We are at war as serious and real as any in our history with real casualties fighting to keep our liberty. Everything is politicized and aimed at capturing your mind often with narratives or ideas that may have no truth in them. I have lectured and published on keeping our freedom for over fifty years. This war is real and dangerous. It may have deceived you. Sometimes someone else says it better. This time it is Ken Blackwell, a nationally syndicated columnist. I had to go through at least 100 pro ‘No Kings’ protest propaganda Deep State sources on Google to get this one article giving the other side. Exclusion is censorship. Blackwell’s arguments were suppressed, that is why I am sharing him on my site to give you access. What he shares resonates. Much of what follows is from him. He titles his comments, “No Kings Explained for People Who Think They’re Fighting Fascism.”
This is the 3rd No King protest preceded by June 14, and October 18, 2025 protests. The common denominators of all No King protests is they are almost entirely far-left Democrats, despise Trump and the MAGA movement, are heavily funded by the extreme left especially George Soros, and never opposed their own king-like presidents Obama and Biden or COVID governors: Como, Whitmer, Murphy or Newsom. We remember these “wannabe kings—all Democrats. Nor can they identify specifically anything illegal that Trump has done.
“Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre-printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about. That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure. That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline. And that is what you walked into on Saturday [March 28, 2026]. You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. ‘No Kings.’ It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic. But the signs were ready before your outrage was. That should bother you.” Did it?
“Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting. That is not tyranny. And yet you are being told it is. You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo. That is not clarity. That is conditioning. Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be. And you believed it.
“Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it: Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign. That is what entrenched power looks like. Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
“But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time. You are told he is the king. No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control. You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours. Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it….
“Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life. You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work. But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression. That contradiction should stop you cold.” Did it?
Blackwell continues, “Look at how power is actually maintained. Non-citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation. Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown. That is how modern systems entrench themselves. Then look at speech. There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. [During COVID] scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted. Humor. When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system. That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority. That is far more effective than any throne….
I had to go through at least 100 pro ‘No Kings’ protest propaganda Deep State sources on Google to get this one article giving the other side. Exclusion is censorship.
“Then there is the selective enforcement of rules. During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their loved ones in their final moments. At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary. One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another. That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts. And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective….
“Look at who you marched alongside. Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform. That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control….And yet they had signs ready for you. Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were participating in something far more organized than you realized….
“So when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring…. You marched against kings. But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you. And the most dangerous part is that you think you are fighting for freedom…” The truth behind No Kings protests: were you deceived? Walk away!! Two more are scheduled before elections. Don’t go!
Thanks Ken Blackwell for the censored side.
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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #869
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I began my professorship career in 1975 in Blythe, California with at least 20% Iranian foreign students who chose Palo Verde College for its like environment because it was hot and dry like Iran. I remember well an early classroom conversation with them. They did not hate the Shay of Iran that was then being displaced in 1979, they said by America. I told them that we had nothing to do with it. One student said, “You know, how you say his name, R o c k e f e l l e r, he take over and removed the Shay,” he protested. They seemed so emphatic and in total agreement that America was responsible, I could not argue against them.
The ruling Ayatollah is no more. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core (IRGC) which existed to protect the fanatical Islamic theologic system that most everybody hated except the mullahs, is but a shell of what it once was. Iran has no navy, no air force, virtually no defense. It lost the war in 45 days. The shell of what once was is kept alive almost entirely by other Deep State countries, mostly the U.S. and Europe and their medias, encouraging it to stay alive with fake news for propaganda purposes. And Trump is allowing ships to go in and out of the Strait of Hormuz at his discretion. The people will rise up and throw off the rest as soon as they feel safe in doing so. The Republic of Iran will likely chose to become a Constitutional Republic.
Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under Gerald Ford, just two years before the Iranian Revolution of 1979 under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. He and his brothers John and David were sons of John D. Rockefeller, who at one time virtually controlled America’s and the world’s oil industry. No name in U.S. history was better known than Rockefeller as internationalist or globalists (now known as the Deep State). That the Rockefeller’s would be heavily involved in the politics of Iran, even regime change, of one of the world’s largest oil producing countries is very logical. My Iranian students knew more than I. They hated the Rockefeller name. We had more conversations on this subject. They repeatedly said “Your media lie to you.” Today, 47 years later, we also know this. The Rockefeller’s had been heavily involved in the oil industry in America since 1863 and in the 20th century in Iran and Venezuela. Because of them oil became the largest source of energy for the global economy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshall Asim Munir, offered to moderate in America’s conflict with Iran to end the almost total destruction of Iran’s military resistance. Amazingly, after over 1,200 hits, the necessities of life: water and electric power plants, bridges (that did not have a military purpose), schools and hospitals and etc. were untouched. Even the oil refineries and oil tanks are still in place which would enable a new government to rebuild quickly—and non-military facilities on the Strait of Hormuz also untouched. Kharg Island houses 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Trump’s strikes were on facilities and the terrorist government—not the people. We were never at war with the Iranian people.
It became readily apparent that there were two forces seeking political power in Iran, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core) consisting of the mullahs likely brought to power with the help of the Deep State in America and the people calling themselves the Republic of Iran. The first viciously retained that power by oppressing the people for 47 years—even slaughtering 32,000 demonstrators last January. America’s and the European Union’s Deep State media side with the mullahs. Clearly the MAGA movement, conservative media: One American News (OAN), NewsMax, mostly Fox, and dozens of podcasters, side with their people.
Trump agreed to hold off further destruction of Iran for two weeks. Why? Because those representing the Republic of Iran requested it and offered a 10 point proposal conceding most of what America wanted. This included never having a nuclear weapon and “gifting” the Strait of Hormuz (already taken) as a sign of how serious they were to ending the conflict. According to Trump, “We have already met and exceeded all military objectives.” The objective was never to destroy Iran only the IRGC powered government American Deep Staters installed in 1979 against the will of the Iranian people. And Trump added “a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.” So why did the cease fire work for only a few hours? It was with the new Republic of Iran—not the IRGC government who would have Iran and its people destroyed rather than concede anything, as would also the American and European Deep State. Trump only needed proof that the new Republic was strong enough to clean out the old guard and stay in power. This could be demonstrated by there opening the Strait of Hormuz. This would never be allowed by any other than the IRGC government. Turns out they weren’t powerful enough yet. The delegation to Pakistan to negotiate further collapsed for now.
Simultaneously Trump hoped that the European Union countries would help protect the Strait as they are its principle users and it is supposed to be international waters. The U.S. receives only 1% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The islands that are in the Strait actually belong to the United Arab Emirates —not Iran. Oil is found largely in four areas of the globe: Russia, Venezuela, Iran and the United States. The United States now controls the oil in three of these areas which essentially means that Europe must purchase their oil from either Russia, whom they tried to provoke to war via Ukraine for at least the last ten years, or the United States whom they recently offended by not letting it use its bases funded, built and manned by America in this war.
Iran was involved in and did help fund the Hamas Massacre Oct. 7th, 2023 of over 1,200 unprovoked Israeli children, women and men and the taking and holding of 250 hostages. There were also dozens of rapes. Indeed the mullahs did have blood on their hands.
European Union countries refused to support America’s refusing to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon and insisting the Strait return to international waters status. Their countries have no oil. Trump closed the Strait pending his removal of underwater mines placed there by the IRGC government. This accomplished, he reopened the Strait without fear of Iranian retaliation or resistance and all counties soon will be free to use it as once was. Venezuelan oil is now available on the free market and Iranian oil under the Republic of Iran soon will be as well.
The biggest win of all is that these Deep State countries, who once controlled the supply of oil world-wide, even in America with their bans on drilling, now have no oil outside America and Russia. Trump is gradually forcing The European Union who are just now, this week, arguing that they should have a role in opening the Strait of Hormuz—essentially the argument Trump was trying to get them to take before the war with Iran. Presently empty oil ships are racing to the Gulf Coast of Texas to fill up. The United States became the world’s emergency gas station.
Trump has cleared the Strait and controls it without meaningful resistance from London, China or the world’s Deep State and is returning Iran to what it was before America’s intervention in 1979. When Iran is ready its people through their Republic of Iran are set to finish the deal and govern themselves with free elections. Its an optimistic view but at least now possible because of Trump. My students, if still alive, are very happy. Hated Rockefeller has been removed.
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 his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #868.
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The “No Kings” protests swept the nation just last week, March 28, the third such array of protests against anything Trump does, says or supports. It is anything but spontaneous and was organized and funded by the same Deep State type cadre of people that John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully confronted. It was preceded by the first planned “No Kings” protest, intentionally to undermine Trump on his birthday, June 14, 2025, followed by the second October 18, 2025. Drawing massive crowds—organizers suggesting several million people participated in the third such organized protest, although a real headcount is not possible. It is designed to unleash itself on the public before, on, or about the midterm this November.
George Soros has used his billions to shift power structures in multiple continents probably giving himself more power than any king. No one has been more influential bringing to power dictators (kings) or removing elected leaders then he. He is the single greatest influence for the Islamic flood of immigrants in dozens of European countries and in the United States. He is a self hating Jew and loathes Israel and the U.S., especially Trump. There exists no one more Deep State than he. He likely created the “No Kings” movement giving it $72 million and through his Tides Foundation another $45 million making him its lead funder. As a devout socialist he hates the US Constitution and works to destroy our liberty.
The six leading individuals or foundations financing the ‘No Kings” protests are: “Arabella at $79 million, Warren Buffet at $16 million, Ford at $51 million, Rockefeller at $26 million, George Soros at $72 million, and Tides at $45 million for a grand total of $ 294,487,641 million.” Everyone knows these are “rent a mob” entities to fund socialist demonstrators and causes on the streets (X22 Report, hereafter not recited, Ep. 3834b, Feb. 5, 2026, 41:51).
We already had presidents and governors acting like kings. Obama spied on the 2016 Trump campaign and forced everyone to buy into Obamacare, Biden to take the mandatory COVID vaccine and subsequent boosters or lose their jobs, and in New York, Wisconsin and New Jersey governors Andrew Como, Grethen Whitmer and Phil Murphy sent COVID patients into nursing homes to up the pandemic’s death rates. Gavin Newsom of California denied people the right to assemble in churches and restaurants and arrested people for just being on the beach. Illinois Governor Pritzker then threatened to shoot anyone on the streets that refused to stay in his house and now allows illegals to be sworn in as police officers. (Ep. 3755b, Oct. 19, 2025, 15:29).
We remember these “wannabe kings” —all Democrats. Trump has not forced anything. He has required illegals who “broke in” to this country to obey established law to self-deport or be deported, required also by all his predecessors, nor have any of the rallies against him identified specifically anything illegal he has/is doing. The movement against Trump lacks a plaintiff.
According to Libs of TikTok on CNN “Liberals Want Obama to be King, Not President” (By Dean Obeidaliah, June 8, 2012), and on NBC “Why Obama Wishes He were King” both implied Obama would be a good king and toyed with the thought. Obama admits liking the idea of his being in the basement with an earpiece telling the president what to say and do which many believe is what he did during the Biden Administration.
Trump responded to the accusation of his being a king. “By the way, I’m not a KING. I work my ASS OFF to make our country great. That’s all it is! It’s a joke. I looked at all the people [protesting]…all the brand new signs. It was paid for by Soros and radical left lunatics… we’re checking that out. Very small and ineffective and the people will back out, [they are] not representative of the people of this country” (Ep. 3756b, Oct. 20, 2025, 33:22).
Should coming “No King” rallies (there are two scheduled later this year) lead to another Coup d’état as on Capitol Hill Jan. 6, 2021, Tony Saruba explains how data signatures is used by law enforcement to know everything about involved protesters through their cell phones. He says a geofence surrounds every protest. “Understand that if someone uses a faraday bag or even leaves their device at home, we can still reconcile their likely movements and locations. In fact, it’s after dispersal that the real data exploitation begins. When a large protest happens, especially when that isn’t institutionally approved, you can always assume it’s being mapped in real time by every intelligence and policing network with overlap to that jurisdiction.
Tony Saruba explains how data signatures is used by law enforcement to know everything about involved protesters through their cell phones. Everything!!
“They don’t watch in the traditional sense, he says, “they analyze systems. The modern apparatus doesn’t care about shouting crowds. It cares about data signatures. Every phone becomes a tracking beacon so they know where these people come from. They know where they go to, they know whom they’re in contact with …. Even if location off is toggled, the phone still admits continuous metadata, cell tower handoffs, triangulation gives position within meters, Wi Fi, pings, router logs, MAC addresses, Bluetooth scans and proximity signals IMSI catch or stingrays mimic cell towers, forcing all nearby phones to connect. “That gives agencies mass identifier lists and movement paths, device fingerprinting once a phone’s radio signature is logged. It can be matched later, even with a new SIM license plate readers. ALPRs tie individual physical location to digital ones. All this gets piped into fusion centers, where predictive models weigh social stability indexes and generate risk ratings on protesters.”
Saruba concludes, “Before, during and after the protest. My team and I rely on automated social media ingestion, pattern mapping, bot scan, hashtags, Telegram channels, Discord groups, signal and even private messaging servers that leak metadata, sentiment clustering, AI classified, classifies users as organizers, participants, sympathizers or hostile observers. Social graph scoring once a few key IDs are confirmed algorithm find second and third degree ties, family employee affiliations. That’s how protests get pre neutralized, not by arrest, but by psychological operations, deep platforming, malware, intimidation messages or pressure on employees to deter attendance, even if data is encrypted, end to end, traffic analysis exposes networks and leads to the identification of each user, key groups and demographics in the crowd….” (Ep. 3871b, March 29, 2026, 31:00).
Consider the benefits to patriots and eventual justice. We have an accurate feel of the strength of this insurrectionist movement at all times and over time. Geomapping allows patriots to identify movement leaders and to document their every action when they go to violence. What if geomapping records are still available for 2020 when Antifa left some cities burned and looted and these match what happens in 2026? Criminals seldom change. Trump said he caught them all.
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 @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #866
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I was a young college professor when on November 4, 1979 America suffered its most humiliating moment in U.S. history. Sixty-Six Americans were taken hostage by radical Islamists terrorists and paraded about blindfolded and 52 of these their lives threatened every day for 444 days in what is now known as The US Embassy Hostage Crises of 1979. Every night Iran’s humiliation of America led the news. President Jimmy Carter, appeared to be the most helpless and inept president. No nation feared him or any other Democrat leader since. Hostages were finally released just minutes before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office, because they knew he would come after them. Since that day these terrorists, their children and grandchildren terrorists have chanted “Death to America.” Iran’s 47 year long war against America just ended with the annihilation of the former radical Islamists government.
Iran has had an ongoing multiple millennial declaration of war against the Israeli race and more recently Americans primarily because they oppose the annihilation of the Jews. Radical Islamist have wanted a nuclear bomb and have made it known they intend to use it against both. They were within days of having and using it. No one questions their intent but only one president has made certain they never will. In 24 days he removed that threat and their radicalized leadership and has given the Iranian people a chance to experience freedom if they chose it.
Iran never faced accountability and every U.S president since has “tip toed” around Iran helping to maintain their aura of invincibility. Another Islamic act of terrorism against America followed in 1983 when 241 U.S soldiers where blown up in a marine barracks in Lebanon. Other attacks continued mostly on shipping vessels thereafter. Iran became the largest state sponsor of terrorism country. More recently, Iran’s role in backing Hamas was on display which carried out the brutal Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel killing more than a thousand civilians and taking dozens of Americans along with Israeli hostages. In January of this year reports indicate that the ruling mullahs in Iran even slaughtered over 32,000 of their own people demonstrating against them.
Centered in this drama was Iran getting a nuclear bomb. President Obama’s 2018 Iran Deal is alleged to have made that possible years before anticipated. Critics (including Israeli PM Netanyahu, Trump, and analysts from Heritage, Brookings, and the Institute for Science and International Security) argued the deal did not eliminate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure or ambitions—it legitimized and preserved them with a built-in expiration date. This created what opponents called a “patient pathway” to the bomb: Iran could wait out restrictions, retain know-how and facilities, then sprint to weapons-grade material (potentially in weeks) while staying compliant until the clocks ran out. This was precisely what happened. Obama made Iran a nuclear “threshold state” endangering the world.
Iran remained compliant initially but began breaching in 2019 (exceeding stockpile/enrichment limits). By 2024–2025, Iran enriched to 60% (near weapons-grade), amassed enough 60% material for several bombs if further processed, and installed advanced centrifuges. Breakout time dropped to 1 week or less. The deal’s sunsets became largely moot as violations mounted. Negotiations to revive a deal have repeatedly failed. Trump had no choice but to insist Iran return to the table and make a new deal voiding Obama’s 2018 Iran “patient pathway” Iran Deal. THERE MUST BE NO PATHWAY FOR IRAN HAVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON. In April 2025 he gave Iran “a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal!!’” They still refused!
Trump’s response had to be Operation Midnight Hammer June 21, 2025, and was. Stealths flew from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri directly East over the Atlantic for 18 hours completing a 25 minute drop, then home again. But it wasn’t a total success as first thought, it left significant stockpiles of high grade uranium intact which Iran since has refused to surrender.
Tulsi Gabbard recently testified, in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, that although we had decimated Iran’s ability to develop nuclear fuel, “we had not destroyed the fuel they already had.” CIA Director John Ratcliff testified under oath at the same hearing that “Iran was developing a nuclear weapon prior to Operation Midnight Hammer,” last June 2025, and “was committed to continuing development before Epic Fury” this year. He continued, “Iran possesses at least 440 KG of uranium enrichment to weapons – grade 60% – which doesn’t have a civilian use. The only use for that would be the development of nuclear weapons (X22 Report, Ep. 3864b, March 19, 2026, 25:08 and 52:46). Thus Iran still had fuel for a nuclear weapon which necessitated Trump’s recent February 28th attack on Iran.
In 1979 sixty-six Americans were taken hostage by radical Islamist terrorists and paraded about blindfolded and 52 of these their lives threatened every day for 444 days in what is now known as The US Embassy Hostage Crises of 1979. Every night Iran’s humiliation of America led the news. President Jimmy Carter, appeared to be the most helpless and inept president. These and other acts of terrorism dominated the news in Islamic centers of population making Iran the leading sponsor of terrorism. Justice sometimes is slow but it usually comes.
Everyone knows Iran’s first use of an atomic bomb will be unleashed on Jerusalem and that the radical Islamic mullahs will unleash it as a matter of Islamic faith. Radical Islamic mullahs cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon or rule a country that has one. This necessitates the non religious fanatic population to rise to power and keep that power. This is very possible in a country where 32,000 opposition leaders were executed by their own government just last January. The people do NOT love their mullahs and were video taped dancing in the streets, which is against the law in Iran, upon the news that governing mullah’s were known to have been killed by the bombs.
Trump is presently using back channels to insure that happens and insists he is making some progress. So much so that he recently reported, “I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
All U.S. presidents were weak against Iran since 1979. Trump took the invincible Iran out in just 24 days and blew them off the map. Their leadership gone, their navy, air force and defense nearly dead. Finally they have been made to account for their actions both to America and Israel. And the Iranian people will continue to dance in the streets as they embrace freedom. This is why 89% of MAGA approve of Trump’s bringing justice to the mullahs of Iran (Ep. 3863b, March 18, 2026, 41:04). It was long overdue.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #865
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November 21, 2025, was predicted 60 years ago. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced H. Con. Res. 58, titled “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism.” The resolution “condemned socialism in all its forms, citing historical examples of socialist policies leading to authoritarianism, famine, mass murder, and economic collapse in places like the Soviet Union under Lenin/Stalin, China under Mao, Cuba under Castro, and Venezuela under Maduro” where collectively well over 100 million people lost their lives. It explicitly stated that Congress “denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States,” while affirming that socialist policies are incompatible with America’s founding principles.” Historically socialism was by far the most violent form of government in world history (“Death by Socialism,” By Harold Pease, Ph. D., LibertyUnderFire. org, Aug. 20, 2019).
The Bill of Rights as a list of rights coming from God that citizens are born with, that no government can take from them, is not defended by socialists or communists. Liberty is not guaranteed by either. You belong to the state. Both descend into tyranny for those who disagree.
The measure denouncing socialism passed but 98 Democrats voted no (against the resolution) 2 Democrats voted present, 27 Democrats did not vote. In other words, 127 Dems Congressmen did not condemn socialism nor did 20 Republicans, one third of all members of the House. These need to be removed in the nearest election as unfit for public office in a free society.
One book stands out more than any other predicting what has happened to the two nations most responsible for the birth of liberty world wide—England and America—that they in turn would be conquered by a secret combination designed to undermine the great work of our Founding Fathers, the Constitution and the Republic they created. The Book, Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. 1884–1966, (Western Islands) by Rose L. Martin presents an anti-socialist critique tracing the influence of the largely secret British Fabian Society on the spread of socialist ideas and policies in both Great Britain and the United States. The work correctly frames Fabianism as an insidious, gradualist strategy for achieving socialism without violent revolution— likened to the slow, patient advance of a turtle (or “Fabian turtle”) rather than the abrupt upheaval of Marxist communism.
The book’s central thesis is that a small group of elite, “polite revolutionaries”—intellectuals who operated under the guise of moderate reform, social welfare, and human progress—deliberately, methodically undermined traditional institutions, particularly the British Empire, and extended their influence across the Atlantic to reshape American society. Martin argues this “high road” to socialism proved more effective than overt communism because it infiltrated education, media, government, and political parties stealthily, avoiding direct confrontation while advancing collectivist goals.
Part I: Great Britain – The Origins and Impact. The first section focuses on the Fabian Society’s founding in London in 1884 by key figures such as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Graham Wallas, and others. Martin describes their motto—”Make Haste Slowly” (festina lente)—as emblematic of a calculated, evolutionary approach to socialism. Unlike revolutionary Marxists, Fabians advocated “permeation”: infiltrating existing institutions (especially the Liberal Party initially, then the emerging Labour Party) to enact incremental reforms that would eventually lead to state control over the economy and society. Chapters detail how Fabians “sowed the wind” through intellectual networks, influential writings (e.g., the Webbs’ works on municipal socialism and poor law reform), and strategic alliances. Martin portrays them as “dangerous” due to their elitism, deceptive moderation, and success in placing members in high positions—editors, academics, politicians, and civil servants. She highlights their role in shaping the British Labour Party, which she sees as a Fabian vehicle.
This Book told us 60 years ago where we are today and how we go here!
The narrative covers the interwar period, where Fabians allegedly engaged in “sedition” by supporting policies that weakened imperial strength, including diplomatic recognition of Bolshevik Russia (engineered by Fabian Arthur Henderson as Foreign Secretary in 1929). Martin laments the postwar “dirge for an empire,” arguing that Fabian influence contributed to decolonization, economic decline, and the welfare state’s expansion under Labour governments (e.g., post-1945 Attlee administration). She views World War II and its aftermath as a “trial by ordeal” that accelerated socialist trends, with Fabians positioning themselves for global influence (“Tomorrow, the World?”).
Part II: The United States – The Fabian “Turtle” Crosses the Atlantic. The second half shifts to America, contending that Fabian ideas migrated via intellectual exchanges, British émigrés, American progressives influenced by Fabian thought, and organizations mirroring Fabian tactics. Martin claims early permeation occurred through academics, journalists, and reformers who adopted gradualist socialism as liberalism or progressivism.
Key arguments include:Fabians “put the silk hat on socialism” by making it respectable among elites. Influential professors and intellectuals carried ideas to U.S. universities and policy circles.The New Deal era under Franklin D. Roosevelt marked a major advance, with “the professor” (possibly alluding to figures like Rexford Tugwell or others seen as Fabian-influenced) going to Washington to implement centralized planning. “Perfect friendship” and “left hands across the sea” refer to transatlantic networks linking British Fabians with American counterparts in government, media (e.g., ties to publications like The New Republic), and diplomacy. Postwar developments showed continuity: “the more it changes, the more it remains the same,” with Fabian-style policies advancing through regional planning, urban redevelopment, agricultural collectivization trends, and welfare expansion.
Martin warned that by the 1960s, these influences had created a “freeway” (faster-paced modern equivalent of the old turtle trail) for socialism in America, carried out by executive agents, diplomats, and planners who reorganized society along collectivist lines while maintaining capitalist appearances. After millions of deaths from the philosophy one would think the intellectuals would have long since forsaken the philosophy and NOT embraced it on both continents, but they did!!!
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #864
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Before 1913, and for 137 years as a nation, the United States had no federal income tax. The expenses of the federal government were covered by tariffs assessed on goods from other countries wishing access to America’s market. Money flowed in externally from other countries. Thereafter, and today, the vast majority of federal expenses come internally out of the pockets of the American taxpayer. The federal government spends what it wants borrowed from a private income source called the Federal Reserve which must be repaid with interest for the use of their money, just like any bank. This is called the national debt which now exceeds 38 trillion dollars.
The heart of Trump’s Parallel Economic System is the tariff on goods from other countries wishing access to our markets —the same system used the first 137 years of our history as a nation until 1913. Tariff revenue soared in FY 2025 more than 240% from the year before moving to over 300% by October. The Deep State does not want a parallel system that competes with their monopoly through their Federal Reserve and will do everything in its power to destroy it. Thus far all signals are encouraging including the recent Supreme Court decision which actually only killed the weakest tariff law of the many long-standing strong ones.
President Trump knows this debt is not sustainable and a collapse is imminent. He is trying to restore the funding system that sustained the country for its first 137 years as a nation with no national debt. That system is today called the Parallel Economic System which we will switch back to when it can sustain us. It is getting stronger every month. The heart of this Parallel Economic System is the tariff on goods from other countries wishing access to our markets.
The Federal Reserve created in 1913 is the Deep States’ funding, enslaving and destroying entity. They intend we never be out of debt to them and taxpayers give to it a sizable portion of their income every year which seems never to decrease until they are safely dead. We want freedom from it. Until Trump it had no real resistance nor competition. The Deep State wishes to destroy Trump and his Parallel Economic System. No other president has tried to get free from the Federal Reserve. Trump knew that it would be opposed by all Deep State aligned and influenced politicians both Democrat and RINO.
Trump knew his return to tariffs as the principle source of income for federal expenses would be challenged. The Deep State wanted the Supreme Court to rule it unconstitutional to end the competition. Trump tricked them into using our weakest statute on tariffs so it, not the funding practice, could be sacrificed. It worked! After all, tariffs had Congressional approval throughout American history. If he lost the case it could be brought back using a stronger statute. The Court ruled he could not charge countries “even one dollar,” but his tariffs could be used to block a nations unwanted goods from entry. This was vastly more important and certainly suggested retaining tariffs (X22 Report hereafter not cited, Ep. 3845b, Feb. 22, 2026, 53:16).
The tariffs challenged are the ones using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which is a federal law enacted in 1977 granting the president authority to counter unusual and extraordinary threats to national security without requiring congressional approval or extensive agency review. Because of its vagueness it became the “go to” authority for new tariffs more especially in a “hostile to Trump” Congress (combining Democrat/RINO opposition) becoming the majority in the U. S. Senate.
In the dissent ruling, Justice Kavanaugh encouraged Trump’s use of the other stronger statutes on tariffs going forward. In the 6 to 3 ruling Trump lost the use of this single act in establishing tariffs, not critical to their continued existence, but miraculously won the case to continue them with the minority vote. The need for tariffs was not damaged or even discouraged. The ruling made Trump’s use of tariffs in other statutes stronger. The Deep State tariff threat was vaporized.
On C-SPAN Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained, “The Court did not rule against President Trump’s tariffs. Six Justices simply ruled that IEEPA authorities cannot be used to raise even one dollar of revenue. This administration will invoke alternative legal authorities to replace the IEEPA tariffs.” (“On Tariffs and the Economy” Ep. 3845a, Feb. 22, 2026, 16:16).
Trump wrote, “Now the Court has given me the unquestioned right to ban all sorts of things from coming into our country, a much more powerful right than many people thought we had… But now I am going in a different direction, which is even stronger than our original choice. As Justice Kavanaugh wrote in his descent: ‘The decision might not substantially constrain a President’s ability to order tariffs going forward. This is because numerous other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most, if not all, of the tariffs issued in this case. Those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1952, Sec. 232, TheTrade Act of 1974, Sec. 122, Sec. 201, Sec. 301 and The Tariff Act of 1930, Sec. 338.”
Trump continued, “The Supreme Court’s decision today made a president’s ability to both regulate trade and impose tariffs more powerful and crystal clear rather than less. There will no longer be any doubt, and the income coming in and the protection of our companies and country will actually increase because of this decision. Based on long-standing law and hundreds of victories to the contrary the Supreme Court did not overrule tariffs, they merely overruled a particular use of IEEPA tariffs…In order to protect our country a president can actually charge more tariffs than I was charging in the past under the merits of a tariff authority which have also been confirmed and fully allowed.” Then he doubled down. “Therefore, effective immediately, all national security tariffs Section 232 existing, Section 301 tariffs remain in place and in full force and effect. Today I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122 over and above our normal tariffs already being charged” (Ep. 3845a, February 22, 2026, 19:04).
The ruling had a possible interesting side benefit. If it is true that “US consumers paid for 90% of IEEPA refunds —$120 BN— should go direct to consumers / firms. And with refund timing open-ended, they can be sent any time before midterms. Did the Court just give Trump the ability now to send everyone a $2,000 dividend check as he suggested last Fall, sometime before the 2026 midterm elections, this from tariff money (Ep. 3845b, Feb. 22, 2026, 48:03)? Perhaps!!
Trumps’ Parallel Economic System was not destroyed by the Deep State as intended and will continue to grow until it replaces the Federal Reserve as the funder of federal expenses as it once was for 137 years and possibly end our federal income tax as well. Wow!!
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist on current events. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #861
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