellow clergymen. A fourth ran away, out of fear of getting sick, leaving him the lone church authority in this major crisis. He assisted in burying some 4,480 in all. In May of that year, his wife died. “By the end of the year, the refugees had to be buried in trenches without Services.
This horror was followed by a famine “so extreme that thirty or forty persons might be seen fighting in the streets for a dead cat or crow.” As the head of the church in his area “his door was surrounded by a crowd of poor starving wretches, who found it their only refuge.” He shared everything he had reserving “the barest rations for his own family.”
Next the Swedes returned demanding a tribute of $30,000 from the town. Such money was not available. After failing to entreat the invading general for mercy, Rinkart turned to those following him and, in the general’s presence, said “Come, my children, we can find no hearing, no mercy with men, let us take refuge with God.” He then “fell on his knees and prayed with such touching earnestness that the Swedish general relented, and lowered his demand at last to 2,000 florins.”
Apparently the words of his hymn were originally written as a grace to be said before meals but given his circumstances it became a song of strength in adversity. Listen to them. “Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his earth rejoices; Who, from our mothers’ arms, Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.” The first verse of this Lutheran hymnal is certainly a message of thanksgiving; the second, one of protection and guidance. “Oh, may our bounteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us, And keep us in his love, And guide us day and night, And free us from all ills, Protect us by his might.”—Martin Rinkart, c. 1636
Amazingly Rinkart could find God and write praises to him in the midst of the most horrendous circumstances of war, famine, plague, and death around him. The tune came from noted hymn composer Johann Crüger, and its common harmonization derives from its use in an 1830 cantata by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. “Thanksgiving During a Plague: Martin Rinkart (1586–1649).” Rinkart was a deacon at Eisleben and archdeacon at Eilenburg, where he was born and also died. (Religious Affections Ministries, Nov. 25, 2020).
Perhaps his life and song can make us stronger as well. At the very least it should give us a few extra things for which to be thankful. None of us are fighting over a dead cat or crow to eat. Despite our obstacles, deep inside we know that God still has our best interests in mind. When we next sing this song we will probably do it with more gratitude reflecting, at least for a moment, on our great blessings, as he did, rather than our trials.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 795
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