We think of the Pilgrims enjoying abundant food on the first Thanksgiving Fall 1621, but this was not their real reality. Few mention the starving times the first year in 1620 when half died of starvation that winter. Harvests were not bountiful in that year and the next two. Plymouth was beset by laziness due to lack of incentive and thievery due to hunger.
Thanksgiving did fill their bellies briefly, and they were grateful, but abundance was anything but common and thievery due to hunger existed. They endured the starving times the first year in 1620 when half died of starvation that winter. Harvests were not bountiful in that year and the next two.
William Bradford, the governor of the colony, in his History of Plymouth Plantation reported that “much was stolen both by night and day” to alleviate the prevailing condition of hunger. The “feast” of the first Thanksgiving did fill their bellies briefly, he reported, and they were grateful, but abundance was anything but common. Why did this happen? Because they had fallen victim to the socialistic philosophy of “share the wealth.” This dis-incentivized the productive base of society.
Then suddenly, as though night changed to day, the crop of 1623 was bounteous, and those thereafter as well, and it had nothing to do with the weather or soil. Bradford wrote, “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” He concluded later, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.”
One variable alone made the difference and ended the three-year famine. They abandoned the notion of government (or corporation) owning the means of production and distribution in favor of the individual having property and being responsible to take care of himself. Before, no one benefited by working because he received the same compensation as those who did not. After the change everyone kept the benefits of his labor. The basic natural law, “you reap what you sow,” was violated. You can’t eat what is not sown. In a just society those who chose not to work basically chose also to be poor and the government (corporation) does not confiscated from those who produced to give to those who will not. People may share their wealth as in giving charity but government may not morally confiscate your money and give it to another.
Ironically all this could have been avoided had Plymouth consulted history and communicated with their neighboring colony, some distance south of them, who had been down the same trail 13 years before. Jamestown too was first a socialist society where “each produced according to his ability and received according to his need,” (revitalized by Karl Marx centuries later), which, of course, affected supply. One cannot divide what does not exist. Our textbooks tell us that only one of twelve survived the first two years for precisely the same reason, starvation. The problem, as noted by Tom Bethel in his work The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages, was identified by an unnamed participant as “want of providence, industrie and government, and not the barenness and defect of the Countrie.”
Captain John Smith is credited with having saved the floundering Virginia colony by his “no workie, no eatie” government program (the Virginia Company was the government) and was hated. Addicted to the promise of getting something for nothing, even if it is always less than promised, the receiving part of the population will always oppose their not getting their “fair share.” Sound familiar? Captain Smith was eventually carted off to England in chains as fast as the parasitic population could do so. Once again, why? Philip A. Bruce in his Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, p. 121, called it agricultural socialism. “The settlers did not have even a modified interest in the soil…. Everything produced by them went into the store, in which they had no proprietorship.” When settlers finally were allowed to own their own property, and keep what they produced, things changed over night.
Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote of incoming prosperity, beginning in 1614, after ownership of land was allowed. “When our people were fed out of the common store, and labored jointly together, glad was he [who] could slip from his labor, or slumber over his tasks he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week, as now for themselves they will do in a day, neither cared they for the increase, presuming that however the harvest prospered, the general store must maintain them, so that we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty as now three or four do provide for themselves.”
Let us be grateful for the prosperity that we have—even the poorest among us. Jamestown and Plymouth set us upon a course that recognized that prosperity requires incentive to flourish and that the profit motive stimulates industry. We are so grateful that, having recognized the poison of “the share the wealth” philosophy, they purged it from their midst and proceeded to make America the most prosperous country on earth.
In Plymouth half died the first year. In Jamestown it was much worse, only 60 of the first 400 survived by the Spring of 1610. They ate mice, rats, cats, dogs, snakes, horses, and some, desperate from starvation, resorted to cannibalism. Starvation was common in both societies as was socialism. No one benefited by working because he received the same compensation from the storehouse as those who did not work. Prosperity for both came when the individual had his own property and was made responsible to take care of himself.
Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932, however, America has eased, even more so in the 1960’s and 1970’s, progressively into a incentive destroying socialist economy. The recent government shutdown demonstrated how much money is forcibly taken from hard working citizen taxpayers and redistributed to the half of Americans that pay no federal income taxes; this through SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program —formerly Food Stamps, renamed to reduce stigma), and like programs (X22 Report, Ep. 3761b, Oct.27, 2025, 1:02:18). There are 42 million people in this country currently receiving food stamps, 12.3% of the U.S. population, 59% of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps says Rob Finnerty of Newsmax (Ibid., Ep. 3762b, Oct, 28, 2025, 1:03:00). Supposedly it is against the law for illegals to be on the program but like everything else it is not enforced and they are.
Teachers generally are no longer sharing the early harsh lessons of our socialist beginnings in our first Thanksgiving. Chances are likely they never had it themselves. It is up to parents and grandparents to share the above. Perhaps you will be able to do so for those you love at the dinner table this Thanksgiving. Their failures taught them how to incentivize productivity resulting in giving our posterity the wealthiest, and 150 years plus after, the freest society in the history of the world. This forever, lest we forget what our first colonists learned in both societies! Socialism has never given prosperity to any society.
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When Congresswoman Maxine Waters was recently asked by a reporter whether “Democrats are willing to shut down the U.S. government to prioritize healthcare for illegal immigrants,” she partially avoided the question by saying “Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody.” Which, of course, would include illegals. (“Maxine Waters Gets TESTY When Asked if Democrats Are Shutting Down Government Over Healthcare for Illegals, by Mike LaChance, Gateway Pundit, Sep. 30, 2025). Democrats are demanding that American taxpayers foot the bill for healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Respecting the shutdown as a weapon to prioritize healthcare, “Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody” says Congresswoman Maxine Waters. This, of course, would include illegals.
In the Democrat presidential primary debate (June 27, 2019) the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans would cover undocumented immigrants—the illegals. Of the 20 Democrat candidates seeking the presidency 19 raised their hand. At this moment Democrat Party leadership acknowledged that they would use their influence and taxpayer monies for healthcare for illegals. Non-U.S. citizens suddenly became their primary constituents and have remained so since.
Theoretically everyone in the world that invades America can expect free or subsidized everything at the American taxpayer’s expense—and they came in the millions with Biden’s encouragement, not primarily escaping tyranny, as heretofore, but for free things. Newsmax host Rob Finnerty reported that the government shutdown revealed “59% of all aliens are collecting food stamps.” The Affordable Care Act (ACA) “explicitly prohibits undocumented immigrants from buying coverage on the federal exchanges, even at full price” and in other places it seems to invite their participation (X22 Report, hence fourth not cited, Ep. 3762b, Oct. 28, 2025, 1:03:00). If food stamps are available to them it’s only a matter of time before healthcare would be as well.
The Heritage Foundation told us in 2009 that the bill in the House, then called, H.R 3962 was written to that end. They provided the following major talking points from it. 1) “H.R. 3962 does not seek to deter or prevent illegal immigration, but rather to support and subsidize it. It would deliberately permit illegal aliens to participate in the government health insurance exchange and in the public option insurance program. Illegal immigrants are nominally barred from receiving health care ‘affordability credits’ and most regular Medicaid benefits, but verification procedures are weak and subject to fraud.”•2) “Nearly 400,000 illegal immigrant women give birth inside the U.S. each year; under H.R. 3962, many of these births would be fully covered by U.S. taxpayers through the Medicaid program.” 3) “All limitations on benefits provided to illegal immigrants under health care reform legislation are deceptive. The President [then Barack Obama] and the congressional [Democrat] leadership clearly intend these limits to be only temporary, to be overturned by amnesty or ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ legislation to be introduced next spring.” Virtually everything they predicted happened.
Though subject to fraud and intended to include healthcare for illegals from the beginning, despite assurances from President Obama otherwise, new documents attest that Obamacare goes to illegals in at least six blue states. This most stunning and authoritative report was issued October 31, 2025, by Mehmet Oz, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Oz reported, “Based on our initial set of audits, more than $1B of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants…The truth is that the federal law is supposed to prohibit federal Medicaid dollars from being used to cover illegal immigrants. It does permit states to use Medicaid dollars for emergency treatment, regardless of patient citizenship or immigration status. States can also legally build Medicaid programs for illegal immigrants using their own state tax dollars, so long as no federal tax dollars are used but that did not stop Democrats from going even further by breaking federal law to give illegal immigrants federal Medicaid dollars meant for American citizens.”
Proof, it has to be subsidized by the government to exist.
Dr. Oz continues, “Earlier this year, the CMS team began auditing state Medicaid programs to ensure that they were following the law and not spending any federal tax dollars on illegal immigrants outside of emergency Medicaid. What we found was shocking. In a preliminary review of six states are found these states improperly using federal dollars for their allegedly state funded programs and provided coverage to individuals including some with criminal records of murder and assault… California $1.3 billion, DC $2 million, Illinois $29 million, Washington $2 million, Colorado $1.5 million, Oregon $5.4 million. The states were notified and many have begun refunding the money. But what if we had never ask? Whether willful or not the states’ conduct highlight a terrifying reality. American taxpayers have been footing the bill for illegal immigrants’ Medicaid coverage despite many Democrats and the media insisting otherwise” (Ep. 3765b, Nov. 2, 2025, 48:31).
Using federal funds may be universal among Democrat states. Secretary Brooke Rollins said, “On my first day at USDA, we told every state to send their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families. Twenty-nine states stepped up, twenty-one blue states refused – and two sued us for asking!” The 21 states that refused to send their SNAP data to the USDA were named. They were the Democrat lead states” (Ep. 3766b, Nov.3, 2025, 1:10:21). These too are likely unlawfully giving healthcare to illegals.
No matter how it is calculated Democrats giving healthcare to their illegal constituents played a big role in the longest government shut down in U.S. history. What did the Democrats give up regarding the shutdown. They were forced to give up the guaranteed ACA (Obamacare) subsidy extension making it possible to end this disastrous and failed program for illegals and likely as well for actual citizens of this country (Ep. 3771b, Nov. 10, 2025, 57:00). Still, the shutdown was primarily to get healthcare for illegals as admitted to above by Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
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At one time Democrats were as vociferous against free healthcare for illegal aliens unlawfully crossing our borders as Republicans. Consider the following. Bill Clinton, “All Americans, … in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” (Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address given on January 24, 1995).
In the Democrat presidential primary debate (June 27, 2019) the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans would cover undocumented immigrants—the illegals. Of the 20 Democrat candidates seeking the presidency 19 raised their hand. At this moment illegals became their main constituents.
Hillary Clinton promoted her husband’s healthcare reform as First Lady, “We do not think the comprehensive healthcare benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens.” She stated that undocumented immigrants would not be eligible for his proposed plan. (The Washington Post, July 1, 2019) Adding, “We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration in this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care as it is. We certainly don’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have” (X22 Ep. 3763b, Oct. 29, 2025, 51:38).
Barack Obama in a joint session of Congress Sept 9, 2009 emphatically stated, “There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” (“Providing Health Care for Illegal Immigrants: Understanding the House Health Care Bill,” by Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation, Nov. 24, 2009).
Five years later President Obama told Congress. “Even as we are a nation of immigrants, we’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable — especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why, over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80 percent… But today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules. Business owners who offer their workers good wages and benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America….”
Obama continued, “When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. Today, we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history (Administration of Barack Obama, Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform, November 20, 2014).
Chuck Schumer, presently the lead Democrat in the US Senate, once held similar views. In archived records from the Congressional Record on August 1, 1996, then Congressman Chuck Schumer, made remarks about immigration and benefits. He stated that non-citizens receiving SSI had grown sharply (from ~128,000 in 1982 to ~738,000 in 1994) and said: “…a whole lot of people determine they can come to the United States … they come to the United States for a hand-out. What did they do? They received SSI and Medicaid. They received a lot of Government assistance. Thank you very much, taxpayer…” GovInfo
The idea of the American taxpayer, who could barely afford his own healthcare, funding healthcare benefits for 50% of his neighbors who pay no federal income taxes, AND those who unlawfully crossed our borders reflected a mainstream Democratic stance at the time thus national health insurance explicitly limited eligibility to U.S. citizens and legal residents. Both political parties agreed, hence the laws prohibiting were very clear—still are. Illegals, those coming into the county through the back door and illegally, were prohibited the benefits of the taxpayer. There is no free money. Socialism forces those who produce to fund those who do not.
But in the 2010’s progressives (socialists) saw votes from the masses attracted by free food, subsidized housing and healthcare. California began covering undocumented children under Medi-Cal (2016) and adults under certain income thresholds (2019–2024). Illinois, New York, and Washington followed with similar limited-coverage programs. By the end of the 20-teens a rhetorical and policy shift from exclusion to total inclusion for everyone was complete in the Democrat Party. Every one in the world could invade America and expect free or subsidized everything at the American taxpayer’s expense—and they came in the millions. Biden unconstitutionally let them in and they were instantly Biden Democrats. If America could not afford them they just printed more money. The escalating NATIONAL DEBT NOW OVER $38 TRILLION AT $328,220 PER TAX PAYER (the readers bill) would just be moved to the next generation.
Everyone in the world could now invade America and expect free or subsidized everything at the American taxpayer’s expense–and they came in the millions . Notice the shoe prints are going into the U.S. but the border gate was pushed outward into Mexico by the Biden government inviting them in.
The best visual of the above described transition was the Democratic presidential primary debate (June 27, 2019) where the moderator asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans would cover undocumented immigrants—the illegals. Of the 20 Democrat candidates seeking the presidency 19 raised their hand. Free healthcare—the world noticed and flooded in.
When Congresswoman Maxine Waters was recently asked by a reporter whether “Democrats are willing to shut down the U.S. government to prioritize healthcare for illegal immigrants,” she partially avoided the question by saying “Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody;” which, of course, would include illegals (“Maxine Waters Gets TESTY When Asked if Democrats Are Shutting Down Government Over Healthcare for Illegals,” by Mike LaChance, Gateway Pundit, Sep. 30, 2025). Democrats now demand that American taxpayers foot the bill for healthcare for illegal immigrants world wide, even if doing so remains against the law and unconstitutional.
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In front of the largely hostile Deep State United Nations 80th Session Sept. 23, 2025, Trump spoke with power and minced no words. He opened, “Six years have passed since I last stood in this grand hall and addressed a world that was prosperous and at peace in my first term. Since that day, the guns of war have shattered the peace I forged on two continents…. One year ago our country was in deep trouble. But today, just eight months into my administration, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world….America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of the earth. This is indeed the Golden Age of America.” We present a few major portions of what he told the world.
Trump reminded the U.N. that in 2024 they “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States.” The UN was supporting people that were invading the United States. If done by a single country it would be an act of war. “The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens on the way to infiltrate our southern border.”
The Invasion of the United States Southern Border. Trump continues, “ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY REPELLED A COLOSSAL INVASION. And for the last four months, and that’s four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero. Hard to believe because, if you look back just a year ago, it was millions and millions of people pouring in from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers.” NOW, “Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from, or perhaps even further than that.”
The UN Helped Fund the Southern invasion of America. He reminded the U.N. that in 2024 they “budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States. Think of that. The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we have to get them out. The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens, can you believe that, on the way to infiltrate our southern border… Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration, and now we have it stopped, totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through.”
What took place was totally unacceptable. “THE UN IS SUPPOSED TO STOP INVASIONS, NOT CREATE THEM AND NOT FINANCE THEM. In the United States, we reject the idea that mass numbers of people from foreign lands can be permitted to travel halfway around the world, trample our borders, violate our sovereignty, cause unmitigated crime and deplete our social safety net. We have reasserted that America belongs to the American people.”
The UN is destroying Europe also by encouraging Unmitigated Mass Migration. Trump continues, “I encourage all countries to take their own stand in defense of their citizens as well. You have to do that…[otherwise] You’re destroying your countries… But to stay this way, every sovereign nation must have the right to control their own borders. You have the right to control your borders as we do now, and to limit the sheer numbers of migrants entering their countries and paid for by the people of that nation that were there and that built that particular nation at the time.”
Trump warned, “Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe…and nobody’s doing anything to change it, to get them out. It’s not sustainable. And because they choose to be politically correct, they’re doing just absolutely nothing about it. Proud nations must be allowed to protect their communities and prevent their societies from being overwhelmed by people they have never seen before, with different customs, religions, with different everything. Where migrants have violated laws, lodged false asylum claims or claimed refugee status for illegitimate reasons, they should, in many cases, be immediately sent home.”
Other nations have infiltrated Europe AND HER PRISONS. Trump continues, “According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number was 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren’t from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%. And in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness, and that’s what they did, THEY REPAID KINDNESS WITH CRIME, it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders… Your countries are going to hell.
“Just a year ago, millions and millions of people were pouring in, 25 million altogether over the four years of the incompetent Biden administration, and now we have it stopped, totally stopped. In fact, they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through… We have successfully repelled a colossal invasion,” Trump said.
“Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you’re in a different country. You can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained. What makes the world so beautiful is that each country is unique.” Uniqueness is being destroyed.
Climate Change Predictions Were ALL Wrong. “It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you’re involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, … were wrong.”
What Europe Must Do to Save itself. “They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it’s too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.”
Only a portion of Trump’s very long message is summarized here, he concludes,“I love the people of Europe. And I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake and they cannot let that happen any longer.”
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History records Donald J. Trump and Republicans—only because of him—as the lone president and party to seek to criminalize child trafficking. Defenseless innocent children offer candidates no money or votes to protect them from the satanic practices of sex slavery, perhaps even sacrifice. Practices that exceed anything Sodom and Gomorrah did. The Epstein client list with the Russia Russia Russia hoax coup d’état is presently coming out simultaneously. As we learn more about one we learn more about the other. Together they reveal the politicians, Hollywood actors and propaganda news icons blackmailed by Epstein for feasting on children at Epstein Island to satisfy their perverse sexual appetites. It is America’s darkest, most guarded, evil secret and its gradually coming to light.
Two reasons why child sex trafficking can no longer be tolerated. 1) Because it is pure evil. “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea (Matthew 18:6). 2) Child sex slavery “is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it is going to pass the drug trade because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time but a child 5 to 10 times a day.” Never in history has there been more slavery than now.
Trump never started a war against another country but he did declare war against human trafficking, something the Deep State, today found most heavily in the Democrat Party, would never do. On December 29, 2017, Trump proclaimed January 2018, as National Slavers and Human Trafficking Proclamation month. On April 11, 2018, Trump signed FOSTA, a bill removing Section 230 which protected tech platforms from liability of sex trafficking on their sites. On December 21, 2018, Trump signed an act which strengthens programs supporting survivors of trafficking and fights trafficking. On January 8, 2018, Trump signed an act authorizing $430 million to fight sex trafficking worldwide. On January 9, 2019, Trump signed an act tightening criteria for whether countries are meeting the standards of eliminating trafficking. On January 31, 2020, Trump signed an act establishing new prevention, protection, and collaboration initiatives to bring traffickers to justice. On August 4, 2020, Trump authorized over $35 million to prove safe housing for trafficking victims. On September 21, 2020 Trump gave over $100 million to fight trafficking in the United States (The American Thinker, X22 Reports-not cited hereafter Ep. 3374b, June 9, 2024, 16: 16). Eight major actions, all of this his first term in office. And today he advocates the death penalty for those trafficking children.
Joe Biden rescinded all of the above by executive order on his 2nd day in office with no voiced Democrat opposition (Ep. 3008b, Feb. 27, 2023, 13:23). He may have had reason to avoid this subject. Pages 67-68 of his daughter Ashley’s diary reads, “I’m so afraid of him coming in the shower with me that I’ve waited until late at night to take a shower” (Ep. 3028b, March 24, 2023, 11:21). The diary was used to incarcerate the two persons who “stole” it so the courts have established its authenticity (Ep. 3112b, July 10, 2023, 15:00). Joe Biden should stand trial as a pedophile. No movement to end the practice has resulted under Biden as White House resident but the DHS has very recently reported that at least 450,000 children have disappeared in the illegal immigrate invasion under Biden’s watch—likely as victims in the sex trade (Ep. 3693b, July 25, 2025, 8:34).
Books were written and films produced seeking the light of day on the subject but basically the evil remained underground. John Paul Rice, director of the Hunger Games movies, expressed his concerns about pedophilia through a compelling film he produced in 2018 called “A Child’s Voice,” depicting a fictional child trafficking ring.” It was heavily censored by the left so the film is hard to find. Most Americas remained in denial. Society couldn’t be that evil!!
Mass exposure, despite hellish opposition, finally broke through on July 4, 2023, because of the relentless efforts of the religious right and Angel Studios of Provo, Utah. “The Sound of Freedom.” was a sleeper hit, becoming one of the most successful independent films in history. It has grossed $250 million against a $14.5 million budget. This is the two year anniversary of that breakthrough. Angel Studio had promised a sequel tracing pedophilia in the devastating Haiti earthquake which orphaned thousands of kids who then allegedly were sold into sex slavery by the Clinton Foundation. Recently found documentation shows Jeffrey Epstein was co-founder of the Clinton Foundation so there may be substance to the allegation (Ep. 3692b, July 24, 2025, 23:48).
A casual look at the Internet reveals a serious problem with pedophilia in the United States (Wikipedia, “Sex trafficking in the United States”). “Approximately 500,000 child predators are online every day” releasing their fantasies (Screen & Reveal, Pedophile Statistics and FAQs, Last updated February 20, 2023, Lindsay Muntingh).
Two reasons why child sex trafficking can no longer be tolerated. 1) Because it is pure evil. “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea (Matthew 18:6). 2) Child sex slavery “is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it is going to pass the drug trade because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time but a child 5 to 10 times a day.” Never in history has there been more slavery than now.
In the meantime it is good to refresh what LibertyUnderFire has published the last 27 months on this satanic story. In April 7, 2023, we published, “What About the Children? We know, we know!! But they were Silent!” In it we covered Elon Musks suspension of “800,000 [then Twitter] accounts during the month of February alone that distributed child sexual exploitation (CSE) material, and the company has reduced successful searches for such material by 99% since December … It will continue to be our #1 priority, a 100 fold reduction in CSE search patterns,” Musk promised. Pedos then took their recruiting to the other social media platforms to jolificate on the images of our little ones.
In July 14, 2023 we published “God’s Children are not for Sale, The Sound of Freedom.” The film producers tell us that child sex slavery “is the fasters growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it is going to pass the drug trade because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time but a child 5 to 10 times a day.” Its a $150 billion a year industry. Never in history has there been more slavery than now.
On July 21, 2023, we published “Movie Broke Sound Barrier on Pedophilia so WHO is Selling God’s Children?” Those supporting are: Disneyland, Hollywood, Deep State news outlets, most social media outlets, and finally, even the Biden Administration? Detail was provided on each.
On July 28, 2023 we published, “We can Stop Pedophilia in its Tracks—Here’s How!” Biden removed virtually all Trump barriers to child sex trafficking across the Southern border. Child trafficking under Biden was government sponsored and taxpayer funded, perhaps like Amazon, right to the slave purchaser’s front door. The death penalty for child sex trafficking, encouraged by Trump, is an appropriate response for those convicted.
Today we can find no action in Democrat Party behavior that condemns / or punishes pedophilia. Absent this, they support a society selling children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites. Silence or denial on this subject is not opposition —it’s supporting child trafficking.
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Not long ago both major political parties agreed on the phrase illegal alien, defined as “A foreign national who is living without official authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen.” Hillary Clinton was once a strong advocate for deportation. She said in a 2008 immigration campaign speech, “I think we’ve got to have tough conditions. Tell people to come out of the shadows. If they have committed a crime, deport them. No questions asked! They are gone!! If you are here illegally you should be deported. If they’ve been working and are law abiding, we should say, here are the conditions for you’re staying. You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally. You have to pay back taxes and you have to try to learn English and you have to wait in line” (Hillary Clinton’s deleted 2008 Immigration Speech: Tough Stance on Border Security and Reform, YouTube).
At one time Hillary Clinton was more opposed to illegal immigration then Donald Trump. Her fiery speech given in favor of deportation in 2008 was almost scrubbed from the Internet but we finally found a copy. “If they have committed a crime, deport them. No questions asked! They are gone!!” She yelled to her audience. If they have been law abiding and still want to remain they need to pay “a stiff fine,” back taxes, learn English and wait in line she waved her arms with emphasis.
President Bill Clinton signed into law, “The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. He asserted that the legislation strengthened “the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system — without punishing those living in the United States legally.” Section 133, “Acceptance of State Services to Carry Out Immigration Enforcement,” authorized the Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies called Memorandums of Agreement to enforce its provisions (Scholars, HOW AMERICA’S 1996 IMMIGRATION ACT SET THE STAGE FOR INCREASINGLY LOCALIZED AND TOUGH ENFORCEMENT,” January 9, 2018). Draconian next to Joe Biden’s flying in criminal illegal aliens into our cities and housing them at taxpayer expense.
All presidents of the US from Benjamin Harrison to Trump (23 presidents) have each deported thousands to millions of illegal aliens for at least 137 years with little or no judicial opposition until Donald Trump (source, Department of Homeland Security and Cato Institute). It has always been mostly a non-issue with respect to constitutional authority of the executive. As far as we can tell no injunctions were issued against the practice because of two reasons 1) Illegals have never had any due process rights because they were not citizens and, 2) the judicial branch cannot tell the executive branch how to execute the law any more than the executive branch can tell the judicial branch how to rule on a law—they are separate but co-equal branches. This, until President Trump, because the Deep State weaponized immigration to purchase potential voters with gift giving (free medical care, social security, housing, jobs, food, and even eventually citizenship). We have reported on this over the years. Illegals have become the Democrat Party’s constituents. Both Chicago and New York City Democrats learned this in 2024, their party cared more about illegals than they. Trump is destroying their plans to make aliens citizens then voters.
The nation is in constitutional crisis. We were invaded by up to 21 million foreigners, all illegals by the above definition and therefore not citizens and as such have no due process rights. Someone breaking into our home has no right once in to argue with us as to the conditions of his departure. All have broken the law by illegal entry and many of them are criminals. Unless challenged the Deep State will create a permanent Democrat majority with beholding illegals.
If we allow the judicial branch to destroy the executive branch as co equal but separate from it, we damage the Constitution, probably irreparably. Also, if courts can’t function as designed by the Constitution, their is no justice. The Black Robbed Judicial Coup d’état is real. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for obstructing an immigration operation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Supreme Court is led by Chief Justice John Roberts who could reign-in the district judges but has sided with activist judge—James Boasberg in particular—and is openly against Congress using its constitutional impeachment powers on judges. The Supreme Court is divided with Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh holding to the Constitutional line while Sonia Sotomayor openly encourages resistance to ICE. A divided court is paralyzed.
No one is above the law made famous by Democrats applies also to activist Judges. Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County Circuit judge who was arrested by the FBI on Friday, April 25, was charged in federal court on two charges, obstruction and concealing an illegal alien from arrest. FBI Director Kash Patel posted this picture with faces blurred on X. The Black Robed Judicial Coup d’état is real but will justice really follow?
Congress can impeach these rogue judges but has been infiltrated by Deep State legislators who have assisted and many are active in preventing the laws of the land from being enforced by ICE to remove illegals—even attacking law enforcement. Therefore the House may not be able to get impeachments through the Senate as required. Still, the Court or Congress should solve the issue.
Trump has three choices 1) Let the executive branch be nullified by the judicial branch with the resultant damage to the Constitution, which he cannot do as he is sworn in as the nation’s chief protector of the Constitution, 2) Totally ignore the 677 district judges who have no constitutional jurisdiction outside their districts, and their unconstitutional injunctions, as did President Andrew Jackson when he said “the Supreme Court has made the law, let them enforce it” or, 3) Implement Art. I, Sec. 9, Cla. 2, Writ of Habeas Corpus which he must do if the other branches do not act on their constitutionally required checks and balances to preserve the document.
Trump won’t move before the people are shown that Congress won’t / can’t impeach Deep State justices or the Supreme Court won’t bridle its district rogue judges and perhaps even Sotomayor. He has already asked the Supreme Court to save the Constitution by reigning them in. He might even wait until after the mid-terms to let the new Congress do it. When those two options are exhausted, and the people see that they are exhausted, they will support his having to implement the suspension clause of the Writ of Habeas Corpus which reads “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” We witnessed a four year long invasion with some small communities actually occupied by the Tren de Aragua gang and with the rise in murder, rape and serious crime— public safety was absolutely affected.
In the meantime Trump popularity and the public’s willingness to pursue deportation is growing. Democrats themselves support deportation of criminals 69%, according to Rasmussen Reports.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 821 `Help preserve our Republic while we still can by sharing this column.
