In the present year of COVID-19 tyrannical governors shut down religious services, a 1st Amendment right, as fast as they could. During the summer months Antifa defaced and with ropes tore down statues of our past national heroes included those who made America free, as for example, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and they even threatened to destroy statues of Christ. They also set afire churches, one St John’s Episcopal, located near the White House. In these states there is definitely developing hostility against the Constitution and liberty. Sadly we also sense a growing movement within our midst against Christianity.
In this midst we are sometimes made to feel that symbols of Christianity should be mostly hidden. So what are my constitutional rights in school with respect to Christmas? It might surprise some to learn that the Constitution does not allow the government to prevent you from doing most things that you do at home also in public—even at school.
The constitutionally ill-informed like to refer to the “separation of church and state” as the rationale for a prohibition of religious or seasonal expression in public places. No such language exists in the Constitution. To prevent you from doing these things would be as unconstitutional as mandating that you do them.
Actually the language of the First Amendment, from which opponents to religion derive this falsehood, is “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Such was included for the sole purpose of preventing the government from creating a national religion as had happened in European countries for more than a thousand years. Simply, government may not establish a state religion. Instead, government is charged with protecting “the free exercise thereof” of all religions.
So decorate your school Christmas trees (not diversity trees), distribute your Christmas cards with Biblical messages in them (not holiday cards) to your school mates, greet your school friends and colleagues with Merry Christmas (not Happy Holidays), sing “Silent Night” and “Joy to the World,” in your school choirs and for heaven sakes do not let your teachers or administrators change Christmas Break to Winter Break or “Sparkle Season.” You have a culture and heritage to preserve, so say the courts. You may even have a nativity scene in the classroom or on school grounds but outdoor Christmas activities are better left to parent organizations. You can do these so long as other secular messages are not disallowed.
Some might say that I am giving you the view and practice of 60 years ago. This is true, amazingly this view remains in place. Whereas the Supreme Court has participated in constitutional distortion in so many other areas in the past, the original view, the “free exercise” of religion, still holds. The Court has not ruled on any measure that would silence those who celebrate Christmas openly and in public places. If it did so it might fairly be accused of creating an organization of the irreligious to destroy religious freedom.
Yes, you might get a letter from the ACLU threatening your “free exercise thereof” of religion but the Supreme Court has never upheld their view—in fact, the opposite has been established in case after case. Because they, and the Left, have been successful in creating the opposite public impression they can bully and bluster the ignorant into forfeiting this constitutional rights.
Should they do more than bluster, which is impractical given their loss ratio in court, defending your right to celebrate Christmas in the traditional, or even historical, manner is protected by the Constitution and defended by the Alliance Defending Freedom who in the past have offered free legal assistance. Attorneys all over the country volunteer their services to protect this part of the Constitution. Should a student or faculty member feel threatened by their leadership or wish counsel on this subject they can be reached at 1-800-835-5233 and such are invited to visit www.AllianceDefendingFreedom.org. The Alliance will be happy to send a letter encouraging them to honor your First Amendment rights.
Alliance literature notes the things that may be done in the public setting. Colleges may decorate campus Christmas trees. Christmas programs may include religious songs. The courts have recognized for many years that Christmas carols have achieved a cultural significance that justifies their being performed in public schools. Moreover, teachers may constitutionally present Christmas passages from the Bible when treating the event in the historical sense. The First Amendment does protect the right of individuals to private religious expression on public property—even nativity scenes. Even showing paintings of Jesus Christ in public parks is constitutional. May the government sponsor religious displays inside government buildings? Of course!! How could the Supreme Court rule otherwise? Moses with the Ten Commandments is chiseled in stone on their building. Prayer is held every working morning in both the House and Senate chambers and each dedicate a room for quiet meditation and prayer for our legislators.
So LibertyUnderFire invites you to exercise your religious and Christmas freedoms. How else will they be maintained? If not you then who? If not now then when? Doing nothing only exacerbates the problem and encourages opponents to bluster and intimidate all the more.
Merry Christmas my liberty loving friends.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit .www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
This is the most bizarre presidential election in U.S. History. There exist six options forward, five reseat Trump for a second term. 1) Trump will concede the fraudulent election to Biden to save the country from possible civil war. 2) Biden will concede the fraudulent election to Trump to save the country from possible civil war. Biden will not do this; nor should Trump with the tsunami of evidence of election fraud against Biden.
The credibility of this election, and all elections that follow, is at stake. At no time has Biden publicly opposed the illegal vote in his favor. If Biden wins by fraud he will be inclined to serve despotically (as do Democrat governors respecting COVID) with censorship because the people will never fully trust him. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, participated, so election fraud can never be fully hidden. It will be a permanent stain on his administration. If he wins by manipulating the vote, he will stay in power by the same practice. It’s unlikely that fraudulent elections will ever end.
3) State legislatures are constitutionally required under Article II, Section 2 to decide the Electors for the College for their state, which supersedes state law subsequently making it based upon population. If state elections were fraudulent, and if legislatures have integrity, they will reassume this responsibility. Five of the contested states have Republican legislature majorities who themselves come up for reelection in two years. If they do not step forward now, given the enormity of the evidence of Democrat election fraudulency, they will face hostile constituencies then. Trump should win these five states and the election. All he needs is three of them. The state legislature should do its job. This is the preferred and probable win option. Look for the Supreme Court to expect the state legislature to perform.
4) The Supreme Court must accept the pending Texas suit, joined by Louisiana and others states, against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as it is a state suing another state therefore, under original jurisdiction, it does not have to be advanced through lower courts. This suit is attempting to prevent these states from voting December 14 in the Electoral College on the basis of due process and equal protection of the law (14th Amendment clauses) contending that these states have knowingly used the pandemic to break election law. These four states comprise 62 Electoral College votes. This will prevent either candidate from having 170 electoral college votes and the presidency. Therefore, Joe Biden is not president-elect. The Supreme Court is likely to encourage the state legislatures to solve the problem by Article II Section 2 as described above. Two paths are now possible. State legislators will follow through as described above, if they refuse the House of Representatives will decide.
5) Should the election be thrown into the House of Representatives, Trump still benefits. The Constitution only allows each state one vote regardless of its population. Trump only needs 26. Currently Republicans govern 29 of these and Democrats 19. Trump will win whatever is contested here. Pelosi knows this so will not encourage the use of this part of the Constitution.
Should the Supreme Court accept election law suits it must throw out all illegally cast votes. This alone would give the election to Trump. It could also declare a states popular vote too fraudulent to call and require it to forfeit it’s Electoral College vote, or give it to Trump as no fraudulency has been alleged on the Republican side and he was significantly ahead before known fraud was injected into the election, although no precedent for these actions presently exist.
Theoretically the Supreme Court also could void the Electoral College count in the 28 states using Dominion voting machines or states using Smartmatic software if states using it had foreknowledge of its ability to rig elections. A judge in Wisconsin has ordered the impounding of 22 Dominion voting machines used in the county that switched 6,000 Trump votes to Biden. If vote switching is prevalent in other machines and shown designed to do so, such could be seen as a coup against a seated president and treason, more especially if the previous administration had foreknowledge of this capacity or intent to do so. This is amplified if these machines or software came from China or any other foreign entity intending to overthrow an election. Treason and national security now come into play big time. At the moment treason or nation security appear draconian.
6) Congress could reschedule the election of the president from December 14 to a future date as per Article II, Section 1 Clause 4 which reads. “The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.” This option is very unlikely as Congress consists of two bodies the Senate and the House of Representatives, the latter of which is run by Nancy Pelosi who would never support an election day beyond December 14. This would only give her opponents more time to reveal more 2020 election fraud.
Of these options the only path for Biden is if Trump concedes the election or neither the Republican state legislatures or Supreme Court have the constitutional integrity to stand. Trump will serve a second term.
Please pass this column to friends before it too is censored. Youtube just announced that it now censors all information “alleging that wide spread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.” Look for Twitter, Google and Facebook to do the same. The Democrat news outlet have already done so.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Most do not realize that there exists no language in the Constitution authorizing a popular vote for the executive branch of government. Why? Because we are a republic—not a democracy. The latter supports tranny by the majority, the former does not. Explaining this may require another column. The election of the president was entirely left to the state legislatures not the masses. Article II, Sec. 2 of the Constitution reads, “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” But none could be government officials.
No political parties existed when the Founders formed the Constitution, so such had no place in the selection of these special electors. These non-governmental individuals (sometimes called wise men), were to be appointed by the state legislatures presumably for their known and demonstrated integrity, experience, success, and wisdom, who would have no personal gain by the selection and would protect the interests of the states and the republic in their selection. They called it the Electoral College.
The citizens appointed to be Electoral College voters do so in their separate state capitols usually sometime in late November and that vote is sent to, and read by, the vice president of the United States before a combined session of both Houses of Congress usually the first part of December. Normally there is little media coverage of the REAL election of the president as they disdain it. Until this body meets, this year December 14, there is no president-elect. The media have no constitutional authority to call the election before these Electors vote.
Also, there is nothing in the Constitution that attaches college electors to a popular vote. The now existing popular vote for president began shortly after the 1824 election of John Quincy Adams when the Electoral College rejected the Andrew Jackson bid for the presidency because they thought him emotionally unstable for that office. His followers began a “symbolic” vote in his favor that the media has since treated as the real vote for the presidency. Jackson overcame the negatives against him and was given the presidency by the Electoral College in 1828.
But we have not remained faithful to original intent. Today both major political parties make their own list of Electors, all party loyalists, and in most states whichever party wins the popular vote activates their list— essentially leaving out the state legislators as sole determinators of the Electors as required by the Constitution and making the position extremely partisan.
In most, state law requires electors to vote as the popular vote had, which has effectively destroyed their independence. In this both parties have been complacent. Those who do not vote along party lines are called faithless and penalized if possible. Just the opposite was intended. Once selected, they should be able to vote as their integrity requires. To mandate that they vote a certain way beforehand defeats, in part, the purpose for their existence.
Although it may take some time to get back to original intent with respect to the independence of the Electors in the College, the relatively recent decision in Bush vs. Gore in 2000, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist did restore the authority of the state legislature to “take back the power to appoint electors at any time.”
It reads, “In exercising their power to decide how electors are to be chosen, legislatures could not be constrained by either state law or the state’s constitution. If a state’s constitution, for example, said that the people shall choose the electors in an election, that rule did not in fact constrain the state legislature. Instead, ‘after granting the franchise’ to the people, was a majority of the Supreme Court in Bush put it, a legislature could ‘take back the power to appoint electors at any time.’ Or put differently, when the legislature acted pursuant to the power granted to it by Article II, it stands above any limits imposed by state law” (https://www.lawfareblog.com/state-state-legislatures).
In the 2020 Presidential election Trump attorneys are documenting that in the battle ground states especially, Biden only won because of the illegal vote, thus they claim their list of Electors. If they argue for election integrity, which would throw out dead voters, multiple voting and Dominion switching of Trump votes to Biden and etc., Republicans get their list of Electoral voters and Trump is easily reelected with both the popular and Electoral College. It is that simple.
Given the tsunami of 2020 election fraud evidence and whistleblowers, hundreds of pending lawsuits in Georgia alone, both parties must give the courts time to sort out the facts and if election fraud is verified, reject the fraudulent popular vote. and allow the state legislatures to fulfill their above noted constitutional responsibility. Evidence certainly calls into question the validity of the popular vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada,. To protect the integrity of future elections both major political parties must agree to count ONLY legal votes throwing out all others as has been the case since 1789—but Democrats cannot support election integrity as it would cost them the election.
If Democrats choose not to support election integrity it is well to remember that five of the six above identified states are controlled by Republican state legislatures. Since a recent poll showed over 70% of Republicans believe the election fraudulent and stolen, it is likely that these state legislatures will give Trump a second term. Essentially Biden counts on censorship and social media to give him the election and Trump upon the constitutional process which includes the courts. Constitutional Integrity will give Trump Reelection
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
With over 1,000 affidavits from persons of both parties swearing under penalty of perjury to have personally witnessed voter fraud, such cannot be dismissed lightly but has been by most Democrats and their media outlets. Were it the other way around they would see it everywhere.
Democrat media outlets, mostly every outlet excepting Fox News and Newsmax, pipe two messages, “There is nothing to see here and if there were corruption it is not enough to make a difference in the election.” Democrat platforms Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Facebook censor the evidence showing corruption as quickly as their algorithms find it, just as they did prior to the election with thousands of Hunter Biden laptop emails and Tony Bobulinski’s evidence of Joe Biden corruption in China. But they cannot yet remove everything. Nothing to see here either—unless you are willing to get beyond the controlled presses. Freedom of the press and “real” journalism are quickly becoming an endangered species.
So what is Trump’s path to a second term? Two exist, both depend upon following the Constitution. The first, is using the constitutional process through the presidents legal team headed by Rudy Giuliani. This takes time and patience. Either side can challenge the results in state courts. Local election officials count ballots and announce results. At this point all votes: illegal, dead persons, same person multiple ballots, and etc. remain counted in each state unless contested and removed by court order. These are alleged to have given Biden the win. Almost all battleground states are led by Democrat governors and judges who used any method available to count these normally unlawful or illegal votes. Consequentially Trump’s legal team expected to lose most cases in these state courts and did.
State judges sometimes uphold a challenge and order a recount, as in Georgia. But this still is only a count of ALL votes and may not change anything because without a court order to remove, the fraudulent votes are just counted again. Democrats want every vote, even illegal, to count. Republicans insist that only citizens and legal votes should count as in every election since 1789. To get this to happen Trump must get his case beyond the potentially corrupt or biased state courts to a district court, then to a circuit court and, if failing there, appeal directly to the Supreme Court. A favorable vote here is likely because the Constitution supports only legal votes.
The Trump legal team believes they have time to make this happen and the courts try to accommodate the emergency situation. They firmly believe that this is the most corrupt election in U.S. History with Trump entitled to 410 Electoral College votes and a popular vote of 70%, translating into at least 80 million votes. They will focus on the 14th Amendment especially Section I due process and equal protection of the law, clauses.
The second path to a second term for Trump is led by Sidney Powell, former federal prosecutor, independent of the President’s legal team but working with them and choosing to be self funded. It hypothesizes that Smartmatic software used in Dominion machines in at least 28 states and in 2000 jurisdictions throughout the nation was specifically designed to “rig elections” and had done so previously in Venezuela, Chile, Mongolia and Argentina. She argues that she has evidence that will prove that “officers in the states who bought the software….know that they can win the election if they are using that software.” If so, this is treason described in Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution, perhaps even another coup to unseat a duly elected president, and should easily disqualify the “Biden win.”
That Dominion was created in Venezuela to help the socialist Hugo Chavez government remain in power and is headquartered in Canada adds a foreign component to the puzzle—“foreign owned and created with communist money,” says Powell, hence the possibility of foreign intervention in our election. Apparently, hackers could “stick a thumb drive in the machine or load software to it, even from the Internet. They can do it from Germany or Venezuela. They can remote access anything. They can watch votes in real time. They can shift votes in real time” (Sunday With Maria, Sidney Powell and Maria Bartiromo, November 15, 2020).
Why the servers housing vote data regarding the 2020 election were housed in Barcelona, Spain and Frankfort, Germany, extremely vulnerable to vote manipulation, no one has explained. Raids by U.S. forces, confiscated these sources shortly after the election. We apparently have the raw vote data.
Trump attorney Lin Wood, examined Powell’s evidence and tweeted “Dominion was [a] Communist voting system used to control our election.” And another, “In 2020, Communist China materially interfered with our election.” Lou Dobbs told viewers Nov. 23 that “Dominion donated $25-50k to the Clinton Foundation and received from the same a “$2.2 million contract. Dominion also hired Nancy Pelosi’s former chief of staff.” Yet another source ties Dominion to George Soros. So much yet to learn!
Either path for a Trump 2nd term requires that the evidence be presented before the Supreme Court and time is running short. On November 24, three positive rulings came down for Trump attorneys, a Nevada court agreed to hear the evidence presented by the Trump legal team. In Michigan state lawmakers agreed to look into “irregularities and anomalies”that have plagued the election. In Pennsylvania the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Trump campaign’s request to review a lower courts dismissal of the campaign’s request to stop the states certification (Lou Dobbs, November 24, 2020). The tide may be turning in Trump’s favor.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
A 6,000 vote switch in Michigan giving Trump votes to Biden, said to be a glitch, has brought electronic voting machines and programs into national focus. The attention is centered on the software program Dominion, made by Smartmatic in Venezuela, used in 30 states and in 2000 jurisdictions throughout the nation. Texas wisely, three times, refused its use because of serious security concerns.
This prompts question. Why does Dominion switch votes only from Trump to Biden, one way? Perhaps a few votes but could it switch millions of Trump votes to Biden, enough to steal an election? Apparently yes and did. WhiteHouse attorney Sidney Powell on Sunday With Maria Bartiromo, November 15, 2020 told Maria, “President Trump won by not just hundreds of thousands but by millions … that were shifted by this software that was designed expressly for that purpose. We have sworn witness testimony of why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections….We have so much evidence I feel like it’s coming in through a firehose.”
She spoke of Peter Neffenger, president and board of directors member of Smartmatic, the manufacturer of Dominion, and now on Biden’s transition team, as having known of its capacity to alter elections and its having done so effectively in other countries especially in Venezuela. Its use in America was to do the same here.
Powell continued, “Even their own manual explains how those [votes] can be wiped away. They can …drag and drop Trump votes to a separate folder and then delete that folder. It’s absolutely brazen how people bought the system and why they bought this system. In fact, every state that bought Dominion, for sure should have a criminal investigation or at least a serious investigation of the officers in the states who bought the software…. they know that they can win the election if they are using that software. It’s really an insidious, corrupt system.” At another point in the conversation she said, “No honest person would use the system….But the people who bought the Dominion system for sure knew exactly what they were getting. It should never have been installed anywhere.”
Maria Bartiromo mentioned that her whistleblowers had said similar things. One, an IT specialist familiar with the software, spoke of “an unusual patch that was put into the software while it was live. And it’s highly unusual to put a patch in there.” She asks, “Is that what you’re referring to? Tell me how it’s done and how these backdoors work.”
Powell responded, “That’s part of it. They can stick a thumb drive in the machine or load software to it even from the Internet. They can do it from Germany or Venezuela even. They can remote access anything. They can watch votes in real time. They can shift votes in real time. We’ve identified mathematically the exact algorithm they used and planned to use from the beginning to modify the votes, in this case to make sure Biden won….And they can do anything they want with the votes. They can have the machines not read the signature. They can have the machines not read the down ballot, they can make the machines read and catalog only the Biden votes. It’s like drag and drop whatever you want, wherever you want. Upload votes? Yeah.”
Powell explained that this is what happened in the wee morning hours of November 4 in Michigan and Pennsylvania “all of a sudden hundreds of thousands of votes at a 67% ratio for Biden 23% for Trump uploaded multiple times into the system.” Adding, that is why Biden “said he didn’t need your votes now. He would need you later. He was right. I mean, in his demented state, he had no filter and he was speaking the truth more than once, including when he said he had the largest voter fraud organization ever. Well, it’s massive election fraud. It’s gonna undo the entire election.”
Bartiromo asks Powell, “You say you have an affidavit from someone who knows how this system works and was there with the planning of it…You can prove this?” Powell. “Yes. Oh, oh, yes. We have a witness who knew exactly how it worked from the beginning, why it was designed to work that way.” Adding, “That was the same play that had worked in other countries.”
None of this should surprise Democrats as they have warned about electronic election fraud long before Donald Trump. “Just last year, several leading Democrats in the Senate, moderates, including Amy Klobuchar, and Mark Warner of Virginia, sent a letter to the three largest vendors of election systems in our country. Those companies included election systems and software: Dominion, Voting Systems, Inc, and Hart InterCivic.” It read in part, “The integrity of our elections is directly tied to the machines we vote on, the products that you make. There has been a lack of meaningful innovation in the election vendor industry and our democracy is paying the price” (Tucker Carlson Tonight, Nov. 16, 2020).
Unfortunately, Democrats seem strangely quiet. They appear happy with the fraudulent vote count, saying nothing of the overwhelming evidence surrounding it, and their media’s participation in the censorship of those who do. If it were the other way around they would squawk like geese. Unless censorship prevails look for them to return to flag and city burning and Molotov cocktail throwing when the courts throw out the illegal ballots and give Trump his rightful second term.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Freedom and our Constitution are on the 2020 ballot because you can’t have one without the other. We are the freest people on the planet and for the longest time because of the U.S. Constitution. No governing document has harnessed those who govern us more fully or better than this document.
This is so because it is based upon natural inalienable rights coming from God. It can not be understood fully without viewing it as an extension of the Declaration of Independence in which God was referenced five times. The document authorized our right to rebel from tyranny and, with victory, we constructed a document insuring government tyranny could never return. This inspired document gave Americans freedom from excessive government. Yes, it took a war and some time to make freedom apply to everyone, but we succeeded.
Freedom is always on the ballot but more so now than at any other time. This column does not name parties or persons because these are stumbling blocks to some, but is asking Americans to consider what we have before voting to lose it.
The Second Amendment, “a well regulated militia,” (the people are the militia then and today), such “being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” No other amendment uses these last four words which mean off limits to government. No city, county, state nor even the federal government can make any laws infringing on our inalienable right to protect ourself, and our collective right to resist our own government should it defy constitutional government—the same right used by our Founders to resist the British government by force when it became tyrannical.
It is ironic that in our day as anarchy reigns in our biggest cities that these same cities elect to defund or disband those hired to protect us from violence, that gun sales automatically escalate. The major political parties are polar opposite on your right of self defense. One presidential primary candidate stating, “HELL YES, WERE GOING TO TAKE YOUR AR-15, YOUR AK-47.” “Vote wisely, all other freedoms hinge on this one.
There are other areas in which “Congress shall make no law.” The 1st Amendment specifically named: religion, speech, press, assembly and the right to petition the government for grievances. The prohibitions were extended to state governments also by the 14th Amendment. But in 2020 it was in these areas that more rights of Americans were taken than in any other single year in U.S. History—those who love freedom viewed the actions of some governors as dictatorial, even tyrannical.
The most violated of these were freedoms of assemble, religion, and press. With stay at home decrees “peaceably to assemble” vanished, unless you were rioting.
“Congress shall make no law, respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” One political party supported governors arbitrarily prohibiting religious gatherings, limiting their number, and enforcing other provisions for their meetings during the Wuhan Virus Scare—all unconstitutional. The other, maintained that everything in life is a risk and left the assessment of risk, and its consequences, to parishioners, honoring the Constitution which prohibited any government involvement. The very definition of liberty is freedom from excessive government. One party wants government intervention in potentially every aspect of human life, the other thinks that the best government is the least government. This is called freedom.
Congress shall make no law abridging the “freedom of the press.” Certainly censorship of the press by government is constitutionally forbidden but what about the government (Congress) allowing monopolies Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter exemption from law suits for their horrendous censorship practices. Only the views of one party is censored so it obviously objects. One party encourages the disclosure of information regarding candidates before a vote; the other endorses—even practices censorship. Today big tech has more power over press issues than the federal government—they are social media. Some data shows a marriage between big tech and one of the major political parties. When that party returns to power so does big tech.
Other issues divide the parties as well. One such is globalism vs. American Independence. Our system of government is designed to problem solve from the bottom up essentially never elevating to a higher level that which can be resolved at a lesser level. But there are many today who wish to problem solve from the top down—even from the United Nations down. This notion has different and changing names: world government, internationalism, new world order, and now globalism. Globalists see nationalism as an enemy and seek to transfer decision making power to unelected international bureaucratic organizations. Today one political party endorses globalism, the other American Independence.
Until 2016 both parties failed to follow the Constitution as written, distorting sections when convenient. Today the biggest divide of the political parties is over the Constitution itself: one party undermining it, distorting it at every turn, the other now seeking to adhere more strictly “as written.”
This election the Constitution and liberty are clearly on the ballot; making it the most important in our history. We must retain what has been tried and proved. We must choose freedom over tyranny, the free market over socialism and the Constitution as written. It would be wise to consider what we have before voting to lose 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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
