Most Christians believe that the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution and the resultant emergence of the most powerful free nation of all time are evidences of Gods inspiration and direct aid. For instance, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds it as a tenet of faith that Christ bestowed the U. S. Constitution upon this nation “by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose,” and their members believe it will remain so as long as this nation remembers their God. In this column we will use their references documenting the strength of this relationship between Christ and freedom because they offer the most blatantly stated language of that relationship as originating from Christ. Their citations for the claim come from the Doctrine & Covenants and the Book of Mormon, which members consider as scripture along with the Old and New Testaments.
Most Christians believe that the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution and the resultant emergence of the most powerful free nation of all time are evidences of Gods inspiration and direct aid. Christ is credited with having said, “I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood.”
It is good to remember every July 4th and Sept. 11 who gave us our independence, liberty and the U.S. Constitution, and consider what measures we today use to protect it and teach our children its principles. Members also believe that Christ raised up another people on the American continent before our own and also gave them liberty. These citations and this story of its ancient inhabitants follows.
Doctrine &Covenants 98 :4-10. 4 And now, verily I say unto you concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them. 5 And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. 6 Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land; 7 And as pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil. 8 I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free. 9 Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn. 10 Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.
D & C 101:77-80. 77 According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles; 78 That every man may act in doctrine and principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment. 79 Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another. 80 And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood.
D&C 109:54. Christ is the author of the dedicatory prayer of the Kirkland Temple, verse 54 of that prayer says “… may those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.”
Book of Mormon, Mosiah 26:10-32 Under King Mosiah in the Book Of Mormon Christ establishes separation of church and state. Alma Sr., head of the newly established Church of Christ, sent those accused of sin to King Mosiah to be judged by him as a government responsibility. But King Mosiah “said unto Alma: Behold, I judge them not; therefore I deliver them into thy hands to be judged.” Alma fearing that he might offend God in the matter “pours out his whole soul to God.” Wherein “the voice of the Lord came to him.” He is taught that Alma’s judgement has only to do with those who will not repent and only with respect to their membership in Christ’s church here on earth. The rest is by Christ himself in the final judgement day. But the doctrine of separation of church and state is established between Mosiah and Alma as early as 120 BC, many centuries before it is established in the U.S. Constitution as Amendment I.
Book of Mormon, Mosiah 29:1-41 and Helaman 4:22. None of King Mosiah’s sons wanted the throne having once been unrighteous men. So Mosiah established a new form of government called “Reign of the Judges” where the people had no king but voted for judges to be their leaders which took effect upon Mosiah’s death about 92 B.C. Helaman 4: 22 tells us that by 61 years of the new kingless government, about 31 B.C. (Christ came to them 64 years later about 33AD), “that they had altered and trampled under their feet the laws of Mosiah, or “that which the Lord commanded him to give unto the people.” IMPORTANT: Christ gave Mosiah this new form of government just as he did our Founders theirs.
King Mosiah knew he would die soon. His sons were in Lamanite lands teaching them about a coming Jesus Christ and none would take the thrown. Christ gave Mosiah a new form of government of elected judges, “the Reign of the Judges” thus freedom, just as he did our Founders with the U.S. Constitution. This left the individual responsible for his own sins. The people “were exceedingly rejoiced because of the liberty which had been granted unto them.” Just like we are.
We know of only a few times in recorded history where monarchs, or potential monarchs, refused leadership so that the people could elect their own leaders, with Nephi being one. Solon, chosen archon or chief magistrate in Athens, about 594 BC who later resigned and left for the University of Alexandrea in Egypt. He was fascinated with the new ideas of democracy floating around but knew it could never be tried while he was in Athens with power to overrule it. Before leaving he established the first democracy in world history where the people elected their own rulers.
All the sons of King Mosiah rejected their fathers throne, as described above, as did George Washington who could have been King in America had he wanted it. He declined but reluctantly agreed to be the first Republic’s first president. He accepted a second term only reluctantly.
With certainty we will one day learn of Christ’s hand in establishing democracy in Athens as well. Because the city states of Greece were mostly democratic the soil was fertile for the ministry of the Apostle Paul and the spread of the gospel post Christ outside Israel and from their to Rome, then to Europe, Great Britain and then to America from which now it is taken to the whole world in a massive way. Freedom, especially religious, facilitated the spread of Christianity but had to be totally in place and protected before a Restoration could succeed.
Of course, Mosiah’s experiment with freedom could not have helped our Founding Fathers as that information was not available until after 1830. Still, tenants of freedom may have surfaced via them. Iroquois legend credits a white god as the origin of their democracy sometime between 1570 and 1600—for the warring tribes located in upper New York and southeastern Canada—which exists still today. The Iroquois Confederacy consisted of the: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora tribes. Benjamin Franklin and other Founders may have emulated in part the Iroquois “The Great Law of Peace” for America’s Articles of Confederation.
But members believe the U.S. Constitution to be a stand alone revelatory document. It created a Republic, a major and critical refinement of democracy, and is destined to be for the “protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles;” and to “be established forever,”as Christ said.
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. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 827.
They carried flags of other nations while they attacked our federal agents. This is the occupation part of the Deep State’s illegal alien invasion of four years. They wore masks. Antifa helped organize the violent riot in Los Angeles against federal law enforcement. They yelled, “Stop Deportation Now! ICE has hundreds of members of our community kidnapped and is holding them at this location. ” One Antifa member, Vishal Singh, posted on line. “My comrades in Los Angeles. I love you all. Prepare for war. Together tonight will be long. Do not fret. Together, we are powerful. I know it’s scary. I know, but we have to be ready to fight with everything. All eyes of the nation are on us. Let’s lead by example and crush the fascists.” There wasn’t an America flag in sight. (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3660b, June 8, 2025, 17:09, 19:44).
They carried flags of other nations while they attacked our federal agents. This is the occupation part of the Deep State’s illegal alien invasion of four years that they insist stays in place. They wore masks. Antifa helped organize the violent riot in Los Angeles against federal law enforcement. The first few days of the insurrection “showed them waving Mexican flags while torching cars, attacking police and burning US. Flags.” “Hundreds of people have shown up out of nowhere, and it happened multiple times last night.” The fall of LA was orchestrated.
Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass enabled the— thus far unsuccessful— Insurrection. Whether it can be used to galvanize and inspire other Antifa cells in other cities and states in the weeks and months to follow remains possible. This was not spontaneous but led by Coalition for Human Immigration (Ep. 3660b, June 8, 2025, 17:09, 26:15). Mexico encourages the violent insurrectionists in Los Angeles and issues threats to America. The Mexican flag became a symbol of invasion. Foreign flags were everywhere. (Ep. 3661b, June 9, 2025, 15:40).
Fox News reporter, Bill Melugin said “a massive group of 400-500 protesters have sprouted up out of nowhere with no LAPD presence to be seen. This new, random, massive group of protesters just showed up here. Hundreds, upon hundreds of them. They’ve taken over the street and I don’t see a single LPPD officer.” The first few days of the insurrection “showed them waving Mexican flags while torching cars, attacking police and burning US. Flags.” But Melugin noticed something else highly suspicious “hundreds of people have shown up out of nowhere, and it happened multiple times last night.” The fall of LA was orchestrated.
“America is facing an insurrection incited by Democrat political leaders and organized by Soro’s / USAID backed NGO’s in an effort to gain control of Congress, LA is ground zero” (Amuse, Ep. 3660b, June 8, 2025, 17:25). Soro’s gave $7,250,000 for this and other insurrections to follow in the No Kings movement. The lead funders for the LA Insurrection are Neville Singham, “a CCP activist,” and Christy Walton of Walmart (Ep. 3663b, June 11, 2025, 40:53).
The LA Insurrection began with a gigantic lie. “Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Holman revealed that the raids that sparked the violent LA riots were not for immigration purposes. the raids that took place in downtown Los Angeles on Friday we’re part of a criminal investigation into a ‘money laundering’ operation. It was to service the three criminal warrants at locations based on large criminal conspiracy that ICE is investigating”— in short a cartel operation.
The outrage over ICE raids that supposedly sparked the LA riots was totally manufactured. “There were no violent federal immigration agents hauling away, peaceful immigrant families. As usual, the left’s entire violence justifying narrative is a tissue of lies. ICE was serving a series of criminal warrants on a particular business being investigated for money laundering for the drug cartels. This business is also suspected of human trafficking” (Ep. 3662b, June 10, 2025, 22:07). ICE remains involved in solving other crimes, “75% of those arrested by ICE this year have prior criminal records” (Ep. 3662b, June 10, 2025, 24:47). They more than chase illegals.
Democrat U.S. Senator John Fetterman expressed how most felt, “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration – but this is not that. This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refused to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings and assaulting law officers” (Ep. 3662b, June 10, 2025, 12:16).
Who are the Insurectionists? These include: activist judges, including John Roberts, Antifa, cartels, illegals, fake news, dems, installed politicians those “going against the president that we elected” enabling mayors, governors, House and Senate enablers. This is an insurrection to enable continued occupation of California (Ep. 3662b, June 10, 2025, 16:49).
George Soro’s gave $7,260,000 to the “No Kings movement” who’s primary purpose is to remove the people’s choice for president. No one wants more to be your king, and that of the world, then Soros and no one wants it less, more than Trump. Trump asks, “If I am a king why is it so difficult for me to get anything done? Why are all the judges blocking me? Why can’t I get certain bills passed? If king I would be able to do whatever I wanted.” We might add—even end his opposition. No president has pushed for less federal regulation and fewer taxes then he. Do your own thinking America!! He gives his salary to charity.
Trump invoked long existing law 10 US Code 252, which reads: “Whenever the president considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages or, rebellion against the authority of the United States, makes it impractical to enforce the laws of the United States in any state by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into federal service, such of the militia of any state and use such of the arm forces as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.” (Ep. 3661b, June 9, 2025, 10 US Code 252.
By the third day of six of the LA Insurrection, it was obvious that optics of chaos and violence of foreign aliens burning down America were not selling well with the public. The Deep State began handing out only American flags. These, obviously just out of the box with serious fold creases, but thereafter no observable burning of American flags optics. (Ep. 3662b, June 10, 2025, 20:27). But it was Trump’s calling in 2,000 National Guard troops and 700, stand-by marines, that ended the Insurrection. The Patriots simply overwhelmed the Insurrectionists.
Trump wrote, “Our once great American city Los Angeles has been invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our deportation operations – but their lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristie Noem, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant departments and agencies, to take all such action necessary to deliver Los Angeles from the migrant invasion, and put an end to these migrant riots. Order will be restored, the illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free”(Ep. 3661b, June 9, 2025, 40:15). Hence, a week and a half later things are mostly calm in the streets of LA.
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The premier law enforcement organization in America is accused of withholding and disappearing evidence in their secret “prohibited access” files. This, primarily exposed through recent revelations through declassified documents and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s investigations showing a secretive classification within the FBI’s Sentinel record-keeping system that can disappear documents harmful to FBI interests. This means that hidden data “will not appear in search results, meaning that users of Sentinel would not know that information relevant to their search even exists.
This depiction of the FBI’s Secret Vault may have been more accurate in the last century, Today its an electronic file not necessarily intended to be found and only the director of the FBI has access to it. It can disappear documents harmful to FBI interests. It is called the “prohibited access” files. Its major function appears to be to cover up or hide wrong doing rather than reveal or prohibit it. It was brought to light by Sen. Chuck Grassley. Going forward attorneys will definitely want to know if the FBI disappeared information on Hillary Clinton Email’s, Crossfire Hurricane, the Select Committee on J6, Hunter Biden laptop, and a number of other cases.
“If Sentinel users do not know that relevant evidence exists, the DOJ cannot possibly provide exculpatory or impeachment evidence to criminal defendants or fulfill their discovery obligations in civil cases. Nor could the DOJ and FBI find all responsive documents for Freedom of Information Act requests, or in response to congressional inquiries or investigations by the inspector general. And the FBI cannot possibly properly investigate criminality if its agents do not even know of potentially relevant evidence “ (“The FBI’s Ability To Disappear Evidence Calls For Transparency, Stat.,” by Margot Cleveland, The Federalist, June 4, 2025). The FBI has two mostly hidden special document classifications restricted and prohibited access. The first differs from the latter in that it clearly exists and can be seen if you are allowed to see it. The second, their is no admission that it exists at all and they alone have access. It is camouflaged.
This depiction of the FBI’s Secret Vault may have been more accurate in the last century, Today its an electronic file not necessarily intended to be found and only the director of the FBI has access to it. It can disappear documents harmful to FBI interests. It is called the “prohibited access” files. Its major function appears to be to cover up or hide wrong doing rather than reveal or prohibit it. It was brought to light by Sen. Chuck Grassley. Going forward attorneys will definitely want to know if the FBI disappeared information on Hillary Clinton Email’s, Crossfire Hurricane, the Select Committee on J6, Hunter Biden laptop, and a number of other cases.
FBI prohibited access has existed in some form at least since 2007.Then, information not to be made public “were under lock and key in secure rooms, with access only available to the FBI director.” The Deep State came to control the entire Intelligence Community (CIA, FBI, DOJ, and NSD). As they sought to engage in activities clearly not acceptable to common Americans , for example, like nation building and regime change in foreign lands, easily documented in Ukraine in 2014, they sought secrecy from exposure. As we progressed through the computer era that information had to be hidden in layers with the highest layer being restricted access but only with their permission. Senator Grassley’s Committee findings burst that bubble, there is the “prohibited assess” level for essentially only them.
The Deep State realized that some day they must destroy the US Constitution and its continuity of government to make government easily adjustable by them. They needed a place to bury the evidence so scholars would defend the narratives they left behind without its exposure, because they would never find the evidence countering. They were the real threat to democracy, not Trump, and almost succeeded in placing this on Trump permanently. “Former CIA Director, President George Herbert Walker Bush, is the modern founding father who constructed the ‘continuity of government’ system … Former President Barack H Obama is the person who weaponized it, ‘by the book’.” (“About the FBI ‘Prohibited Access’ Files, The Last Refuge, June 3, 2025). The message of the Deep State is Trump is Hitler “Therefore all operations against Trump to preserve the continuity of government were warranted.” Again, they almost succeeded with this narrative. The people awoke, rejected the narrative and reelected Trump in a landslide victory in November 2024 but their “Trump is Hitler” narrative still exists.
The above source adds, “there’s even a level of FBI information assembled that exceeds the ‘Prohibited Access’ qualification. That information is transferred to CIA vaults that are available due to the same legislative authority that empowers the CIA to operate without any oversight [other than the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)]. The CIA is the ‘sister agency’ to the FBI” (Ibid). The same source tells us that similar secrecy mechanisms as “Prohibited Access” “reportedly exist in other agencies like the NSA, DHS, and CIA.”
Still more data surprises are coming, Kash Patel said the following, “When I first got to the Bureau, I found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of… and just said [presumably to himself or others with him at the time] ‘No one is ever going to find this place.’ ‘Is this something they have been hiding for a very long time?’ We’ve just learned about ‘prohibitive access’ and now a secret room. What else have they been hiding?” Kash has told us that they are investigating Jim Comey. Patel was responding to people demanding arrests right now and used Comey as an example. He was suggesting that we might want to deepen the investigation before rushing off with arrests. We have to do this right, otherwise the corrupt judges would let him off. Remember Comey called for the assassination of Trump just three weeks ago. There may exist documents he hid. Don’t get anxious. Give them time to do it right (X22 Report, Ep. 3660b, June 8, 2025, 52:30).
James Comey, “Who Me!!!,” is left with a lot of explaining to do. These include 1) his FBI secret, potentially disappearing, “Prohibited Access” files program, 2) his secret room full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of, 3) his built in bias to promote the fake narrative of Russian Collusion suggesting General Michael Flynn was passing state secrets to Russia, and 4) his beach shell message in the sand allegedly a call to assassinate Trump three weeks ago to name a few. Indeed he might benefit the most by a Trump assassination. He was never particularly loyal to him.
Another document of great interest once classified TOP SECRET has recently surfaced. It dealt with the transition of power from Barack Obama to Donald Trump just before Obama left office. President Obama began the meeting stressing his “continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of the transition be handled …by the book.” Then amazingly and irresponsibly, President Obama “said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding by the book as it relates to law-enforcement from a national security perspective. Comey said he “does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied ‘potentially.’ He added that he had no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that ‘the level of communication is unusual.’”
Obama has no business suggesting his transition team withhold evidence from Flynn or Trump. Even more irresponsible was Obama’s outgoing request of Comey “to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.” Trump, became Comey’s new boss. (Declassified, “Obama presidential Record National Archives and Records Administration,” Jan. 20, 2017). Going forward attorneys will definitely want to know if the FBI disappeared information on Hillary Clinton Email, Crossfire Hurricane, Hunter Biden laptop, and a number of other cases.
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The Deep State trapped itself. Everyone saw Biden’s chronic dementia. One had to deny ones own eyes not to see it. Worse, all experienced its cover-up. His whole presidency was covering up something. But almost everyone was caught off-guard with the recent revelation that those around him also covered up his serious, even life-threatening, cancer. Still, as bad as this coverup is, other than the rigged presidential election of 2020, which LibertyUnderFire has covered in detail many times over the years, the autopen scandal is the biggest scandal in American history—-many times bigger then Watergate! Whoever used it assumed unto themselves the power of the presidency. This is worse than treason.
Most Americans now believe that the same people that overthrew the government in 2020 also ran it during the Biden years. “It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the autopen. They stole the presidency of the United States, and put us in great danger.” If so this is TREASON at the highest level. A whistleblower, alleged to be “a senior Democrat from the Biden 2020 campaign at the highest levels” identified the individuals controlling access to the president and “profiting from it.” Biden was NOT Running the Country—staff was governing —but who was/is directing them? Soros? Obama?
Biden spent 309 days – 40% of his presidency – on vacation. “Perhaps getting treatment for his cancer. His staff all knew he had cancer. There are cancer markers in routine bloodwork…They last checked his PSA in 2014” (X22 Report hereafter not cited, Ep. 3647b, May 21, 2025, 49:28). But every high level Democrat in this country was silent. When one knows differently silence is a form of deception.
The House Oversight Committee has “sent a letter to Biden’s White House Dr. O’Connor demanding he comply with a request for a transcribed interview ‘to ensure your health reports were not subject to any improper influence.’” Comer’s subpoena will follow if he refuses. (Paul Sperry, Ep. 3649b, May 23, 2025, 46:27).
According to Pew Research, on January 17, 2025, the dementia challenged Joe Biden, “granted 2490 commutations [pardons], more than any prior chief executive has granted over their entire presidency.” Election Wizard, a social media critic, said it best, “There is nearly a zero chance Biden actually signed 2000 in a single day, but the autopen probably did” (Ep. 3645b, May 19, 2025, 42:49).
An unnamed whistleblower, alleged to be “a senior Democrat from the Biden 2020 campaign at the highest levels” identified the individuals controlling access to the president and “profiting from it. The gatekeepers were [Ron] Klain, Anita Dunn, and Bob Bauer, …Those three were really dominant characters in the White House.”
Ed Martin, now DOJ’s pardon attorney, to whom the whistleblower confided, asked, “What about Susan Rice? What about some of these others?” And was told, “No, these were the ones.” The whistleblower also mentioned that Steve Ricchetti and even Jill Biden had peripheral involvement, but the core control, rested with that trio (PJ Media, “DOJ Official Names Top Three Suspects in Biden Autopen Scandal,” PJ Media, by Matt Margolis, May 22, 2025).
Martin compared his whistleblower’s list of three insiders [four if we count Steve Ricchetti’s peripheral involvement,] running the White House with that of former DNC insider Lindy Li’s list of six given last February, “as these are the people who ran our country for the last four years.” He found the lists the same outside two names Mike Donilon, and Jeff Zients. Four out of six strengthens the whistleblowers credibility (Ibid.).
Allegedly even Senator Elizabeth Warren, POCAHONTAS, had “the autopen and wasn’t afraid to use it” (Jesse Waters, Fox News, May 27, 2025). But it should not be too hard to determine if she, or any of the others, were using it. Or, if Biden even authorized its use. Most Americans believe, and certainly the Founding Fathers intended, that only the president should sign and with his own hand, as does Donald Trump, failing this corruption is invited and now demonstrated.
Respecting the autopen pictured, most Americans believe, and certainly the Founding Fathers intended, that the president should sign government documents and new laws with his own hand, as does Donald Trump; failing this corruption is invited and under Biden demonstrated. His personal witness, by signature, that the new law is good and just for all. No signature should replace his whether by fraud or machine. His signature represents his personal attention and consent to what government is permitted to do to the people. This symbolic guard rail cannot be trivialized in a free society.
We should know soon. “Three of President Biden’s top aides: deputy chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff, Annie Tomasini, and senior advisor, Ashley Williams,” have been invited “to testify about their knowledge of the autopen pardons, and who is actually running the government. If they refuse Republicans on the House Oversight Committee will issue subpoenas for the conspirators. And if they decide not to testify, they can go to jail because [Democrats] already set that precedent” when Trump was last president (Ep. 3653b, May 29, 2025, 48:57).
Trump recently came to Biden’s defense somewhat when he messaged on Truth Social, “Joe Biden was not for open borders, he never talked about open borders…. It wasn’t his idea to open the border, and almost destroy our country, and cost us 100s of billions of dollars to get criminals out of our country.… It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the autopen. They stole the presidency of the United States, and put us in great danger. This is TREASON at the highest level. They did it to destroy our country. The Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our country totally unchecked and unvented. All anyone has to do is look up his record” (Ep. 3646b, May 20, 2025, 17:57).
Trump also said, “They were illegally running the government through the autopen for 4 years.… They overthrew the government, unelected individuals were running the government—not Biden.” (Ep. 3646b, May 20, 2025, 48:43). He believes they even forged pardons. President Trump said that “he thinks unelected Biden staffers concealed his decline so that they could use the levers of power for their own personal gain.” Trump’s press secretary, Karen Levitt said, “That’s not just the president thinking that…. These are facts that are now finally being revealed” (Rapid Response 47, Ep. 3649b, May 23, 2025, 49:33). In any case, Americans know Biden was NOT Running the Country—staff was governing —but who was/is directing them? Soros? Obama?
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 # 823.
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Not long ago both major political parties agreed on the phrase illegal alien, defined as “A foreign national who is living without official authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen.” Hillary Clinton was once a strong advocate for deportation. She said in a 2008 immigration campaign speech, “I think we’ve got to have tough conditions. Tell people to come out of the shadows. If they have committed a crime, deport them. No questions asked! They are gone!! If you are here illegally you should be deported. If they’ve been working and are law abiding, we should say, here are the conditions for you’re staying. You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally. You have to pay back taxes and you have to try to learn English and you have to wait in line” (Hillary Clinton’s deleted 2008 Immigration Speech: Tough Stance on Border Security and Reform, YouTube).
At one time Hillary Clinton was more opposed to illegal immigration then Donald Trump. Her fiery speech given in favor of deportation in 2008 was almost scrubbed from the Internet but we finally found a copy. “If they have committed a crime, deport them. No questions asked! They are gone!!” She yelled to her audience. If they have been law abiding and still want to remain they need to pay “a stiff fine,” back taxes, learn English and wait in line she waved her arms with emphasis.
President Bill Clinton signed into law, “The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. He asserted that the legislation strengthened “the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system — without punishing those living in the United States legally.” Section 133, “Acceptance of State Services to Carry Out Immigration Enforcement,” authorized the Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies called Memorandums of Agreement to enforce its provisions (Scholars, HOW AMERICA’S 1996 IMMIGRATION ACT SET THE STAGE FOR INCREASINGLY LOCALIZED AND TOUGH ENFORCEMENT,” January 9, 2018). Draconian next to Joe Biden’s flying in criminal illegal aliens into our cities and housing them at taxpayer expense.
All presidents of the US from Benjamin Harrison to Trump (23 presidents) have each deported thousands to millions of illegal aliens for at least 137 years with little or no judicial opposition until Donald Trump (source, Department of Homeland Security and Cato Institute). It has always been mostly a non-issue with respect to constitutional authority of the executive. As far as we can tell no injunctions were issued against the practice because of two reasons 1) Illegals have never had any due process rights because they were not citizens and, 2) the judicial branch cannot tell the executive branch how to execute the law any more than the executive branch can tell the judicial branch how to rule on a law—they are separate but co-equal branches. This, until President Trump, because the Deep State weaponized immigration to purchase potential voters with gift giving (free medical care, social security, housing, jobs, food, and even eventually citizenship). We have reported on this over the years. Illegals have become the Democrat Party’s constituents. Both Chicago and New York City Democrats learned this in 2024, their party cared more about illegals than they. Trump is destroying their plans to make aliens citizens then voters.
The nation is in constitutional crisis. We were invaded by up to 21 million foreigners, all illegals by the above definition and therefore not citizens and as such have no due process rights. Someone breaking into our home has no right once in to argue with us as to the conditions of his departure. All have broken the law by illegal entry and many of them are criminals. Unless challenged the Deep State will create a permanent Democrat majority with beholding illegals.
If we allow the judicial branch to destroy the executive branch as co equal but separate from it, we damage the Constitution, probably irreparably. Also, if courts can’t function as designed by the Constitution, their is no justice. The Black Robbed Judicial Coup d’état is real. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for obstructing an immigration operation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Supreme Court is led by Chief Justice John Roberts who could reign-in the district judges but has sided with activist judge—James Boasberg in particular—and is openly against Congress using its constitutional impeachment powers on judges. The Supreme Court is divided with Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh holding to the Constitutional line while Sonia Sotomayor openly encourages resistance to ICE. A divided court is paralyzed.
No one is above the law made famous by Democrats applies also to activist Judges. Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County Circuit judge who was arrested by the FBI on Friday, April 25, was charged in federal court on two charges, obstruction and concealing an illegal alien from arrest. FBI Director Kash Patel posted this picture with faces blurred on X. The Black Robed Judicial Coup d’état is real but will justice really follow?
Congress can impeach these rogue judges but has been infiltrated by Deep State legislators who have assisted and many are active in preventing the laws of the land from being enforced by ICE to remove illegals—even attacking law enforcement. Therefore the House may not be able to get impeachments through the Senate as required. Still, the Court or Congress should solve the issue.
Trump has three choices 1) Let the executive branch be nullified by the judicial branch with the resultant damage to the Constitution, which he cannot do as he is sworn in as the nation’s chief protector of the Constitution, 2) Totally ignore the 677 district judges who have no constitutional jurisdiction outside their districts, and their unconstitutional injunctions, as did President Andrew Jackson when he said “the Supreme Court has made the law, let them enforce it” or, 3) Implement Art. I, Sec. 9, Cla. 2, Writ of Habeas Corpus which he must do if the other branches do not act on their constitutionally required checks and balances to preserve the document.
Trump won’t move before the people are shown that Congress won’t / can’t impeach Deep State justices or the Supreme Court won’t bridle its district rogue judges and perhaps even Sotomayor. He has already asked the Supreme Court to save the Constitution by reigning them in. He might even wait until after the mid-terms to let the new Congress do it. When those two options are exhausted, and the people see that they are exhausted, they will support his having to implement the suspension clause of the Writ of Habeas Corpus which reads “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” We witnessed a four year long invasion with some small communities actually occupied by the Tren de Aragua gang and with the rise in murder, rape and serious crime— public safety was absolutely affected.
In the meantime Trump popularity and the public’s willingness to pursue deportation is growing. Democrats themselves support deportation of criminals 69%, according to Rasmussen Reports.
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A few weeks ago we published, “Before 1913 No One Paid Income Taxes, Tariffs Covered Everything.” Actually we have always had tariffs as the Constitution requires “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives…” and, “The Congress shall have Power: To lay and collect Taxes, Duties Imposts and Excises…” with duties being a synonym for tariffs (Article I, Sections 7 and 8). But 124 years later, with the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, America replaced the tariff tax on countries selling their products in the United States as the primary source of revenue for the federal government with a forced income tax on its own residents. Today most paying are taxed a fourth of their income.
Canals, shown in red, were a major source of transportation in the Old Northwest 1820-1860. Two north south canals from Lake Erie traversed Ohio to the Ohio river continuing South to the Mississippi River then to the Gulf of America. The most famous of all the canals was the Erie Canal carrying goods from the Great Lakes to Buffalo, New York then 363 miles East to the Hudson River than South to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. Commerce to and from New York City necessitated their going to skyscrapers to accommodate the traffic. Tariffs funded all this including the skyscrapers. There was no federal income tax until 1913. Americans kept all their earnings. The same was so of four transcontinental railroads that followed.
The first concern of the newly formed Republic was how it would fund itself differently than had their former British government, as an object of economic control which fed their rebellion. They passed the Tariff Act of 1789, “which levied duties on imported goods to raise revenue and protect American industries from foreign competition” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS Constitutional, or Executive Overreach?,”New American, March 24. 2025, p. 21-22). Such funded a series of canals in or through the Appalachian mountains, the most famous being the Erie Canal linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles long in an unprecedentedly efficient waterway. We had four transcontinental railroads, the Civil War, and the Spanish American War. We had schools, colleges, subways, an army and navy. Tariffs funded the Industrial Revolution and Americans kept all their earnings which stimulated the economy.
Many believe this still realistic if we do three things. 1) Remove the trillions in waste and fraud identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk. 2) Require all federal spending to stay within the constitutional list Article I, Section 8. 3) Return to the tariff as our source of federal income excepting “unavoidable wars,” as George Washington admonished in his famous Farewell Address.
It was Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, that ushered in the fourth branch of government, the federal bureaucracy, that necessitated a gigantic federal budget. “Beginning with the New Deal, the entire complexion of the executive branch changed, as president Franklin D. Roosevelt effected an unprecedented revolution … a permanent entrenched, professional government bureaucracy to impose continuity.” He “set up a welter of new government agencies tasked with regulating every aspect of Americans’ lives, organs that could effectively legislate without the encumbrances of legislative process, and which were ‘apolitical’ – that is, unaccountable. All of this was accomplished by FDR via executive order, particularly during his fabled ‘First 100 Days,’ which featured an effusion of executive orders and proclamations without precedent, along with an enormous volume of enabling legislation passed by a supine Congress” (“President or King,” The New American, March 24, 2025, pp. 9-10).
Roosevelt created “69 new government regulatory agencies” now referred to as the alphabet soup agencies. No president changed the government and Constitution more in his first 100 days in office than he. It was indeed a bloodless revolution leaving us thereafter at the mercy of Big Government. Moreover, he put these —not under legislative branch authority but the executive—where they operated virtually “free of accountability….This sprawling regulatory regime, wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard, has been inserted into the executive branch…[this] completely restructured the executive branch and redefined the powers of the presidency without even the formality of a constitutional amendment.” Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office established “an unprecedented executive power grab that utterly —and illicitly— transformed the entire federal government and laid the foundation of modern Big Government” (Ibid.).
Donald Trump emphasized the tariff in his first term and is presently making it ever more dominant in the economy today. With it he believes we can gradually end federal income taxes altogether—as was once the case for more than half of our history. He would also like to investigate and audit the Federal Reserve, with a view of removing it, which serves as an open-ended credit card for the Deep State allowing it to create money at will for its nefarious projects and purposes. The most visible consequence of it is inflation which destroys the value of everyones money especially retirees on fixed incomes and may prevent the young from ever owing a home of their own.
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt virtually created the Big Government regulatory state wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard. He created “69 new government regulatory agencies” and served four terms in office. He controlled the legislative and executive branches of government. The media and his party swooned over him. After him his own party supported a two term limitation on the office. If we ever had a dictator in office it was him. Ironically, President Trump is called by them a dictator for trying to undo his/their regulatory state. This makes Trump the only dictator in history advocating less government and taxes.
There is considerable evidence that the Deep State, then called Internationalists, abandoned the tariff for their federal income tax and the open-ended credit system of the Federal Reserve or Central Bank. These hatched the same year, 1913. Trump’s America First Policy is a return to protectionism and a rejection of the past—even present— move toward globalism.
Trump believes that “America has been taken advantage of through unfair trade practices which have weakened America’s “manufacturing, led to job losses, and made the country too dependent on foreign suppliers—particularly China.” He would like “to reduce our reliance on foreign nations for essential goods.” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS, p. 22). He believes he can do this and restore the tariff as the nation’s majority source of income as it once was, leaving the people untaxed.
Some are critical, as am I, as the Constitution gives only Congress the “Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises”—not the president. But that authority too was transferred by FDR to the Executive Branch by his signing the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 (Ibid., p. 23). So Trump is not violating the Constitution by initiating tariffs as used by both parties for ninety years.
But that is a small issue next to Trump’s attempt to reveal and destroy the ‘secret combination’ now commonly called the Deep State and Congress seems unable to impeach even a single rogue judge. We’ll correct Mr. Trump later. Other than Kennedy and Reagan, Trump is the only president willing to take a bullet to remove the Deep State.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 820 `
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