Yes, election mischief is old news, but with new proofs. (I am using words less likely to trigger algorithms for big tech censorship). Sometimes it takes a few months to catch new methods of manipulating elections. For liberty to survive we have to stop managed elections and we have to punish those corrupting them or we will never again have an honest election.
In the 2020 elections we now know that mail-in ballots, election laws permitting such, multiple days to vote, big tech censorship of conservative views and candidates, and suspected Chinese influence via Dominion voting machines and Konnech administering elections programs were the primary tools of election mischief. We have previously published on these subjects and tools. In many states these methods and tools were still in place and used in the 2022 elections.
We focus on three of the most egregious new, or newly discovered, methods of fraud: databased latency, election manipulation using inactive voters, and Operation Bronze Griffin a secret combination between the federal government, via FBI, and Facebook. All to affect an election.
Four dozen undelivered ballots found at a Florida Post Office. These may or may not be the ones where addresses were changed for a few days ensuring that ballots would come back as undeliverable allowing them to be reused by scammers to affect the election. Then the addresses were changed back. Residents would never know that someone else used their ballot. This fraudulent technique is called databased latency and is commonly used in tight elections.
We begin with databased latency as explained by Jay Valentine, a noted authority on election fraud. “In a real-life example, this month, we found a county that changed 31,500 zip codes, yet the voter remained at the same address.” These were changed on September 3, ballots went out that week. Those valid 31,500 ballots are undeliverable but retrievable later for their use. On September 15, those addresses are quietly changed back. The National Change of Address Database will not pick up those address changes. That does not happen because there is no history kept of this quick change. The 31,500 citizens were getting their mail just fine, except for ballots. Ballot addresses were driven by the county mail-in ballot database. The one that was changed, then changed back. The recipient is none the wiser that they never received the mail-in-ballots. They may vote in person. Oops, you already voted. Welcome to database latency” Many states send ballots to everyone allowing hundreds of thousand unused available to scammers (“Here is how they did it: Real-time Election Fraud,” by Jay Valentine, American Thinker, November 30, 2022). This is the fraud equation “taking place across the country…Our teams in Wisconsin and Florida are discovering this scam by the truckload.
How does this method of gaming the system work in practice? “The ballot-gathering scammers know about latency — it’s their ground game!” They“count the in-person votes on election day. Count the early in-person votes. Shut down the system (Atlanta water leak, Maricopa County, everything). Bring in undeliverable ballots gathered when you changed voter’s names addresses. zip codes, then change them back. Determine the votes you need to win. Press the win button. Wait for the Republicans to file lawsuits months later.” Fait Accompli!!
Valentine continues, “floating ballots are the lifeblood Democrats need to win; and win they will. Ballot gatherers know Republicans use dumb technology — relational databases, SQL, NCOA, Melissa, all non-real-time, highly latent systems. Bad guys are happy to watch Republicans waste time finding ones and twos while the real action takes place by the thousands, invisible to these batch, latency-prone systems.” So this is how they get away with it (Ibid.).
Facebook shares users’ personal information with woke FBI without user’s consent or subpoena
Next we look at utilizing the inactive voters ballots. Liz Harrington reported that a “Lawsuit filed in Maricopa County reveals ‘steroid-like injection’ of 225,171, ‘inactive’ voters just before November 8.” This resulted in several things: “An inflated turnout rate, headaches for those deemed ‘inactive’ at the polls. possibility of throwing out votes if the arcane Election Procedures Manual, written by Katie Hobbs, was not followed by poll workers who were not trained on inactive voters.” She asked, “Who was put on the ‘inactive list? Might they be inclined to vote Republican?” (Liz Harrington@realLizUSA, December 1, 2022). People who seldom or never vote suddenly surfaced, a quarter of a million of them in one county.
The 1050 paged whistleblowers report claimed that FBI leadership demonstrated a pro-Democrat political bias and “alleged that it accepts private users information from Facebook without the user’s consent or the legal process. The FBI otherwise would need to independently pursue such user related information. Furthermore, according to the whistleblowers, the information, the types of users content Facebook provides, have a partisan focus only concerning users from one side of the political spectrum. The FBI’s willingness to accept this political speak information from Facebook outside the routine investigative pathways further threatens America’s constitutional rights” (“Whistleblowers: What their Disclosures Indicate about the Politicization of the FBI and Justice Department,” Republican Staff Report, Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives, November 4, 2022).
Serious election mischief has and now exists more than ever. It can no longer reasonably be denied in 2020 or in 2022. America will not survive if we don’t demand election reform NOW.
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 # 692.
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The indefinite detention of the January 6, 2021 participants is the most egregious violation of Bill of Rights Amendments V, VI, and VIII in U.S. History. Regardless of where readers stand on detainees’ guilt or innocence, no political party, president, or congress can justify the length of detainment without bail or trial gave January 6, detainees. None can say they follow the Constitution!! The presumption of innocence as the base of our judicial system has been shattered by the political party presently in power. Worse, the inhumane treatment of suspects, THOSE NOT CONVICTED OF ANYTHING, could become the precedent for the rest of society. Indefinite detention without trial is now designed to punish before guilt is established.
No political party, president, or congress can justify the length of detainment without bail or trial given January 6, detainees!! None can say they follow the Constitution! Some 34 men and women remain indefinitely incarcerated under hellacious and cruel conditions. The Bill of Rights Amendments 5, 6, and 8 was discarded for these Americans.
Consider the Amendments noted above beginning with Amendment V. No persons may “be deprived of…liberty…without due process of law.” Due process of law mandates completion of a process—accused, arrested, and sometimes detained for a short time, tried, guilt or innocence established, then freedom or incarceration—each a part of due process. Never is infinite detainment, and/or punishment while detained, without due process acceptable.
Amendment VI is essentially removed from the Bill of Rights. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” After nearly two years of confinement, no one can argue that this was speedy. It also violated the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 and, as amended, August 2, 1979, which placed time limits defining speedy trial on the prosecution. These too were ignored by the Joe Biden government. In this case, the accused is denied a trial at all. When a public trial is convened, if ever, the amendment requires that the accused “be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
From the start legal necessities for a prisoner’s defense became tools of punishment and control. January 6 detainees have, “No Access to Discovery,” “No Legal Support such as laptops, printers, and copiers,” No “Legal Mentors,” and they lack “Legal Documentation on Tablets.” Also, guards prevented them “from attending court dates.” How can any prisoner believe that those confining him will take seriously his “compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense?”. (“34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D., LibertyUnderFire.com).
But Amendment VIII may be the most violated. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” We know of no bail or fines implemented for any of the remaining 34 January 6 detainees. Respecting cruel and unusual punishment, certainly the seven paged letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland by the 34 remaining Jan. 6 detainees, noting 70 abhorrent violations of human rights in their nearly two-year imprisonment without bail or trial, testifies of such. Their treatment was so bad that they unanimously requested a transfer to Guantanamo and argue that non-citizens, those who killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9-11, received better treatment than they in the DC Gulag.
Detainees believe their confinement and torturous treatment is largely punishment for their support of Trump in the Electoral College vote count—that is why they were in the House chambers. They believe themselves American political prisoners. Indeed, MAGA supporters are subject to reeducation (brainwashing) through education tablets, these filled with C.R.T. propaganda and racial biased media. Guards, mostly black, routinely racially profile detainees, mostly white, and prisoners who are “repeatedly mocked and or insulted for our skin color or ‘religious’ documentation.” These are threatened, maced, physically harassed, beaten, invaded in the middle of the night, assaulted politically, mocked by staff, and verbally assaulted being compared to beasts, dogs, and hogs by the guards. Remember DC. guards are decidedly far left, as is the DC environment from which they came, thus they view their MAGA detainees as enemies.
Those able to get messages “out to the public tell of their long-term solitary confinement without cause, sleep deprivation techniques, beatings at the hands of guards while in restraints, and threats of harsher treatment for speaking to the media (“Ignore the Dissidents of Our Time at Your Peril,” by Sarah Corridor, Homefront Crusade, October 13, 2021).
Nathan DeGraves One of the 34 DC Gulag January 6 political prisoners requesting to be transferred to Guantanamo because the treatment for those who killed almost 3,000 Americans, they believe, is better than what they have gotten in the DC Gulag.
Nathan DeGraves, one of the 34 demanding to be sent to Guantanamo, after four months in the Gulag was able to smuggle out a description of the conditions he suffered. “The conditions here are inhumane,” he wrote, “DC’s Gitmo January Sixers experienced daily lockdowns for 23 to 24 hours before being allowed to leave our small 120 square-foot cells. The physical and mental anguish that results from this kind of severe isolation has caused many people to go on a rapid mental decline. As a result, a large percentage of us are heavily medicated with anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs, which help to cope with the psychological and mental abuse we endure. Many times the little recreation we do receive is stripped away if our cell isn’t up to the standards of the guard on duty. This changes from day to day.” All this is both cruel and unusual punishment.
“January Sixers have lost recreation time, and out-of-cell activity time, for any news interviews about the jail when they are aired on TV, when people speak up about our conditions, or rallies are held in our name. We’ll probably have a lockdown upon the publishing of this letter. So I have already warned those I know in advance” (Nathan DeGraves: “An American Political Prisoner,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D., LibertyUnderFire.com).
If we do not stop the injustices and human suffering surrounding us, someday we too may suffer the same.
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. www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 691.
In America, land of “Liberty and Justice for All,” 34 political prisoners, both men and women, remain held indefinitely without bail or trial just short of two years in what has been referred to as Biden’s Gulag. This is in open violation of the Bill of Rights Articles VI and VIII. January 6, inmates now beg for extradition to Guantanamo Bay where real terrorists were housed after bringing down the Twin Towers and damaging the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing 2,996 Americans twenty one years ago. In Guantanamo they believe they will be better treated.
The first of several pages written to Attorney General Merrick Garland by the 34 remaining Jan. 6 detainees, noting 70 abhorrent violations of human rights in their nearly two year imprisonment without bail or trial. They requested transfer to Guantanamo and argue that non-citizens, those who killed nearly 3,000 in 9-11, received better treatment than they in the DC Gulag. Garland, the Democratic Party and press ignored it.
Their heartbreaking letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, dated October 2, 2022, listed 70 unacceptable grievances or abuses. They called conditions there hellacious and referred to the facility as a “dungeon of Human Rights Violations.” The food, they said, lacked nutrition, calories, and nourishment contributing to scurvy, loss of head hair and eyesight. Worms were found in salads and rust in the drinking water.
Cell conditions seemingly designed to torment include: black mold found everywhere, denial of “basic cleaning equipment to sanitize living space,” broken sinks, and toilets that won’t flush but flood. Mice and cockroaches infested everywhere. Personal grooming supplies are denied.
Accommodations also seemingly designed to torment include: improper medical care, “arriving months later, or none at all!” The same for mail, “delayed 3-4 months prior to delivery.” Laundry is returned “with brown stains, pubic hair, and or reeking of ripe urine.” Vaccines are mandated for: visitations, visitors, haircuts, religious services, and speaking with lawyers in person. One must be “boosted” for access to the Internet (most opposing the COVID vaccine and boosters are MAGA supporters—thus hated) and reeducation (brainwashing) through education tablets is prominent, these filled with C.R.T. propaganda and racial biased media.
Legal necessities to their defense become tools of control. January 6 detainees have, “No Access to Discovery,” “No Legal Support such as laptops, printers, copiers,” “Legal Mentors,” they lack “Legal Documentation on Tablets.” And, guards prevented them “from attending court dates.”
Guards, mostly black, routinely racially profile detainees, mostly white, prisoners are “repeatedly mocked and or insulted for our skin color or ‘religious’ documentation.” These are threatened, maced, physically harassed, beaten, invaded in the middle of the night, assaulted politically, mocked by staff and verbally assaulted being compared to beasts, dogs and hogs by the guards. Remember DC. Guards are decidedly far left, as is the DC environment thus they view their MAGA detainees as enemies. To help hide these insults and abuses, grievance forms on tablets were removed so nothing could be reported.
If more was needed to control the political prisoners, outdoor recreation was arbitrarily denied as were access to the Internet, attorneys, law library, and worship services. And prisoners are “stuck in cells for 9 days without [a] shower.” If this was not enough they were “sent to ‘the Hole’ if we express any political views whatsoever”—“solitary Confinement for 25 ½ hours or more at a time.” This is still thought by most Americans to be “cruel and unusual” punishment. Trials too were “postponed for at least 6 Months or almost a Year,” seemingly to punish or control.
Why isn’t more said by members of Congress? The prisoners answered, “Entry to Congressmen & Women who came to check on us [was] Denied.” And the Leftist press doesn’t care. Imagine a member of Congress denied access, they serve essentially as the city council for the District of Columbia, it is their shared responsibility to fund and know what is happening in THAT facility.
But this is not all, detainees wrote of “death threats from within the jail” and they received threats upon “our homes and families through the mail.” All this led to their list of abuses and request to Attorney General Garland to serve elsewhere—although not convicted of anything.
Their plea, “We hereby request to spend our precious and limited days, should the government continue to insist on holding us captive unconstitutionally as pre-trial detainees, to be transferred and reside at Guantanamo Bay,” a detention facility,” they maintained, “that actually provides nutritional meals, routine sunlight exposure, top notch medical care, is respectful of religious requirements, has centers for exercise/entertainment for its detainees despite the fact that those residents are malicious terrorists, real members of the Taliban, and few are United States Citizens,” instead, they wrote, “of remaining trapped within the wretched confines of cruel and unusual punishment of the DC Jail.”
Those, signing having experienced all or most of the above were: Brian Mann, Pete Schwartz, Brandon Fellows, Jeffrey McKellop, Andrew Taake, Scott Fairlamb, Daniel Caldwell, Ryan Nichols, Sr., Joseph Padilla, Guy Reffitt, Troy Smocks, Chris Quaglin, Sean McHugh, Shane J. Jenkins, Dominic Pezzola, Edward Lang, Peter F. Stager, James McGrew, William Chrestman, Ronnie Sandlin, Nathaniel Degrave, Jorden Mink, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Alan Byerly, Thomas Ballard, Julian Elie Khater, Marshall Neefe, Jonathan Mellis, Robert Gieswein, Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson, Garrett Miller, David Dempsey (“BREAKING: 34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay to Escape Intolerable Conditions in Heartbreaking Letter,” by Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, Oct. 2, 2022).
It has been two months since this heartbreaking request was made. I have waited to hear the other side. They have answered with deafening silence. The beatings will continue!
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. Column # 690. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
Democrats never use the word republic to describe our political system and Republicans rarely use it, both preferring to use the word democracy. Consequently most people ignorantly refer to our political system as a democracy and have to be reminded that this word is not in the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, or any other document given to us by our Founding Fathers. Our Pledge of Allegiance to the flag identifies our form of government as a republic. In the 2022 midterms the Democrat’s principle campaign slogan was saving democracy which is the antithesis of our republic. Why would we save that which our Founders clearly rejected?
Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1759, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” A republic has seven major components necessary for liberty listed below. Necessary to democracy is majority rules.
First, the importance of majority rules is recognized but limited. Is the majority always right? No! Mother made this point when her teenager asked to smoke marijuana on the basis that everyone was doing it. She asked, “If everyone jumped off a bridge would you?” The Electoral College and Bill of Rights are based upon the recognition that the majority is not always right.
Second, minority rights (less than 50%) are protected FROM the majority in a republic. In Franklin’s analogy the lamb had the right to exist even if the majority, the wolves, disagreed. A lynch mob is a democracy, everyone votes but the one being hanged. Even if caught in the act of a crime the accused is entitled to the presumption of innocence: protection of law, a judge, jury, witnesses for his defense, and a lawyer to argue his innocence; all necessary in a republic, even expensive. Then, if found guilty, hanged. Because democracy only considers majority rules it is much less expensive and decidedly faster. A rope tossed over a tree limb will do.
Third, a republic is based upon natural inalienable rights from God; first acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence. This document asserted to the world that we acknowledge that humans have rights from a source higher than mere man. A reference to deity is mentioned five times. If there is no God there can be no inalienable rights coming from Him and we are left with man as God. What man is good enough?
Fourth, a republic emphasizes individual differences, democracy absolute equality. We are not equal, even from the womb, and never will be if equality means sameness. An infant with a cleft pallet may need three operations to look normal. Some come out of the womb with a laptop, others with a basketball, and the real tough deliveries are from those bringing their golf clubs. One of my first great insights in life was that everyone was better at everything than I. A second, was that life is not fair and never will be. A third, free men are not equal and equal men are not free. Genetics makes one fat, another bald, and gives yet another terminal cancer in his youth.
Nor is monetary equality possible. Should I bestow my students each with a million dollars in exchange for everything they now own, shave their heads, and give them identical uniforms, to approximate sameness as much as possible, with the only requirement that they return in five years with some ledger of net worth. Would they be the same in what was left of the million? No! Work ethic and talent differ. Why does government try so hard to do that which is impossible? A republic looks upon our differences as assets ultimately benefiting everyone as was the invention of the automobile or computer. This is decidedly not the base of democracy.
Fifth, limited government is also a major aspect of a republic. Centralized government is good so long as it remembers that when it oversteps its bounds it becomes the greatest threat to liberty as it pulls decision-making power away from the individual. Excessive government, as the cause of the American Revolution, must never be forgotten. The Constitution as created, handcuffed the government from dominating our lives, thus the powers of the federal government were listed (Article I, Section 8). The Founders understood that the more government at the top the less at the bottom and that was the essence of freedom.
Sixth, a republic has frequent elections with options. Frequent elections happen in some socialist countries, so this alone does not ensure liberty. In fact, it may be somewhat deceiving as it fosters the notion that we choose, thus deserve, our elected officers. It also assumes that the people are correctly informed, which assumes a free press and equal access to ALL information. The part of the phrase “with options” is the part that ensures liberty. Elections under socialism provided choices but often no options as all participants are from the same party or ideology.
Seventh, in a republic exists a healthy fear of the emotion of the masses and of its potential to destabilize natural law upon which real freedom is based, as for example the notion that another’s wealth belongs to them through excessive taxation. Such destroys freedom as it had in Athens and Rome. We need a caring, sensitive, compassionate government but emotion must not be allowed to overwhelm reason and time-tested natural law constants. Aristotle taught that the poor will always envy the rich and that the rich will always have contempt for the poor. A republic will not allow the poor to destroy the rich in their quest for the wealth of the rich, but does incentivize the poor to increase their wealth thus becoming the middle class, which, in time, become the largest body.
As explained, democracy does not protect liberty and in time could become its enemy. In Ben Franklin’s analogy it would have allowed the wolves to have eaten the lamb simply because the lamb had been outvoted. No wonder our Founders rejected democracy in favor of a republic, something we too are obliged to do today to protect our liberty.
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. Column # 689. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
Our first Congress wanted a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.” One of the first acts of Congress, supported by both houses, required President George Washington, the Father of this nation, to select a day for this purpose.
What a statement to the world! The United States, destined in time to become the greatest power in the history of the world, began with this proclamation, pledging a partnership with the creator of the universe for the benefit of mere man. That we at one time universally recognized this relationship is profound.
Of course, this event was preceded by 168 years of an established celebration sometimes called Thanksgiving, the first being with the 53 surviving Pilgrims in 1621 sitting down with about 90 of the Wampanoag Indian nation, who already observed a fall harvest celebration festival in gratitude to God for their harvest. It was no problem uniting with the new comers from across the ocean for a shared three-day celebration, although the attending Indians nearly doubled their numbers. In time the event spread outward thereafter from Plymouth, but its date varied and was not consistent. Congress wanted it standardized by proclamation as a national day of thanksgiving and prayer to God.
In obedience to the will of the people and Congress, Washington selected Thursday the 26th of November as that day of “public thanksgiving and prayer” and established its purpose. This day he said was “to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks….”
He proceeded to specifically identify some of these blessings: “for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the original and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.”
Washington saw the value and strength of prayer in having a holiday of gratitude and continued, “And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplication to the great Lord and Ruler of nations, ….” He then humbly sought forgiveness for national transgressions as well. We “beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgression; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations,.…” He, himself, humbly implored God for help in performing “our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discretely and faithfully executed and obeyed; ….”
Then he implored God “to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.”
The Thanksgiving Proclamation ended, “Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, A. D. 1789.” Signed George Washington
Over the years that followed there were inconsistent observances of Thanksgiving as a national holiday until Abraham Lincoln revived the event with a second proclamation defining it as a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens,” calling on the American people to also, “with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience … fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation….” Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.
This Thanksgiving spend some time and thought, individually and with your family, acknowledging the blessings from His hand this past 12 months. Why would you expect to continue receiving His blessings if you aren’t grateful for those received? Those who reduce this holiday to merely “Turkey Day” or “Football Day” undermine its true and uplifting meaning. Again, it is a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
On the national level let us join Washington in taking this moment to thank God for the liberties we still have, and to ask forgiveness for our departures from the core values expressed in this proclamation, and in the Constitution. Let us resolve to restore them to prominence before they are lost entirely, not by an enemy from without, but by our own ignorance, complacency and neglect from within.
And, may we once again recognize, at least for one day, the special relationship between man, this nation, and God our creator. We are the most blessed on earth and in time.
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. Column # 688. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column # 688.Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
Investigative journalists from TrueTheVote were just released from jail after a week of incarceration for refusing to identify their confidential FBI informant source for inside evidence on Konnech, a Chinese affiliate computer election software programs company accused of manipulating the 2020 Presidential Election through their software. Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht, refused to disclose their confidential source to Judge Kenneth Hoyt who promptly ordered them confined indefinitely until they did.
Journalists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, of “2000 Mules” popular documentary fame, were finally freed from incarceration for refusing to identify their FBI informer on the Konnech defamation trial.
In addition, Judge Hoyt “ORDERED that defendants … reimburse the United States Marshall Service for in custody… at a rate of $85.61 a day, … for everyday they are housed, and further, the totals of any such sums be paid in advance of any release, under civil contempt charges.” This constituted detention without trial or bail” (X22 [hereafter not cited], Ep. 2915b, Nov. 2, 2022, 33:55).
Days prior to this order Eugene Yu, CEO of Konnech, had been arrested in Los Angeles by the LADA for the transferal “of personal data on thousands of the election workers to developers in China who were writing and trouble shooting software, according to a court filing that Los Angeles County prosecutors made.…” Was this in preparation for the 2022 midterm elections? “Since searching Konnech’s offices and Mr, Yu’s home, the prosecutors have also accused him of conspiring with others to commit a crime, according to the new filling”—with whom, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? (Ep. 2899b, Oct. 14, 2022, 41:25).
The evidence discovered in Los Angeles witnessed against Konnech’s defamation lawsuit against TrueTheVote but Judge Hoyt refused to even confer with the prosecutors of Yu. Supporters of the journalists believe he should have dropped it then, or recused himself. Instead, his efforts appeared aimed at the journalists disclosing Konnech, and thus China’s role in US elections. Instead of investigating Konnech, he was trying to break the TrueTheVote investigative journalists (Ep. 2915b, Nov. 2, 2022, 33:55).
Amplifying the potential for election interference is the collusion among Chinese tech giants, “Patent transfers, employee profiles, and domain registrations divulge that Konnech is also profoundly connected to another Chinese software firm named Jinhua Hongzheng Technology,” which has partnered with numerous Chinese tele-com giants with state ties, including Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile” (Ep. 2904b, Oct. 20, 2022, 28:40).
Journalist KanekoaTheGreat summed up their influence on Kanekoa News, with an article “Konnech’s Shocking ‘Back-Door’ Access into US. Election Data:Network Diagram.” In this “Los Angeles County prosecutors allege ‘Chinese contractors’ had ‘super administration’ access to ‘astounding’ amounts of data in what is ‘probably the largest data breach in United States history,’” Oct. 18, 2022.
The journalists appealed Judge Hoyt’s penalty to the 5th Circuit Appeals Court which agreed that the detention was unconstitutional and ordered them released immediately. Gregg Phillips wrote on Nov. 5, “This maybe the first time in US history that Americans have been jailed in a federal civil defamation suit” (Ep. 2918b, Nov. 6, 2022, 37:00).
In May 2022, China’s National Peoples Congress in Zhejiang province voted using tablets and software alleged to have been built by Eugene Yu’s wwwhongzhengtedh,cn. in China. Hongzheng Technology is used in more than 20 provinces across China. Evidence shows that Konnech sends U.S. election data to China. The U.S. must be certain it is not using a similar system enabling China to influence our elections. Why is our data sent there at all?
One positive note revealed by investigative journalist Brian Cates respecting the release of the reporters is that, “TrueTheVote got it on the record with the 5th Circuit Court that KONNECH TRIED TO CONCEAL THEIR DOMAIN SERVER ACTIVITY IN CHINA BY MOVING THE DOMAINS BACK TO THE US after they knew their illegal activity had been discovered by FBI contractors,…they got caught and they tried to cover it up” (Ep. 2919b, Nov. 7, 2022, 37:33).
Yet another positive of the TrueTheVote exposure of Konnech is that several cities, such as Detroit, and counties such as Fairfax, Virginia terminated their use of Konnech elections managing programs after learning that Konnech shipped its election data to China. In that termination, however we learned something about the duration of the influence. Detroit had used Konnech’s “various poll management and logistics systems over the course of several elections” —at least since 2008 (“Detroit terminates contract with election software company named in data breach investigation,” by Eli Newman, Oct. 7, 2022, NPR Station).
So what information besides voter data, does TrueTheVote believe has been shipped to China by Konnech? Apparently every person that has worked on a local election in the United States in recent years is already known to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), his information housed in a data base and server, of all places, Wuhan, China. Yes,“1.8 million Americans who volunteered to participate in local elections in their counties. All have their personal information on a server in Wuhan, China, data which, under Chinese law, belongs to the CCP.” Not just “their names, pictures, addresses, names of their kids, etc. but down to the schematics and detailed maps of the building they worked in and more. Down to how the elections work and who works in the elections.” China has weaponized our elections. “The CCP has an incredible amount of information stored about these election workers and their families that it has been using for more than a few years now in order to learn everything there is to know about how local elections are being run inside the United States.” (See “China Interfered in the 2020 Presidential Election, After All,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D. LibertyUnderFire.com).
So “2000 Mules” investigative journalists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips are no longer incarcerated but it will still take a while before Chinese election interference is fully disclosed. Until then they are likely to continue “electing” our leaders.
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. Column # 687. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org
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