In the first American Revolution Americans roughly divided into three equal groups, Loyalists favored England, Patriots the Colonists, and another third were too apathetic to join either side. The Patriots won because the apathetic third would not stand with the Loyalist but also would not support them. In that revolution the enemy, England, was largely overseas.
The 2nd American Revolution sustains the same philosophers, same statesmen, same documents, and same reliance on God as the first American Revolution in 1776, some 248 years ago. It is necessary because these have been largely rejected, vilianized or distorted in our day. Statues have been torn down or defaced, history and the Constitution largely distorted. All at a serious cost to individual liberty. The 2nd American Revolution restores all that was lost.
As a young man I wondered which side I’d have supported as a colonist in 1776. Would I have been at Valley Forge with George Washington during the devastatingly cold winter of 1777? Would I have left my plow, grabbed my rifle, and raced to the front without command to stop Johnny Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga? Would I have supported the Declaration of Independence and eventually the Constitution and Bill of Rights that followed? And still later, would I have risked my life to end slavery for my black brother in the American Civil War? Yes! I know because as an adult I now stand for the same things as they. With which group would you have stood? The choice is the same today—liberty or tyranny!
In the current 2nd American Revolution the enemy is largely inside the United States. Basically they are the hate America, its history, the Constitution, the Founders, Christianity, Judaism, statues, tradition, law and order, and the police, crowd. Many are anarchists, socialists, and gang thugs like Antifa—even the marxists in BLM. They achieve their purposes by intimidation, fear, looting, burning buildings and killing policemen, and most recently by law fare. They are found in every neighborhood. Most likely do not vote, they have a more effective way to destroy America—anarchy; nevertheless, they decidedly favor the Democrat Party.
Amazingly Democrat Party icons: Jimmy Carter, Bill or Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden did not publicly condemn those committing violence in 2020, or now. Together they could have stopped anarchists in their tracts but did not. Because there existed no pushback from Democratic Party leadership—not even when the flag was burned—an intelligent person must conclude that this is now the Democrat Party—a party that likely would have been rejected by John F. Kennedy and all pre-Kennedy Democrat presidents.
This 4th of July is different from those preceding it. In four months America is poised to openly and knowingly reject everything the Founder’s stood for, unlike 2020 when the Deep State was largely unknown. In 2020 Portland toppled a statue of even George Washington the father of this country, placing the flag around his neck before setting it on fire. The Abraham Lincoln statue, representing the man who, with 360,222 northerners, gave his life to end slavery, was torn down while leaving untouched the statue of Steven A. Douglas who ran as the Democrat Presidential nominee for president supporting continued slavery. Logic is upside down and inside out.
Democrats have historically been the party of slavers, the Ku Klux Klan and rioting in the twenties, sixties and 2020. In our day they run America’s 20 largest cities, most having defunded their police leaving poor blacks unprotected, but many blacks still vote for the party that historically betrayed them. In this they remain under slavery. Today it encourages the slaughter of their young through abortion.
For the last eight years there has existed a division in this country unlike any since the Civil War. And a threat to individual liberty unlike any since the first American Revolution. As then, only one side can win. The choice is liberty or tyranny, the Constitution or socialist enslavement. But today Internet platforms and the vast majority of media outlets, college professors, and elected officials favor one side of this equation. These are formable opponents every bit equal to England in 1776. But stand we must like they, everyones’ liberty is at stake.
America is awakening to the existence of a “secret combination” known today as the Deep State that effected a 2020 election Coup d’état overthrowing the government. This will be reversed in a new election “too big to rig” November 5, 2024, at the ballot box. Americans demand her country back. We are the majority!! Patriots today join those of the past, (drums rolling) marching to the ballot box,–please fall in behind. The Deep State in both parties will be removed.
Imagine a country where its enemies seek to disarm its citizens (2nd Amendment), remove its border protection (ICE), defund its protectors (police), and threaten religious assembly and free speech and define 75 million Trump voters as domestic terrorists. Today the biggest enemy to liberty is from within. I believe the day will come, when our eyes are opened to the designs of the would be tyrants around us, when no one will admit having once been a Democrat or RINO.
The vast majority of our opponents in the present revolution show bias against Christianity. They ruled church meetings non-essential in the coronavirus “plandemic.” They set on fire St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House. BLM leader Shaun King wants Christ statues torn down. Are Bibles next to be burned?
A relationship with deity is mentioned five times in the Declaration of Independence. This document brought on war against the then greatest power on earth, and no European strategist gave the Patriots’ winning a ghost of a chance—yet they stood and won. They could count on no one but God and themselves. We must resurrect the war cry in that document again. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
President John Quincy Adams said it best. “Posterity—You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” Let us never forget that liberty is not free. It was purchased and maintained by the blood of those before us and may have to be once again.
Let this be a warning to those who would take liberty from us now. We too are standing “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,” mutually pledging “to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Again, which side are you standing with? The most important vote in our lifetime this November will tell. Liberty requires our stand 248 years later.
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 more of his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 774.
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Newly released court documents forced out of the Department of Justice largely by America First Legal reveal unacceptable details about the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Aug. 8, 2022. Many conservatives believe it was a failed attempt by Deep State leaders Joe Biden and Merrick Garland to endanger Donald J. Trump, his family and the U.S.Secret Service (USSS) in a potential line of fire should the raid go awry. According to the filing, “The DOJ and FBI agents planned to bring standard issue weapons, MO, handcuffs and medium and large sized bolt cutters. They were also instructed to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law enforcement equipment concealed.” (Brooke Singman, Fox and Friends, Fox News, May 21, 2024). Why? So Trump might think them thieves and protect himself drawing fire? Thirty agents descended that evening on Trump’s home.
“Joe Biden sent men with guns to his political opponents house, and turned their bedrooms [Melania and Barron’s] upside down,…this was the former 1st Lady…unprecedented in the history of the United States.” Jesse Watters
The same details were echoed by Jesse Watters, also of Fox News who added ,“Joe Biden sent men with guns to his political opponents house, and turned their bedrooms [Melania and Barron’s] upside down,…this was the former 1st Lady…unprecedented in the history of the United States.” They brought a medic in case someone was shot. Watters said there was no bases to bring firearms into Mar-a-Lago and that the raid was an unconstitutional illegal search and seizure. The FBI seized Trump’s passports, taxes and accounting information, even medical records.” All of this is nearly two year old news, except the authorization to use deadly force.
What is especially troubling is that the story details above are absent from Deep State media outlets. They never would have covered this on their own had Fox News not first broke the story. I had to go online to get the other side. The Internet revealed only 67 articles on the story—all dismissive of the above and accepting of the FBI’s explanation that ALL FBI raids have the deadly force component—but this is a U.S. president!! The Deep State media choir treated the above as mostly a fantasy. Not one gave the above details, so controlled is mainstream news.
What the Deep State censored most is that putting Trump in harms way is 100% against the law and the FBI and DOJ fully knew this. At the very least it was illegal whether as a risky publicity stunt to make it look like Trump robbed Fort Knox of classified documents and the crime had to be treated “mafia style” to “turn off Trump’s rising popularity, or at worst, entrapment ending in Trump’s planned death in a gun fire exchange between USSS and FBI agents dressed in plain clothes in the dark of the night. Casualties would be considered necessary collateral damage.
That law is 18 US Code Section 879, “Threats Against Former Presidents and Certain Other Persons.” This law provides NO EXCEPTIONS FOR LAW-ENFORCEMENT, FBI or otherwise. It says, “Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former president or member of the immediate family of the former president, a member of the immediate family of the president, the president elect, the vice president, or the vice president elect, a major candidate for the office of president or vice president, or member of the immediate family of such candidate. Or, a person protected by the Secret Service under Section 3056A6 shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years or both.”
In the case of Trump this law was violated five times. He was a “former president” and presently is “a major candidate for the office of president.” His family was/is, also potentially in the line of fire, as the “former president’s family” and presently “major presidential candidate’s immediate family.” And finally, the FBI planned on placing the U.S. Secret Service in harms way. How does one avoid the conclusion that they wanted something to happen to justify killing him?” Fortunately neither Trump or his family was at Mal-a-Lago at the time. Followers ask, “Did Trump avoid an assassination attempt by his own government?”
Julie Kelly, a political commentator and author, asked pertinent questions. “What if Trump had shown up now to defend his property? What if he refused to allow FBI agents into Melania’s room? Or, Barons? How would Secret Service have responded? What about armed FBI agents? There are no clear-cut answers” (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep, 3359b, May 22, 2024, 38:41). But in the dark of night the secret service could have had their guns drawn and fired upon the FBI clothed as civilians and, if an assassination attempt, FBI agents would have had their guns aimed at Trump were he visible. With potentially 30 agents firing , and in all the confusion, who would know who actually killed Trump and the Deep State outlets could have argued that it was an accident. Just as they now argue the supposed concern is a fantasy.
U,S. Secret Service members stand guard outside former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug.8, 2022. They could have mistakenly exchanged fire with FBI agents dressed in plain clothes in the dark of that night. Had he been at MAL instead of Trump Tower in New York City any misstep could have left him the target of the FBI. Casualties would be considered necessary collateral damage and the Deep State would have removed their arch enemy willing to reveal them.
Respecting the FBI’s use of deadly force, Kelly again asks the most pertinent questions. “If lethal force guidance for Mar-A Lago raid is so standard and MBFD, why are we just learning of it now? Why did it take a federal judge to out it from the Department of Justice? Why wasn’t the release alongside Mar-a-Lago search warrant? Why didn’t FBI own the form from the start?” (Ep. 3360b, May 23, 2024,52:07).
The FBI countered, the “FBI search at President Biden’s homes also included deadly force policy which is standard.” Kelly responds “No search warrant cited in [Robert] Hur Report. No references to armed agents. Search was voluntary and partially delayed because Biden did not want to relinquish diary entries.” She then adds, “Still waiting to hear from the SOP [standard operating procedures] deadly force backers, how federal laws that specifically protect the former president / USSS protectees don’t apply during an armed FBI raid.” She challenges them, “Please cite any case laws, statutes, department policies to show your work. Let’s see the order, we saw it for Trump. Show it with Biden” (Ibid.)!
With Biden’s totally unlawful classified documents, the FBI made “his raid” the equivalent of an appointment but in broad daylight without threat of gun violence. Two tiered justice. The FBI’s deadly force policy on President Trump smells really bad—like a failed assassination attempt.
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. Read his columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org and share them. Column #769.
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Because universities first became indoctrination centers ripe for radicalized. We predicted such 5 years ago in a column entitled, “All went to the University … where they came out all the same,” August 23, 2019, by LibertyUnderFire. When diversified thinking is removed this can result and did when triggered by heavy funding and Antifa agitators provided by George Soros. That column follows:
This reminds me of the 1964 popular tune “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds with lyrics, “And the people in the houses…made of ticky tacky… All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes, And they came out all the same.”
Student unrest in many universities demonstrate what is becoming obvious; institutions of higher learning are becoming radicalized and project intolerance for anything but a liberal view. Too few permit conservative or libertarian speakers and far fewer a constitutionalist.
I was not surprised, some years ago, to hear a mother share with me her son’s fear that he did not wish to attend college because he did not wish to be politically indoctrinated. Parents increasingly worry about the radicalization of their children as well. As the years go by I hear this more frequently. Often when asked my profession, a political science professor, I get that look, “Oh! You’re one of those.” So, the assumption is that professors, especially those in political science, are socialists or worse: Unfortunately, this is largely true.
College is supposed to be a “big tent” housing all types of thinking so that the student can gravitate to what he thinks best after all sides are presented. Although everyone gives lip service to this statement, there still exists a preferre
d philosophy. Most colleges insist that they adhere to intellectual diversity, but the evidence and textbooks suggest otherwise; the vast majority of colleges and universities are weighed in favor of one ideology and professors to one political party. This is not hidden. Some political science textbooks acknowledge this.
There exists a consensus of what a “good education” is. Students are immersed in race consciousness, feminism, multiculturalism, environmentalism, collectivism, globalism, political activism, class warfare, global warming, acceptance of sexual deviations as normal, and minimization of the importance of Christianity. The end product, the student, must come to accept the above script. It is also in virtually all textbooks. It’s not that any of these notions are bad, in and of themselves, but it is the nearly universal absence of the opposing view that is most troubling parents/students who do not want the indoctrination.
This reminds me of the 1964 popular tune “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds with lyrics. “And the people in the houses…made of ticky tacky… All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes, And they came out all the same.”
It’s not fear of political science classes alone in most colleges and universities. Students can escape the indoctrination across the hall in a history or sociology class. Not so! Such bias permeates most academic areas. An English professor from a large Midwestern university, who did not wish to be identified because of possible retribution, spoke of English classes giving less emphasis on grammar, punctuation, or sentence structure and more on the political correctness. “Everything from Theater to Philosophy to History to English has, in effect, become sociology,” he wrote. “Teaching subject matter has become less important than teaching a very political perspective.” In the end, “They get taught the same thing over and over: a radical critique of the entire American social structure, an indictment of capitalism, anti-Christian propaganda, and collectivism over individuality.”
Of course, additional courses reinforce the “good education” and the result is that if students have not learned to think for themselves, or have some opposing information from home or church to think with, they graduate and carry the indoctrination into every segment of society as gospel. New teachers from kindergarten to the universities will pipe the same, or similar, message.
Age and experience may alter the indoctrination but the twig is already bent in a prescribed direction and the student, like the twig, will give first consideration to returning to the indoctrination when confronted with anything in opposition. Colleges have so much power over “right” thinking.
Potential radicalization was already in place years ago. Student unrest in many universities demonstrates what has become obvious; institutions of higher learning, rather than being “big tents” housing all types of thinking so that the student can gravitate to what he/she thinks best after all sides are presented, are becoming radicalized and project intolerance for anything but a liberal view. Too few permit conservative or libertarian speakers and far fewer a constitutionalist. They demand everything free or they will protest, strike, and occupy.
An extreme example of this years ago was in a French Language and Culture class at Penn State University that required students to view the Michael Moore film “Sicko,” which focused on the inadequacies of the U.S. healthcare system and promoted national healthcare. In a French language class!?!
The indoctrination begins immediately in some colleges, critics say, “with orientation where students begin by learning about the evils of ‘white privilege’ in a program called the ‘tunnel of oppression’ and sit through lectures informing them that they are part of a ‘rape culture’.” The University of Delaware forced incoming freshmen to participate in a “treatment” program a part of which informed them that the word racism applies only to “all white people.” It also “blamed whites for having created the term racism” in the first place “to deny responsibility for systemic racism.” At Hamilton College in New York, fall 2010, male students were required “to attend a ‘She Fears You’ presentation to make them aware of the ‘rape culture’ of which they were allegedly a part and of the need to change their ‘rape supportive’ beliefs and attitudes” (New American, Aug. 5, 2013, pp. 23-27).
No wonder the young man referenced earlier did not wish to be subjected to what he saw as indoctrination. But because he knows that there exist other views there is hope for him, more especially if he selects professors who attempt to give alternative views of which there are still some. But even then it will take his personal effort to not come out of the university experience “all the same.” It is students, the majority, who have no idea that there exist alternative views that are most in danger.
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 columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 767.
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The Biden indictments against Donald Trump are getting all the attention from Deep State media outlets but something, even more important, is surfacing instead. On these, and other things mostly censored, the Deep State is on trial becoming ever more visible and the court of public opinion is convicting it and Joe Biden instead. Perspective voters are fleeing from them to Trump. The trial ends November 5 when the jury—the people—vote to oust both.
The people are waking to the reality that the Deep State is real and controls the White House. Even the Democrats are coming around. Let’s let them. “Not Just Yet” has always been Trump’s policy to avoid millions dying in civil war. Why destroy an enemy in the process of destroying itself? Then once united we will remove the Deep State from power together on Nov. 5, 2024 in the biggest landslide in American history.
New revelations are surfacing all the time, some on old issues. The release of 14,000 hours of suppressed January 6th video the past 18 months proved opposite what the J6th Select Committee said. It was a fedsurrection orchestrated by up to 200 federal agents to frame Trump and entrap MAGA followers, many still in prison. Last month 72 year-old grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz from Colorado, who spent 10 minutes inside the Capitol and was seen praying outside of the building for about an hour, was convicted. She faces a $210,000 fine and a year in jail (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3323b, April 5, 2024, 32:46).
The court of public opinion, now trying the Deep State, is not in sympathy with the harsh sentences given the J6 defendants. In recent oral arguments in Fischer v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch lists multiple cases of folks who “obstructed” a Congressional proceeding without receiving a 20 year sentence citing four examples: 1) sit-ins at a trial as in Kavanaugh protests, 2) pulling a fire alarm, as per a Democrat congressman, delaying congressional proceedings, 3) Palestinian occupations in government buildings interrupting proceedings and 4) likewise for BLM. “Are these people getting 20 year sentences? (Ep. 3331b, 04/16/2024, 20:25).
Also new, a captain of the DC national guard, a whistleblower, testified that Trump, expecting trouble January 6, authorized 10,000 troops for Capitol duty that day which was refused by Nancy Pelosi, the DC mayor and “held back” by the Pentagon (Ep. 3329b, April 14, 2024, 43:51). The feds wanted no witnesses to “their” insurrection other than themselves.
Moreover, we have learned that Biden was/is involved in all four indictments against Trump. Thanks to the order by Judge Aileen Cannon, key evidence related to the classified docs case, in particular, is now unredacted showing “proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case… The Biden White House and DOJ were intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump….” Is such deception working? Not well!! Rasmussen Reports asks, “Trump has called the prosecution in New York in New York City part of a political ‘witch hunt’. Do you agree or disagree? Strongly Agree 41%, Somewhat Agree, 13% —Overall 54% Agree” (Ep. 3336b, April 23, 2024, 49:58). Destroying Trump has been a coordinated effort. All four indictments are show trials with little or no evidence to affect the election. All four will be overturned. In the meantime it keeps a presidential candidate off the campaign trail and financially strapped—election interference.
Consider this, if we removed those least likely to be credible accusers of Trump there would be no cases. These are a porn star Stormy Daniels, convicted perjurer Michael Cohen, convicted extortionist Michael Avenatti, adulterer and perjurer Fani Willis, corrupt judges Arthur Engoron, Juan Merchan, an alleged victim E. Jean Carroll, who fantasized about rape and names her cat vagina, an international extortionist Jack Smith, and prosecutors who campaigned on targeting Trump, Letitia James and Fani Willis. Or, even Alvin Bragg a prosecutor funded by Soros, a Trump and America hater (Ep. 3327b, April 11, 2024, 41:43). In the court of public opinion these do not bode well for moral or ethical character. Nor does gagging only Trump.
Biden’s obsession with an open border really exposes the Deep State plan to destroy America. Wall Street Silver said it best, “Arizona builds container wall: Biden sues to have it taken down. Texas puts up razor wire on the border: Biden sues to have it taken down. Texas makes a law to detain illegals: Biden sues to have it nullified. THEY’RE HELPING THE INVADERS. The Deep State wants its soldiers in America: Chinese military-aged men, Muslim Brotherhood, [child] traffickers, terrorists and etc, to destroy western civilization” (Ep. 3335b, April 22, 2024).
Thousands of demonstrators were on Capital Hill, inside and outside, the building even storming Senate hearings to disrupt and block the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a new justice in the Supreme Court . More than 300 were arrested. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch lists multiple cases of folks who “obstructed” a Congressional proceeding without receiving 20 year sentences as was given several protesting the illegalities of J6. Why?
Meanwhile the House of Representatives impeached Alejandro Mayorkus for not protecting our southern border and every Senate Democrat voted to defy 227 years of constitutional precedence which requires that he be tried—found guilty or acquitted. Every Senate Democrat is now an accomplice to the invasion (treason) and an accessory to every crime committed by illegals set free by Mayorkas. Senate Democrats just elected Donald Trump.
Although the Deep State and Biden want illegals to vote in our elections, 78% of Americans likely to vote, do not (EP. 3329b, April 14, 2024, 47:16)! It is already against the law! Biden and Mayorkas are defying the Constitution and America—even most Democrats— by flying into the U.S. airports—skipping the border—200,000 plus illegal aliens (Ep. 3343b, May 1, 2024)
Yes the Deep State is on trial becoming ever more visible and the court of public opinion is convicting it and Joe Biden instead. Perspective voters are fleeing from them to Trump. The trial ends November 5 when the jury, the people, convict and oust both. Enjoy the show.
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. Read more of his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 766
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The Constitution is very clear on Impeachment. To impeach someone requires both houses of Congress to act independently of the other. The House of Representatives, based upon the number of people living within each state, is the people’s representative; the Senate, limited to only two representatives regardless of population, represents the state. The House alone—therefore the people—formulates the impeachable offenses. When the House delivers the impeachable offenses the accused is impeached. In the case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas two articles of impeachable were delivered: one Mayorkas’s “Willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law,” and two his, “breach of public trust.” Mayorkas perjured himself with many false statements under oath to Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives leaders walk the articles of impeachment, the accusations, against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment to Senate chambers for the constitutionally required trial portion of the impeachment process. For the first time in Senate history Democrat leadership of the Senate refuses to try the accused defying the Constitution all pledged by oath to uphold. All Senate Democrats unanimously voted not to try Mayorkas.
The Senate must then try the accused on only these two offenses either convicting or acquitting him. President Trump was impeached twice by the House and acquitted twice by the Senate. But Senate Democrats unanimously in each article voted not to follow the Constitution. They voted not to try Mayorkas. This is not an acquittal. Nowhere in the Constitution is a trial optional. The people spoke when the articles were delivered to the Senate. The Senate’s only option is to try the accused. Both houses are conjoined in this function: one accuses, one tries.
Constitutionally neither the Executive nor the Judicial branches function in the impeachment process. The Judicial Branch was not given any power to impeach (see Article III, Section 2, Clause 3. The “Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by jury…. (Article III, Section 2, Clause 3).
The president has authority “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment” (Article I, Sec. 2, Clause I). He cannot pardon impeachments. Article II, dealing with the Executive Branch, does define what are impeachable offenses. “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Article II, Section 4). Misdemeanors are defined as “minor wrong doing” so the Founders did expect leaders to have some measure of integrity. And “He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” (Art. I, Sec. 3). This is what the accused has defied.
The legislative branch alone has the power to impeach thus when one of its two houses refuses to function, no other government branch can. The Constitution is thwarted and the accused remains in power to continue undermining it indefinitely until a new president is elected. This was never the intent of the Founders. The Senate must do its duty to try the accused or the Constitution cannot give remedy or justice as was intended. Otherwise this part of the Constitution dies.
LibertyUnderFire attempts to present the mostly censored side of the issues it covers. Every research depends on the Internet to some degree. In it the Deep State has its articles listed first. It is not uncommon to scroll through 50 or more articles on a subject before finding the other side on their narratives. In this case, we went through 47 before finding a good explanation on House Articles I and II. It was Senator John Kennedy’s press release on the Articles and follows.
“In its first article of impeachment, the House alleges that Secretary Mayorkas has, ‘willfully and systematically refused to comply with federal immigration law.’ The House says that Secretary Mayorkas has refused to detain some illegal Immigrants, as the law requires him to do, and has instead embraced his own catch-and-release scheme in which he has released huge numbers—I think any fair-minded American would call 8.6 million people huge—huge numbers of illegal immigrants into the United States.
“The House says that Secretary Mayorkas has refused to follow unambiguous and clear federal laws that require him to detain illegal immigrants who are subject to deportation for engaging in criminal or terrorism-related behavior. The House says that Secretary Mayorkas has failed to make case-by-case parole determinations, which the law clearly requires—clearly—and, instead, he has—on his own—he has paroled millions of people illegally into the United States en masse.
The illegal alien (middle) accused of Laken Riley’s (right) brutal murder freed by Homeland Security reportedly over lack of Detention Space. Senators voting to dismiss these charges by not holding a trial on Mayorkas (left), as required by the Constitution, are knowingly aiding and abetting the invasion of America and are an accessory to the crimes committed by the illegals, including the murder of Laken Riley.
“In its second article of impeachment, the House alleges that Secretary Mayorkas has breached the public’s trust in two respects: by knowingly making false statements to Congress that the border is ‘secure,’ and that the Department of Homeland Security has,‘operational control’ of the border, and by failing to comply with subpoenas issued by congressional committees seeking to exercise oversight over DHS activities.” He had defied congressional committees.
How serious is it? “If the Senate dismisses these charges” which it just did, “without a trial, … it will be the first time—the very first time—in the Senate’s long history that it has dismissed impeachment charges against an official it has jurisdiction over without that official first resigning.” He added ,”We must have a trial, “Precedent demands a trial…Respect for the House of Representatives demands a trial…Respect for the law… demands a trial…and the American people demand a trial.” The United States Senate should do its job.” (Kennedy: Senate must hold Mayorkas impeachment trial, John Kennedy press release, March 6, 2024).
Senators voting to dismiss these charges by not holding trial on Mayorkas, as required by the Constitution, are knowingly aiding and abetting the invasion of America and are an accessory to the crimes committed by the illegals, including the murder of Laken Riley (“Laken Riley Murder Suspect Released Over lack of Detention Space.” By Stephan Dinan, Washington Times. April 18, 2024).
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 columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column # 764.
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The January 6 insurrection story turned upside down with the demise of the January 6 Select Committee present to censor and smother the facts coming out the last 14 months, especially the 40,000 hours of video tapes of that day at the Capitol. There still remains Nancy Pelosi’s emails of the day and those of the Capitol police to come out—both still suppressed.
Pictured is V. P. Mike Pence as president of the Senate and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the reconvened Electoral College joint session on the evening of January 6. The Deep State media clearly blamed the insurrection on Trump and MAGA. Congress was in no mood to even begin the required vote challenging part of the election process, they simply called it for Joe Biden. Almost all evidence surfacing the last 14 months has shown a Biden 2020 election win highly unlikely without extreme cheating and the release of the previously suppressed 40,000 hours of video J6 tapes to have been a Fedsurrection with over 200 FBI assets employed to trap Trump and the MAGA following. The election, stolen in the people’s vote on November 3, was indeed stolen again in the incomplete Electoral College process as well. Many even view the two events together as a Coup d’état to overthrow the dully elected president of the United States.
What we know now is that Mike Pence saved President “Trump from the Deep States’s planned COUP to use the 25th [Amendment] & make him ineligible to run for POTUS again.” With over 200 FBI assets employed Pelosi wanted the event to be so bad that Congress could not reconvene. That almost happened with the Capitol police shooting and killing unarmed veteran Ashly Babbitt, the beating of Victoria White, (now suing Capitol police), and Rosanna Boyland (three witnesses say beaten, police say crushed, to death), both outside the Capitol building. Blood and death optics “would’ve made it an official INSURRECTION.” The plan was to “stop the certification, take over the Government, and then have the entire thing land directly on their intended target, President Donald Trump.”
But the plan was foiled because “Pence refused to leave the Capitol that day. Bc [because] without him there, SHE would’ve been next in CoC [chain of command] – which means Pelosi would’ve had the Authority to immediately call to remove Trump using the 25th [Amendment]” Remember Donald Trump was still the President of the United States for another 14 days. He would not have led an insurrection to overthrow himself. Pence’s presence kept her from implementing the 25th Amendment on Trump independently that day and also forced her to join him in reconvening Congress that evening—likely the last thing she wanted as that undermined the seriousness of her claim that Trump committed treason by orchestrating the violent overthrow of the government (Karma Patriot X22 Reports Ep. 3263b, Jan. 21, 2024, 48:18).
Pence wrote a letter to Nancy Pelosi six days later, January 12, 2021 expressing his concern over her pressure on him to lead the Trump cabinet activating the 25th Amendment to remove Trump which he still refused to do. “But now, with just eight days left in the President’s term, you and the Democratic caucus are demanding that the cabinet and I invoke the 25th amendment. I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our Constitution…. And I will not now yield to efforts in the House of Representatives to play political games at a time so serious in the life of our Nation.” (Ibid.). He had to have known he foiled her plans.
It is very important to remember that they never returned to the voter challenge part of the Electoral College presidential election. Six states (five Republican legislatures and one Democrat) had submitted two Electoral College ballots one from the legislatures as constitutionally required and a second from the state secretary of state signed by the governor of the same state, each seeking to be the official vote of the state. This type of cheating, sending two ballots, was entirely unconstitutional. Pence had total constitutional authority to refuse the governors or attorney generals of the states ballots and accept only that from the legislatures as constitutionally required which would have elected Trump. Pence never had a chance. At this precise moment the insurrection broke into the Capitol and the meeting abruptly ended. When it reconvened Pelosi simply installed Biden. The election, stolen in the people’s vote on November 3, was indeed stolen again in the incomplete Electoral College process as well.
Rosanne Boyland, 31, “was holding my hand when she died. We both were getting crushed to death as Capitol police pushed and beat more people on top of us instead of letting us get up.” Philip Anderson.
Had Pence accepted only the vote of the legislatures of the battleground states it would have given Trump a second term but the country likely a bloody civil war and done nothing to destroy the Deep State which was the Patriots intent. At that time America was no where ready to accept that the Deep State had infiltrated the Democrat Party who had completed a Coup d’état to overthrow the dully elected president of the United States. Now most are starting to see.
Democrats argued that Pence, as president of the Senate, was nothing but a “bean” counter and had no authority to require the states to follow the Constitution in insisting that only the state legislatures could submit a ballot in the Electoral College—not their secretaries of state and governors. Pence saved Trump’s run again in 2024 but he also helped Trump in keeping the next president of the Senate, Kamala Harris, from nullifying Trump’s 2024 victory. Democrats would have had Harris send opposing state ballots back to the states to nullify Trump’s new reelection. Since 2020 Democrats have passed the Electoral Count Act to prohibit what Pence could have done from happening not realizing that this also handcuffs their doing the same thing in 2025.
Pence knowingly gave up his political future for his country becoming the villain of the MAGA movement in the war against the Deep State. His run against Trump in 2024 was mostly playing a part to help save the Republic. That much more is coming about his role in defeating the Deep State is hinted to by Christopher Miller, Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense during the last months of the Trump administration who thanked Pence for helping him in the military operation. What military operation? He said, speaking to Pence, “I just wanna personally thank you. We’ve been through some stuff. We’ve gone through some of the MOST COMPLEX MILITARY OPERATIONS THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER CONDUCTED [emphasis added]. Your steady hand and your leadership during those was a great source of strength to me! Thank you for your leadership! Thank you for your character! Thank you for your selfless service! Thank you for your commitment! Thank you for your being a mentor to me, Mr. Vice President!” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3133b, Aug. 7, 2023, 1:05:51).
In future American history textbooks we will come to know former Vice President Pence as one of the greatest patriots in the present war against the Deep State—he sacrificed his reputation.
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 columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 758
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