Our Founding Fathers knew that we would face enemies of the Republic, foreign and domestic, who would seek to overthrow us—even from within. Normally this is seen as another country attacking us but does include ideologies to destroy the Republic and/or cyber warfare as is the case with China and Iran. World War II was against Adolph Hitlers’ socialism and the Cold Wars (Korean and Vietnam) were also against socialism. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers died in these wars fighting socialism in other lands and now we are fighting it on our own soil.
For over a hundred years America has had a second enemy as well—world government presently referred to as globalism. Neither socialism or globalism can coexist with a Constitutional Republic. World government cannot rule the world with ANY country being first before it, as in Trump’s “American First” philosophy. Socialism gives them centralized control of every human on earth.
Knowing that there would be enemies to freedom, thus treason, the Founders clearly defined it. “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort” (Constitution, Article III, Section 3). Any assistance to their efforts is treason. Until recently socialism was aid and comfort.
So emphatic were they about loyalty to the Constitution that an oath of allegiance to it was required of all military personal and all taking state and federal office. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;…So help me God” (5 U.S. Code § 3331).
So adamant about loyalty to the Constitution, which is the foundation of our Republic, were they that after the Civil War they required anyone having once made this covenant denied further service if they had previously broken it. “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislator, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” (Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 3).
Federal law on treason, sedition and subversive activities gives further detail, “Whoever, owing [those who previously made this vow and broke it] 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 and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Section 2382 adds anyone to this category “concealing information.” Section 2383 adds anyone “inciting, or engages in insurrection.” Section 2384 adds anyone who “conspires to treason”. Section 2385 anyone who “knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States” (Sections 2381-2385 of Chapter 115—Treason, Sedition, and Subversive Activities).
Our Founding Fathers created a Republic with a Constitution which, in time, guaranteed freedom to all people under it. This Republic is the most rare, prosperous and free form of government in the history of the world. Their design was to prevent any other form of government from destroying it. For a governmental officer to betray their oath to preserve the same for posterity was worthy of death. Half of America view the Republic as under attack in the 2020 election by enemies both foreign and domestic. They expected the above Constitutional parts, especially the 14th Amendment, to be applied to all the state legislators and governors, state and federal judges, who having made this covenant but refused to even look at ANY evidence of fraud, and members of Congress, who having taken this oath, knowingly certified fraudulent slates. Now add known foreign intervention of at least six nations led by China, (Serbia, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Iran), with one major American political party acting as principle accomplice, interfered with the 2020 presidential election to install a socialist government in the U.S. to replace our Republic.
We are at cyber war with Iran and China, whose election interference threatens our national security and is an act of war. This is no longer just an election where some fraud occurred but an invasion from without and within to create a socialist government in the United States. All the laws on treason now apply to anyone past or present, including members of Congress, who knowingly participated in this effort to overthrow this government. The half that viewed the evidence will never go away or deny what they witnessed.
The other half of America refused to view or accept any of this, even the constitutional passages noted, and with their total control of all three branches of government plus 90% of media outlets and Internet platforms, will sweep away all evidence or censor the rest. Their answer to the half who cannot deny what they have seen is censorship and reprograming as it has always been for those who oppose socialism. Socialist call these reeducation camps, freedom fighters call them concentration camps.
Today, January 20th, the United States became a socialist country. If insurrection parts of the Constitution are ever used again, it is more likely to be used by socialists against patriots.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
It seems Donald Trump’s enemies have turned on him and his supporters since his address in front of the White House January 6, 2021, with a vehemence unlike anything ever seen in American History. His crowd, perhaps the largest ever gathered at one time, chanting at one point in the address, “We Love You,” “We Love You.” Democrats and RINO Republicans demand two processes simultaneously to get rid of him, although his term expires automatically in less than a week, use of the 25th Amendment, and/or impeachment. Big tech and all news networks, excepting NewsMax, even much of Fox News, censor any favorable commentary on him and big tech platforms have censored and deplatformed thousands of his supporters. Almost none wanted to see any evidence of election fraud.
Why are his enemies so frantic, at the moment they have clearly won? They must fear something.
Since January 6, this is what we know: that a bus load of Antifa members wearing MAGA clothing were dropped off at the Capital, that Capital Police let these thugs into the building and these staged most, if not all, of the destruction later attributed to Trump followers. We’ve all seen video clips of this before platforms removed them. Yes, and we know of Pelosi’s stolen laptop retrieved in Florida.
What if the laptop was taken as a “white hat operation” because it was believed by military intelligence to house incriminating evidence of Pelosi , Schumer, Democratic news outlets and big tech platforms to orchestrate a coup election against Trump and hide and destroy all evidence regarding it? What if it also shows Republican complacency, perhaps McConnell, in the plot?
If true, we have entered the area of treason and “That’s why they’re so frantic,” So says Lt. General Dennis McInerney, once the number three man in the Air Force and Air Staff. He added, they have created “an unconstitutional government.” And this is just the beginning. “They have taken control of our society and we have one person … [Donald Trump] standing in their way.” The General says Antifa was “enabled by McConnell, by Schumer, by Pelosi, and the mayor. They knew that was coming.” The Capital destruction, a planned distraction, ended any review of election fraud thus sealing a fraudulent election against Trump—a coup.
But it is the China connection to the election that most troubles the general. “COVID-19 was a biological attack on the world” to accomplish two things. First, to weaken our economies, “Why are they trying to kill our small businesses and make everybody dependent upon the government? Democratic socialism is the front door to communism.” Second, “it was a direct attack on the election, and they knew what was going to happen. So obviously, the Democrats… are in collusion.” Its cyber and economic warfare “to change the world, and they have done it very effectively.”
We are in full fledged cyber war with China yet Democrat former FBI Director James Comey used his influence to sell to China our top secret program Hammer and Scorecard, technology designed to rig elections, which was used in both the presidential election and the Georgia runoff elections giving Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock their fraudulent victories. In all cases they were behind until late in the evening. It is “like your iPhone,” with an app called hammer, that “modulates the voting so they win [but] not by a large number. I got a call Tuesday night at 11:30, that the ISI from Pakistan was now in the voting machines in Georgia,” he said.
But look at our situation, “They’re censoring the President of the United States.” Adding, “I never thought we’d have so many Americans who have betrayed, and I believe it is for money, and the Chinese are moving the money.”
General McInerney then spoke of “a person who is telling the world what his role was using the Italian government satellite, Leonardo,” in changing the votes but “there were many countries that were doing [the same]. But it had to be controlled from China, using Hammer and Scorecard. In my opinion, because you couldn’t have so many different attacks, because you’d be changing numbers in all 50 states that just wouldn’t match up. That has to be synchronized. And they all do it like it was [done] late at night in Georgia.” Both elections were stolen and Democrats conspired with foreign actors, especially China, to do it.
So why the craziness? They’re terrified because special forces have that data. “I believe they also have a source that is talking like a song bird. And the President is going to spring that person on us. So it will completely, completely change, because it is someone that said, ‘I’m not going to do this, this is treason.’” The general says, “I’ve seen the laptop our special forces took out” (Lt. General Dennis McInerney, A Tactical Deception, YouTube).
Can Trump get this out? Yes. He still has time to use the “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” issued September 12, 2018, to declare a national emergency more especially because foreigners, especially China, in essence declared war. The China virus was an engineered virus and a biological attack on the United States and the world. China and the Democrats used it as a coup to overthrow a sitting president, weaken our economy, and give China power over the United States and the world. For a few days yet he also controls the Emergency Broadcast System which can interrupt or suspend existing programing to get the message out.
Pelosi is freaking out because she knows Trump has the data, probably from her laptop. READ AND FORWARD BEFORE DELETED BY BIG TECH. It’s called freedom of the press.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Some senators, notably Ted Cruz, seek to reinstate an Electoral Commission to resolve the contested electoral vote of the states forwarding two slates, one Democrat and one Republican, to the President of the Senate as required by the Constitution. This happened in the contested presidential race of 1876 between Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, needing a single electoral vote to win, and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, needing 20. Amazingly the Commission of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, ruling on party lines, gave the election to Hayes.
Unfortunately the Commission solution is not in the Constitution, then or now, and in fact displaces what is. It denies the President of the Senate his constitutional role to reject multiple submissions or deny submissions that did not follow the rules or law. Past practice has Thomas Jefferson the first to use it in the presidential election of 1800. It happened again in 1856 when the President of the Senate counted five votes in Wisconsin over objections from both the House and Senate and prohibited any debate on the issue (Who Counts the Votes of the Presidential Electors?, Alexander Macris December 7, 2021). He is the the only authority figure identified in Article 2 . He is part of the integrity of the solution. His entire role in the Senate is to have the deciding vote when a tie exists. Likewise his role in the joint session, he is required to assemble, is more than just as a vote counter or face to bring the houses together.
Overwhelming, even televised fraud viewed by millions, should be reason enough for any President of the Senate to reject electors from double slated states who themselves were not able to resolve their entry. At this point, given a defaulting Supreme Court and defunct state legislatures, the Constitution gives only The President of the Senate and the House of Representative a function in resolving the election. Is Mike Pence strong enough to defend this part of the Constitution. Probably not.
Perhaps the President of the Senate could give the seven multiple slated states, now again in session, 48 hours to forward a new slate with the signatures of the state legislators approving. If a majority sign, this would prove that it is the will of the state legislatures as required by the Constitution. These then would be counted. States not meeting this deadline would lose their electors on the basis that the election in their state was too fraudulent to count. It would also remind them of their soul function to choose electors, not hand it off to hostile governors. The issue is then constitutionally resolved.
A Commission also displaces the House contingency vote outlining a state delegation vote as the next appropriate constitutional process, thus essentially removing it from the Constitution. “But in choosing the President the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all states shall be necessary to a choice” (Amendment 12). This too would solve the Constitutional crisis within 48 hours or less. It also favors Trump as 28 of the House congressional delegations are Republican, a majority. This has a much better option of the desired outcome for Republicans than an unconstitutional and flawed commission.
It is too late for a commission. Pelosi would appoint hardened Democrats, McConnell, luck warm Republicans, as in Mitt Romney that may even side with Biden just to move on. Either might delay appointment of commissioners to apply pressure on Trump to just concede before January 20th. The Supreme Court under Chief Justices John Roberts, is an anti-Trump Republican and less trusted than McConnell. Who knows who he would appoint if we had 15 commissioners five from each body, probably himself and the three Democrat Justices he often votes with. Predictably the end vote of the Commission would be a Biden win.
One hundred and forty-six years ago the Commission had until March 4, 1876 to render a decision and they did so March 2. Today this Commission would have 10 days but that is after it is formed and its results reviewed by all contending state legislatures who need time to assimilate and forward a new slate of electors. As of the submission of this article for publication we have 14 days before the inauguration of either Biden or Trump. This is not enough time.
Unfortunately, there exist no neutrals in our day as evidenced by the failed judicial system in contended states with Democrat judges. They each refused to see the evidence. “Nothing to see here,” while hundreds of whistleblowers said otherwise and Americans viewed Georgia video tapes of counting hidden ballots after Republicans were dismissed from the room. Nothing shows that the evidence even matters to Democrats. Even the Supreme Court, that should have ruled on the Texas case, and still can on the Pennsylvania case but prefers to “run out the clock,” has refused to do so.
When the Republicans did this in 1877 they succeeded because they bribed the Democrats by consenting to remove Civil War federal troops still stationed in the South if they would agree to give the presidency to Rutheford B. Hayes. The South hatred the troops still in their land and agreed but the election, nevertheless, was stolen from them. Today we have nothing with which to bribe them.
The Constitution, as written, can still resolve the 2020 presidential election crisis. Going off script, as with a commission, will not. As written gives only the President of the Senate a function to accept or reject electoral slates and the House alone to vote by state delegation. Anything more than this is a perversion of the Constitution. As written also restores lost integrity to the election.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
The most expensive U.S. Senate race in history was that of incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham and his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison, where between the two $238 million was spent in South Carolina prior to November 3, 2020. In the third quarter Harrison alone raised $57.9 million which became the record for a three month effort—until now.
In the past two months, since November 3, all four Georgia U.S. Senate contenders have raised more than this. Challenging Democrats Jon Ossoff has raised $106.8 million and Raphael Warnock $103.4 million. Republican incumbents David Perdue raised $68 million and Kelly Loeffler $64 million over the same time period. Total estimates for the ending spending price tag for the two senate seats range from $340 million to $400 million (Democrats shatter fundraising records ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs, by James Arkin and Zach Montellaro, POLITICO, 12/24/2020).
The vast majority of this money for the Georgia races comes from non-Georgians. So who is purchasing Georgia’s Senators—certainly not Georgians! Since disclosure of big donors is not required until the end of January, long after the vote, we do not know but again, it is not Georgians.
No one but Georgians should purchase this or any other Georgian election. This should never happen but will again until blocked by an amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Why, because politicians love to be purchased.
LibertyUnderFire is the lead advocate for ending outside influences in other state’s elections and thus offers the following new amendment to the U.S. Constitution to stop it. “All election funding, outside a candidate’s personal wealth, in all elections shall originate from eligible voters in the district served by the election and donated since the last election to the same office.”
Remember Michael Bloomberg’s boast in the February 25, 2020 Democratic Party Presidential debate of having elected 21 members of the House of Representatives in 2018 giving the House back to the Democrats. This made Nancy Pelosi Speaker again (Dan Merica, “Bloomberg catches himself from saying he ‘bought’ House races in 2018,” CNN, February 25, 2020).
But Bloomberg is not alone in purchasing elections, for some time we have been reporting the influence of the moneyed elite, the billionaire club, notably Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, and Tom Steyers, in choosing our elected officers from the White House down to local races. This happens when money flows in from outside where the candidate will serve allowing those of wealth, to replace constituent influence thus effectively purchasing the representatives from outside the voting districts. If constituents have lost their power to decide their leaders, how can we pretend that we have a democratic republic? It used to be that Democrats opposed billionaire influence in the elections. Today they openly embrace it.
Big Tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook) combined gave more than $50 million in the 2020 election cycle, all heavily weighted, 75% or more, for Democrat candidates and all heavily funded Joe Biden for president (“Big Tech and CEOs Poured Millions Into The Election. Here’s Who They Supported,” By Sissi Cao and Jordan Zakarin, Observer, 11/02/20).
Propositions are a part of most elections and can be considered without attachment to a candidate. This would not stop the funding or creation of ads for or against a candidate, or ballot issues, so long as ALL monies used in such originates from voters within the district served by the candidate. The word originates is designed to stop donation transfer from outside district sources to inside donors to circumvent the amendment.
Why have we not stopped this? Because both political parties benefit from it. On the congressional level, those holding “safe seats,” as for example Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Republican Kevin McCarthy, can either buildup gigantic arsenals to “nuke” a threatening contender, or worse, handoff their unneeded donations to a like-minded candidate in another state to favorably impact elections often adverse to the will of its citizens. This outside funding has to stop.
More funding allows more signs and literature to be distributed, and more newspaper, radio and television ads to destroy an opponent or get a message out resulting in a higher probability of winning. Candidates with the most money and publicity usually win and the rich, by their funding, select contenders long before the people vote, therefore they dominate the result. In many cases more money originates from outside a voting district than within. If no candidate could receive money from outside his/her district, it would stop much influence peddling.
Under this amendment the Clinton Foundation monies could not be used to influence elections as much of that money comes from international contributors. No contribution could be made to influence any contest to which the contributor could not personally vote. This amendment would limit the billionaire class to the “purchase” of only THEIR congressman, senators, governor, mayor, district attorney and etc—not a large group of them.
Congressmen from “safe” districts could not “handoff” their unneeded donations to a like minded candidate in another district. Nor could they holdover funding from previous victories to “nuke” a future opponent. Contributions are a form of voting, normally intended for this candidate only, and for this election only, and they could only be accumulated since the last election for that office.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Even with the most political censorship in U.S. History people of integrity know that the 2020 presidential election was the most fraudulent in our history. Opponents first said, “Show us the evidence.” When shown they next admitted, “Okay, there was fraud but not enough to change the outcome.” When hundreds of whistleblowers, many Democrats, surfaced and millions of Americans viewed captured videos of filmed corruption in nightly news broadcasts showing otherwise, that lie evaporated. Thousands either participated in it or witnessed it. When corruption could no longer be denied the narrative changed to, “It is too late to do anything about it!! Accept the election!” But if you accept fraud in any degree, aren’t you participating in it?
This election is no longer about Joe Biden and Donald Trump but is about the integrity of every American. Sadly the U.S. Supreme Court bought the line that it was too late and themselves violated the Constitution by refusing to hear the evidence presented by Texas and seven sister suing states. States suing other states have no other recourse than the Supreme Court. They damaged the Constitution by effectively removing this portion out of the document. If eight states and the president have “no standing” who does? No one!!
We were told this was the last deliberative body that could address this election. The people were left with two bad choices, accept fraudulency or revolt. These justices, unless they accept one of several cases still pending, especially Pennsylvania, will stand in infamy as the worst in U. S. History because they should have resolved the issue but didn’t. Fortunately the Constitution gives us yet another option for an honest and free 2020 presidential election.
Presumably the president of the Senate, Mike Pence, has received all certified election results from all states due December 23, as required by federal law. This is followed January 6 by a joint meeting of Congress to count and declare a winner. In this meeting the electors of any state can be challenged by legislators of either body. At this point the process follows The Election Count Act of 1887 as follows:
“Objections to individual state returns must be made in writing by at least one Member each of the Senate and House of Representatives. If an objection meets these requirements, the joint session recesses and the two houses separate and debate the question in their respective chambers for a maximum of two hours. The two houses then vote separately to accept or reject the objection. They then reassemble in joint session and announce the results of their respective votes (Constitution Daily, December 15, 2020, Scott Bomboy).
Because of widespread election fraud several members of the House have announced their intention to object to the election results of at least Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and perhaps Arizona and Nevada as well. A change in three would change the November 3 outcome. Senators objecting are yet to be announced. Results from each state must be considered and resolved individually before proceeding alphabetically to the next state beginning with Alaska than Arizona, and so on. Objections require Congress to separate for 2 hours of debate in each body and in each state objected to before rejoining with results—perhaps six times. If so, the 2020 presidential election could take several days.
Since seven of these state legislatures, including New Mexico, forwarded two slates of electors to the Electoral College, one for each candidate, Congress is forced to decide which is the legitimate count, or neither. Section 2 of the Electoral Count Act requires each state to have conducted its election obedient to existing state and federal law. Most of these states arbitrarily changed the law ignoring standing law and their state legislatures who made that law. It also required disputes regarding what would be submitted to the Electoral College on December 8, to be resolved “at least six days before the electors vote,” December 14 (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673). This deadline, December 8, extended to them “safe harbor” status, because they had followed the law and there was no dispute as to electors voting for them, Congress would not reject their electoral voters. Since most of the contending states cannot claim “safe harbor” protection, forcing Congress to be in effect an arbitrator, they invite being thrown out.
This is not without precedent, Democrats used the Electoral Count Act in January 2005 in an unsuccessful attempt to throw out Ohio’s electoral votes for George W. Bush. Democrats, Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Senator Barbara Boxer each objected alleging “they were not in all known circumstances regularly given.” Regularly given encompass corruption, fraud or “may also include situations where the elector did not vote in accordance with applicable constitutional and statutory requirements” (Wikileaks, The Electoral Count Act, “Regularly given”).
Today actual fraud has been viewed by millions in televised news clips and testimonies of hundreds of whistleblowers. Moreover Democrats have not denied that they did not follow existing law, which The Election Count Act of 1887 requires for seating their electors. So if there remains any integrity in the House of Representatives they, with the Senate, will reject the electors gaining position due to fraud.
Forget political party. Integrity is more important. State legislatures honored the Constitution in rejecting the fraudulent electors in their states, sending in a second slate of delegates not elected by illegal ballots. Will Congress seat them? We should have enough integrity in Congress to easily have vast majorities in both houses; but do we? We will see January 6. The Constitution gives people with integrity one more option for an honest 2020 election.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
In the present year of COVID-19 tyrannical governors shut down religious services, a 1st Amendment right, as fast as they could. During the summer months Antifa defaced and with ropes tore down statues of our past national heroes included those who made America free, as for example, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and they even threatened to destroy statues of Christ. They also set afire churches, one St John’s Episcopal, located near the White House. In these states there is definitely developing hostility against the Constitution and liberty. Sadly we also sense a growing movement within our midst against Christianity.
In this midst we are sometimes made to feel that symbols of Christianity should be mostly hidden. So what are my constitutional rights in school with respect to Christmas? It might surprise some to learn that the Constitution does not allow the government to prevent you from doing most things that you do at home also in public—even at school.
The constitutionally ill-informed like to refer to the “separation of church and state” as the rationale for a prohibition of religious or seasonal expression in public places. No such language exists in the Constitution. To prevent you from doing these things would be as unconstitutional as mandating that you do them.
Actually the language of the First Amendment, from which opponents to religion derive this falsehood, is “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Such was included for the sole purpose of preventing the government from creating a national religion as had happened in European countries for more than a thousand years. Simply, government may not establish a state religion. Instead, government is charged with protecting “the free exercise thereof” of all religions.
So decorate your school Christmas trees (not diversity trees), distribute your Christmas cards with Biblical messages in them (not holiday cards) to your school mates, greet your school friends and colleagues with Merry Christmas (not Happy Holidays), sing “Silent Night” and “Joy to the World,” in your school choirs and for heaven sakes do not let your teachers or administrators change Christmas Break to Winter Break or “Sparkle Season.” You have a culture and heritage to preserve, so say the courts. You may even have a nativity scene in the classroom or on school grounds but outdoor Christmas activities are better left to parent organizations. You can do these so long as other secular messages are not disallowed.
Some might say that I am giving you the view and practice of 60 years ago. This is true, amazingly this view remains in place. Whereas the Supreme Court has participated in constitutional distortion in so many other areas in the past, the original view, the “free exercise” of religion, still holds. The Court has not ruled on any measure that would silence those who celebrate Christmas openly and in public places. If it did so it might fairly be accused of creating an organization of the irreligious to destroy religious freedom.
Yes, you might get a letter from the ACLU threatening your “free exercise thereof” of religion but the Supreme Court has never upheld their view—in fact, the opposite has been established in case after case. Because they, and the Left, have been successful in creating the opposite public impression they can bully and bluster the ignorant into forfeiting this constitutional rights.
Should they do more than bluster, which is impractical given their loss ratio in court, defending your right to celebrate Christmas in the traditional, or even historical, manner is protected by the Constitution and defended by the Alliance Defending Freedom who in the past have offered free legal assistance. Attorneys all over the country volunteer their services to protect this part of the Constitution. Should a student or faculty member feel threatened by their leadership or wish counsel on this subject they can be reached at 1-800-835-5233 and such are invited to visit www.AllianceDefendingFreedom.org. The Alliance will be happy to send a letter encouraging them to honor your First Amendment rights.
Alliance literature notes the things that may be done in the public setting. Colleges may decorate campus Christmas trees. Christmas programs may include religious songs. The courts have recognized for many years that Christmas carols have achieved a cultural significance that justifies their being performed in public schools. Moreover, teachers may constitutionally present Christmas passages from the Bible when treating the event in the historical sense. The First Amendment does protect the right of individuals to private religious expression on public property—even nativity scenes. Even showing paintings of Jesus Christ in public parks is constitutional. May the government sponsor religious displays inside government buildings? Of course!! How could the Supreme Court rule otherwise? Moses with the Ten Commandments is chiseled in stone on their building. Prayer is held every working morning in both the House and Senate chambers and each dedicate a room for quiet meditation and prayer for our legislators.
So LibertyUnderFire invites you to exercise your religious and Christmas freedoms. How else will they be maintained? If not you then who? If not now then when? Doing nothing only exacerbates the problem and encourages opponents to bluster and intimidate all the more.
Merry Christmas my liberty loving friends.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
