We live in a highly censored political world. Freedoms of speech and press are almost gone. We are struggling to keep the Constitution from Deep State annihilation. In light of this reality we are publishing the words of a recent video, “We are a Nation in Decline” by President Donald Trump which will be heavily censored by Deep State presses. It follows:
America is experiencing a free-fall of liberty under Democrat leadership. The Statue of Liberty consoles Uncle Sam. Two and a half more years and there will be no America as we knew it.
“We are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. We are a nation that has the highest inflation in over 40 years where the stock market just finished the worst first half of the year in more than five decades. We are a nation that has the highest energy cost in its history. And we are no longer energy independent or energy dominant which we were just two short years ago. We are a nation that is begging Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil.
“We’re a nation that surrendered in Afghanistan leaving behind dead soldiers and American citizens and $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment in the world. We are a nation that allowed Russia to devastate a country—Ukraine—killing hundreds of thousands of people and it will only get worse.
“We’re a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never before. We’ve never seen anything like this. We’re a nation that no longer has a free and fair press. Fake news is about all you get. We are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed, where crime is rampant like never before, where the economy has been collapsing, where more people died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020.
“We are a nation that is allowing Iran to build a massive nuclear weapon and China to use the trillions and trillions of dollars it’s taken from the United States to build a military to rival our power. We are a nation that over the past two years is no longer respected, or listened to, all around the world. And we are a nation that is hostile to liberty and freedom and faith. We are a nation whose economy is floundering whose stores are not stocked, whose deliveries are not coming and its educational system is ranked at the bottom of every list. We are a nation that in many ways has become a joke.
“But soon we will have greatness again. And its hard working patriots like you who built this country. And it is hard working patriots like you who are going to save our country. There is no mountain we cannot climb. There is no summit we cannot reach. There is no challenge we cannot keep. There is no victory we cannot have. We will not bend, we will not break. We will not yield ever—ever—ever. We will never give in, we will never give up, and we will never ever back down. We will never let you down as long as we are confident and united.
“The tyrants we’re fighting do not stand even a little chance because we are Americans and Americans kneel to God and God alone. And it is time to start talking about greatness for our country. The best is yet to come.”
Before we could get the words of this new video out, the decline amplified and Amendment 4, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,” was. Trump’s home in Mar-A-Lago, Florida was raided by the FBI, August 8, 2022, at 6:00 a.m. If the government can raid the home of a president of the United States in the early morning hours they can raid yours. We also publish what Trump wrote about this raid in an effort to make certain citizens have access to these, likely censored, details. The FBI raid of Mar-A-Lago follows:
Trump not happy with FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago
“These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege—raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before; after working and cooperating with relevant government agencies.
“This unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is a prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the justice system and an attack by the radical left Democrats who definitely don’t want me to run for president in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and conservatives in the upcoming midterm elections.
“Such an assault could only take place in broken third world countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before.
“They even broke into my safe. What is the difference between this and Watergate? Where operatives broke into the Democratic National Committee? Here in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States. The political persecution of the President has been going on for years with now the fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia scam and between hoax number one, number two, and so much more. It just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level.
“Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable….
“I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people and truly delivered for our country—like we’ve never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they’re trying to stop me and the Republican Party.”
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 # 673
There was talk of civil war had President Donald Trump not left the White House. The country was more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Mere months before Nancy Pelosi, standing behind Trump, intentionally and very visibly, tore up her copy of his State of the Union Address. Fences surrounded the Capitol when Biden was sworn in. The outgoing president did not attend the inauguration of his replacement.
Nancy Pelosi rips up President Trumps State of the Union Address.
This was 18 months ago. The socialist Left still control all the major news mediums including Big Tech, outside of One American News, NewsMax and Truth Social—and, like a choir, they despise Trump. Fox News, except for a few shows, recently has dumped Trump. These have clearly resorted to some censorship of the right side of the political spectrum such that today over all news may be censored as much in the United States as it is in Russia.
From these sources and social media virtually nothing good was printed or said about Trump from the moment he announced his candidacy for president, through his term in office, and for 18 months following. Combining all the negative reporting of all previous presidents together probably does not exceed what Trump endured. He suffered the Robert Mueller investigation, Impeachment I, Impeachment II and hundreds of alleged accusations between and since, now largely from the totally biased January 6 Commission. With virtually the whole “news” choir against him, if even one of these had proven true he would have been destroyed politically.
Why hasn’t this happened? Because nothing could stick!!! Even now with the Democrats almost fully in charge of both executive and legislative branches, and virtually all the mainstream and Internet news, they cannot get anything—not even one charge to stick. If they really had anything on Trump all the pirañas would be all over it. But there exists no real evidence.
Moreover, virtually everything the “news” tells us is true today is shown to be opposite in weeks. They were wrong on Mueller, impeachment hoaxes 1 and 2, and wrong on not finishing the border wall which opened us to the Biden invasion. They were wrong on virtually everything to do with COVID-19: death numbers, effectiveness of lockdowns, masks, vaccine mandates, passports, and vaccines; they failed to disclose Anthony Fauci’s gain of function research, his kickbacks and Pfizer profits from COVID-19 and thousands of vaccine injuries. Wrong on child vaccines being beneficial and wrong on Ivermectin and HCQ as effective COVID treatments.
They were wrong on Afghanistan and Ukraine. Russia was always winning the war, the bioweapons labs existed after all, and it was a money laundering country for the Deep State. They were wrong, the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation. Election fraud was real as proved in the film “2,000 Mules” using geotracking to place criminals on scene dumping multiple ballots in multiple ballot boxes and a number of battle-ground states are very likely to soon decertify the 2020 presidential election. Why would any thinking person trust the news?
We are finding that the real insurrection was Nov. 3, a coup to overthrow the U.S. government, the coverup was January 6 where FBI and other federals agents were heavily involved—consider Ray Epps and Luke Phillip Robison—directing traffic to the building, Instead of guns—flags and bullhorns were brought. We now know that Trump, fearing a lot of people demonstrating, previously authorized the national guard to be present on Jan. 6, but Nancy Pelosi and DC Mayor Muriel Browser, who were responsible for DC security, declined the offered assistance.
A recent poll shows trust in the media today at only 26%. CNN lost 70% of its audience in key demographics this year (X22 Report, Ep 2803b, June 19, 2022, 5:18). Far more people now know the mainstream media to be mostly fake, phony, and false, then 18 months ago. When they can get the censored information they find it reasonable. They have awakened!! Trump had to vacate the White House so that this could be clearly seen.
“People don’t trust us. They don’t believe us.”
Today the Deep State press is called out on everything. Hundreds of digital soldiers are pushing back on platforms that do not censor, giving the people the censored news. Thus we are winning! Katy Tur of NBC, said it best, “The trust in media, in newspapers and television, is hitting an all time low. People don’t trust us. They don’t believe us, and it makes me wonder if this job—as I’m currently doing it —is effective, but if its’s doing more harm than good” (X22 Report, Ep. 2827b Fake News, July 18, 2022, 19:47).
Exempting assassination Trump will be back in the White House; some say as early as the midterms through decertification and devolution. Some 98% of Republicans are now with Trump for 2024; 66% absolutely certain, 19% very certain and 13% somewhat certain (X22 Report, Ep. 2831b, July 22, 2022, 41:00). Presently Biden is being rejected by 75% of his own party. (CNN Poll: “No More Biden in 2024, say 75% of Democratic Voters” (Latestly, August 3, 2022).
Trump’s absence from the White House, while all this censorship or disinformation happens, gives him incredible optics and exposes the Deep State far more than were he there. People are not only confronting the Deep State press lies but are being de-programed as well. Every passing day they lose more and more of the people. Especially those who follow that “pesky” Constitution that they violate. Trapped in their own lies they do not have America with them. The country had to see this first hand; the patriot digital solders brought truth out of the shadows.
A Trump return had to be this way, Civil War otherwise. Now Joe Biden is the most unpopular president in U.S. history and Trump may be the most popular.
#672 published columns on current events and the Constitution
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 #672
Recently LibertyUnderFire.com published “No Need for Article V Convention, Just Honor Your Oath,” we argued that the Convention of States was a distortion of Article V constitutional authority and was itself unconstitutional. The expectation that those who now violate the existing Constitution would suddenly be faithful to newer or different language is unrealistic—even naive. The Founders already built into the Constitution instructions on how to ensure its remaining the Supreme Law of the Land. This was Article VI the Supremacy Act, not Article V.
The Constitution has the people, through their elected representatives, make all the laws. “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives” (Article I, Section 1). Neither the president nor the courts could make law or mandates!! The president administers the law made by Congress and the courts adjudicate contested law made by the same.
But Congress could not make any law it wished as is now practiced. Article VI reads, “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;” Like it or not Congress is handcuffed to the Constitution and should be able to produce the precise and specific sentence in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-18, or elsewhere in the Constitution itself, that authorizes a proposed law. If they can’t the proposal should not be made law. There is no authority to stray from or distort original intent. So Congress is bound, no laws not clearly and specifically in harmony can be made.
Nor can states that make up the United States, or judges therein, neglect the Constitution. “And the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” This document, inclusive of the Bill of Rights, is, in fact, the Supreme Law of the Land. Amendment 10 of the Bill of Rights handcuffs all three federal branches of government, especially Congress, one step further. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This ties directly back to the enumerated powers listed in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-18 that bestow on Congress ONLY FOUR POWERS: to tax, to pay the debts, to provide for the common defense and to provide for the general welfare. The last two of these each further restricted by eight additional clauses; all housed in one long sentence with 18 paragraphs, this absolutely critical to its interpretation. Congress is required to stay within these boundaries and it hasn’t.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1798, “In questions of power… let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” That is precisely what the Founding Fathers did in Article VI, Clause 3. “The Senators and Representatives before mention, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” Every single governmental official in the United States of America, plus all the military, swear by oath allegiance to the Constitution and thus are bound “down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
If we can not constitutionally use a Convention of States to get elected officials to be bound down by the chains of the Constitution, which is the case, how can this happen? Article VI binds all to the Constitution. If oath breakers write, pass or decree things out of harmony with it, these are null and void on submission and should be declared so by all oath keepers in states, counties, and cities. Nullification of such is constitutional and works immediately.
Founding Fathers James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton each were especially vocal with respect to states having the authority to “Just Say No!” to federal law not enumerated. This was the original view of the Constitution. Such was used in 1798 in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, in 1832 in the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, and more successfully with the northern states, especially Wisconsin, in 1854 over the highly unconstitutional Fugitive Slave Act.
James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, wrote in The Federalist Papers #46. “Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, … the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union, the frowns of the executive magistracy of the State;” would provide “very serious impediments;” more so if states stood together. This “would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote regarding the Alien and Sedition Acts, “where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy” and “that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.” And, Alexander Hamilton shared, “…the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority” (Federalist Papers #28).
Article Vl enforces obedience to the Constitution without risking damages to it, or the loss of the entire Constitution, as does an Article V Convention of States. Its use is critical to saving the Constitution.
# 672 on current events and the Constitution
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.
Elon Musk is now terminating the Twitter purchase deal citing material breach of agreement by the company refusing to provide the access data. How many bots are on Twitter? Why does Twitter refuse to reveal this? Nobody purchases a business without knowing how large it is. This opens the door to court cases and lots of discovery. Twitter, under oath in a courtroom, must now disclose this information. There is no win for Twitter and its board. Musk forced their hand—they want the $44 billion, thus are suing him. Twitter stocks could plummet soon (X22 Reports, Ep. 2820B Think Twitter, July 10, 2022, 17:00 hereafter cited as Ep. # & date).
Now They Have to Disclose Bot Info in Court. Chuck-mate
Whether the purchase goes through or not, Musk ran a javelin through the heart of the Deep State’s propaganda machine. Twitter may be the strongest media outlet for the Left in the world, certainly the most influential. Musk began his assault on the organization by promising free speech on Twitter. Most patrons probably assumed such already existed. They never heard the other side on virtually anything.
The resounding message of the Left for the previous six years was that Donald J. Trump was the most evil man walking the earth—akin to Adolph Hitler. They clapped when the president of the United States was banned from Twitter. So propagandized were they, most never knew that Twitter “lied about: the Steele Dossier, Alfa Bank, General Flynn, Russian Collusion, pee tapes, Wuhan lab, dead soldier bounties, Hunter Biden’s laptop” and virtually everything in between. (Ep. 2784b, May 26, 2022).
Musk quipped on Twitter, “The M(ain) S(tream) media almost never get the story right” (Ep. 2802b, June 17, 2022, 12:00). Twitter could not censor their perspective boss. Musk even took on the CIA, “Does anyone else feel like they’re being watched?” (Ep. 2787b, May 30, 2022). Many on the Left are being exposed to things not possible had Musk not drilled himself into the center of their base. He could not be censored by them in the same way they censored everyone else. Musk exposed Twitter, on Twitter, as virtually a communist press in America through quotes from their own editorial staff (“Twitter Reveals Its ‘Commie-fornia’ Connections,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D., LibertyUnderFire.org).
But even worse, Musk appears to be bringing down the media giant “at warp speed on the world stage as opposed to a government intervention and years long investigation with a snail’s pace justice system.” BioClandestine broke it down, “Elon got them on the hook with too much money to refuse, then made them admit all their deepest, darkest secrets within a month. The government could never do what Elon is doing at the speed he is doing it.” Nor could the military with direct intervention because it would be bad optics.
But what if this whole thing is unconventional warfare and Elon Musk, as a citizen but also“the US military’s Highest Paid contractor [is] flawlessly carrying out a highly calculated plan with militaristic precision that just so happens to dismantle an enemy of the US military at lightning speed in the middle of a propaganda information war?” Bingo!!
BioClandestine continues, “Yes, I’m suggesting the US military’s utilizing Elon as a proxy asset to conduct operations as a citizen that the US military would be unable to do from their government position. The civilian route was exponentially faster, highly effective, appears organic, easy for the public to digest. And the mission is accomplished with relative ease and little resistance and Twitter they are kind of trapped in all this no matter which way they go.… If they decided to back out of this, the shareholders … they’re gonna have a lot of questions for Twitter. If they move forward with the deal they’re going to have to show … the real bots.”
If so, and the removal of Twitter is a part of devolution, this is genius. “Elon estimating the bot activity is 20% or higher and his $44 billion bid was assuming that the bot activity was at the 5% or lower which is required by law, as Twitter formally reported. He is forcing them to prove their actual bot activity causing them to expose themselves while pissing off all of their advertisers and shareholders in the process for falsifying numbers and therefore significantly lowering the value of Twitter. Elon bated Twitter with $44 billion knowing full well the bot activity was not what they reported knowing he could get a better deal while simultaneously exposing them” (Ep. 2778b, May 18, 2022).
Some believe Twitter is the first of several of the Big Tech media giants to destroy themselves. That Facebook, Instagram and others have bloated their bot numbers as well and that acquisition companies, perhaps Musk or Trump, will hereafter purchase them at fire sale value.
We know that Bill Gates pours millions into attacking Musk. Why? Elon wasn’t on board with the Great Reset. In total 11 of the 26 anti-Musk organizations receive funding from the Bill Gates backed entities —The New Venture Fund (Ep. 2782b, May 24, 2022, 17:50).
While Gates works to depopulate the globe, purchases vast amounts of food producing farmland, and sponsors the world government Great Reset, Musk has built a world communications satellite network, called Starlink, for universal communication outside the globalist communication system controlled by the Deep State. The Deep State tried and failed to shut him down blaming it on solar flares but the 20-40 damaged satellites were up and running in days (Ep. 2797b, June 12, 2022, 12:50). War between the patriots and globalists is real.
Column 671 on current events and the Constitution.
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.
Keeping one’s Oath to protect and preserve it, is.
When teaching the U.S. Constitution at the college level for several decades, I frequently asked students, “What would you add or remove.” In hundreds of classes no one offered anything. No governing document has withstood the needs of humankind and the test of time more readily than ours because it fulfills the requirements of natural law and human nature and mostly leaves us government free. Yet today both sides express unhappiness with it and want a convention to alter it; the one because they want more mandated control: mask wearing, lockdowns, vaccines, civilian disarmament, and etc., these are always ruled unconstitutional, the other, because the Constitution does not mandate obedience to it. But the Constitution is not the problem, keeping one’s oath to protect and preserve it, is. The proper “fix” for the Constitution is to use it as written.
Since a balance budget amendment is the “fix” most often cited for an Article V Convention let’s first see if there exists a need for it if we followed the Constitution as written. Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-18 lists the areas (only four with 18 parts) where Congress is authorized to make law and Article I, Section 7 bestows on the House of Representatives alone the origin of “all bills for raising revenue” (taxes). If Congress limited itself to the list as intended (that’s why it exists) there would be an excess of reserve money and no need for a Balance Budget Amendment as today a vast majority of the things funded by the House are not even vaguely enumerated, thus are not constitutional. In fact, both political parties have violated this part of the Constitution to oblivion—thus Congress funds everything it wants. It’s not a weakness of the Constitution that we ignore its clarity, but our oath to follow it as written, is.
In my current events classes each student was given a Constitution and ask to problem solve with it for every issue that came up during the semester. Authority to act on the issue was determined first. It was more simple than one might suppose. If not an enumerated power in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-18, or elsewhere, that power was automatically assigned to the states in Amendment 10. “All powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution … are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The real problem is that neither party follows the Constitution as written. “The notion that amendments can be used to limit or restrict powers that were never given to the federal government by the Constitution in the first place, or that an Article V Convention can be used to regulate the behavior of those who already violated the Constitution (emphasis added), is illogical,” even naive (“Article V Convention Will it Work?” by Christian Gomez, The New American, July 11, 2022, p. 8). If their oath to the existing Constitution did not restrict them could it, or would it, to another document. No!!
Actually, under Article V, Congress calls the convention when two-thirds of the states apply to Congress for one. States do not, and under Article V, cannot call a convention. Calling a convention is the authority of Congress alone. Article V reads, “or on the Application of the Legislature of two thirds of several States” Congress remains the only receiving body of the application request and the resulting convention is a federal Constitutional Convention—not a state Constitutional Convention, such would be unconstitutional.
The Constitution houses no language “convention of states,” this phrase is a distortion of Article V. To imply that Congress is removed thereafter or does not govern the process is false as Congress oversees the changes “when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress”
Subtle Word Changes Give Activists More Power !!
A convention can not be limited by the states prior to or during, and state legislatures cannot affect it once assembled; it becomes independent from them. It also cannot be open ended. The only Constitutional Convention in U.S. history exceeded its instructions, even defying Article XIII of the Articles of Federation. In that instance it worked to our benefit and the then Federation government simply passed it on to the states. But this is extremely risky—even dangerous— especially today with honor and integrity of statesmen noticeably diminished. Justice Antonin Scalia once said, respecting a convention of states, “Who knows what would come out of it” (Ibid. p. 9).
Article V language “as Part of this Constitution” suggests no authority to replace the Constitution with another, yet the enemies of the Constitution now in place must believe this still possible. They have written at least six replacement Constitutions and are waiting for such a moment to propose them. These include: Rexford Guy Tugwell’s “Constitution for the New States of America,” “Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America,” “A New Constitution for the United States,” “The Libertarian Constitution,” and “The Progressive Constitution.” Most are socialist and Communist documents. Even the conservative movement in America has one called “The Conservative Constitution” which emasculates the 2nd Amendment (Ibid. p. 11).
The Founding Fathers provided a window for specific and limited change to correct any defects or errors such as the inclusion later of a Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-10. In 235 years there have been only 27 amendments to the Constitution all coming through Congress—none by convention. This attests to its being undoubtedly the least flawed governing document in the history of mankind. This is a history of astounding success. To those in power there is no need for an Article V convention, just honor your oath to defend and preserve the Constitution as written. Your failure to do this is driving both ends of the political spectrum to risk losing it.
670 published columns on current events and the Constitution
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.
The Democrat House of Representatives, Senate, and President just passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act—the greatest threat to the Second Amendment in decades. It enhances Red Flag laws and is virtually a gun control wish list. Senate vote favoring the bill was 64 to 34; 14 Senate RINO’s voted with the Democrats. Almost the same day the Supreme Court struck down a restrictive New York handgun permit law in a six to three ruling that required people to show to the government “proper” cause to get a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home, declaring that restriction unconstitutional. Clearly the Legislative and Executive branches are knowingly and intentionally acting to violate the Constitution with this new law.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex explains her inability to read the U.S. Constitution that she has pledged an oath to preserve.
The Supreme Court in May 2021, Caniglia v. Strom et al., declared Red Flag laws unconstitutional (See “How Red Flags Violate the Constitution,” LibertyUnderFire.com, June 2022). The right of the people to “keep and bear arms,” our Founding Fathers boldly declared in the strongest language possible, “shall not be infringed.” Article V of the Constitution requires 3/4th of the states to change an amendment and enemies of the republic know that they cannot remove the popular 2nd Amendment so instead chose to defy the Court and Constitution.
Outside of disarming more civilians the most troubling part of the misnamed 80-paged new law is its violation of Amendment 6 requiring the accused “to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” This is effectively removed leaving the accused to face the government alone.
Will the Democrats renounce the new law disarming more civilian Americans? Not likely!! Within a year it too will be declared unconstitutional by the same court on the same basis. In the meantime will they abide by the Supreme Courts latest ruling on self defense outside the home? Not according to NYC Mayor Eric Adams. “Nothing changes today, we cannot allow New York to become the wild, wild west” (X22 Reports, Ep. 2807B, June 23. 2022, 20:30). Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago graphically unleashed on Clarance Thomas, author of the majority opinion. “F*** Clarence Thomas. He thinks that we will stand idly by while he takes our rights.” Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House, labeled “the Supreme Court an ‘extremist’ body that punishes the American people” (Ep. 2810B, June 27, 2022, 11:39 & 13:45).
The Department of Justice says they “respectfully” disagree with the Supreme Court’s ruling making it less likely they will enforce gun rights enthusiastically. (Ep. 2809B, June 26, 2022, 26:00). To hold office they must first pledge to abide by the Constitution. There is nothing respectful about publishing your objection to the Courts ruling—a ruling you are required to enforce. If not enforced a constitutional president would fire them immediately.
The next day after declaring New York’s anti-gun rights limitation unconstitutional, the Supreme Court reversed Roe vs Wade mostly on the basis that the word abortion was never in the Constitution to begin with. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any Constitutional provision including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be deeply rooted in this Nation’s ‘history and tradition’ and ‘Implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.’…The right to abortion does not fall within this category” (Ep. 2808B, June 24, 2022, 8:56).
“To Hell with the Supreme Court, we will defy them,”Congresswoman Maxine Waters told a crowd gathered in front of the Supreme Court.
Will the Democrats support the return of abortion to the states where it resided prior to 1973 and accept it as having been a usurpation of the Constitution emanating from raw judicial power in 1973? This protected practice has resulted in the extinction, as of June 25, 2022, thus far this year, of approximently 430,128 unborn humans in the United States alone, and since 1973 some 63,889,912. (USAbortionClock.com). Will they ever admit that they, as a political party, encouraged the killing of almost 64 million Americans?
To the first question, they have given their answer. Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters yelled, “To Hell with the Supreme Court, we will defy them!!” On the steps of the Supreme Court she shouted “that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is ‘illegitimate’ and calls for people to get ‘into the streets.’” Other Democrats called for a “Night of Rage targeting churches and other groups defined as anti-abortion” (Ep. 2808B, June 24, 2022, 5:30).
Different federal agencies are suggesting that they will refuse to honor any state laws refusing to allow abortion access., The Pentagon has stated that “any abortion laws enacted as a result of the Supreme court’s decision will not be recognized” by them. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne in a news statement announced he “will not enforce Wisconsin’s abortion ban.” Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice said that the Department “‘strongly disagrees’ with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, warning states about bans of the ‘abortion pill.’” (Ep. 2809B, June 26, 2022, 17:00 & 26:00) Not a single person in either agency has authority to defy.
Those wanting a constitutional change can still have it but again, they must go through Article V of the Constitution. The enemies of the republic know that they cannot muster enough support—thus the insurrectionist call to defy the Constitution, appealing instead to violence.
Will the executive and legislative branches now defy the Constitution? They clearly answer in the affirmative. This has been standard practice for both branches for many decades but it is encouraging to see the Court moving closer to the Constitution as written, as intended.
(Column 669 on current events and the Constitution).
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