As a nation under the U.S. Constitution we are 236 years old. The first 124 of these years we had no federal income tax and handled our national expenses quite well, most of those years without a national debt. Today most are assessed a fifth to a fourth of their gross income. Prior to 1913 we kept what is now taken from us. We first advocated a return to this system on Dec. 13 2013,“Blows to Liberty 100 Years Ago Still Impact You” (LibertyUnderFire.org).
The then existing Deep State, then called Internationalist, prompted this. They wanted this financial “water faucet” that they could turn on at will. They could purchase anything—even people. They created a private corporation, the Federal Reserve, and pushed for the 16th Amendment to the Constitution which now funded the government from the taxpayer, an internal source, rather than by tariffs from other countries, an external source.
What would you spend it on were it not taken from you? Normally not on the basics such as food, housing, and utilities as they likely are covered in what you are allowed to retain. You would spend the extra fourth of your salary on hundreds of items that are made by others as well as services you might like. This not only would enrich your life but it would provide jobs for others making those items or providing those services.
Would you spend it more wisely than the federal government? Likely! Most of the money taken from you by the federal government is spent on perpetual war, foreign aid, grants to privileged portions of our society, and endless unconstitutional subsidized programs; the last two of which basically take the money of those who produce and redistribute it to those who do not. Even some non-tax payers get income tax refunds as we have reported—so corrupt is the system.
Of course, those receiving and benefiting from these programs will defend them. But the fact remains that tax monies provide largely government jobs, which are almost entirely consumption jobs (jobs that consume the production of society but produce little consumable). Such jobs cannot produce for public consumption a potato, a carton of milk, or even a can of hair spray. They bring another person to the table to eat, but not another to produce something to eat.
What largely brought about the vast give-away programs of the Twentieth Century was the now 112-year-old 16th Amendment—the federal income tax. All three 1912 presidential candidates Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, their respective parties, and the then existing Deep State, then called Internationalist, did this to us. They wanted this financial “water faucet” that they could turn on at will. They could purchase anything—even people.
Prior to 1913 the federal government remained mostly faithful to her grants of power in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which left them with only four powers: 1) to tax, 2) pay the debts, 3) provide for the general welfare and 4) provide for the common defense. Because the federal government has the inclination to grow their authority the last two power grants, general welfare and common defense, each had eight qualifiers to harness them more fully. Outside these qualifiers the federal government had no power to tax or spend—still doesn’t.
General welfare then meant everyone equally (general) as opposed to “specific welfare” or “privileged welfare” as it is today, targeting those to forfeit and those to receive monies. The Constitution did not deny states, counties, or cities from having such programs, only the federal government. But politicians soon learned that the more they promised to the people, from the money of others, the easier it was to get elected and stay elected.
The problem with the federal government going off the list and funding things clearly not on it was that each time they did so the stronger the inclination to do so again. One minor departure begets another until one notices that what the federal government does has little or no relationship to the list in the Constitution. I ask my students what would happen if they took one lollypop to kindergarten and gave it to one child? What would the others say? Where is mine? Try taking away long provided benefits from a privileged welfare group, as for example food stamps, and see how popular you are with that voting group in the next election.
So why does the government now need a fourth of everything you make and it is still not enough? Answer, because we went off the listed powers of the Constitution and every departure required more taxpayer funding. The solution to less tax is less government. A side benefit is more freedom. The productive classes would not be hurt as might be supposed. Seldom do they qualify for the federally subsidized programs anyway. The fourth taken from the productive classes would be spent by them creating a plethora of jobs for those who wished to work and give them no excuse not to. The cycle of dependency would be drastically reduced. The federal government would no longer be an enabler to those not working. States would decide for themselves what assistance programs they could afford and generate with some states offering more and others less as the Tenth Amendment mandates.
One side benefit of tariffs is that it stimulates domestic production and industries giving them an advantage.
I have a friend who freely admits that he became a Democrat as a young man because they offered more. His departure from the Constitution began with that choice. The Democrat Party since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has always offered more freebies, confiscated from the “haves” and redistributed to the “have nots” to paraphrase Karl Marx and his socialist ideology.
So, how did we cover the expenses of the federal government—even wars—our first 124 years? Products coming into the country were assessed a fee to market in the U.S. called a tariff. We got product producers in other countries to cover our national expenses and thus we were able to spend on ourselves every cent of what the federal government now takes, which inadvertently stimulated the economy. No one should be able to argue that our present approximately $36 trillion national debt (up from $20 trillion just 8 years ago) is fair, has really worked for any of us, and is a better plan. It also enslaves our posterity who is required to pay it back amplified with interest charges, enabling us to bask in the sunshine of fake prosperity. Imagine what you could purchase annually with the money confiscated from you in federal taxes.
To protect prosperity and the Constitution for all, three things must happen. 1) We must identify and remove all waste and fraud in the present government identified by DOGE with ALL excess money from cancelled contracts to immediately be returned to liquidate the national debt. 2) We must remove the 16th Amendment and restore the tariff as our source of financing the federal government as it was our first 124 years. 3) We must return to Article I, Section 8 and the listed powers of government with ALL expenditures specifically tied to one of those powers. Yes this will hurt for a time, all surgeries do, otherwise we eventually self destruct as a free people.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 817
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Alexander Hamilton wrote that the Judiciary has no power thus is harmless, “so long as the judiciary remains, truly distinct from both the legislature and the executive.” He reasoned, that the “courts have neither force nor will but merely judgment” and cannot effectuate those judgments on its own. “Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive that in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in its capacity to annoy or injure them. The executive not only dispenses the honor but holds the sword of the community. The legislator not only commands the purse but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizens are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse. No direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society and can take no active resolution whatsoever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE NOR WILL but merely judgment and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgment.”
Thomas Jefferson (left ) and Alexander Hamilton (right) both viewed the Judiciary as potentially harmful “to liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers” although Hamilton thought this to be improbable and Jefferson likely. Jefferson amazingly described our day and time and how through intended erosion of original intent and misuse of precedent the Judiciary could destroy the Constitution. The judiciary has become very dangerous because it is infringing on the authority of the executive branch—attempting to handcuff it.
There are“several important consequences. It proves incontestably that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power. That it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks. It equally proves that though individual oppression may now, and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter, I mean, so long as the judiciary remains, truly distinct from both the legislature and the executive. For I agree that ‘there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.’” (The Federalist Papers: No. 78, Hamilton, pp. 465-466).
Thomas Jefferson warned that “the federal judiciary can become very dangerous” if they go beyond judgement. On September 11, 1804, Jefferson told a group, “You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbitrators of unconstitutional questions. Very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more. They have with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their core. Their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible as the other functionaries are to elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal. Knowing that to whatever hands confided with the corruptions of time and party, it’s members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments coequal, and co-sovereign within themselves” (X22 Report, Ep. 3604b, 24 Mar. 2025, 1:01:30).
With remarkable foresight, 24 years later, Jefferson described our day and time and how through intended erosion the Judiciary could destroy the Constitution. On September 28, 1820, he said, “The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the Constitution of the federal judiciary, an irresponsible body working like gravity by night and day gaining a little today and a little tomorrow and advancing, it’s noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped” (Ibid., 1:03:00).
Biden’s Invasion of illegals allowed hundreds of Tren De Aragua and MS-13 terrorists into this country 530 flown across the border by him. It is beyond belief that activist Democrat District Judges would file injunctions to keep them or force their return to America. Chief Justice Roberts ruled District Court Judge Boasberg “lacks jurisdiction.” Citizens have Constitutional rights, invaders, alien gang terrorists, and non citizens do not!! The Judicial branch has exceeded its authority.
A year later, in August 18, 1821, he spoke of how past practice, one small perversion at a time vying from original intent, gradual in sequence, could destroy the Constitution. The courts were charged with preserving purity of doctrine. He wrote, “At the establishment of our Constitution the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous… Unheeded by the public at large, …[their] decisions nevertheless became law by the precedent. Sapping by little and little the foundations of the Constitution and working it’s chains by construction before anyone has perceived that the invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account.” Although aimed at the judicial branch this could be said of the executive and legislative branches as well. Past practice slightly altered can become a weapon, thus the enemy of original intent.
On October 31, 1823, Jefferson reminded his followers of what he had said 34 years earlier in 1789 when the Constitution was implemented . Then he “warned that the Judiciary, if given too much power, might ruin our republic, and destroy our rights. The new constitution has secured these individual rights in the executive and legislative departments, but not in the judiciary. It should have a stab of trial by the people themselves, that is to say, by jury. The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and minors, constantly working underground to undermine the foundation of our confederative fabric.” (Ibid., 1:04:20).
The Supreme Court must first reign in its lowest court judges which is what Chief Justice Roberts did by telling activist District Court Judge Boasberg that he “lacks jurisdiction” on Trumps deportation of Tren De Aragua and MS-13 terrorists. He needs to tell all 677 District Court Judges that their authority is within their districts only. The Executive branch must make certain its executive orders (EO) always align with laws passed by previous congresses hence, Trump went back to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify his executive orders on deportation and his EO on enforcement of The Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) which mandates up-front money in injunction suits for damage caused by bogus suits that later are unconstitutional. And Congress, once again, must impeach judges that have a history of exceeding their jurisdiction and have intentionally weaponized the judicial branch against the executive branch which so many are doing now, attempting to replace executive authority with their own.
Hamilton proved right. The Judiciary has no power thus is harmless “so long as the judiciary remains, truly distinct from both the legislature and the executive branches.” But it hasn’t. Jefferson also was right. The judiciary has become very dangerous because it is infringing on the authority of the executive branch—effectively replacing it.
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As of March 23, 2025 there have been a total of 127 injunctions since 1963: Obama 12 , Trump 1st term 64, Biden 14, Trump in February had 15 alone (“15 Injunctions Issued on Trump Policies in February,” Fox News, 23 March 2025). That number rose to 30 injunctions by the end of Trumps first 8 weeks, compared to 64 total for Trumps first term (X22-hereafter not cited-Ep. 3604b, 24 March 2025,1:00:52). The Left argues, “See, Trump is trying to destroy the Constitution,” the Right, “See, he is trying to restore the Constitution from those who had previously destroyed a large part of it.” Congress should have impeached and the Supreme Count should have nullified the first injunction made by a district court judge to preserve the integrity of the executive branch of government—but neither did.
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon.) Presumably these are the Nicaraguan Tren De Aragua and MS-13 gang members recently deported. Nicaraguan President Madero admitted Joe Biden pressured him to bring in the Tren De Aragua gang to America presumably released from his prisons and exported to America. Many were flown in by Biden. Since, Madero has made it clear he does not want these criminals returned, that is likely why they are in El Salvador. Once in the US they wrecked havoc, crime, and terror on Americans.
As we have explained before there is zero constitutional authority for a district judge to influence policy outside his district. Stephen Miller, a constitutional scholar, explained why this can not be. “There are 677 local district judges under current procedure, the president needs unanimous consent from all 677 to implement a major decision. If just one …out of 677 unelected judges, disagrees, the action is frozen nationwide. That is not democracy. That is tyranny” (Ep. 3607b, 30 March 2025, 36:29). This would destroy the executive branch of the Constitution. This is a judicial coup to do just that. This is intentional. Both these two branches can and should still do this to protect the Constitution as written. If they refuse the Constitution may never recover.
Prior to John F. Kennedy’s Administration it was known and largely practiced that national judicial influence required five of the nine Supreme Court justices to find agreement on a nationally contested and discussed issue after the ratification of three-fourths of the states amending the Constitution before it was authorized to affect the whole nation. District court judges self manufactured this power out of thin air. It is simply an end run around the Constitution to a president’s executive authority. Imagine one of 677 low level, district only, judges, acting alone, having more power than 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices acting together.
The plan of the Deep State is obvious; inundate Trump with constant lawsuits. As with their fake Russia Hoax, fake impeachments, fake indictments of 2024, the Deep State plans to time out Trump, strip him of his constitutional executive authority by challenging everything he does in slow moving courts and appeals for another 3 years and 9 months. It would take years to give every illegal alien criminal his day in court. Remember he is not a citizen but an invader. Since there are 677 district judges and at least half of these are democrats and there is no limit to the number of injunctions a district judge can initiate, Judge James Boasberg presently has four against Trump, Trump potentially could face hundreds against him, many simultaneously.
Let us summarize just one of his injunctions. In mid-air over the Gulf of America, James Boasberg ordered the two planes deporting 238 Venezuelan and 23 MS-13 gang members returned to the United States immediately (Ep. 3596b, 16 March 2025, 8:55). Both gangs had been previously classified as terrorist organizations but still had illegally infiltrated America. And while here had invaded 16 states with additional crimes including rape and murder. Venezuelan president Madero admitted Biden pressured him to bring in the Tren De Aragua gang to America presumably releast from his prisons and exported to America. Many were flown in by Biden (Ep 3591b, 10 March 2025, 11:09). Tulsi Gabbard visited the border soon after her confirmation as Director of National Intelligence and learned of “over 4,000 people who came across our borders using an ISIS affiliated Network.” A hundred of these known to be terrorists were caught by the Biden Border Patrol and all but 8 were released back into the United States, she told reporters (Ep. 3590b, 7 March 2025 12:20).
Trump had campaigned on the promise of returning all illegal aliens back to their country of origins beginning with these vicious gangs; and to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in doing so.Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution reads in part, “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [the Founders created a Republic—not a Democracy] and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” With 21 million plus illegals crossing our border unlawfully in Biden’s four years, most of us felt we were being invaded and Trump declared so at the time. Most of those coming during these years were military-aged males without families. We were invaded. Americans overwhelmingly voted for Trump for this promise—and two out of three support the deportation of these criminal gangs today. He has a clear constitutional duty to keep us safe, repel invasions, and protect American lives
Tren De Aragua gang presence is now reported in 21 states, almost half of America—during the Joe Biden four year tenure as president. Why? This is insanity!! Were these and the more than 24,000 single military-aged Chinese men, that we have reported on in past columns, and other groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, the “civilian force equal in size to the military” that Barack Obama said we needed? We need answers!! Was the Deep State planning revolution with these forces?
The Alien Enemies Act July 6, 1798 reads in part. “Section 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That, whenever there should be a declared war between the United States, and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory, incursion, shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened …the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of 14 years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. And the President of the United States shall be,… authorize[d], … to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, towards the aliens, who shall become liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed as alien enemies, [and]…manner and degree of the restraint, to which they shall be subject.”
We have been at war with the Deep State for many decades as the JFK files attest. The Biden Invasion weaponized immigration in their war to overthrow the U.S. government and Constitution in 2020, 2024 and planned for 2026 and beyond. Authorization to deport illegals from the U.S., as Trump is doing, has been constitutional and practiced for 227 years. America will not lose this war, and her freedom, to the Deep State.
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Whether intentionally or unintentionally most presses still missed the most important JFK Assassination File Finding. It wasn’t about whether there were multiple shooters or one, whether Lee Harvey Oswald was that good of a shooter or wasn’t, whether there was a magic bullet or wasn’t, whether the bullet entered Kennedy’s head from the front or behind etc. Some can’t see the forest for the trees—or do not want to—as in the case of Deep State presses. These details are important but hide the forest.
President Trump releases 2,800 CIA secret documents known to exist but kept from the people for 62 years through several JFK investigations, until all involved were unpunished and safely dead. That makes them accomplices, to the crime. The documents prove the Deep State CIA responsible for the assassination. All past presidents knew of the existence of these files especially Gerald Ford, a member of Johnson’s Warren Commission, and George Herbert W. Bush, a past CIA director, but only Trump, despite enormous opposition, allowed them declassified. Both Kennedy and Trump fought their Deep State’s and worked to expose them and both took a bullet to the head for doing so.
So let me be more blunt. The JFK Assassination Files released by President Trump revealed Kennedy’s own government killed him, specifically the CIA, and was powerful enough to hide, perhaps the most public crime in American history even successfully covering it up, through multiple investigations for 62 years. That a Deep State then existed capable of perhaps a crime of the century such that it affected every American then born, the entity responsible was never identified, punished and removed thus is still in place (See “John F. Kennedy Assassination Files Revealed, A State Within a State,” LibertyUnderFire.com March 26, 2025). The Files document the existence of a Deep State without a thread of evidence that it no longer exists.
Although details are very interesting to historians, we can not let the present Deep State bury this crime under a mountain of frivolous detail that allows the above truth to disappear again—that our own government—not a foreign government—killed our president without consequence. We must do as Kennedy promised to do. “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.” Kennedy probably had no idea that the Deep State was by then as pervasive as it was. The media aided and abetted in the cover up or this would have been exposed years ago. Democrats, of all people, should be most firmly with Trump in destroying the Deep State’s shadow government. It assassinated their president!! The Democrat Party must now unite with Trump in removing the Deep State from America. We need their support. Some lifelong former Democrats have already done so notably: Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Deep State controlled virtually all major media outlets including Twitter. It was Musk who purchased Twitter and allowed it to have a free speech platform to enable opposition to Deep State propaganda. He renamed it X. He had never before voted Republican. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic Congresswoman, now Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), just revoked security clearances for a number of high profile Deep State players in the Biden Administration including the former President and his family (Breitbart News). And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. former presidential candidate running against Trump, himself the nephew of the murdered president, and has done more than any other person to alert Americans to pharmaceutical fraud.
Kennedy told reporters on April 27th 1961 of his Deep State, which is equally descriptive of our own today, in a “Secret Societies” speech, called The President and the Press. The speech was delivered at the American Newspaper Publishers Association in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. It reads in part, “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding it’s sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned.…It conducts the Cold War in short with a wartime discipline, no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.”
What we now know from the newly released 62 year old documents is that the CIA always had these in their possession and would not release them as they were culpable in the assassination. This photo purports to contain the CIA’s Assassination Directive for President Kennedy. Although we can mostly read this, we cannot confirm. To us it is more likely that it would be a voiced suggestion—for plausible denial. We would not be shocked if it came from Lyndon Johnson himself. Its the holding back that leads us to almost expect this extreme suggestion.
His phrase “on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day” referenced the CIA’s guerrilla Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba just enacted days before, that Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower Administration. Kennedy was not talking about the USSR but America— about a covert entity, the CIA, that had embedded itself within our government. Created by Harry Truman, as the intelligence arm of the president, it had voided that assigned mission to one more akin to regime change which was what the CIA was doing in Cuba and elsewhere throughout the world. With time that morphed into the New World Order threat of the eighties and nineties and today into Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum’s Great Reset scam for world control.
So how do the JFK files help us understand Deep State activity today? Clandestine, an investigative reporter, summarized it best. “The JFK files don’t just prove CIA criminality in the past, they add much needed context to understand the corruption of the present. They add validity to the belief that the CIA USAID created C 19. They add validity to the CIA State Department coordinated regime change in Ukraine in 2014. They add validity to the belief that the CIA / Ukraine attempted to assassinate Trump. They add validity to the CIA USAID controlled much of the media around the globe. The JFK files prove that the CIA was willing to use any means necessary to get what they want. The JFK files prove that a Deep State is real and there are zero indications that it ever went away because the Deep State never went away” (X22 Report, Ep. 3601b, March 21, 2025, 19:00).
UNBELIEVABLY most presses missed the most important JFK Assassination File finding. If not identified, punished and removed completely this “secret combination” will return to power again very soon—perhaps in just 3 years and nine months. Other than the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, himself killed by Jack Ruby, no one paid a price for this crime then, nor has anyone yet for the 2020 Deep State overthrow of the US government. The Deep State’s present strategy is to just outlast Trump and keep him busy with judicial activists suits until then.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 814.
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The vast importance of the JFK Assassination Files, hidden from the public for 62 years through multiple congressional hearings over the years, just released by President Donald Trump under enormous opposition to its release, was not who killed John F. Kennedy, but that the entity who did still exists. The CIA has always been the prime suspect. I was a boy of 16 and heard this at the time. This notion that it was more then just Oswald was quickly smothered by the then Deep State media who preferred and promoted the lone-wolf narrative but it never felt right nor was it ever fully accepted by most Americans. The FBI “suddenly uncovered” 2,000 JFK-related files, these reveal the CIA as a “state within a state” and most responsible for the assassination.
The long promised Kennedy Files were finally released by President Trump in March 2025. These files prove the existence of the Deep State in 1963 powerful enough by then, over years of development and secrecy, to kill the president of the United States and keep that fact from being revealed for 62 years, until all responsible for his death were unpunished and safely dead. These newly released files also prove that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact a CIA asset, recruited, trained, and groomed by the CIA. in JAPAN while he was in the service at the Naval Air Facility Atsugi in the late 1950’s.
These files prove the existence of the Deep State in 1963 powerful enough by then, over years of development and secrecy, to kill the president of the United States and keep that fact from being revealed until all responsible for the death were unpunished and safely dead. There is no organization more Deep State than the CIA. This is the importance of the JFK Assassination Files. Second to this in importance is, since it was never fully revealed, removed, and punished then, it is still in place 62 years later in our day. These files show it is not unreasonable to believe that they also want Donald Trump dead as he too, like Kennedy, seeks to reveal them.
Every president of both political parties, had access to these files and chose not to have them declassified. Two presidents in particular knew the intimate details up close and personal, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who benefited most by Kennedy’s death by replacing him as president, and Jerald Ford, a member of the Johnson appointed Warren Commission to hide our own governments involvement in the assassination of our own.
LibertyUnderFire has published much on the assassination over the many years and as new things came out. Mostly the new documents reveal what those who have followed this story already knew but it is good for the new generation. Yes, the documents first tried to blame the assassination on Cuba and the Soviets. We, among others debunked this story. There were three reasons Kennedy was assassinated: 1) he opposed the CIA’s Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, 2) he wanted America’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War, and 3) he also opposed the Federal Reserve’s Central Bank currency control authorizing the printing of silver certificates in defiance of it (Why the Deep State Assassination of John F. Kennedy?, LibertyUnderFire.com, Dec 6, 2023). Opposition to these three issues could not be tolerated. Kennedy could not be controlled by them so they could not wait another year for a new election to remove him.
The “new” files confirm that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact a CIA asset, “recruited by the CIA in JAPAN while he was in the service at the Naval Air Facility Atsugi in the late 1950’s.” NAFA was “a known CIA hub for covert operations, including U2 spy plane missions from 1957 to 1958” as per a suppressed document from his commander at the base at the time. Documents show that “as late as 1996 this story was almost broke by ‘a credible UPI reporter’ and had to be covered up 30 years after the assassination.” The “CIA was deeply concerned about the story getting traction.” They rightly realized it could be viewed “as a smoking gun.” They allowed just enough information out “to appear transparent while withholding the most damning evidence that Oswald was recruited, trained, and groomed by the CIA during his time in Japan.” We soon learned of Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union in 1959, his return to the U.S. in 1962, and his eventual role in the assassination in 1963. This was common knowledge soon after the assassination.
President Kennedy was warned of the presence of a “state within a state” or the Deep State as we call it today. Presidential adviser Arthur Schlesinger, in a 15-page Memo to John F. Kennedy called for Kennedy to break up the CIA in 1961. “Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue ‘state within a state’… His Memo told the president ‘the contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of ‘a state within a state’ adding ‘there is no doctrine governing our conduct of clandestine operations.’”
Kennedy learned quickly that there existed another force to reconcile with besides just the legislative and judicial branches—a real shadow government. Less than four months into office on April 27, 1961, he spoke to this secret entity, the CIA, directly through the press in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. He said, “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”… Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised.” The CIA and Kennedy came to hate each other early in his administration.
Schlesinger noted that, “A number of governments still in power know that they have been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow—not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings” toward the US. He also wrote, “CIA operations have not been held effectively subordinate to US foreign policy,” He told the president, “In practice the State Department had become a ‘rubber stamp’ for CIA clandestine operations.”
A month after JFK’s assassination, former President Harry, Truman, “echoed Schlesinger’s fears outlined in the 1961 Memo. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position.” Truman wrote, that “he set up the CIA to streamline information gathering… but between his presidency, and JFK’s, Truman witnessed a change in the CIA.” He wrote of this, “For sometime, I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become operational and at times a policymaking arm of the government. I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operation.” Truman “called for the termination of the CIA operation duties, and the restoration of the agency to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the president” (X22 Report, Ep. 3599b, 03/19/2025, 11:59).
Instead of destroying the CIA as Kennedy intended the CIA destroyed him, and worse, came to control the organization Kennedy created, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development Assistance throughout the world. The “rogue state within a state” came to fund shadow governments and regime change in the world—even in Ukraine in 2014 and the United States in 2020 and thus far got away with it. Most importantly the “rogue state within a state” was never identified, removed or punished and thus is still very much alive today fighting Trump.
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In Donald Trump’s first term in office he was impeached twice but not acquitted in either for lack of evidence. When he announced an intended run for a second term he immediately faced, and subsequently beat, four new, separate and fake indictments, some with gag orders to keep him from defending himself and from campaigning effectively while running. We called this lawfare.
The avalanche of cases against Trump, 125 in hist first two months, involve his executive and discretionary powers which are off limits to judicial interference. according to the Constitution and historical precedence. Despite this clear legal precedence Deep State activist judges continue violating the Constitution by ruling against Trumps’s executive authority. Whether they like it or not Trump has a constitutional mallet, they do not.
Now an army of low level Deep State activist district judges have stepped in front of SCOTUS to destroy Trump’s second term. They, once again, have weaponized the judiciary against him. In the first two months of this term he is facing 125 legal challenges. In his first term it was just 65 in four years (X22 Reports, March 13, 2025, 32:42). They are blocking everything. The Trump DOJ is inundated, every day with lawsuits filed by Deep State activists judges. This is way beyond the pale and the people know this and support Trump.
This is not the first time federal judges have attempted to manage executive branch authority unto themselves. The issue of federal judges having power to interfere with the Executive branch of government was specifically denied them and settled in The State of Mississippi vs. Johnson in 1867. “The President of the United States cannot be restrained by injunction from carrying into effect an act of Congress alleged to be unconstitutional, nor will a bill having such a purpose be allowed to be filed.” (71 U.S. 475 April 15, 1867).
The first suit brought to the Supreme Court against a president of the United States was Mississippi vs Johnson and it was over this very issue. In it Mississippi was contending that Andrew Johnson had exceeded his executive authority by enforcing the Reconstruction Acts, recently passed by Congress. Johnson’s veto was subsequently overridden by Congress. It was to Johnson’s credit that he then felt duty bound to administer it as required of his presidency. “In an attempt to delay or prevent Reconstruction, the state of Mississippi appealed directly to the Supreme Court. Mississippi asked the Court for an injunction preventing the President from enforcing the Acts on the ground that they were unconstitutional.”
The question was, “Could the Supreme Court constitutionally issue an injunction directed against the President?…In a unanimous decision, the Court held that it had ‘no jurisdiction of a bill to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties’….The Court held that the duties of the President as required by the Reconstruction Acts were ‘in no sense ministerial,’ and that a judicial attempt to interfere with the performance of such duties would be ‘an absurd and excessive extravagance.’ The Court noted that if the President chose to ignore the injunction, the judiciary would be unable to enforce the order” (Oyez LIII Supreme Court Resources, Justia Supreme Court Center Mississippi vs Johnson). Sound familiar?
The last part of the unanimous Supreme Court’s ruling is instructive. If the highest judicial authority in the land “would be unable to enforce the order,” how much less authority to do so would the lowest national judicial authority— a singular district judge— have? NONE.
Neither the Judicial or Legislative branches have ANY administrative authority. The Constitution gives only the president the authority to exercise the power of the entire Executive branch. No court may define or limit the scope of the duties of an official of the executive office of the President. Judges have no say in who Trump hires and fires; nor his revoking security clearances, nor to nullify the results of a national election. Again, if the Supreme Court has no authority then neither do underling activist judges attempting to override the higher court.
The issue of federal judges having power to interfere with the Executive branch of government in their constitutional duties was specifically and unanimously denied them and settled in Mississippi vs. Johnson on April 15, 1867. The Constitution as written has not been followed closely for a long time. It’s only constitutional illiteracy in our generation that allows the Deep State to convince the most ill-informed that by following it, thus reducing the cost, size, and power of government, Trump is exercising dictatorial power over us. It would be the first time in history dictatorship was accomplished by that formula.
Trump answers Deep State activist judges with already existing law but not enforced. He just signed an executive order requiring that it be enforced called “Ensuring the Enforcement of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 65(c),” The White House, March 11, 2025, “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. … Designed to clamp down on the growing abuse of American judicial system by radical activist, judges, and far left organizations.”
It “specifically targets the reckless pursuit of frivolous injunctions which repeatedly cost taxpayers millions in disruptive Republican governance. It directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to firmly enforce Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) which says, that ‘everyone who asks a court for an injunction or temporary order stopping the government action must first deposit money or a bond with the court. This money is intended to cover potential harm or cost to the government if a court later decides that the injunction was improperly issued.’ Trump argues that activist organizations have been abusing the courts frequently filing weak or meritless lawsuits against the government to slow down or block policies they disagree with often choosing sympathetic judges to hear their cases. These groups do not typically face consequences when their lawsuit fails. Instead taxpayers pay the costs when government policies are halted by these injunctions.”
The Memo doubles down on requiring “federal agencies to make sure that whenever someone sues the government for an injunction, the agency should request that the plaintive, the person or organization suing, provides enough money upfront to cover possible cost and damages the government might suffer if the injunction turns out to be unjustified. Agencies must work with the attorney general to decide how much money to ask for, and they must clearly justify to the amounts to the courts” (X22 Report, Ep. 3594b, March 13, 2025, 34:05).We wrote of this solution for activist district judges previously (“We have Tyranny of the Judicial,” Elon Musk, LibertyUnderFire, March 5, 2025). We think the enforcement of 65(c) will end the problem of district judges overstepping the Constitution and go far in dispelling the Deep State’s fake narrative that Trump is making up the rules as does a dictator.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 812
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