Biden’s record the past year has been that of total failure. In mere weeks we went from energy independence and an energy exporter to energy dependence on others. With 9.6% inflation in 11 months, Americans lost 10% of the value of their money and inflation is now at a 40 year high. It is increasingly difficult to avoid the thought that the Democrats seek to destroy the economy and bring us into the Great Reset and world government. Our supply chain is falling apart and empty shelves prove it. Odds are, even the most incompetent person in government, would make a decision in our favor once in a while. On Biden we still wait.
Biden’s Food Chain Crisis
We no longer have a southern border and therefore not a secure country. Daily thousands invade us at will—from at least 125 countries of the world. Because of the Democrat’s Afghanistan debacle, Americans decry our leaving our own behind enemy lines and our allies have lost confidence in us—especially Israel and Taiwan. Our enemies do not fear Biden. Actually China nearly owns us. When was the last time you saw the label “made in America” on anything?
Biden’s vaccine mandates had to be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court before he, and his party, destroyed most of the Bill of Rights. The vaccines don’t prevent COVID infection or spread anywhere and a majority of the new infections are in those already double or triple vaccinated. Nor do his boosters or anything else he sought to force upon us.
Biden’s FBI now targets as domestic terrorists parents who confront school board mask policies or Critical Race Theory (white racism). This, on the direction of Biden to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Americans (63%) want parents to have the final say on what kids are taught.
The January 6th “insurrection” narrative is falling apart. Turns out it was led by unindicted government agents posing as Donald Trump supporters—a Deep State operation—and after a year not one person has been convicted of insurrection. A recent CBS poll shows no one believes the Jan. 6 hype. A whopping 76% believe that this was a protest that went too far—not an insurrection. This, while hundreds remain in The Washington D.C. Gulag as political prisoners in a state of indefinite detention, a violation of Constitutional Amendments 4-6 & 8.
Biden is rushing this country into fascism, world government and the Great Reset as fast as he can. In twelve months he, and his political party, have managed to make themselves the greatest internal threat in our history to liberty, the Constitution, and our republic. Biden’s approval rating, at 33%, is the lowest of any president in U.S. history, and Kamala Harris’s is even lower.
Americans no longer trust the mainstream media which most believe became the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party long before the 2016 presidential race and since. CNN viewership has collapse by 73% and the percentage change in news consumption habits for 2020-2021—the social media interaction with news articles—dropped 65%. People no longer are really engaging the fake reporting. Deep State censorship of almost everything negative to the election, the pandemic, and Biden Jr. and Sr. China connections, amplified the peoples’ distain for this man and his government.
The people now know that everything the Deep State (Democrat) press called conspiracy theories is instead the truth. This is what happens when 97% of the media is controlled by corporations. These include coverage on: Nicholas Sandmann, Jussie Smollett, Kyle Rittenhouse, Russian Collusion, The Steele dossier, kids in cages, hydroxychoriquin and Ivermectin as known COVID cures, a politicalized border wall and pandemic, even, it appears, Biden’s fraudulent election. Everything they said about these people or issues was fake, phony, and false.
America is no longer with Joe Biden and most now believe his “election” was fraudulent. Democrats have nothing to run on in 2022, except the same thing they used since 2016, “We hate Trump and so should you!!” But that gig is over! Almost no one reveres Biden. If the presidential election were held today Trump would win all five battleground states.
So how does this translate to “the people are winning?” What I have just written most Americans now believe—but didn’t a year ago. This despite the massive censorship and fake press. The people had to be shown. Had Trump not vacated the White House, he would have remained the only target with virtually all the media against him. Let him effectively disappear for a short while. Let the Democrats and Biden occupy the White House, feel in charge, and let the Deep State, the invisible government, expose themselves as has happened the past year.
Everything is now in the open even despite media control and severe censorship: election fraud, open borders, CRT, open war on the Constitution especially The Bill of Rights, destruction of the economy, vaccine crimes against children and humanity, the China connection with both Biden Jr. and Sr, the successful coup of November 3, 2020—even treason. Durham will continue dripping out indictments on both the Clintons and possibly Barack Obama, and Ghislaine Maxwell will yet “sing” on many high profile politicians. The Industrial Pharma Complex will come into light. States will continue dripping out serious election fraud and decertifications will follow. This is all part of Devolution. The people are awakening, thus winning.
Trump asked August 13, 2021, “DO YOU MISS ME YET?” Put simply: liberty misses you, the Constitution misses you, the economy—our savings and food supply chain—miss you, our borders miss you, our allies—especially Israel and Taiwan—miss you, and those who do not want world government miss you. Under Democrat governors and a socialist president, we have seen what tyranny looks like and we abhor it. President Trump, most of us welcome and await you.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
We live in a day unlike any other hostile to truth, outside the book burning of the Middle Ages, where truth is determined by who is the loudest and who is censored the least. Where everyone carries in a pocket a device loaded with the history, truth and wisdom of the ages, but instead, most prefer the shallow depth of social media to determine opinion. Where science may have been captured by the “dark side” for profit and control of the masses. Where children with a 99.99X percent of surviving COVID, should they even get it which is rare, are the new target for inoculation and the Great Reset.
A day where the inventor of the Messenger RNA technology, used in the Covid injections, feels compelled “to issue a dire video, warning parents still considering getting their children injected, to instead protect them from what he calls “the most radical medical experiment in human history.” But in that warning even he is largely censored.
Libertyunderfire.org considers censorship a threat to learning and liberty and thus has elected to share his warning. Dr. Robert Malone is the world’s leading authority on the subject. His warning entitled, ”URGENT ALERT TO ALL PARENTS,” follows in full — without comment:
“My name is Robert Malone, and I am speaking to you as a parent, grandparent, physician and scientist. I don’t usually read from a prepared speech, but this is so important that I wanted to make sure that I get every single word and scientific fact correct.
I stand by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I’m generally pro-vaccination. I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
After this, I will be posting the text of this statement so you can share it with your friends and family.
Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible – I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created.
There are three issues parents need to understand before they take this irrevocable decision:
The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children’s cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins.” These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including:
– Their brain and nervous system, – Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots, – Their reproductive system, – And, most important, this vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system.
The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable. They cannot be reversed.
– You can’t fix the lesions within their brain, – You can’t repair heart tissue scarring, – You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and – This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family.
The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.
– We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks associated with this new technology. – The harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later.
Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history.
One final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.
– Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents.
– It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is critical to save your family if not the world from this disease.
Finally and in summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent, you and your children may have to live with for the rest of your lives.
The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close with this vaccine for children. As a parent and grandparent, my strong recommendation to you is to resist and fight to protect your children.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
When do we finally get back to normal? Recently we published half of an interview answering that question. “The Pandemic Will End When the Digital Monetary System is in Place,” an interview between independent financial investor, Melissa Cuimmel and host Sara Haboubi of Ryland Media, an Ireland media outlet. The answer, COVID is the main instrument for implementing the Great Reset—world government—but they must keep the threat alive until it, and you, are locked in (See “The Pandemic Ends When the Enslaving Reset is Locked In,” www.LibertyUnderFire.org).
We concluded that the globalists’ plans for world government have proceeded on schedule for decades. Now that probably most adults have been inoculated only two targets remain: small business must be destroyed, and the children have to be inoculated—thus brought into the system. We end this column with what Cuimmel concluded is the only way out of both the pandemic and world government.
Small business must be destroyed, Cuimmel says, because it is necessary “for the new system to come into place.” This “because they need you to be dependent on the state, the social credit card” and small businesses represent independence. To survive, small businesses traditionally have to think of new and better ways of doing things. Communism, which is the new system, cannot tolerate deviance or challenges to the way things are done.
The pandemic lockdowns already destroyed thousands of middle class businesses, and thousands more will follow with the government dictating the customer base by excluding the unvaccinated—a sizable reduction of potential customers. Government fines for non compliance to mask wearing, mandates and vaccinations also impacts negatively the profit margin. With the Biden Administration paying labor more than they could earn working, this also drives shortages of manpower to produce things resulting in product shortages and business closures. Knowing that they are targeted for extinction, Cuimmel recommends, small businesses increase the odds of their survivability by collective non-compliance now while they still can.
Meanwhile, Cuimmel says, “you have these billionaires trying to take over control of the people and all of the wealth. That’s what’s happening right now. Like, while we’re sitting at home there’s a wealth heist going on. Everything is being bought up around us. And meanwhile, what we [the people] have is being inflated away.” Simply put,“They’re interested in control, and wealth. That’s all they’re interested in. They don’t care about anybody else on the planet, they do not care about the planet. They care about wealth and control.”
“This is coming for everybody,”she adds. Right now you can go to restaurants because your “participation” passport is green. It’s only “a matter of time before everybody’s passport turns from green to red for various different reasons,” —you did not get the latest booster, you spoke out against a mandate,— “anything, in order to participate in society. The new normal is a tangible changing of the goalposts so you will never be fully in. It is like the constant updates that you get in a computer—you’re never completely updated—same with your phone.”
“There is no going back to the old world. This is the new world that we’re going to be living in if they succeed.” The billionaire and technology companies are waging war against us. “Australia knows it. New Zealand knows it. Austria knows it. They’re all out on the streets. We absolutely are at war. In a war situation there is collateral damage. That’s where we are standing with these injuries and deaths from this clinical trial…. that information has been completely censored because it’s essential to get us all on board; as I say no exception.”
She spoke directly to parents, “They’re going for your children now. That’s the final demographic.” Children still need to be part of the financial system. They also need the data from the children. “I don’t know why anybody would let their child take part in this clinical trial. They have virtually no risk. There’s more risk of them drowning.” There is no peer reviewed research proving the vaccines are even safe. “They have to get them into the system so that your children can participate in society,” the same reason most adults were enticed. “They’re saying that if they want to go to teen discos,” participate in society, they must be vaccinated.
Cuimmel advised parents to look at their “children and think my job is to protect you.” She pleads, “Do not let your children participate in this passport system. Know that if you do for the sake of going to a restaurant that you are leading them into a social credit system and slavery.”
To all, vaccinated and unvaccinated, “These billionaires and technology companies are dictating the future of humanity.” We need to stand up, “All we have to do is say no. That’s all we have to do just mass non compliance.” But “we are running out of time.” The “solution to this is mass non compliance” on masks, lockdowns, untested vaccines (especially for children), mandates, participation passports, the Central Bank digital ID, and social and carbon credit systems.
“This is going to be won by communities. So find people that are like minded, that’s going to keep your confidence up. Do not give in and do not give up…. If we don’t fight this now, we are giving our children twice the battle. It has to be fought now. The quicker that we do this, the easier it is to get out.” So find your communities, and support network.
Remember, God will help because we are his children. Cuimmel reminds us, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Many wonder when the pandemic of COVID will end and the old normal returns. When logic replaces crazy, or insanity? When news is not censored or fake? When the federal government ceases paying labor to not work? When our country has again a southern border? When vaccines for children, who have a greater chance of drowning than COVID, are not mandated? When the sixth booster actually prevents transmission? When science replaces opinion respecting health and etc? When freedom returns?
The answer, “The Pandemic Will End When the Digital Monetary System is in Place.” An independent financial investor, Melissa Cuimmel, laid it out perfectly in an interview of the same above name, with Sara Haboubi of Ryland Media, an Ireland media outlet. Sometimes we have to go outside the country to get the truth. Simply, COVID is the main instrument for implementing the Great Reset—world government—but you must keep the COVID threat alive until it is locked in.
Cuimmel continues, “No matter what. There’s no going back. It’s gone. All that they’re trying to do right now is keep the system alive long enough, in order to bring in the new system. They’re not trying to fix anything. They’re not trying to bring anything back. They’re telling you they will build back better. What does that tell you? You have to destroy before, that’s why the economy has been systematically collapsed.”
I’ve lectured and written on the coming world government for over forty years and never put it together as succinctly as has Melissa Cuimmel.
She explains that when we left the gold based economy in 1971 we entered a debt based economy. Subsequently the value of the dollar has “already lost over 99% of its value” by the massive printing of paper money. The value of the old currency has evaporated. “The Central Bank digital currency is the end game” along with totalitarian control. “In order to bring in a Central Bank digital currency, you need a digital ID. In order to bring in a digital ID, you need these passports that will all be combined with a social credit system and a carbon credit system.”
So what does this have to do with COVID? You need to control the movement of the people. Fear from a pandemic, whether real or generated, makes that possible. Enter mandated vaccines then vaccine passports. The vaccines do not prevent transmission or we would not need boosters every four months which also do not prevent transmission even after several of them. There is no peer reviewed science defending this.
Clummel reminds us that actually, “They’re not vaccine passports. They are data passports, they are participation passports,…there’s no medical reason behind these.” Adding, “If I had come to you two years ago and said, here’s what the government wants to do. They want to give everybody a chip. They want to put all your medical data and all your financial data onto that chip. That will be your complete ID and they can control you or shut you out of society from that…. That’s the road that we are going down right now. This is a buy to a financial reset because the fiat currency has failed like every other one has before and in order to keep the game going, they need a new financial system. This is why everybody, no exceptions, has to get one of these passports…. It’s for the new system.”
The world must switch to the billionaires’ Central Bank digital currency system, backed by nothing. It’s a currency because the new globalist government says it is. It gives them “complete control over every aspect of our finances. They can dictate where in the economy that you can spend it. They can say that you can only spend it in essential goods, on rent. They can fine you…. when you link that into a social credits concept, they can sanction you or reward you.” Once in, you belong to them—like property.
The “participation” passports gives you preference for jobs, schools for your children and everything else. They can change your resume by removing “anything you’ve actually achieved in your life.”
Every compliance step moved us further along to total control and slavery. Mask wearing, lockdowns, vaccines and boosters—with no science proving anything actually mattered, gave you immunity, or was even safe. There were no short term studies on vaccines or booster before massive inoculations. Our government experimented on us. But you are not really covered until you get the next one, therefore not qualified for the privileges of society, that used to be common. Compliance means more control. “The next move is that we have to have a central bank digital currency wallet in order to participate in the financial society.”
Remember the lockdowns, “It started with nobody could participate in society. Then it was if you comply you can participate in society, then it’s going to be if you adopt Central Bank digital currency, you can participate in society. And then it’s going to be social and carbon credit.” Everything from here on is based upon total compliance. All humanity, excepting themselves and their friends, will soon be the slaves. Nothing is more Luciferic. Freedom dies.
The globalists plans’ for world government have proceeded on schedule for decades. Only two targets remain, the children have to be inoculated—thus brought into the system— and small business’ must be destroyed. There exists but one way of escape. Melissa Cuimmel identifies what that must be, and that will be shared in a coming column.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
The Deep State, often referred to as the establishment or the shadow government of the United States, is the Council on Foreign Relations (hereafter referred to as CFR) headquartered in New York City. There is no organization in the world more influential or important than it. It has 5,103 members composed of the most influential politicians , business executives, bankers, professors, and media figures, —indeed with tentacles in every aspect of society. Its overriding objective is globalism or world government (for the extent of their power see “Shadows Across the Land,” William F. Jasper, New American, June 7, 2021, pp. 17-27). Officially created in July 29, 1921, as the CFR, it is now 100 years old.
In American politics it is the moneyed elite capable of bringing to candidates the millions of dollars and media exposure needed to win. In return they expect support and silence as to their influence. They are in both major political parties and they own the major media outlets including, more recently, those of the Internet. Thus, their influence over presidential candidates for over a hundred years is never really covered, but ALL CANDIDATES KNOW OF THEIR INFLUENCE AND POWER. In modern times no candidate for president has gotten to office without their approval, until Donald J. Trump. They elevated their favored candidate in both major political parties, then let America choose which of their anointed America wanted. These they called free elections.
All presidents from Herbert Hoover on, excepting Trump, have either been members of, had a close relationship with, or worked with the CFR. Important foreign dignitaries normally stop here before, or after, a White House visit. This combination of power is only-secret to the masses. When a president was not a member himself his vice president usually was. Once the organization’s “kingmaker” status was known and unpopular, future presidential contenders shied away from acknowledged membership—not from support. Since the late 1920’s virtually all our secretaries of state, United Nation ambassadors, and ambassadors to Russia and China were members of this Wall Street special interest group. Moreover, CFR members largely filled the majority of presidential cabinets.
No special interest group had more impact than the CFR over foreign policy the last 100 years, leading many to question if we had but one political party in the United States with two arms Democrat and Republican. Indeed, many saw no significant difference in foreign policy between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, or George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Until Trump there was little difference in foreign policy between Democrat and Republican presidents. They got their advisors from the same Wall Street special interest group—the CFR. They all supported extensive foreign aid, policing the world with over 900 military bases in other lands, and continual wars without declaration or pre-established end. They all supported international trade agreements that enhanced the power of the United Nations and exported jobs formerly held by Americans. None stood against globalism.
On domestic policy they all supported the bank bailouts and its management of the money supply through the bankers’ private Federal Reserve Bank. None talked about returning a third of the United States (called government land) to the states from which it was taken or withheld. None problem solved with the Constitution as first consideration. Nor did either give more than lip service to limited government or the national debt. They all supported problem solving on the federal or international level rather than the state, county, or city level.
Notable political scientist Lester Milbraith observed in his work Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy, p. 247, that “the influence of the CFR throughout government is so pervasive that it is difficult to distinguish the CFR from government programs.” Prominent political scientist Thomas R. Dye in his textbook Who’s Running America? The Bush Restoration, p. 188, wrote, “The history of CFR policy accomplishments is dazzling” then traced in detail their dominating role in foreign policy accomplishment from the 1920’s through the George Bush Administration from their own boasts of success in CFR Annual Reports.
What is wrong with this mostly “secret combination” governance? In 1954, The Reece Congressional Committee noted that its productions “are not objective but are directed overwhelmingly at promoting the globalism concept.” How powerful was it by the time Congress first discovered its influence? It had come, they wrote, “to be in essence an agency of the United States government, no doubt carrying its internationalist bias with it” (pp. 176-177).
John J. McCloy, Chairman of the CFR from 1953 to 1970 and an advisor to nine presidents, explained how this worked, in an interview with the New York Times, “Whenever we needed a man we thumbed through the roll of the Council members and put through a call to New York.” Such was the case thereafter as well (“CFR: Still the Power Behind the Throne,” William F. Jasper, New American, June 7, 2021, p. 15).
Until Trump, politics appeared to be divided between two “warring” parties Democrat vs. Republican, but because of the same-shared source of direction and pool of advisors, it is hard to believe at the top we were really divided at all. Remember, both Republican George Bush presidents, father and son, voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and against Trump. During and after the election it was open CFR warfare onTrump by both parties.
Again until Trump, the CFR governed elections and America. For four years Trump took them out of power. This is why they hate him. Every CFR viper, all 5,103 of them, plus wannabes many times that number, as membership is limited by invitation from within, emerged to rid this threat to the throne they believed belonged to them. Between 1921 and 2020, no candidate for president obtained office without CFR approval except Trump and, once there, none had more opposition—even combined.
Today at least 60% of Americans believe election fraud brought Joe Biden to office. This returned the 100 year old globalist CFR to power.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
As a college professor for forty years, I instructed the Constitution and Current Events and still teach both in LibertyUnderFire.com columns on line such as this one. I know the Constitution worked well for every situation this nation confronted in those 40 years. My current events classes began. “You are not Democrats or Republicans, you are constitutionalists.” “Every issue presented here will be debated and resolved with this document.” When applied as written it has never failed us and students learned how to use and love it.
The following parts of the Constitution when followed, demonstrate why tyranny can never gain hold in the United States and why the Constitution remains its principle antidote. Follow along with your own copy of the Constitution.
Every single law must be initiated and passed by elected members of Congress—the Legislature. After signed into law the executive and judicial branches were given power only to act on existing law, one to administer the other to adjudicate.
Lawmakers initially had limited time to make law. Congress assembled on the first Monday in December (Article I, Section 4 ) and our Christian founders wanted to be home for Christmas, December 25. Getting home in time, in a horse and buggy day, gave them less than three weeks to make law. Such limited time was practiced until changed by the 20th Amendment ratified Jan. 23, 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted the federal government to meet continually.
Lawmakers must adhere to a list in making law, not just make it up (Article I, Section 8). Today neither political party pay any attention to this list. The list gives them only four areas from which to make law: taxes, paying debts, provide for the common defense, and general welfare of the United States. The remainder of this, originally one long sentence of 17 paragraphs, were qualifiers on these last two powers, common defense and general welfare so that these were further restricted. The Founders had no intention of leaving these broad phrases unspecified.
The Federal government was limited in the amount of property it could hold to just 10 square miles for a capital and only land for military purposes which must be purchased and approved by the state legislatures from which taken (Article I, Section 8, Clause 17). Today federal land encompasses about a third of the U.S., this without any approval other than their own.
Presidents must adhere to a list of areas where they can execute the law found in Article II, Sections 2 and 3. There never was, nor is there today, constitutional language authorizing presidents to make law, executive orders, decrees or mandates. Nor can they combine ancient pieces of law to create a new law. Initially executive orders were interdepartmental directives.
The Supreme Court must adhere to a list of areas where they can adjudicate the law and be in compliance with two types of adjudication—original and appellate (Article III, Section 2). There exists no constitutional language authorizing ruling in such a way as to create new law as that belongs to the legislative branch alone. Nor does any language exist enabling them to undermine or destroy federalism. Remember the states created the Constitution. Housed permanently within it is shared government or federalism (See Article V and Amendment 10).
The Constitution allows change to it but only through 3/4ths vote consent of the states (federalism)—no exceptions (Article V). This is why enemies of the Republic despise it. They can’t go through it, around it, or over it. They tried. The Constitution also has no language allowing any authority to be passed to a higher government than itself such as the United Nations. Globalists have wanted world government since Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations.
States would not ratify the Constitution without a specific list of things the government could not do to them, a Bill of Rights, arranged in order of their preference—“thou shalt nots.” These include Amendment I the expression rights: religion, speech, press, and assembly specifically were denied governmental control. Amendment II was especially important as it included the right of revolution, the same authority they used to revolt against British tyranny. This could not be denied their posterity should government tyranny again prevail. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms,” was made nonnegotiable, by “shall not be infringed.”
The first three words of the Constitution were “We the People,” Amendment 9 wanted it understood that any “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,” of the people could never mean that these alone were their rights. It would always be “We the People.”
But Amendment 10 is today probably the most important sentence in the Bill of Rights and in the Constitution as it places the states between the individual and the federal government to protect him/her from federal tyranny. It established federalism as the heart and protector of the Constitution. It defined how the entire Constitution is to be interpreted. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” But today it is one of the least applied sentences.
Finally, every office holder federal, state and local is required to give an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. From the president down to every person employed in the armed services it is in substance similar to the following for the president: “I do solemnly swear … that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United State.”
For these reasons tyranny can never prevail in America with the Constitution as written. But when it is shredded, as is happening, tyranny will reap through American like a whirlwind.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
