We have known since July that “Facebook and Instagram altered their content moderation policies and censored posts under pressure from the [Biden] White House,” this from “never-before-released internal documents, obtained via Judiciary Committee subpoenas” headed by Congressman Jim Jordan. These have been presented in at least three rollouts since, called The Facebook Files I-III. But the purpose of censorship is to keep what this committee has revealed, through incontestable documentation, from you and I.
“Because we were under pressure from the administration,” Facebook succumbed to Biden White House pressure to censor. “We should not have done it,” they admitted. Just one of many documents the Judicial Committee subpoenaed saying this became a common practice and remains so.
Unless you are doing your own research or subscribing, listening, or viewing non Deep State sources, you remain controlled and ignorant, as Facebook and Instagram are Deep State outlets. This was also so of Twitter, now X, before purchased and changed to a free press outlet by Elon Musk (See “Twitter Files Confess: The Great COVID-19 Lie Machine,” Harold Pease, Ph. D. March 31, 2023, Liberty Under Fire.org, Column 707).
Pressure from the government is forbidden under the Constitution as it makes truth indistinguishable from government propaganda. That is why freedom of speech and press are critical to freedom. Government censorship is forbidden because it shapes the narratives to their benefit. Information that opposes theirs is termed misinformation and punished.
Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated, “Facebook was continually pressed by ‘external stakeholders,’ including the Biden White House, to remove certain posts”—especially all “vaccine discouraging content.” Facebook Files # I and II exposed government’s efforts to delete messages that discouraged taking the experimental vaccine for Covid-19— even when from medical authorities. Not even memes were “spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts.” The Biden Admin. expected YouTube to fall in line similarly and both did.
In another email the White House was enraged that Facebook hadn’t censored Tucker Carlson for a comment he made suggesting vaccine hesitancy. Documents showed Rob Flaherty, White House Director of Digital Strategy, on the phone demonstrating a “clear effort at government-directed social media censorship.” This was frequent and common and often on a first name basis. Facebook “admits White House demands for removal of content were met even when a post did not violate any Facebook policies.”
In July 2021 Biden publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms, claiming “they were ‘killing people’ by not censoring alleged ‘misinformation.” On August 2, 2021, Face book announced it would be making changes to its policies “because of pressure from the Biden White House” and vowed “to be more aggressive against …misinformation” admitting that “this. is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.” Facebook and Instagram became Biden message clones— propaganda arms of the government making a direct assault on the First Amendment. They even “blocked information about vaccine side effects that THEY KNEW were true.” Today they do the same censorship of vaccine injuries which accounts for more deaths than did the virus itself.
The Committee, led by Jordan, concluded, “The collusion of the Biden administration, in coordination with multiple departments within the United States government and big tech, has led to the censorship, silencing and de-platforming of individuals and organizations and it is a direct assault on the First Amendment.” (Rep. Jim Jordan Releases Smoking-Gun Documents Proving Facebook Censored Americans at the Request of Biden Regime, Gateway Pundit. FACEBOOK FILES Part 1, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, July 27, 2023).
This is the meme Jordan published demonstrating, “Not even memes were spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts.” Ironically, vaccine injury victims are already suing for compensation–not waiting for 10 years as predicted by the Meme.
Facebook Files III focused on “newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials” revealing “more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook.” They lacked tolerance for any other view. It bothered them that The New York Post could churn-out “articles every day about people dying” from the vaccine. “What is supposed to happen to that [them] from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?,” Rob Flaherty, President Biden’s then-Director of Digital Strategy, inquired. They mocked the notion that the people might be intelligent enough to decide themselves. Remember, none of the censors have medical degrees but they block those who do.
Biden administration officials had several conversations with Facebook employees. They wanted to reduce the “reach for any narrative, story they don’t like. Even if the narrative and story is true.” They wanted to control what was seen on Facebook. “They questioned whether Facebook could change its algorithm so users saw more posts from the New York Times and less from competing outlets like the Daily Wire.”
Flaherty readily admitted that, “We’re keen on what platforms are doing to reduce the spread of bad information, that platforms are not funneling people towards bad content. That’s our primary concern.” Under the Constitution the individual decides what is bad content, not government.
Donald Trump probably summed up best how the Deep State treats us when he said, “They use Big Tech to censor you, the Deep State to spy on you, the intelligence agencies to frame you, the media to slander you…They rig elections to disenfranchise you…all the while they claim they are the ones defending democracy and justice” (X22 Reports, Ep 3225b, Dec. 1, 2023).
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As a liberal with internationalist tendencies what made President John F. Kennedy a target of the Deep State so much so that they could not just replace him in the next election a year later? Answer, he was a “wild card and his assassination would end the threat he posed to their operations”—a new war in Vietnam which Kennedy opposed. Simply, his anti-war stance in Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam “made him a target of the intelligence community and the military.”
The Bay of Pigs invasion was planned by the CIA before Kennedy took office but executed three months after. He inherited both it and the Vietnam War and opposed both because he felt “that they were initiated outside the bounds of America’s elected government,” The CIA and many Americans never forgave him for not supplying the alleged previously promised air-cover for their invasion of Cuba to remove Fidel Castro from power.
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 directly through the press in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. His message, “The President and the Press: Address Before the American Newspaper Publishers Association,” condemned the existing communist conspiracy and secret societies in the United States which seemed to make up this hidden force—then called the invisible (secret, shadow) government, secret combinations, and today the Deep State.
He boldly told them, “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighs the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it…. For 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. 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 expenditures is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match” (“The Deep State & the Kennedy Assassination,” By Andrew Muller, The New American November 27, 2023, pp. 13-14, JFK Special Report, JFK Assassination & The Deep State). He described perfectly the Deep State that also rules our day.
This is believed to be the speech that led to his assassination 2 1/2 years later because it identifies and rejects them. “Guerrillas by night instead of armies by day” was a direct reference to the Bay of Pigs fiasco that had occurred just the week before Kennedy delivered his remarks.” Conflict between he and the CIA, a prominent Deep State player from then to today, began soon after his inauguration. The Bay of Pigs invasion was planned by the CIA in the spring of 1960, but executed three months after the Kennedy inauguration, “had been vigorously opposed by the new president.” Kennedy no longer viewed the CIA as a trusted ally to provide him with information, but “saw it as an unaccountable department operating outside the bounds of America’s elected government.” President John F Kennedy came to despise the CIA, even saying, “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” (Ibid. p.15).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower too had just spoken of this secret force in his Farewell Address as president in 1961 warning Americans of what he called the Military Industrial Complex. He said “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist” (Ibid. p. 18).
President Eisenhower had about 900 military advisors in Vietnam, Kennedy 16,000 military personnel. On October 11, 1963, Kennedy approved National Security Action Memorandum 263 to begin the phaseout which implemented plans to withdraw 1,000 US. Military personnel by the end of 1963. Other withdrawals would come after the 1964 election and follow. “Forty-two days after Kennedy signed this document initiating a withdrawal, he was assassinated … and the order was quietly rescinded.” Johnson escalated the number of troops in Vietnam to 184,000 . War was never declared as required by the Constitution.
In 1961 the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted Kennedy to use nuclear weapons on two sides of the globe simultaneously in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs and in Laos. They thought they could win both without ground forces. They had learned at the end of the Eisenhower Administration that Nikita “Khrushchev had been bluffing about how many ICBMs he had.” At that time he actually had none so the U.S. could be unrestrained. When they proposed this to Kennedy, “he gets up, looks at them, shakes his head and says, ‘And we call ourselves the human race,’ And walks out” (“Investigating the Kennedy Assassination,” New American, November 27, 2023, p. 8, JFK Special Report, JFK Assassination & The Deep State).
According to assistant secretary of state Roger Hillman, Kennedy said, “The Bay of Pigs has taught me a number of things. One is not to trust generals or the CIA, and the second is that if the American people do not want to use American troops to remove a Communist regime 90 miles away from our coast, how can I ask them to use troops to remove a Communist regime 9,000 miles away?” Speaking of the war in Vietnam just starting, he said on the radio, September 2, 1963, “In the final analysis, it is their war. They have to win or lose it.”
Kennedy had plans to withdraw from Vietnam altogether. On October 11, 1963, he approved National Security Action Memorandum 263, which implemented plans to withdraw 1,000 US. Military personnel by the end of 1963. “Forty-two days after Kennedy signed this document initiating a withdrawal, he was assassinated.” The document was still in effect. “A few days after his death, during the mourning, the order was quietly rescinded.” All talk of leaving Vietnam ended for a decade and 58,000 American soldiers died in that war that cost $141 billion (“The Deep State & the Kennedy Assassination,” p. 16).
If Kennedy had not been assassinated he would have phased out America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Only the Military Industrial Complex/CIA/Deep State wanted that war. They could not control Kennedy, who didn’t. President Lyndon Johnson’s response to the pressure for war. “Just get me elected and you can have your f-in war.” They did (“Investigating the Kennedy Assassination,” pp. 8 & 11).
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A Kennedy Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, now 88 but then 28, breaks his silence after 60 years. He was there “riding the rear of the right running board on a black Cadillac convertible… situated just behind the limousine carrying the president of the United States and his wife, as well as the governor of Texas and his wife.” He was about 15 feet behind John F. Kennedy when the struck president fell on November 22, 1963, situated to witness everything, but the Warren Commission only interviewed one of the eight agents in the follow-up car, not him.
It was a serious mistake. Landis reports, “I saw a flash of white as the right side of President Kennedy’s head exploded in a pink spray of blood, flesh, and brain matter. I automatically ducked, not wanting to get splattered as we drove through it.” This shot came from the front.
Minutes before Kennedy’s Assassination. Agent Landis was in the motorcade just behind the Kennedy limousine. Sixty years after the event he reports, “I saw a flash of white as the right side of President Kennedy’s head exploded in a pink spray of blood, flesh, and brain matter. I automatically ducked, not wanting to get splattered as we drove through it.” This shot described came from the front not the back as concluded by the Warren Commission.
After the shooting Landis “saw two bullet fragments in the presidential limo (he picked up the larger) in the blood next to Mrs. Kennedy (as agents finally convinced her to let go of the head of the ‘lifeless’ president)…. After she stood up, ‘I looked again at the seat and saw a bullet on top of the tufted black leather cushioning behind where she had been sitting. It was resting in a seam where the tufted leather padding ended against the car’s metal body.’ It was ‘approximately two inches long and in almost perfect condition.” Not wanting it lost and believing it to be an important part of the crime scene, “he slipped it into his right suit coat pocket.” At Parkland Memorial Hospital, he “placed the bullet on the blanket near the president’s left shoe” knowing that it was evidence that belonged to him in the event that had just occurred.
Why was this oversight so important? It counters the Warren Commission Report of a single gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the “single-bullet theory” sometimes called the “magic bullet” reportedly “responsible for seven entry/exit wounds in both the president and the governor, causing all of Governor John Connally’s wounds and the non-fatal wounds to Kennedy, while escaping virtually unscathed.” Somebody moved the unscathed bullet left next to Kennedy’s left foot by Landis in trauma room #1 to Connally’s stretcher in trauma room #2 at Parkland Memorial Hospital and the Commission may have “assumed it had exited his body during efforts to save his life,” not Kennedy’s. Landis admits this “is the story I kept buried—even from myself—for more that fifty years.” Nightmares of the assassination drove him out of the service the next year and haunted him the remainder. He did not speak openly of his agent service till 2013. His book could be considered a death bed confession (“The Review,” by William P. Hoar of The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After 60 years, by Paul Landis, Chicago Review Press, 2023, See New American, Nov. 27, 2023, pp. 41-43).
This column limits itself to recent Kennedy Assassination information. LibertyUnderFire has published on previous news breaks on this subject; reviewing them might be helpful as a prelude to this column; see “The Kennedy Assassination’s withheld files,” November 22, 2013, “Rethinking the Kennedy Assassination,” November 21, 2014; “We don’t have to wait for CIA documents on Kennedy Assassination,” November 3, 2017; and “Trump Too Delays JFK Assassination Files! Why?,” June 15, 2018.
Trump is the only president that released some of this suppressed information to the public. In October 2017 he “released 2,800 documents, with redaction, relating to the JFK assassination.” Opposition was too great to release more or even to release what he did, unredacted. “Under the direction of then CIA Director Mike Pompeo, [he] decided to withhold the remaining documentation” (“The Deep State & The Kennedy Assassination,” by Andrew Muller, New American, JFK Special Report, November 27, 2023, p. 19). The CIA, created under Harry S. Truman, has always been waist deep in the Deep State and their likely involvement has been noted from the assassination on. So who controls them? After the assassination, only the new president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Today probably only the Deep State.
When Roger Stone, a Trump adviser, asked why he did not release the full documentation Trump answered according to Stone, “I can’t tell you. It’s so horrible you wouldn’t believe it. Someday you’ll find out.” Obviously President Trump knew. He promises to release all records unredacted after his reelection in 2024.
As we have previously published, Lyndon Johnson benefitted most from the demise of his predecessor. He created and selected the participants of the Warren Commission to investigate the crime, and gave it direction to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. Is he the reason this information is “so horrible you wouldn’t believe it?”
If President Kennedy was killed from the front by a bullet to the head causing Agent Landis traveling behind to duck “not wanting to get splattered as we drove through it,” as the agent attests, then there had to be a second shooter. This is the fence just above the grassy knoll described by witnesses where some saw smoke and the likely spot from which a 2nd gunman could have fired on the president hitting him in front. Photo taken by author visiting the crime scene in November 2014.
What is mostly new on Johnson as a possible accomplice, other than what LibertyUnderFire has previously published, is that Johnson “ordered the presidential limousine in which Kennedy was riding shipped to Detroit—within 72 hours of the assassination—where the body was replaced and the interior refurbished. This is curious both for evidentiary and historical reasons. Johnson even ordered the suit worn by Texas Governor John Connally—who was also shot, though not fatally, alongside JFK—cleaned and pressed before it was presented to the Warren Commission. He also issued an executive order locking a massive amount of evidence and documents away in the National Archives until 2039” (“Who Killed Kennedy,” by Steve Byas, JFK Assassination & The Deep State, New American, November 27, 2023, p. 26).
So what about this story is so horrible that the door on it could not be opened until 2039, —a full lifetime 76 years later? What is certain is that the Deep State, referred to then as the invisible or shadow government, which included the CIA was most responsible. Somebody did not want accountability until they were long dead—Johnson? Only the government had the power to suppress this information and did. The government then and for sometime thereafter was the Democrat Party and Republican presidents were complacent thereafter too, until Trump.
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 Column # 742
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Evidence against Joe Biden is coming out like a flood from multiple sources including the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. But when do we finally call bribery bribery and treason treason? The FBI does not investigate, the DOJ does not prosecute, the Deep State media (the vast majority of the establishment news) does not report, and the Democrat Party does not condemn it’s president on the flood of evidence pouring out the last 30 days. Silence or inaction does not disprove evidence ignored. The crimes associated with the 2020 election Coup d’état and the Biden Crime family corruption are at least a hundred times worse than Watergate.
This column limits itself to recent Oversight Committee revelations. We published on previous news breaks on Committee findings, thus reviewing them might be helpful as a prelude to this column; see “House Finds Biden used over 20 shell Companies to hide money from China,” “With Treason Documented, When do the Arrests Begin?,” “Biden Family made Millions from Influence Peddling,” “Biden Family’s CCP Connections and $250,000 Payoff Wired to Delaware Home.” One ignorant on this topic is so by choice.
The House Oversight Committee’s published copy of the $40,000 check completing the laundered money trail from China to former Vice President Joe Biden. If a laundered check processed through secret Trump shell companies resulted in a personal check to Trump this would result in 24 hour news coverage for days and would certainly be considered bribery and treason as well. Biden “exposed himself to future blackmail and put America’s interests behind his own desire for money,” the Committee found.
This piece is yet another Biden money trail finding. This one proves Joe, as “the big guy” in the Biden crime family operation, received 10% of the profits as Hunter had previously claimed. On November 1st the Committee “released a video and bank records memorandum revealing how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money from the account of his brother, James Biden, and his sister-in-law, Sara Biden, in the form of a personal check.”
This money trail, the Committee attests “begins in July 2017 when Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked associate. On July 30, 2017, Hunter Biden sent a message to Raymond Zhao—a CEFC associate—demanding a $10 million dollar capital payment and claimed his father, Joe Biden, was sitting in the room. CEFC is a Chinese energy company linked to the CCP. The Biden’s began working with CEFC when Joe Biden was Vice President” under Barrack Obama.
“On August 8, 2017, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC, sent $5 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and CEFC associate Gongwen Dong. That same day, Hudson West III sent $400,000 to Owasco, P.C., an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden. On August 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by President Biden’s brother James and sister-in-law Sara Biden. On August 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall Group. Later the same day, she deposited it into her and James Biden’s personal checking account. On September 3, 2017, Sara Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment” (“Comer Reveals How Joe Biden Received Laundered China Money,” November 1, 2023). Ten percent of the $400,000 to Owasco, is $40,000. Joe Biden personally profited from Hunter’s family business dealings from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The money trail ended in Joe’s wallet.
On the check was written “loan repayment,” probably a part of the camouflage of the money as no evidence is yet found that James owed his brother Joe $40,000. To this James Comer, Oversight Committee Chairman wrote, “But even if this $40,000 check was a loan repayment from James Biden, it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name – with money from China no less. Without his family peddling his name and his son threatening a CEFC associate with consequences that he said Joe Biden knew about, James wouldn’t have had the money to write the $40,000 check to his brother Joe.” BINGO!!!
The House Oversight Committee’s graph detailing Joe Biden’s influence peddling for money from a Chinese company to a Hunter Biden / China Joint Venture with associate Gongwen Dong, linked with the China Communist Party (CCP), to a Hunter Biden entity, then to a James and Sara Biden entity then a personal check to Joe Biden for $40,000—his 10%, as “the big guy,” of this $400,000 business deal. The amount would vary for other “deals” made with China or at least four other countries known to have worked similar “deals” with the Biden’s.
Comer then added, “It’s also worth remembering that Biden family efforts to secure millions from this Chinese company began when Joe Biden was still Vice President. In taking funds sourced to a CCP-linked company that wanted to advance China’s interests, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put America’s interests behind his own desire for money” (Ibid.). This is certainly bribery and likely treason as well.
Other compelling evidence against Joe Biden also surfaced in the last 30 days. The National Archives (NARA) was forced by a FOIA to surrender “4,243 emails to/from Hunter Biden; 19,335 emails to/from the domains @rosemontseneca.com and @senecaga.com; 1,751 emails to/from Jim Biden;, and 3,738 emails to/from domain @lionhallgp.com. In addition, it documents that “Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential Office Exchanged nearly 20,000 Emails with Hunter Biden’s Investment Firm, AFL [America First Legal] Says,” (By James Lynch The Daily Caller). So much for Joe Biden not knowing anything about his son’s business dealings. He participated with him and them to dish out government secrets for sale and profit.
Also, shockingly disclosed by NARA, “Biden sent or received up to 82,000 pages worth of private emails while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president, as part of a lawsuit. The Archives revealed that the trove of correspondence spanned all eight years of Biden’s vice presidency and included messages to or from three [Joe Biden’s] shadow email addresses: ‘robinware456@gmail.com,’ ‘JRBWare@gmail.com’ and ‘Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov,’ according to a joint filing with the Georgia-based Southeastern Legal Foundation” (“Biden exchanged up to 82K pages of emails under pseudonyms while VP: lawsuit,” By Josh Christenson, New York Post, Oct. 31, 2023). The fake Biden name, Robert L. Peters, was used the most to hide his nefarious purposes. President Obama had to have known of the deceit.
So when do we finally call bribery bribery and treason treason? The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability just did—providing a money trail from Communist China into the pocket of Joe Biden hiding both under 20 secret shell companies, hidden emails, and fake names.
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 Column # 741
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Democrats trapped themselves with White House resident Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. She is more unpopular than he and neither is presently electable without cheating surpassing the scale of what they did in 2020. That they are in deep trouble is becoming more obvious as the House Oversight Committee pours out evidence that a Biden crime family exists and Biden is guilty of bribery and likely treason. Democrats have no one with a national audience in the wings except possibly Michelle Obama less than a year before the next presidential election. They do not want their man impeached as that will bring shame and national attention to both crimes mentioned and destroy their party but despite enormous pressure for Biden to resign or at least not run in 2024, he refuses. Still, his corruption as exposed has made him an extremely serious liability.
This New York Times POLL conducted through Siena College of 3, 662 registered voters from October 22 to November 3, 2023 showing Biden behind in 5 of 6 swing states has sent the Deep State into depression. They know they cannot win in 2024 with Biden–even with serious cheating like 2020. This could trigger there removal of him through the 25th Amendment. I knew the poll existed but on the Internet it was very difficult to find buried among polls of 2016 and 2020 of the swing states with no dates.
Republicans do not want to impeach Biden either. They have him right where they want him. Never destroy an enemy in the process of destroying itself. They are having a field day watching him do so. Their impeachment inquiry could last until November 5, 2024. Republicans have no incentive to slow or stop the incriminating evidence flowing out against Biden because they know it exposes Barack Obama and the entire Deep State as well. But they have a second reason for not hurrying the process. Only 16% of Republicans still believe that Biden was elected without cheating therefore he is not the “real” president—it was a Coup d’état. Impeaching him suggests he rightfully held the office. How can you impeach someone never really elected—he only stole the office?
Thus far Biden has not used Section 3 of Amendment 25 to declare himself temporarily unfit for office. It reads, “Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate [currently Patty Murray of Washington, since January 3, 2023] and the Speaker of the House of Representatives [currently Mike Johnson from Louisiana, since October 25, 2023] his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President [Kamala Harris] as Acting President.”
If Biden refuses to declare himself unfit for office but is viewed unfit by those serving with him, Section 4 of Amendment 25 allows Vice President Harris and those serving with him to do so for him. It reads: “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.” Thus far Congress has not provided any other body to make this declaration.
Biden has shown no interest in declaring himself unfit thus is running out the clock, Harris and et. may have to do so for him. This would advantage the Democrat Party as it forces his ouster without a Senate trial establishing guilt or innocence for either bribery or treason and the Deep State media would cease any coverage of these transgressions as though they never happened.
Comer’s House Oversight Committee keep unloading documentation of both bribery and treason on the part of the Biden criminal family especially Joe as the “big guy”. Especially concerning is the amount of China money laundered through the Chinese Communist Party from the Biden’s influence peddling (the money trail). The Deep State media, FBI, and DOJ appear complicit in this; instead targeting parents at school board meetings opposed to critical race theory.
Later, should Biden again consider himself fit to resume his duties he simply writes these two office holders again with “his written declaration that no inability exists,” [and he] resume[s] “the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.”
There exists no time limit in the Amendment for the removed president to prove his ability to govern so Harris would remain Acting President, unless successfully challenged through the remainder of the Biden term as described. She would never be the President unless she ran for the office in 2024, perhaps against a reinstated Biden. But her own party does not want her and her office as vice president would never be filled while the competency of the president was in question. Biden, under the stigma of poor health during his first term, would not be electable to his own party.
A year from now Donald Trump will be the existing president even if not inaugurated until January 20, 2025. Michelle remains my best guess for the Democrat contender because of the above and name recognition, coupled with a black “woman” Michelle ousting another black woman Kamala does not violate any Democrat Party ethos as would a white, male Gavin Newsome. Still, Michelle cannot successfully compete with the far more powerfully emerging Trump and all the now known, and yet to be revealed Barack Obama Administration corruption from now till then. Even the New York Times admits Trump is ahead in 5 of the 6 battle ground states. No one will pay much attention to Harris as the “Acting President.” It is my view that neither Biden or Harris will have full terms as president. This even more so if the irrefutably evidence Trump will be presenting in his J6 trial shows that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Biden and Harris were engaged in the 2020 Coup d’état and thus treason.
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 Column # 740
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Few realize that New England’s first form of government under the Pilgrims was communalism (socialism) where “each produced according to his ability and each received according to his needs,” applied in practice more than two centuries before Karl Marx first penned the above quote. The result, “share the wealth,” then and now was, and always will lead to shared poverty.
Socialism made strong men lazy!!
William Bradford, Plymouth colony’s governor its first 30 years, wrote of the agreement between the 102 Pilgrim Mayflower passengers and the financial “Adventurers” in his book Of Plymouth Plantation. He noted that the seven-year contract signed July 1, 1620, before leaving Plymouth England, stipulated that the Pilgrims were to pool, for common benefit, “all profits and benefits that are got by trade, traffic, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any person or persons…” It further noted “that at the end of the seven years, the capital and profits, viz. the houses, lands, goods and chattels, be equally divided betwixt the Adventurers and Planters…”
During this time the colonists were to “have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock and goods of the said colony.” It doesn’t get more socialistic than this because the government divvied out the goods and loafers received the same as those who worked.
The first two years the result was shortages and starvation. Half the colonists died. No one did more than the minimal because the incentive to excel was destroyed by the contract. The industrious were neutralized. Bradford wrote of the scarcity of food “no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any.” The contract, Bradford added, “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to the benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense….”
In other words, socialism made strong men lazy. Bradford spoke of another problem because of the government created famine—thievery. Even in this Christian community, “much was stolen both by night and day….” to alleviate the prevailing condition of hunger.
The “feast” of the first Thanksgiving did fill their bellies briefly, and they were grateful, but abundance was anything but common. Harvests were not bountiful in that year nor the next. Why did this happen? Because they had fallen victim to the socialistic philosophy of “share the wealth.” This dis-incentivized the productive base of society.
After two years of such, with the survival of the colony at stake, they contemplated upon “how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.” They opted to abandon the incentive killing socialist contract in favor of the free market. And so they “assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end….”
The effects were almost immediate. A delighted Governor Bradford wrote: “This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor … could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”
Postcard depiction. Only half of the 102 who boarded the Mayflower survived the first two years.
Then suddenly, as though night changed to day, the crop of 1623 was bounteous, and those thereafter as well, and it had nothing to do with the weather. Bradford wrote, “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” He concluded later, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” One variable alone made the difference and ended the three-year famine. They abandoned the notion of government (or corporation) owning the means of production and distribution in favor of the individual having property and being responsible to take care of himself. Before, no one benefited by working because he received the same compensation as those who did not. After the change everyone kept the benefits of his labor. Those who chose not to work basically chose also to be poor and the government (corporation) no longer confiscated from those who produced to give to those who did not.
In other words, the free market (capitalism) is a much greater stimulus than governmental force. The Pilgrims now wished to work because they got to keep the benefits of their labor.
Secure property rights are the key to prosperity for all who wish to work. When this right is threatened by confiscatory taxation or outright confiscation of property, or by excessive government rules and regulations governing such, whether planned as in a contract enforced by the government at Plymouth, or gradual as in our day, work and production slow and can eventually stop. The answer for them was to extricate socialism immediately from their midst, as it is for us today as well. May we have the wisdom to do 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. Read more weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #739.
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