It seems that all the anarchists who pelt law enforcement with bricks, bottles, lasers and fireworks and set buildings and automobiles afire in many major cities in the United States in their revolution to bring socialism here, have turned on the very authors of their freedom, the Founding Fathers. Would that they had been born in Russia under Joseph Stalin, Germany under Adolph Hitler, or China under Mao Tza Tung. Had they been able to escape those tyrannies, today they would be strong defenders of the Constitution.
That slavery was a part of our history and that of the world cannot be denied. It runs through the Bible. Joseph was sold into Egypt, even by his brothers. It ran through Africa long before Europeans even began trading with them. The warring tribes sold their vanquished neighbors. And what did Africans sell to the Dutch ship off shore in exchange for the new knives, pots and pans—their neighbors? Slavery could have never gained a foothold on the continent had the Africans resisted it.
For the agrarian South it developed gradually from 1619 on, out of the indentured servitude economy. It cannot be understood absent a cultural and economic context. Anarchist do not care about cultural context, they seek only an excuse to destroy. Only the uninformed do not know this. Still, none of this justifies slavery and it never gained a foothold in the northern colonies.
But I am white, thus to “real” racists (those that would notice I am white), not qualified to write in defense of our “white” Founding Fathers. Let us enlist black intellectual Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University, to defend the Founders (“Attacking Our Nation's Founders, April 13, 2016). The “founders as racist argument” first brought to his Christian college by socialist Bernie Sanders and the falsehoods within it had to be confronted. Dr. Williams wrote: “Our Founding Fathers struggled mightily over the issue of slavery. Let us look at some of that struggle."
"George Washington said, ‘I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.’ Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Patrick Henry and others were highly critical of slavery, describing it as a ‘disease of ignorance,’ ‘an inconsistency not to be excused’ and a ‘lamentable evil.’ George Mason said, ‘The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.’ James Madison, in a speech at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, declared, ‘We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.’ Benjamin Rush said: ‘Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity.… It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father’."
Slavery reared its ugly head in the Constitutional Convention. An unspoken concern was whether we were to become one nation or two? If one, then for a time at least, compromise had to prevail. Williams explained, “In their effort to create a union, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had to negotiate many contentious, deal-breaking issues. Slavery was chief among them. Southern states made clear that they would not vote to ratify a constitution that abolished slavery or ended the slave trade. Northern delegates wanted to end slave trading and did not want slaves counted at all for congressional apportionment. Southern delegates wanted slaves counted as whole people. That would have given the South greater political power in the House of Representatives.”
The astute professor continued, “Convention delegate James Wilson offered a compromise whereby each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining the number of representatives a state would have in the House. This rule applied only to slaves. Freemen, whether black or white, would be counted as whole people… The Three-Fifths Compromise was not a statement about human worth; it was an attempt to reduce the pro-slavery representation in Congress. By including only three-fifths of the total number of slaves in congressional calculations, Southern states were actually being denied a greater number of representatives in Congress and hence electoral votes for selecting a president.”
The most amazing compromise of the Constitution was that our Founding Fathers got the South “to set 1808 as the year to abolish the slave trade.” Not slavery, but the slave trade. Abolition of slavery would come in a Civil War 53 years later at the cost of 360,222 northerners dying to end it.
Dr. Williams continues, “There's little question that slavery is an abomination and a gross violation of human rights, but the founders had to decide whether there would be a union or not. Had morality been their sole guide, they might have taken a hardened, nonnegotiable stand against slavery, but then the Constitution would have never been ratified and a union would not have been formed.”
He then concluded, “Ignorance of our history, coupled with an inability to think critically, has provided considerable ammunition for those who want to divide us in pursuit of their agenda. Their agenda is to undermine the legitimacy of our Constitution in order to gain greater control over our lives. Their main targets are the nation's youths. The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.” No wonder the enemies of liberty, like Bernie Sanders, exclude the whole story and push this false narrative. Blacks too have greatly benefited from the Constitution.
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 have believed our “protests” resulting in burning cities are spontaneous, recent data shows them instead planned and coordinated. Two new ones are directed for September.
The message sent out by the Canadian far-left group Adbusters as “Tactical Briefing #1” calling all Americans to rise up and take the presidency from Trump, lays out two important preplanned pre-election events and dates. The first is happening now. “Stay in the streets in August [and] Build for UNITED NATIONWIDE MASS PROTEST Saturday, September 5 [and] DEMAND TRUMP PENCE OUT NOW!” The second, called the “White House Siege” follows, beginning on Constitution Day September 17, 2020 when “tens of thousands of our fellow citizens lay siege to the White House” for fifty days ending election day November 3 (The White House Siege, LibertyUnderFire.com).
We hope neither event happens. That we have made known their plans beforehand does not mean that they may not change them but such is unlikely as all Big Tech platforms Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have advertised these events.
What should concern constitutionalist, other than the conspiratorial aspects of what has all the color of another coup to oust an elected president, is that the second event, the White House Siege, hence forth obliterates Constitution Day previously honored for decades by Americans. This was the day ending the Constitutional Convention, having created and voted affirmably for the most restrictive government constitution in world history,—the most important event and perhaps date in U.S. History.
The Adbusters flyers do not address this issue only that September 17 was chosen because it is the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street at NYC’s Zuccotti Park which they planned and executed. This revered and celebrated day will be effectively replaced by the biggest event in U.S. History to remove a seated president and if not removed before November 3 to tamper with the outcome of the election.
Given the damage that they did with that event, we must take their new threat as an escalation of disruption and very serious. How a Canadian far-left group Adbusters, a foreign entity, can get away with two attempts to influence U.S. domestic policy, one under President Barack Obama, the other under Donald Trump, without some penalty to Canada was not explained then or now.
One might observe that the White House was already attacked last May, St John’s church set afire, and Lafayette Park then occupied. That is true the group that led that charge was Refuse Fascism, an organization said to be “an agitating tentacle of the Democratic Party” (Siege of the White House Starts On September 17, YouTube). Trump drove them out of the area and had a photo opt thereafter with him holding a raised Bible in front of the desecrated church.
Do you think these protests are spontaneous!?! Andy Zee of NOFASCISTUSA put that idea to rest when he said, “Think about what it is going to cost to conduct occupy type protests all across the county and especially in Washington DC.” Then added, “Let the people who are anguishing right now about a Trump / Pence administration. Let all those who are seething with anger and rage who are starting to organize and think about life under a fascist regime know that they are not alone and there actually is a plan, a way to stop this” (Ibid).
So who funds the cost of this revolution? The flyers do not say but the above cited YouTube video identifies the Alliance for Global Justice as “an organizer and fiscal sponsor for Refuse Fascism which is in turn funded by George Soros through the Tides Foundation,” which with Adbusters is conducting the White House Siege.
This should not surprise us as George Soros at a Davos, Switzerland, World Economic Forum in 2018 with other New World Order revolutionaries said, “Clearly I consider the Trump Administration a danger to the world that will disappear in 2020” (“Donald Trump and the Davos Connection,” From the Editors Desk, World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting January 21-24, 2020, Davos-Klosters, Remnant TV by Michael J Matt).
The ploy of the revolutionaries is to define Trump as a fascist. “Just as the German people could not have stopped their genocidal fascist program without driving out Hitler and the Nazi regime, we must act with all our resolve to drive this regime—a 21st century fascist regime led by a demented bully with his finger on the nuclear trigger—out of power” (video “Siege of the White House,” YouTube). But to intelligent Americans Trump shows no signs similar to the Nazi regime. Anarchists burning cities, beating those who disagree, and accosting police seems far more akin to this description. In fact, the Refuse Fascism sign is the same as that of fascism in Germany, the raised extended arm and open hand.
America was not ready for the kind of revolution the left envisioned in 2010, nor strong enough last May in front of the White House, but it must be perceived as close for the Canadian group to call all hate-Trumpers from all parts of the nation to rise in unison with instructions to, “Stay in the streets in August [and] Build for UNITED NATIONWIDE MASS PROTEST Saturday, September 5 [and] DEMAND TRUMP PENCE OUT NOW!,” this to follow 12 days later when all gather in DC for the White House Siege lasting 50 days. Their flyer says, “Are you ready for revolution? We are too.”
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.
We recently covered America’s Frontline Doctors who gathered from across the nation in front of the Supreme Court Building to vent their inability to by pass media censorship to inform Americans that much of what they have been told about COVID-19 is inaccurate and that the fear surrounding it is unnecessary. Kids can go back to school without fear, masks, or social distancing. We already have the prophylactic drugs to prevent infection and to cure the infected. These physicians are doing just that very successfully (See “America’s Frontline Doctors Censored by Big Tech,” www.LibertyUnderFire.org).
Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter de-platformed them within hours but fortunately not before 17 million heard what they had to say. They used the rest of their influence to vilify these doctors with all their other media outlets because the doctors opposed the “authorized” narrative—BE AFRAID, STAY AFRAID. We believe readers are entitled to the voice of the medical profession. The doctors, claiming to represent thousands, made other points not previously covered that America needs to hear.
Dr Stella Emanuel voiced a common concern, Americans were not allowed to listen to doctors on the front lines who actually work with COVID patients. “My message to Dr. Anthony Fauci is, when was the last time you put a stethoscope on a patient?” Implying that assessment from a distance is very different than “feeling the victim’s skin and looking them into their eyes as frontline doctors do.”
A big issue for the doctors was the sudden opposition to the drug hydroxychloroquine, successfully used by doctors for 65 years and once sacrosanct by the WHO, to make the claim that “no one needs to die.” All noticed that the Democrat led state governors and Pharma organizations are now seemingly opposed to it.
The doctors recognized that some few studies had not supported the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. Dr Emanuel, “I want to know who is behind it [these studies] because there is no way I can see 350 patients, and counting, and nobody is dead, and they all did better,” if these drugs do not work. “I'm here to say to America, there is a cure for COVID… it's called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax.” It “is time for the grassroots to wake up and say no, we're not going to take this any longer. We're not going to die.”
Their collective answer to these studies, as explained by Dr. Cole, was those doing the studies used “very very high doses, massive doses…. They use[d] 2400 milligrams in the first day, all you need is 200 twice a week for prophylaxis….” He identified three flawed studies in particular. “When you use massive toxic doses, you get toxic results. The drug doesn't work when you give toxic doses.” He added, “The regimen of the drug is very simple 200 milligrams twice in a week and zinc daily.” These studies had to be retracted as a result.
He identified a bigger problem—politics. “The whole political situation has driven the fear towards this drug, so let's address that. This drug is super safe. It's safer than aspirin, Motrin and Tylenol, it's super safe.” Hydroxychloroquine “should be in the hands of the American people.” Why isn’t it? Because of politics. “It's being blocked from doctors prescribing it, and it's being blocked from pharmacists, releasing it. They've been empowered to overrule the doctor's opinion. Why is this not over the counter” as in Latin America, Indonesia and even Sub-Saharan?
Dr. James Taylor added, “If it seems like there's an orchestrated attack that's going on, against hydroxychloroquine, it's because there is. When have you ever heard of a medication generating this degree of controversy? A 65 year old medication that has been in the World Health Organization's safe essential list of medications for years.” He added, that Facebook and YouTube “the most draconian” in censorship and silencing, freely admit doing so. Mark Zuckerberg once saying, “Anything that goes against what the World Health Organization …is subject to censorship.” Taylor added, “We all know the World Health Organization has made a number of mistakes during this pandemic.”
Laura Ingraham has interviewed many other doctors successfully using hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromaxso in treating the Wuhan China virus. For Fox News listeners this information is well known and verified.
Dr. Joe Ladipo, was concerned about the more controlled networks that were not giving their audience this message. He said, “Many are probably saying to themselves, I watch CNN and NBC and they don't say anything about this.” This could be said of ABC, CBS and MSNBC as well. Welcome to censorship. The difference between now and before the virus is that now censorship affects an individual’s health. If you are compromised, get the virus, and do not have access to these drugs, you are more likely to die from COVID-19. Sadly it is also true that if your doctor is a Democrat he is less likely to prescribe these life saving drugs as well because of the media he is conditioned by. Death has now been politicized.
The biggest problem is that if Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are allowed to control the information they will tell you what to believe, even on medical issues—not doctors. Welcome to George Orwell’s “Utopia.”
What to do? The doctors recommend everyone make four calls—all political: your governor, two U.S. senators and congressman. “Tell them that you want to know why you're not able to get access to a drug that doctors are telling you will” reduce COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
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.
By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
One of the most chilling government documents to emerge in U.S. history from the now fully politicized Department of Homeland Security DHS, is its National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin Alert issued February 7, 2022. It began, “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”
Yes, the United States has been taken over by a socialist foreign ideology that has spent a year removing large parts of the Bill of Rights through decrees including mandated masking, immunizations, vaccine passports and lockdowns. The BLM and Antifa took over Seattle and Portland, staging at least 250 riots throughout the country in 2020, hurting, burning and looting, destroying police headquarters, government buildings, stores and even churches. They tore down statues of Founding Fathers and great leaders including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It’s about time government held these domestic terrorists accountable!!!
The alert continued, “These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation.” Amen again, isn’t this precisely what the new government, especially with blue state mayors and governors, have been doing to America with Marxists fifth columns BLM and Antifa?
The Department of Home Land Security identified the enemy as “the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions” principally in the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.” So any message that counters anything said by the government, (currently the marriage between the Democratic Party, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma), is disinformation and the one giving it is a domestic terrorist. This is especially so respecting election fraud and COVID-19. Who decides what is false or misleading? It appears they alone. So speech is criminalized and the First Amendment erased.
Welcome to the new fascist state and the death of every restraint on government. The enemy is not those who seek to burn and destroy America, like Antifa, nor those who wish to bankrupt it with debt, which includes many Republicans, but the Constitution and those who have created the most inclusive, prosperous and free society ever created. To our present fascist government the enemy is us—the people. The enemy is free thought, debate, and expression.
The DHS document identified itself as working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to deal with this new threat and boasted of its having “established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound, timely intelligence needed to counter related threats. The Department expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its efforts to assess and prevent acts of violence.” This is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or (CISA).
NAZI Germany did precisely the same thing with the SS when it also defined its own citizens as the enemy, resulting in millions sent to, and dying from, their concentration camps. The threat alert had a bold subheading Report Potential Threats and advised reporting suspicious activity, “If You See Something, Say Something,” it read. In short, turn in you patriotic neighbor.
None of those who have followed the history of the FBI or the DOJ, especially lately, should be surprised. During the Robert Mueller investigation the FBI continually handed off damaging disinformation leaks to the New York Times. Certainly former FBI director James Comey ran interference preventing prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her over 300 deleted but classified emails. And wasn’t Ray Eps and other feds leading the January 6th “insurrection?”
Biden Adm. now define parents as domestic terrorist.
And just last November didn’t the Justice Department begin targeting parents at school board meetings opposing Critical Race Theory and mandated mask wearing for their children? Resisting parents were defined as domestic terrorists and the DOJ authorized data collection on them. This, because of the collusion of the Biden Administration and the National School Board Association which resulted in the government’s domestic terror letter/memo encouraging such.
Meanwhile a two-week civil war rehearsal training camp exercise took place in North Carolina last month for a newly created domestic terrorist unit. The exercise was to “teach Special Forces how to overthrow an ‘illegitimate government’ [and this] just weeks after DOJ announced [its’] new ‘domestic terrorism’ unit.” It is billed as a “training exercise using unconventional guerrilla warfare to defeat [a] numerically superior enemy.” Critics fear that “the exercises encourages soldiers to target civilians”—our citizens (Ep. 2676B, “All Assets [F] Deployed, Checkmate, When do birds Sing?” X22 Report, Jan. 13, 2022, 34:00).
Why the newly created domestic terror unit and fear of an illegitimate government? Democrats view all who disagree with them as domestic terrorists and likely Donald Trump supporters. They also fear his return to power as “their illegitimate government” thus the guerrilla warfare prep.
With this new DOJ domestic terrorist alert and the former DOJ memo defining parents as domestic terrorists, they will soon be rounding up: physicians, journalists, parents, scholars and undoubtedly ministers. To some religion is disinformation. Censoring failed, now government will descend to a deeper level of tyranny by punishing “disinformation” as domestic terrorism.
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.
At least a dozen medical doctors from all over America assembled in front of the Supreme Court July 27 to counter the only message going forward allowed the American people with respect to the coronavirus. Many had already experienced the removal of their messages on Google, which owns 70% of most American media outside Fox News, including FaceBook, and YouTube (Tucker Carlson Tonight, June 16, 2020).
Outside their COVID expertise they had one thing in common that made their contribution superior to those of Anthony Fauci (a vaccine-ologist), the CDC and WHO, they are the actual physicians of those with COVID-19. They also each had come independently to the conclusion that the 65-year-old drug hydroxychloroquine used so successfully in COVID-1 previously, also worked extremely well with its cousin COVID-19 “it's 78% similar to the prior version the COVID-1. Not surprisingly, it works.”
These frontline doctors were seasoned physicians in the trenches with the virus. All knew that consequences against their speaking out would likely follow. All knew that what they had to share would be nuked by every media piping the approved media message—be afraid, stay afraid. All knew that what they would tell the American public would be opposite what most Americans were getting on establishment networks, but all were committed to tell the truth. All probably also knew that if they did not speak out now freedom of the press might be gone. If the medical profession could be silenced all other interests challenging the left side of the political spectrum could never survive. Doctors are among the most revered and least political part of our society.
They reasoned that with their combined story they might get through the wall of censorship already in place. They were wrong!! Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter de-platformed them within hours the same day but fortunately not before 17 million heard what they had to say. The establishment print press went after them immediately. It was difficult to find any press, outside Fox News, that did not undermine everything they said, our media is so controlled. It remains that none of the journalists, or fact checkers in these countering pieces were themselves physicians. They know nothing in comparison.
Here are some of the messages Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter refused to allow Americans to hear. This is every bit as big a censoring as burning books in the Middle Ages.
Dr. Simone Gold spoke of two phases of the virus, early and late, both treatable with present drugs. But physicians are confronted with a generated “spider web of fear…all around us and it's constricting us” and “draining the lifeblood of the American people,” society and economy that “does not make sense.” The virus is “treatable” now. “That's what we're here to tell you.” “But we implore you to hear this, because this message has been silenced.” “There are many thousands of physicians who have been silenced from telling the American people… that we can manage the virus.” Why? Because “it's 78% similar to the prior version the COVID-1” successfully treated with hydroxychloroquine. “Not surprisingly, it works.”
Dr Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, California practicing for 36 years, told reporters that kids are almost entirely asymptomatic and can go back to school now, implying without social distancing or masking. “The mortality rates of children is about one fifth of 1%.” Kids are “not passing it on to their parents or not passing it on to their teachers.” He quoted a pediatric infectious disease specialist and epidemiologists from Scotland, Dr. Mark who said, “There has not been one documented case of COVID being transferred from a student to a teacher in the world, in the world.” Dr. Hamilton continued, “We need to act out of science,” not out of a generated fear. A fear respecting opening up the schools is driven mostly by the wants of teachers’ unions not the needs of the kids.
Dr Stella Emanuel, who works especially with compromised COVID patients as old as 92 with serious medical conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma told reporters, that “patients do not need to die.” None of hers has and she has treated over 350 back to health. “I put them on hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax,” she told reporters, and I’ve “not lost one.” She also placed herself and staff on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis as “we see patients, 10 to 15 patients every day…we only wear surgical masks, none of us has gotten sick. It works.” Adding, “Nobody needs to die.” Implicit in this comment and voiced by other physicians is that most of those who died could have been spared if treated with hydroxychloroquine in phase one as a prophylactic, and in phase two with the other two drugs.
And why does hydroxychloroquine work so well? Dr. Cole explained, “It concentrates in the lungs 200 to 700 times higher” than the bloodstream. The invading virus heads for the lungs but is blocked by the drug chloroquine from getting in. That is why the drug is so effective as a prophylactic. Should it get in it seeks to replicate. The addition of “Zinc will mess up the copy machine called RdRP.”
Dr Stella Emanuel summed up why the frontline doctors were there. “I came here to Washington DC, to tell America. Nobody needs to get sick. This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax… You don't need masks, or shutdowns, there is a cure.” Then adding, “It is time for the grassroots to wake up and say no, we're not going to take this any longer. We're not going to die.” “When people are dying, it’s unethical.” We know how to treat this virus. We do it every day.
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.
Accessing truth is getting increasingly difficult. The political world has divided into two camps. Almost no outlet is interested in the middle anymore. Leftist publications give leftist propaganda and use leftist fact checkers to authenticate it. The same exists for rightist publications. Take voter fraud in mail-in balloting for example, virtually all Democrats see no crime, or possibility of crime in it, and advocate national mail in voting for 2020. Virtually all Republicans see voter fraud as an outcome and a way to rig elections for the left. I greatly fear the next close national election as Antifa and Black Lives Matter organizations have demonstrated that they are fully ready to vote by violence.
In the 2016 presidential election debates Hillary Clinton asked Donald Trump if he would accept the outcome of the election. It turns out that she was the candidate that did not accept the election outcome—she still doesn’t. The George Soros funded, “Not My President” movement made it apparent that Clinton followers came close to wanting that election settled with violence. Trump’s big Electoral College victory is the probable reason the nation eventually, although reluctantly, accepted his win.
Since the left in unison insist that there exists little or no significant corruption of mail-in voting, let’s ask the right for documentation of such. Apparently the Heritage Foundation is the only organization on either side that actually documents voter fraud. Four years ago it found 1,071 instances of it resulting in 938 criminal convictions and detailed each by state. It identified nine types of fraud: impersonation fraud at the polls, false registrations, duplicate voting, fraudulent use of absentee ballots, buying votes, illegal “assistance” at the polls, ineligible voting, altering the vote count, and ballot petition fraud. About half of these dealt with mail in voting per se. The study is billed as but a sampling demonstrating “the many different ways in which fraud is committed,” It documents “a long and unfortunate history“ of the same (“A sampling of election fraud cases from across the country”).
Four years later in 2020, The Heritage Foundation’s election fraud database number had to be increased to 1,285 instances. Since the left is arguing that the coronavirus exempts many from in person voting the updated Foundation report included how Wisconsin successfully held a primary during the coronavirus scare and “how other countries such as Liberia have conducted an election successfully during a health crisis” (Database Swells to 1,285 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in America, Kaitlynn Samalis-Aldrich and Hans A. Von Spakovsky, May 10, 2020, The Heritage Foundation).
To the issue that many elections are too close to call, sometimes for weeks, any fraud is too much fraud and intolerable. Fraud in battleground states is especially serious.
Unfortunately major voter fraud abuses have been identified in Texas, California, Pennsylvania and Michigan. In Texas the former head of the Texas Democratic Party in Fort Worth funded a voter fraud ring. Leticia Sanchez and three accomplices “have been indicted for allegedly submitting fraudulent absentee ballot applications and then either intercepting the ballots in mailboxes or improperly “assisting” elderly voters in filling out their ballots.” In another case, the attorney general is “investigating mailers sent to non-citizens by the state Democratic Party asking them to register using applications that already had the box asking about citizenship checked ‘Yes.’”
Apparently in California the Democrat led state registered almost 25,000 ineligible voters under the state’s new automatic voter registration system. This was brought to the attention of the Los Angeles Times when a Canadian complained that he had not been registered properly.
For 20 years the Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles allowed thousands of non-citizens to register to vote. This information was forced into the light by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) after months of successful litigation.
Similar findings were made in Michigan, New Jersey and Illinois by the PILF. Michigan had no mechanism “to keep false citizenship claims from being accepted during voter registration.” This allowed Detroit to register to vote at least 1,444 non-citizens. This was so in numerous sanctuary cities in other states as well.
Imagine how the left, especially their establishment media, would howl were they to discover that the right was doing this to them.
Voter registration is constitutionally a state function and Democrat led states have taken advantage of this for years. “A 2012 report by the Pew Center on the States found that more than 1.8 million dead people were registered to vote and 2.75 million people were registered in more than one state.” The Pew report also “found that 24 million registrations were either invalid or inaccurate, making the registration systems vulnerable to fraud” (“Voter Fraud Exists – Even Though Many in the Media Claim It Doesn’t,” by John Fund, Oct 29th, 2018).
So voting by mail apparently “makes it easier to commit fraud, intimidate voters, and destroy the protections of the secret ballot” more especially in battleground states. “It puts elections into the hands of the Postal Service. Without the oversight of election and polling officials, ballots can be lost, disqualified, and even stolen” (Database Swells to 1,285 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in America) Why would we want to put our 230 year old tried and trusted present system at risk to corruption?
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 very thought of one unelected judge with a stroke of a pen nullifying law is unconscionable to most Americans but this has become common against the Donald Trump Administration blocking the executive function of the government at least 37 times. Before him it was 20 times against Barack Obama. When this happens it is called an injunction, most are delayed for a time and overturned by a higher court. Consequently Trump has had to ask for 20 emergency stays from the Supreme Court while these were resolved. No president has had to deal with such unconstitutional judicial overreach. This exceeds the combined number of all 42 presidents preceding him.
There are 663 Article 3 District Court judgeships across the country. Unfortunately, as practiced, any one of whom can issue a nationwide injunction against a federal government action.
These lower district court judges have weaponized themselves against Trump with the complacency of Congress. In fact, it has become a major distortion of the separation of powers doctrine amplifying the judicial branch powers well beyond the Constitution and original intent. Not because Trump did anything particularly unconstitutional, but because one judge out of 663 across America said he had.
National injunction topics include: travel bans, DACA, immigration, border wall, census citizenship, and the environment. Some call this judicial tyranny. Jefferson warned in 1820 that “to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional question [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an Oligarchy.” James Madison’s address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788 was specific to this silent danger, “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation” (Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams Delivers Remarks on Nationwide Injuctions at the Heritage Foundation, February 4, 2019).
Judicial review by the Supreme Court of laws passed by Congress came about in 1803 with the Marbury v. Madison decision, fully 14 years after the Constitution was formed, thus wording nullifying created law is not found in the Constitution. Imagine the Founding Fathers placing in the Constitution the power of a very few—now nine—to undo what the majorities of both the House and the Senate had agreed to, then signed by the president. Essentially the court gave itself the power to nullify what hundreds of legislators had agreed to. That judicial review has become sacrosanct by past practice (nobody opposed it enough to end it), it remains not actually in the Constitution—not even in a subsequent amendment—so let us try other constitutional remedies first, dealing with district judges, before challenging judicial review.
Actually District Court judges, those issuing the injunctions blocking presidential authority, are not in the Constitution as a permanent fixture either—only at the behest of Congress. Article III only created the Supreme Court but did authorize “such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Thus in adjusting to the work load, Congress has the flexibility to enlarge or contract the District (inferior) Courts. Unfortunately government seldom contracts.
Notice also in Article III the division of powers of the court into original and appellate jurisdictions. In original jurisdiction they operate independent of the legislative or executive branches and these are listed as “all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party.” While in appellate jurisdiction, essentially everything else, they function under the direction of Congress “both as to Law and Fact, with such exceptions, and under such Regulations as Congress shall make.”
Such Congressional oversight is now desperately needed. For instance, where did District Court judges get the authority to by-pass the Supreme Court becoming proactive in stopping the executive branch of government from executing the law? Typically the Supreme Court has to wait until someone challenges a law, “has standing,” a term used to suggest “harmed by legislation.” So the Supreme Court is a passive organization until called to action. What the District Court judges are doing is initiating aggression on their own. Article III also authorizes Congress to impeach justices should their misbehavior be demonstrated. We suggest using it on District Court judges issuing injunctions.
Congress or the Supreme Court needs to remind the District Court judges that their power is limited to resolving single cases between specific parties who brought a case before them, not issuing national edicts restricting a president’s ability to function nationally within his executive authority. Justice Clarence Thomas urged colleagues that “if federal courts continue to issue them, th[e] Court is duty bound to adjudicate their authority to do so” (Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams delivers remarks on nation wide Injunctions at the Heritage Foundation, February 4, 2019). The Supreme Court restricting itself should be the first option, this followed by Congress if still not satisfied.
The Founding Fathers gave the States one additional option for bringing any of the three branches of government back into line. It allows them to use the 10th Amendment of the Constitution to nullify the law in their state, but usage of this is a last resort when the two other branches of government are unwilling or unable to bring in line the rogue branch.
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.
