Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley just revealed the Biden Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained “detailed donor data and voter information on over 639,000 individuals during the Arctic Frost investigation” against Trump. This included: “names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, party affiliation, places of employment, donation amounts, credit card information… including last 4 digits of credit card numbers.
“The banks had come up with this new way, along with the government, to control you… Our government tracked you if you bought a red MAGA hat… If you bought a MAGA hat, the federal government collected your name and put it on a list” or you donated as little as $5,00 dollars to Trump” [they] put you on this ‘enemy list.’ You just slowly discover that your card gets declined, that your business can't get a loan, that your church can't process donations, and your name is sitting in the file of a courthouse, and you have no idea what's happening in your life … This was by design.” Arctic Frost is part of the Great Reset.
President Biden, through Merrick Garland, appointed Smith to investigate Democrat allegations that Trump was attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 elections by insisting that it had been rigged in Biden’s favor, which has now been established as fact through 6 years of studies, audits and declassified documents. The donor and potential voter data ranged from 2005 to 2021, which Grassley described as being “well outside Smith’s scope of purported review.” He further asserted “that the Special Counsel operation was designed to map out the Republican Party” (Grassley Shares Explosive Arctic Frost Update Revealing Jack Smith ‘Treasure Trove’ of Data for Over Half a Million Republican Subcommittee Supporters, 10/14/2026, US Senate Judiciary).
Actually it was designed to destroy Donald Trump and Arctic Frost became the most corrupt dragnet in U.S. history. It was the bases for the indictments against him. Biden was already locking up Jan. 6ers as fast as he could, some few without trial, and Arctic Frost was designed to lock up those supporting MAGA as well. Instead, MAGA lockups strengthened the MAGA movement which by 2024 had become the Republican Party in large part because of abuses.
This bombshell revelation follows the Senate Judiciary Committee Report last month, which provided evidence that former special counsel Jack Smith and his investigators obtained communications from reporters for more than a dozen media outlets and financial information from thousands of Americans as part of their “Arctic Frost” probe that resulted in the indictment of President Trump, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) claimed,” 41 indictments total (“Jack Smith’s team got texts of dozens of reporters, bank info from thousands of Americans: Grassley,” By Josh Christenson , Sept. 29, 2026, New York Post).
We are learning every day that during the Biden era we came closer to losing our freedom than at any time in American history. The above was dangerously serious, the Democrats worked for four years to put every MAGA supporter behind bars—to physically destroy their opposing political party which almost succeeded and would have ended the Republic, the U.S. Constitution and liberty.
But Glenn Beck saw something worse and the rest of this column is credited to his findings. The nine biggest banks in America also intended to destroy MAGA. He asked the question, “Did any bank shut Americans out of their banking, out of the financial services, because of what they believed? The answer, in the United States of America, is yes.” He observed that “J.P. Morgan Chase flagged words like MAGA and America first… Other banks targeted Christian organizations and pro-life groups, firearm businesses, legal businesses run by law-abiding citizens, and the reason given again and again was reputational risk… the banks had come up with this new way, along with the government, to control you.” They termed it “reputational risk.” You could be closed out if deemed a reputational risk to the bank.
While investigating Donald Trump to lock him up for life, “Jack Smith's team, collected personal data on more than 639,000 Republican voters and donors… Our government tracked you if you bought a red MAGA hat… If you bought a MAGA hat, the federal government collected your name and put it on a list. This comes on top of what Grassley has already shown us: nearly 5,000 donor records, some of them checks for $5. You were on an enemy's list, phone records, text messages from dozens of members of Congress, communication involving 50 journalists.”
“Now let me ask you,” Beck continued, “Where are the journalists today? Every single journalist should be as enraged as I am right now. Every single person at CBS, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, every single journalist, the Village Voice should be outraged by this. They were gathering information on journalists. Do you care? A five-dollar check, a baseball cap, and they collected your name….” NO! ALL of these worked to destroy Trump.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the left released whistleblower files in January 2025, with further disclosures on September 16, 2025. Arctic Frost was many times worse than Watergate. Testifying against the fraud of Arctic Frost is then U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on the right.
“Tell me why were you asking vendors who sold hats for their records? What does a hat have to do with any kind of crime? Nothing. A five-dollar check is not evidence. A baseball cap is not a conspiracy. And that hat … it was organized around a purchase. Somebody decided that being a certain kind of American was, in itself, by itself, worth writing down. And once your name is written down, you don't know who gets to read it, how long they keep it, what they do with it next. You have no idea what our government has now connected you to….”
Beck continues with why this is so dangerous, “Nobody’s been arrested. Nobody's been …accused. Nobody's been charged. You just slowly discover that your card gets declined, that your business can't get a loan, that your church can't process donations, and your name is sitting in the file of a courthouse, and you have no idea what's happening in your life. Now, if you read this story about any other country, you would not need me to tell you what kind of country that was. This was by design. Design….This Is fascism? Fascism doesn't come with tanks all the time. Do you see that? It comes with compliance departments. You don't have to build a camp if you can just isolate people quietly. Why build a camp when you can just remove your ability to buy or to sell or to save or to give or to hire? In a modern economy, if you can't bank, you can't buy food. If you can't buy food, you can't live….” The 9 banks involved in this travesty were: “J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Citibank, Wells Fargo. …Capital One, PNC, T Bank, and BMO Bank. Do you have money in any of these banks?…Pull it out today” (“I Can’t Believe this is Happening in Our Country,” By Glenn Beck, YouTube, Oct. 15, 2026).
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #895.
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Liberals are livid with Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth’s recommendation and President Donald Trump’s approval of death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorists Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American solders at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is great) during the attack. He is scheduled for execution Dec. 3, 2026 at the same location of his massacre. Survivors of the attack and family members are invited to witness (X22 Report, Ep. 4009b, Oct. 7, 2026, 36:45). If a firing squad is good for mass murders, why not for treason? The last person executed for conspiracy to commit espionage (treason) in the United States was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg June 19, 1953, for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), enabling them to develop an atomic bomb many years before anticipated.
After Biden’s J6 prosecutions he further weaponized the DOJ to go after MAGA in the most corrupt dragnet in U.S. history under Jack Smith. He is accused of nabbing the personal data of 639 k GOPers’ and issuing 197 subpoenas. Arctic Frost improperly scanned the "entire Republican political apparatus.” It included spying on eight members of the U.S Senate and one congressman pictured above. It would have destroyed the Republican Party but instead MAGA became the Republican Party. When will Smith be prosecuted?
The U.S. Constitution defines treason as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” but requires “two witnesses to the same overt act.” The word treason has been used by serious investigators the last ten years to apply to certain actions of government or persons, especially after the declassification by President Trump of hundreds of pages of previous classified documents documenting the same. Here are just four instances of many treasonous acts gone unpunished that likely merited the firing squad for dozens knowingly involved.
In March 2025, we learned that the CIA was linked to the John F. Kennedy assassination. The Kennedy Files were released by President Trump in March 2025 despite INTENSE OPPOSITION. Had he not insisted they likely never would have been released. These files prove the existence of a Deep State in 1963 powerful enough (by then over years of development and secrecy) to assassinate the president of the United States and keep their involvement hidden for 62 years through multiple congressional hearings, until all responsible for his death were unpunished and safely dead. The 2,000 newly released files also document 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 at Atsugi in the late 1950s. Obviously others were involved or they could not have hidden this fact for decades (The Two Most Consequential Stories of 2025 Are About Treason, By Harold Pease, Ph.D., Jan. 21, 2026, LibertyUnderFire.org).
In April 2025 the FBI Crossfire Hurricane documents went public revealing Deep State treason by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. By May it was clear that the Obama FBI was linked to a secret plan, a Coup d’etat., to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president in 2016, and when once elected, thereafter to NOT allow his inauguration. The new FBI Director, Kash Patel, sent members of Congress the released nearly 700 pages of declassified records called “Crossfire Hurricane” debunking the baseless Trump–Russia saga. Congressional Democrats were largely accomplices!! The release was labeled the Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder." This was the lost binder the Biden FBI expected, but failed to find, in their Mar-A-Largo raid on Trump's home 9 August 2022. These documents are devastating to Democrats. There was no Trump/Russia collusion. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have the most to worry from the, long suppressed, FBI Crossfire Hurricane documents having been the most heavily involved in the Coup d'etat. Each has played a major role in the present Deep State hold on America (“Newly Released FBI Crossfire Hurricane Documents Reveal Deep State Treason,” By Harold Pease, Ph. D.,LibertyUnderFire.org, 7 May 2025).
The last person executed for conspiracy to commit espionage (treason) in the United States was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg June 19, 1953, for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Aren’t assassinating a U.S. president and hiding those involved in it for 62 years, three Coup d’etat.s as in 2016 and 2020 and an Arctic Frost attempt to destroy a competitor political party also worthy of the highest penalty? Harsh punishment is a deterrent we need.to prevent other would be treasonists.
Whistleblower documents, primarily disclosed through Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on September 16, 2025, revealed significant details about Joe Biden’s weaponized FBI's investigation code named "Arctic Frost.” It would have destroyed the Republican Party. The Biden FBI expanded the investigative scope far beyond Trump. Initially focused on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election as fraudulent and its January 6, 2021, Electoral College certification as incomplete, resulting in the Capitol riot, due to, and engineered by the Left—not the Right. Arctic Frost grew into a broader probe targeting 92 Republican-aligned organizations and individuals. This included: groups like Turning Point USA (TPUSA) whose founder, Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the Left, the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), Trump’s Save America PAC, Women for America First, Conservative Partnership Institute, and America First Policy Institute, as well as Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. It improperly scanned the "entire Republican political apparatus” (Biden’s Chilling Pursuit of Conservatives, Through His FBI’s “Arctic Frost,” By Harold Pease, Sept. 24, 2025).
After 6 years of intense review of the 2020 presidential election ALL documents and studies show that the Deep State Democrats cheated sufficient to “elect” Biden. None show otherwise. These include: the 2021 Maricopa County Presidential Ballot Audit, the video “2000 Mules,” the Tiger Project, and the more recent news break in Arizona that 218,000 illegal aliens voted in their state alone (Adrian Fontes, Sec. Of State, press Release Sept. 30, 2024, X22 Report Ep. 3464b, 1 Oct. 2024). Even Georgia’s Dekalb GOP v Raffensperger court case proved Dominion machines capable of being hooked to the Internet debunking this as not possible, and the likelihood that it changed hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden in that election. LibertyUnderFire.org has published many columns documenting this and had we found otherwise we would have published that also. The 2020 Presidential election was rigged and was a Coup d’état. Those involved successfully overthrew the U.S. government. The Biden presidency was illegitimate (Let’s be Blunt, Past Treason Greatly Stalks the Election of 2024, By Harold Pease, Ph. D., LUF, Oct. 16, 2024). Donald J. Trump won the 2020 presidential race.
Treason was all over the place the last 10 years. No real justice for treason criminality has existed since the Rosenbergs in 1953. No one has really been punished. If we don’t want treasonist acts to continue the death penalty, as a consequence for engaging in it, must be restored as a deterrent.
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Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #894.
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To Google I posed the question, Did any newspaper, magazine, news outlets identify the events of FlyDubai Flight 1073 as a miracle? Only 10 references came up of which only one “The FlyDubai Near Miss was a Nightmare, and a Miracle,” dared to use the word in its title. Basically the media avoids God had anything to do with it, giving preference to everything but. We live in a world that is unapologetically hostile to God being in the affairs of man. Of course, all disasters are nightmares to those experiencing them: floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes. But in them miracles occur. Only Glenn Beck unequivocally called FlyDubai 1073 a miracle (“True Miracle: What if Those Passengers Had Stayed in Their Seats,” Glenn Beck, YouTube).
Multiple stab wounds are shown here. The cockpit ax is very sharp in the front but is more like a three inch long sphere in the back. The major blow was delivered to the back of the head resulting in a depressed skull fracture (not shown) with a bone fragment driven into the motor region of the brain making it far more incredible to do what he did—a much larger miracle. He said, “I know that God saved me.”
Miracles are when someone beats insurmountable odds that should have happened as a consequence of some action, but didn’t. Almost all of the 10 sources identified by Google noted the extra ordinary actions of the passengers and crew that prevented a tragedy, or the heroism involved in the events, but divine intervention in those events were mostly ignored. They phrased the Sept. 30, 2026 event: impossible odds, the crazy unnoticed details in the plane hijacking, everything was in perfect order, etc. but otherwise carefully avoided the word miracle.
LibertyUnderFire has assembled a list of miracles for why we believe an honest person can only describe it as divine intervention and we too openly use the word miracle. 1). Indian pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar was attacked with an ax kept in the cockpit for emergency evacuations should it be needed. No one ever thought a fellow pilot would be the danger. A radicalized co-pilot, Hamam al-Hammami, an Omanian, was. While under his surprise assault Captain Smit Machchhar with the ax blow to the head from behind, and very savagely stabbed several times, was still able to send two distress signals, called squawk messages. The first, Code 7700, at 5:00 A.M., to alert the aviation world that the aircraft was experiencing a general emergency. The second, Code 7500, at 5:07 A.M., that the plane was highjacked or under unlawful interference. Both signals without the pilot having to verbalize anything. These messages were sent from the panel by the pilot pushing a button. His last amazing miracle was his ability to unlock the cabin door by a knob in front of him or by leaving his chair and actually going to the door also while sustaining numerous blows and cuts to his body from his assailant.
2). Most passengers were asleep at 5:00 A.M. in the morning but a 6 year old girl Nina Manes, using the bathroom near the cockpit, heard disturbing sounds and asked what was going on. She set off the alarm by yelling, “Daddy, I don’t want to die.” The girls mother yelled, “They are murdering the pilot!” Passengers awakened and began to help. What if the captain’s ax wound to the head had killed him instantly, as likely intended, and there was no noise from the cockpit to disturb the girl? And, God doesn’t intervene in the affairs of man!?!
The girls Jewish mother later told reporters, “It’s a great miracle, really. A miracle, and another miracle, and another miracle. The door opened. It's something I still can't understand and its certainly the heroism of Captain Smit pilot. It's the beginning of the chain of events that took place here. If he hadn't opened the door from the inside, we probably wouldn't be talking here today. And the door just opened. It's something I saw. I saw it all and I understood, and I just yelled. ‘They're murdering the pilot. Let's help. Let's help.… I could see in my eyes that he [the co-pilot] was stabbing him.” She credits God with, "He opened the door.”
3). Yaniv Hayown, a plumber by profession with no pilots license or known flying experience, opened the unlocked cockpit door, placed the captain’s assailant in a chokehold, simultaneous pulling him backward, turned him over to others, then pulled the control stick toward himself gradually leveling the descending plane ending the planes deep dive downward. He had learned some basic aviation knowledge from watching “Aircraft Crash Investigation,” a National Geographic TV series that recreated real aircraft accidents, most importantly that pulling back on console levers levels the airplane, pushing forward descends the aircraft. How many miracles accompanied all these actions? Most passengers were asleep at 5:00 A.M. in the morning.
4). A dentist, Dr. Shota Musayev came forward to help the injured captain who was reported to have said to him. “Don’t let me die.” He stopped the massive bleeding from numerous wounds and provided oxygen among other things. Other Israeli passengers simultaneously restrained the attacking co-pilot. Nobody had handcuffs or rope to tie up the co-pilot. A passenger had just enough “head phone wire” cords to do the job. Two additional miracles, perhaps.
The plane dropped 14,000 feet in 29 seconds, 10 times the normal descent, far exceeding the structure capabilities of the aircraft as evidenced by the wind damaged rudder. It was in grave danger of coming apart, but didn’t—definitely a miracle. Pulling back the console levers to level the airplane, especially given the G force resistance, was yet another.
5). With injured Captain Smit Machchhar losing much blood, passing out, seemingly dying, and the co-pilot tied up with headphone cords, the cockpit lacked any pilot to fly the plane. Two off-duty FlyDubai pilots just happened to be on the distressed plane; were awakened and able to replace the wounded pilot and terrorist co-pilot. What if they hadn’t been flying as passengers? 180 passengers, four of them Americans, plus crew, walked away alive with no wreckage at Ben Gurion Airport the intended target, and God can’t be credited? And that’s not a miracle!?!
6). The plane dropped 14,000 feet in 29 seconds, 10 times the normal descent, far exceeding the structure capabilities of the aircraft as evidenced by the wind damaged rudder. It was in grave danger of coming apart, but didn’t. This plane is structured to handle a G force of 2.5 G’s, 1.0 in negative G’s. This extreme radical dive could have exceeded that by multiple times. All the above rescue activities happened against this force, even the leveling of the plane — a miracle. With this G force it is difficult to control your own body, likely yet another miracle.
7). The captain's physicians in Israel, just announced that Machchhar suffered a depressed skull fracture with a bone fragment driven into the motor region of his brain making it far more incredible to do what he did – a much larger miracle. His response, "I know that God saved me." This was the last of a series of miracles testifying that God was in the affairs of man for the whole world saw it.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #893.
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On September 22, 2026 Trump walked into the United Nations, the globalist haven for world government for 81 years, and announced the most profound, bold statement ever made in the UN General Assembly. “As President of the most extraordinary nation in history, I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester; they only become harder to solve. So, while others have talked, I have acted. While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them. While others have talked of courage, America has shown it. While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world” (Transcript: President Trump Addresses the 81st Session, UN General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2026. Hereafter, Transcript).
Trump was talking about the United Nations that was secretly created to be a world government and evolved as such since October 24, 1945. That is what globalism is and what we now call the Deep State was then called the globalists and had been evolving as such since. Like a javelin to the heart he added “There is no global government — and while I am President, there will be no global taxes” (Ibid.). He is ending Deep State rule over the United Nations and telling them this to their face. Virtually every news outlet missed the significance of this action and statement whether intentional or ignorantly. Fake news wrote about everything but this story, still every person in the Assembly heard every word and understood. Clearly he was talking to the Deep State.
Trump’s plan for the United Nations is two fold: reform it and remove the Deep State from it. The first, to turn it into a truly peace organization through his Board of Peace of which at least 30 countries are already involved. Presently Trump is implementing “the most sweeping UN reforms in history. ‘We cut the UN budget for the first time ever, slashing it by 15% in 2026 and eliminating more than 4,000 positions from the UN bureaucracy,’” he told the Assembly.
The second, the UN “must stop imposing the far left agenda of globalist bureaucrats who nobody ever elected.” This included dismantling all organizations openly working for world government. Top of the list was “the out of control institution known as the International Criminal Court. ‘We will never allow US service members or anyone else to be investigated or given show trials by an anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction over us. You’re an evil group of people.’” He called on all ICC member nations “to officially resign from this rogue institution immediately” (Ibid.). He called for the same for member nations of the WHO, World Bank, and World Economic Forum. (X22 Report, Ep. 3998b, Sept. 22, 2026, 30:11). All these organizations openly work for world government.
Trump is dismantling the one-world government the Deep State created through the UN. He spoke too of the “The craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council” who do not protect “children from transgender mutilation and transgender insanity” and “have little to say about the persecution of Christians” all over the world (Transcript).
He said, “It is deeply ironic that the United Nations has an entire institution, the UNESCO group of people and countries devoted to protecting cultural heritage. Yet with their ceaseless promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history. There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you” (Ibid.).
His plan is to weaken the UN and strengthen an American hemispheric alliance which includes bringing in Greenland as part of his American Shield. And he did this in their face—at the biggest globalist organization, the UN. President Trump, while at the UN "SIGNED the permanent security deal for US rights over Greenland, an absolute historic moment, with major consequences for decades to come. He was flanked by Denmark and Greenland leaders.” (Eric Daugherty, X22 Report, Ep. 3998b, Sept. 22, 2026, 31:43).
President Kennedy had to deal with a socialist enemy force only 90 miles off our coast with missiles aimed at our cities. World War III hung in the balance. President Trump had to deal with an actual invasion crossing our border with Mexico, a significant amount of its force coming from Socialist Venezuela which included at least 24,000 military aged Chinese men without women and children (See column #748). Trump’s Shield of the America’s is an extension of the Monroe Doctrine to prevent either eventuality happening again. We will have no enemy on our border poised to do us harm.
Trump continues, “the United States has also reached an unprecedented agreement regarding the northern frontier of North America, the large and strategically vital piece of land known as Greenland. This agreement, made with the Kingdom of Denmark, an incredible, beautiful country, and the Greenland people itself, gives the United States permanent control over security and all other needs on that territory” thus, “expanding America’s footprint in the Arctic and North Atlantic….We will have the complete ability to do what is necessary to defend the American continent .…No US adversary will ever be permitted to establish military presence in Greenland anymore or make sensitive investments there without our expressed written approval; … We’ll be building two very major military bases”(Transcript).
Trump removed the Deep State proxy governments in Venezuela and Iran this year and has exposed Ukraine as another to be neutralized soon. The Cartels in this hemisphere have been designated as terrorist organizations and in Venezuela are now being terminated. Trump said of Mexico, “It’s unacceptable for the United States to share a 2,000 mile border with a territory controlled by enemy cartels. So Mexico must reclaim control of its soil from enemies of humanity.” With Trump’s help, Mexico will be removing them as well. Also Cuba, under Deep State influence since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, will be freed soon.
This and much more was in Trump’s UN speech. If all this continues to unfold, as is presently likely, there will be no global government or global taxes and no Deep State proxy governments either. I have waited to publish this column for fifty years. Trump is destroying one-world government, more commonly called the New World Order.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #892.
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The philosophy of socialism was first outlined in 1755 by Etienne-Gabriel Morelly of France in his book the Code de la Nature which laid out what it entailed then. He wrote: "Nothing belongs, wholly to anyone. Property is detestable, and anyone who attempts to re-– establish it shall be in prison for life, as a dangerous madman and an enemy of humanity. Every citizen shall be kept, and maintained, and supplied with work at the public expense. All produce shall be gathered into public gardeners, to be distributed to citizens from their substance. All cities shall be built on the same plan; all private residences shall be alike. All children shall be taken from their families at five years of age, and educated together on a uniform plan”). Sounds as crazy as The Great Reset’s creed of today, “You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
Notice the beautiful woman enticing you to socialism divides the photograph vertically to where she has been and where she wishes to lead you. This, toward the U.S. Capitol which is bathed in sunlight, where everything is alive, pretty, as she is, and in place. But where she has been is dark, dead, ugly and destroyed. On the wall behind her are the words equality, distribution, control and, in bigger letters, OBEY which is obviously the most important of the words and the only choice you will have in the end. Notice also that behind her red dress, symbolizing socialism, her skirt, in the darkness, turns into chains and barbed wire, symbols of total control over those who follow her. This is the best picture and magazine on the subject in print that I have seen and read. A must read. Obviously she is no Savior but instead a seductress of the worst kind; 271 years of failure proves so. There have been no utopias.
Today this is called Morelly’s socialist manifesto. Apparently he was influenced by “the Economists, the royal court’s own planners and physiocrats.” A member of the then Economists, Abbe Bodeau, explained Morelli’s philosophy more fully, “The state must not only govern, it must shape the nation. It must form the mind of citizens comfortably to a preconceived model. It is it's duty to fill their minds with such opinions and their hearts with such feelings as it may judge necessary. In fact, there are no limits either to its rights or its powers. It must transform, as well as reform its subject; perhaps even create new subjects, if it thinks proper.… The state moulds men into whatever shape it pleases” (Socialism: Savior or Seductress? The New American, August 2026, p. 46). This description of socialism was published 92 years before the father of socialism, Karl Marx, published his The Communist Manifesto.
And this, clarity of what socialism is has been practiced for 271 years since, in every form possible. It has failed to accomplish the socialist utopia or even to provide prosperity superior to the free market philosophy it competes with, any place on earth. The Jamestown (1607) and pilgrim (1620) settlements ended private property ownership, a fundamental principle of socialism, many to starve to death the first 3 years. The Economist organization tried it in France in 1755. During the first half of the 1800s in the United States it was practiced by at least 40 societies, New Harmony in 1825 being the most famous.—NO UTOPIAS were experienced. The government work programs in France in 1847 were thought to be socialistic, (Ibid., p. 29).
In the 20th Century socialism exploded from experimenting on people in small villages to people in whole nations. It had the power to perfect itself. Instead, it became the world’s greatest threat to freedom. Fabian Socialism came to power briefly in Great Britain in 1924 as the Labour Party and thereafter interchangeably with the Conservative Party to the present. Socialism conquered Russia in 1917 which subjected its seven neighboring countries into socialism becoming the USSR (United Soviet SOCIALIST Republics). Hitler brought it to Germany in 1933 and thereafter created his Nationalist SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party, also known as the Nazi Party and subjected neighboring nations into their brand of socialism. Socialism came to China under Mao Zedong in 1949 spreading to North Korea, Laos, Cambodia under Pol Pot, in North Vietnam and eventually South Vietnam. In the Americas it came to power in Cuba under Fidel Castro in 1959, in Nicaragua Daniel Ortega in 1979 to 1990 and again from 2007 to 2026, In Venezuela under Hugo Chavez 1999, and Nicholas Maduro in 2013. It never really worked in the Scandinavian countries either (See, “Scandinavian Countries are not Socialist?” 09/27/19, LibertyUnderFire.org, )” NO UTOPIAS RESULTED ANYWHERE.
In each of these experiments with socialism most especially nation states, those imposing it on others had absolute power to perfect it as they wished. None did. As in China they only perfected the ability to more easily spy on and control the population, as with more cameras. In virtually every instance it brought shortages, poverty and death and destroyed freedom and incentive. Isn’t it time we admit it doesn’t and has never worked as promised? Why would any nation be attracted to what has never really worked with virtually a 100% failure record for producing freedom and prosperity, but the socialist lure of taking from those who produce and giving it to those who do not continues.
The biggest problem with socialism is it mostly only divides wealth already in existence. Wealth is created by hard work, innovation and freedom. If freedom is limited then hard work and innovation are both disincentivized also. Why would anyone work harder or be innovative if there exists no incentive to do or be so? It’s the extra that propels society not the minimum.
Two societies Germany, East and West, and Korea, North and South, all four devastated by World War II show the enormous night and day contrast in standard of living. North Korea and East Germany were forced into socialism vs West Germany and South Korea who adopted economic and political freedom. “Today, South Korea’s economy is approximately 40 to 80-plus times larger than North Korea’s in nominal GDP terms; that is, South Korea’s nominal GDP is approximately $1.7 trillion, North Korea’s only about $20 to $40 billion.” Although the time under socialism is much less for East Germany than North Korea, the West Germany’s GDP per capita was about $20,000—plus in 1990 when the two Germanys reunited, East Germany was “about $8,000 to $10,000.” (Socialism: Savior or Seductress? The New American, August 2026, p. 9). Very simply the free market incentivizes the creation of wealth because people benefited by having a higher standard of living and socialism mostly only redistributes wealth but the process does allow them to better control the people by making them more dependent on them—essentially serfs. The verdict is in. Socialism’s 271 years of promises were not kept.
Little or nothing in the world happens without incentive, “economist, historians, and development experts, overwhelmingly attribute the vast majority of modern wealth to market mechanisms, (private property, incentives, trade, innovation, and voluntary exchange). It is further estimated that from 90% to 98% (or more) of modern wealth creation has been due to market / incentive – oriented action.” (Ibid., p.12). Almost no inventions came from socialism comparitively.
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The term socialism has been around primarily in Europe since the early 1800s—with perhaps dozens of practicing groups. Adam Weishaupt, Baron Anacharsis von Clootz, Count Henri de Saint-Simon, Georg Wilhelm Hegel, David Friedrich Strauss, Bruno Bauer, and Ludwig Feuerbach, even Robert Owen in America, to name a few. Dozens more were expressing collectivist and/or atheistic doctrines long before Marx and Friedrich Engels brought forth the Communist Manifesto and finalized Das Kapital. Karl Marx is considered the godfather of the two most influential, dangerous, and successful forms of late 19th century socialism: International Communism and Fabian Socialism. The former gained power in Russia, the latter in Great Britain, each spreading outward from these two centers influencing neighboring countries. Total or near total regimentation is the goal of both, though the means of accomplishing this objective differ radically: the former orders violent revolution, the latter prescribes a diet of revolution by evolution—one piece at a time. Both work to establish a classless, socialistic, world society. One basic difference, Marx viewed the proletariat or working class as the essential revolutionary force while the Fabians insisted that the upper class was the more important revolutionary element. Both call themselves socialists.
The Berlin Wall, a remnant now a Monument, which once divided free West Germany from socialist East Germany lest future generations forget what socialism did to a once free Germany under Soviet socialist occupation. In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans fled from East to West Germany. These wanted FREEDOM FROM SOCIALISM. The wall went up beginning August 12, 1961 and remained in place through October 1989 (28years). It was topped with barbed wire and guarded with watchtowers, gun emplacements, electrified fences, and mines. About 5,000 East Germans still managed to cross the Berlin Wall (by various means) and reach West Berlin, while another 5,000 were captured by East German authorities in the attempt and 191 more were killed during the actual crossing of the wall. The people were forced to remain under socialism.
Thus we can best define socialism by extracting what the philosophers of these two very successful socialist groups say that it is, rather than share what the variants of socialism, those that never conquered a single country, say that it is. Relying on them Webster’s Dictionary definition is found to be willfully incomplete. It reads: “Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” Actually socialists seek to impact every element of society: law, morality, government, economics, religion and education—everything; not just the ownership and administration of the means of production. But Webster did correctly view it as “a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism….” They are first cousins, both know of, and work for a common goal—full communism.
The violent means of communism, as a form of socialism, is well known and now out of favor with most socialists outside North Korea since the fall of the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on December 26, 1991. Marx and Friedrich Engles being its doctrinaires, so we won’t need to write what is commonly known. Perhaps one citation is representative. Most are familiar with Marx’s strange love letter written to his prospective spouse, Jenny, before their marriage. Marx wrote: “Jenny! If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then shall I stride through the wreckage a creator!” (Edmund Wilson, To The Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972, p. 136). Wreckage was an understatement! No philosophy resulted in more havoc on the earth’s surface than his. Marx died in 1883 but 34 years later, in 1917, Russia a non-capitalist society, adopted the violent revolutionary philosophy he prophesied.
So what did the Fabians say socialism was? In their published pamphlet Fabian Tract No. 4, “What Socialism Is,” George Bernard Shaw admitted, the publication contained “nothing that was not already to be found better stated in the famous Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels” (Shaw, The Fabian Society: Its Early History, pp. 3-5). The Fabian Society from the beginning has been clothed with respectability and since it “stressed programs instead of dogma and avoided conflict with the authorities its motives were not seriously questioned” (Rose L. Martin, The Selling of America, Fidelis Publishers & Company, 1973, pp. 5-6). The prescription then and now is simply to introduce piecemeal changes in existing concepts of law, morality, government, economics, and education such that the masses absorb the changes desired without resistance.
The enticement for socialism— free stuff— makes it infinitely easier to get into than out of, once trapped.
Norman Thomas, six time candidate for U.S. President on the Socialist Party ticket and a Fabian, described the formula even more bluntly. “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until America will one day be a Socialist nation —without knowing how it happened.” (Two Worlds: The Story of Man and the Major Influences on His Life, A Flick-Reedy Education Enterprises Book, Bensenville, Illinois, 1966, p. 152). The quote has been attributed to Thomas for many decades but the exact first source is not known. Given his background, there is more reason to believe the quote credible, than to believe it was not made by him. Moreover, the quote is in complete harmony with socialist strategy followed historically.
Nor were the Fabians any less clear as to what their new world order would be like once fully implemented. Shaw, left no doubt with this very scary detail. “I also made it clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well (George Bernard Shaw, Intelligent Women’s Guide to Socialism, Brentano’s Publishers, New York, 1928, p. 470). PERMITTED TO LIVE!?!
But this point was not the ravings of one man only but was basic Fabian doctrine. It was stressed as early as Oct. 1907 in Fabian Tract No. 113 “Communism” by William Morris, The Fabian Society, which read in part, “There would need indeed to be a natural compulsion, which would prevent any man from doing what he was not fitted for, because he could not do it usefully; and I need not say that in order to arrive at the wealth I have been speaking of, WE MUST ALL WORK USEFULLY.” In other words, your very right to exist was dependent entirely upon whether you were a profitable citizen and that determination was to be made by the government. In this respect socialism and communism differed little. Ultimately the use of force is basic to the Fabian new world order as it is to the communist utopia. Sounds like their Great Reset. “You will own nothing and be happy.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #889.
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