President Donald Trump has ignited the birthright citizenship issue by an executive order mandating that we return to the Constitution as written by ending the practice. It is titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” Consequently 22 Democrat state AG’s have sued the Trump Administration (PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS Executive Order Jan. 20, 2025). Generally Republicans agree with this action and Democrats do not.
The post Civil War amendments all dealt with what to do with the former slave residents the North had made free against the will of the South; the 11 states holding them in bondage, and although now free, wanted to keep them as still subservient in citizenship and voting. The 13th Amendment (Dec. 6, 1868) constitutionally ended slavery, the 14th (July 9, 1868) gave them, and their yet unborn, citizenship, and the 15th (Feb. 3, 1870) the right to vote—together they equalized ex-slaves by law. The amendments must be treated together. None had anything to do with immigration—the word was not mentioned.
On January 20th President Trump signs an executive order that would end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. The text of the order states that it applies only to newborns. It is not retroactive for people who are already U.S. citizens. According to a lawsuit filed by virtually every Democrat state AG in the country, there are about 150,000 children born each year to two parents who are illegal aliens. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Trump wants to return to Amendment 14 which denied this practice.
Actually, birthright citizenship is prohibited by the 14th Amendment. On Sept. 28, 2025 LibertyUnderFire.org published “Are ‘Anchor’ Babies Constitutional?,” and we have followed with several like columns over the years. The concept of “anchor” babies refers to those whose parents are illegal immigrants into the United States and while here have a baby. That baby then inherits full citizenship and even the right later, as an adult, to sponsor his/her own illegal parents in their quest for citizenship. How can a child of such a parentage have what his parents clearly do not have? Is this practice constitutional? No, and although miss-practiced widely the last several decades, has never been original intent or practice.
For the casual reader the amendment seems to validate such if we omit the middle highlighted six words : “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The debate for or against the practice of allowing citizenship for babies of illegal’s born in the U.S. rages on with virtually, no expert or otherwise, going to the source of the alleged authority—the crafters of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, architect of the 14th Amendment actually structured the Amendment (one of two defining the legal status of freed slaves after the Civil War, the other being the 13th which gave them freedom) to prevent that very interpretation. He wrote: “This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and [already as were ex-slaves] subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. THIS WILL NOT, OF COURSE, INCLUDE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE FOREIGNERS, ALIENS [emphasis added], who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” It was he who insisted that the qualifying phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” be inserted into Section I. Those sneaking across our borders in the cover of darkness (now in open daylight) are clearly foreigners and thus specifically excluded from automatic citizenship. Notice the exclusion of babies born of ambassadors while here as well.
The early record of Senate deliberations on the 14th Amendment shows this to be the view of the Senate. There is no such thing as automatic citizenship from this amendment without serious and unscholarly distortion of it. In fact, Lyman Trumbull, co-author of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, addressing the definition of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” asked, What do we mean by complete jurisdiction thereof? Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.” Those crossing our borders illegally have jurisdiction or allegiance elsewhere and thus cannot have automatic citizenship—nor can their babies.
Citizenship was denied Native Americans until 1924 as they owed allegiance to their Sioux or Apache or Blackfoot, or whatever, Indian nations and thus were not yet “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of the nation they lived within. Certainly one must cease to be at war or conflict with the conquering country. So just being on U.S. soil did not make them citizens automatically until the “jurisdiction thereof” part of the Amendment was satisfied.
All Deep State media showed or quoted only the message they wanted remembered highlighted in yellow, ignorantly or knowingly leaving out the eligibility requirement of six words essential to the gift “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were created to incorporate the newly freed ex-slaves in the South. None of these amendments had anything to do with immigration or contained even the word yet Deep State Democrats saw this group as a way of supersizing to a permanent single party thus encouraged this serious perversion of the Constitution.
Many of our Mexican friends send portions of their paychecks home to Mexico and plan to return to their native land upon retirement with pensions and/or social security sent to their “first” country from the country they extracted the wealth from—the U.S. Some vote in Mexican elections from here. It is indeed hard to argue that they are not instead subject to the jurisdiction of another land other than the United States—and most admit it. Unfortunately for them the U. S. Constitution specifically denies such citizenship.
Democrat AG’s from 22 states are now taking Trump to court for this “long-standing right.” This is likely to progress to the Supreme Court where it will be defeated if the court holds to original intent as understood and practiced for at least the first hundred years of the amendment’s history. No new amendment is needed to get us back to original intent. Trump’s executive order on this matter is within his authority and enough. Only ignorance took us off the Constitution to begin with. It remains the law of the land as written. Only the grossest distortion or intent by those in power and a population grossly ignorant of their founding document could miss this. The president swears by oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” which, in this case, he is doing.
Next time we read Amendment 14, Section 1 lets not omit “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof ” and treat it as though it has no meaning. Again, the word immigration is not in this or the other two post Civil War Amendments. If we want citizen birth rights lets say so in a new constitutional amendment. Don’t just make it up where it was never created.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 805.
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About those pardons, let me put in print what almost everyone is secretly asking and nobody has yet answered . “How can one accused of treason himself, pardon others accused of the same?” Hunter Biden’s laptop documented 459 crimes many of them revealing treasonous crimes with foreign countries. Joe Biden as a senator, as vice president, and as a citizen (2016 to 2021), had classified documents in at least five places unlawful for him to have at all. Classified information was marketed to several countries including Russia and China our likely enemies, for profit. Father supplied it and was fully involved in Hunter’s business dealings which were on going throughout these many years. Selling state secrets is treason. We’ve published much on this subject over the years. Joe’s pardoning of Hunter helps Joe conceal his own same crimes.
Joe Biden as a senator, as vice president, and as a citizen (2016 to 2021), had classified documents in at least five places unlawful for him to have at all. Only the president while president, unless declassified, can have these documents in his possession. Classified information was marketed to several countries including Russia and China our likely enemies. Chair James Comer of the House Oversight Committee announced,“we can now confidently trace at least $10 million in total from foreign nationals” to the Biden’s.
Donald J. Trump won the 2020 presidential race. No primary documents have surfaced and no studies have shown since, that the Deep State did not cheat in that election. In fact, all documents from the 2021 Maricopa County Presidential Ballot Audit, to video “2000 Mules” to last October’s news break in Arizona that 218,000 illegal aliens in that state alone voted, showed the opposite to be true (Adrian Fontes, Sec. Of State, press Release Sept. 30, 2024, X22 Report Ep. 3464b, 1 Oct. 2024). Even Georgia’s Dekalb GOP v Raffensperger court case last Fall proved Dominion machines capable of being hooked to the Internet debunking this as not possible, and the likelihood that it changed hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden in that election. LibertyUnderFire.org has published many columns documenting extreme abnormalities in this election and had we found otherwise we would have published that also.
Even the presidential election of Nov. 5, 2024 “proved” cheating in 2020 very likely. Allegedly Biden got 81 million votes. Barack Obama’s highest number was 69 million, the highest in Democrat turnout previously, surpassing Kamala Harris’ recent 66 million, Hillary Clinton’s 65 million and Obamas’ 2nd term 65 million (X22 Report, Ep. 3494b, Nov. 7, 2024, 32:20). The difference between Obama’s 69 and Biden’s 81 was 12 million fake votes. Those 12 million plus fake Democrat votes installed many Democrat members of Congress as well as Biden. It is very likely, without them, the Republicans swept both houses of Congress in 2020. Technically all laws generated thereafter and all executive orders signed by the unelected president should be removed, including Biden appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
My point. If unelected, Biden had no appointing powers. Nor does he have any pardoning powers. This more so than ever if he is pardoning others as part of a crime he himself is the lead instigator of, such as would be the case on classified documents only he could get. Everything as much as practical, should be as if Biden never served. The appointments or pardons were never his to make thus should stand as null and void. Treason, Hunters or his, can’t be pardoned.
The 2020 Presidential election was rigged—a Coup d’état. Those involved successfully overthrew the U.S. government in a revolution beginning Nov, 3, 2020 and concluded Jan. 6 2021 with the disrupted, thus uncompleted, Electoral College vote. The Biden presidency was illegitimate. (“Let’s be Blunt, Past Treason Greatly Stalks the Election of 2024,”LibertyUnderFire.org, 101624). Thus followed four years of illegitimate rule. Biden was never elected president of the United States. If a successful Coup d’état. is not treason what is? The word cheating is not in the Constitution but treason is.
According to the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” 18 U.S. Code § 2381 defines Treason further as “betrayal of one’s own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies.” Certainly creating a false vote followed by an insurrection organized and led by federal agents and blamed on mostly nonviolent people legitimately exercising their 1st Amendment right “of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” assembled to encourage an honest Electoral College vote fits this definition Every patriot in America knows he could have been arrested if there.
Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State under Barack Obama, knowingly used her unsecured home server for government business—allowing potential enemy countries access. After a subpoena for her server was issued 33,000 email messages were reportedly “BleachBit,” and some devices hammer hit to destroy messages, some reportedly classified. This proves she knew what she was doing was wrong, otherwise, why would she destroy the evidence? FBI Director James Comey called her “extremely careless.” She, like Biden, had problems believing that the law applied to her. The State Department said it found a total of 588 violations involving information then deemed to be classified, but could not assign fault in 497 cases. At the time Clinton was running for president against Trump.
The Code continues, “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason.” In this case, the enemy is mostly from within known today as the Deep State and hundreds were arrested and incarcerated for constitutionally peaceably assembly.
Returning to the Constitution itself, “No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.” As we have already noted above, and in dozens of previously published columns, virtually everything testifies to the overt act of treason, the fraudulent vote, and the planned disruptions of the Electoral College vote to omit the required objection process when they reassembled. Stunned by the fedsurrection, they did not.
Others too may want pardons for their participation in the Coup d’état. Biden is weighing preemptive pardons for the January 6, 2021 Unselect Committee—especially Liz Chaney, and Adam Schiff. They are accused of destroying hundreds of documents that allegedly showed the Committee functioned to complete the Coup d’état by suppressing evidence that it was a fedsurrection and keeping the focus on Trump as THE INSURRECTIONIST to imprison him or at least keep him from running again. There are many others wanting pardons such as: Anthony Fauci, James Comey, John Brennon, James Clapper, Joe’s brother Jimmy and Sister in law and some who will need them perhaps even Barack Obama and the Clinton’s. Biden would like to pardon the entire Deep State. How far will justice reach, we will have to see?
So we ask again, “How can one accused of treason himself, pardon others accused of the same?” He can’t. Treason constitutionally can not be pardoned.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 803
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By now everyone knows that George Soros (94) received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award alongside Hillary Clinton from the out going Joe Biden presidency— but few know the extent of this story. George Soros, the Hungarian immigrant to America, likes to rule from the shadows (the dark side). LibertyUnderFire first published about him in 2010, “Is George Soros the Most Influential Man on Earth?” After the death of David Rockefeller the answer was yes! And on October 9, 2020, “Is George Soros America’s Leading Insurrectionist?” Yes again!!
Joe Biden awards George Soros (94) the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, the highest civilian award in the land. Alex Soros, his son, receives it for him. Given Soros’ Deep State world government background, Joe Biden could not find a person less deserving for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Mitt Romney, in the background, is here to receive the same for his deceased father George Romney, former governor of Michigan.
The following tribute announced why he was selected for the most prestigious civilian award given by the president. It reads: “George Soros is an investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Open Society Foundations. Through his network of foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries, Soros has focused on global initiatives [world government] that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice” (White House, Jan. 4, 2025). He is at the center of the Deep State. Any appointment in a government would be a step down for him.
His history tells it all. The Washington Examiner described Soros as, “The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom,” by Gabe Kaminsky, August 9, 2024. Likely the most hated man in the world from “beyond the US, to Armenia, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines and many other countries.” Neither Russia or China will allow him on their soil.
“Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Soros of being at the heart of a Jewish conspiracy to ‘divide’ and ‘shatter’ Turkey and other nations. In Italy, former deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini accused him of wanting to fill the country with migrants because ‘he likes slaves.’ The leader of the UK’s Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, has claimed Soros is ‘actively encouraging people… to flood Europe’ and “in many ways is the biggest danger to the entire Western World (“Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?” September 6, 2019, BBC).
But in his birth country, Hungary, he is hated the most. Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his populist nationalist government “claim that Soros has a secret plot to flood Hungary with migrants and destroy their nation.” The Hungarian government “has spent 100m euros on a media campaign warning voters not to let Soros ‘have the last laugh’ and introduced what it calls ‘Stop Soros’ laws, criminalizing help for illegal immigrants and taxing support for organizations ‘promoting migration.’” They do not allow immigration because they believe the practice is being used by Deep State globalists to destroy their country.
Orban, an international advocate for freedom and national sovereignty, and friend to Donald Trump,—just opposite Soros—probably most accurately characterizes Soros. He said, “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open but hiding. Not straight forward but crafty. Not honest but unprincipled. Not national but international. Does not believe in working [for a living] but speculates with money. Does not have its [his]own homeland but feels it [he] owns the whole world” (Ibid.).
In America he is accused of the same things. Everyone knows that the illegal immigrant caravans are organized and financed by someone, presumably Soros. And on their arrival financing is shifted to the taxpayer. Soros is also accused of funding the Antifa and Black Lives Matter city chaos of 2020—and other “rent a mob” movements like last years Palestine Liberation campus encampments. Most of these participants could not tell you where Palestine is.
One of many George Soros’ billboards in Hungry. The Hungarian government “has spent 100m euros on a media campaign warning voters not to let Soros ‘have the last laugh’ and introduced what it calls ‘Stop Soros’ laws, criminalizing help for illegal immigrants and taxing support for organizations ‘promoting migration.’” He has influence in 120 + countries but his birth country, Hungry, hates him the most. He uses his billions to subvert the will of the people who oppose socialism, illegal immigration, and world government.
In America Soros has given his main group, the Open Society Foundations, $32 billion for what it calls democracy-building efforts in the United States and around the world. In addition, in the United States, Soros has personally contributed more than $75 million over the years to federal candidates and committees, according to Federal Election Commission and IRS records. During the 2016 campaign, Soros donated more than $16 million to groups supporting Hillary Clinton.
Soros has vested money in District Attorney races in 17 states over the past few years these include: Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia. Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia, and New York (Soros’ Prosecutorial Power Grab, https://youtu.be/q1k1gvPOxSo). His intent is to burn down American cities by financing Democrat District Attorneys who open our jails allowing criminals to repeat their crimes destroying justice and safety which makes him an enemy to all who love liberty.
His hatred for Donald Trump is well known. “Clearly I consider the Trump Administration a danger to the world,” he told the World Economic Forum, in their Annual Meeting 2020, in Davos, January 21-24.
But it is his bid to take over talk radio that is the nation’s major threat today. He just purchased over 200 radio stations. The Federal Communications Commission last Fall “adopted an order allowing Soros, through his firm Soros Fund Management, to purchase Audacity, the nation’s second-largest radio network. Audacity operates radio stations in more than 46 US markets and includes shows by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and others” (“Soros’ Acquisition of 200 US Radio Stations Ahead of Election Being Fast-Tracked by FCC,” By Jared Harris, The Western Journal). It is reasonable that he would eventually seek to silence these voices. Fait accompli. A large part of the radio industry will be compromised in favor of the far-left as is cable news.
Outside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who seeks to replace America as the world’s most powerful nation, Soros is the world’s leading threat to freedom—most certainly in America. With “foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries” with intent to destroy freedom in each, Joe Biden could not find a person less deserving for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Why would he do so? Because neither value freedom or the will of the people.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 802
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The violence expected by most Patriots after November 5 did not materialize, instead the opposite was so; one of two scenario are likely. 1) The election was indeed “too big to rig,” even with continued massive cheating and censorship. The largest landslide in 42 years ensued with a definite Trump mandate for justice, so the anarchist gathered their riot gear and went home in peace. The people voted against Deep State rule. OR, 2) all hell will break loose in January worse than the Black Lives Matter riots throughout the nation in 2020.
The DC violence of Fall 2020 was not repeated after the reelection of Donald Trump Nov. 5, 2024 but still could be in January of 2025 as the Deep State has promised not to allow Trump to be seated. The nation is holding its breath that its future will be as November and December but these months have been almost too quiet and calm.
Four years of various congressional committee hearings have revealed, and LibertyUnderFire.org previously has covered, the following: The Deep State initiated a coup d’état overthrowing the serving president of the United States, Donald Trump, beginning in November 3 and completed January 6, 2021. If we exclude dead and illegals voting, and multiple ballots from the same voter, Trump easily won 2020. The Electoral College certification of Joe Biden was not completed, those objecting to Biden were interrupted on January 6, by the fedsurrection. When Nancy Pelosi reassembled it later that same day she purposely did not return to the objecting part but omitted it entirely seating Biden. The J6 House Committee was created and functioned to cover up this crime (treason) leaving the blame for J6 on Trump for the purpose of making any future run for office by him blocked by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. This all failed.
The Deep State ruled America’s executive branch before and after Trump’s first term; most obviously now. Biden was America’s most corrupt “president,” with over 20 shell companies to hide his selling for profit classified state secrets to potential enemy countries in partnership with his son. He pardoned Hunter so that he himself could not be revealed more fully for his treason in 2014 in Ukraine (their coup d’état) as vice president, in the 2020 election coup d’état, and since for profiting in selling state secrets. He has also opened our borders to criminals and sex trafficking. About 500,000 children are not accounted for and are assumed to be sex trafficked into the United States because of him. He has done more than any other American to destroy our personal liberty and the Constitution itself. Joe Biden and son need to be tried for treason. Treason cannot be pardoned—most especially by Joe, Hunter’s partner in treason.
Somebody must answer for the two fake impeachments against Trump, four fake indictments against him assisted and encouraged by the White House, and five attempted assassinations (“Golfing Sniper, 5th Time Life of President Trump Threatened —Not Second!!!,” LibertyUnderFire.org, 091824). We have published a couple hundred columns identifying the Deep State as the enemy of the Republic and the people. Even with most of the media as accomplishes to the crimes just cited and censorship in place for decades, we finally broke through. Most understand now that this secret combination must come to light and justice rendered. We must flush out this political power or they will be back in power as soon as Trump’s service ends. Thus far not one of them has been removed or stood trial for these crimes.
The Deep State realizes what we know. The House of Representatives will have an election in just 22 months and if they win they will no longer be investigated by this body, and another presidential election is less than four years away. Stay quiet and in place was the advice Merrick Garland gave his DOJ staff recently. Essentially, be patient and we will escape punishment and be back in power shortly. If so, January will be quiet and calm as was November and December. We will know which of these scenarios is in place in a week with the certification of Trump on January 6, 2025. If this is uncontested and not delayed then they have chosen this path.
But four years is a long time to wait for George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton who have tasted power recently and some are getting very old, so they are motivated to stay in power—even if they have to provoke World War III with Russia to hide their crimes. Probable crimes like Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails, some classified, on her private server which she was not to use for government business avoiding easy access to enemies. Most of these persons played important parts in the coup d’état or its coverup and when fully exposed will face criminal charges and sentencing if justice is fully restored.
The joint session of Congress assembled January 6, 2021 for the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden which was interrupted by the fedsurrection. Pelosi dismissed them when word was received that intruders would be coming into the House Chambers any time. Pictured are them leaving. They were about to begin the objection part of the certification. When Nancy Pelosi reassembled them later that same day she purposely did not return to the objecting part but omitted it entirely seating Biden. This was intentional. Without the required objection procedure Biden became president thus ended the coup d’état began November 3, 2020 (“Former VP Mike Pence Stopped Nancy Pelosi’s J6 Trap to Get Trump,” LibertyUnderFire.org March 13, 2024). The nation was too traumatized to notice. The coup succeeded.
If Trump’s Electoral College certification is delayed and resisted then chaos exceeding 2020 will ensue, event after event to delay the certification beyond January 6, then beyond January 20, if possible, so as to keep Trump from taking office restoring justice. Perhaps pressure to delay the election of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, possibly a cyber attack, chaos, or, if Congress cannot get a 1/5th quorum because too many members call in sick or etc. Even President Carter’s funeral viewing ending January 9, could be used to delay January 6th certification.
What happens if the vote is interrupted as happened January 6, 2021 when Congress had to temporarily adjourn? We could do as Pelosi did then, reconvene without the objection part of the process, announcing Trump as certified, but the Deep State media would call this out as they should. Such worked for Biden because the controlled media did not call it out.
If a president and vice president has not been certified by noon January 20, Kamala Harris immediately becomes a private citizen thus is no longer President of the Senate as all power moves immediately to elected Republicans. Presumably Chuck Grassley, as President Pro tempore of the Senate, the most senior member of the majority party, replaces her temporarily as Senate president until Electoral College certification is complete for Trump and Vance.
Trump will be president unless assassinated. These antics, if tried, will only awaken more Democrats and will fail. The nation knows they elected Trump. Actually, the DC Soros’ “rent-a-mob” climate may, for Trump’s safety, necessitate his taking the oath of office elsewhere. Nothing in the Constitution requires he do this at the Capitol. Yes, at the moment it is way too quiet and way too calm but January may be very different.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the U.S. Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 801.
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“Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech or of the press….” has been the law of the land since 1791 when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. The Biden / Harris Administration essentially removed it by denying it in the name of mis or dis information. President-Elect Trump promises to restore this “God given right” immediately upon taking office. Until then we assume continued censorship and disregard for the 1st Amendment.
Trump is the most censored president in American history. Instead, the Deep State’s echo chamber spewed only mis and dis (hate) information messages of him for nine years. No wonder free speech is his first policy-related announcement since his landslide victory, it had been denied him for so long. His rising twice to power against these odds are indeed modern miracles. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong Democrat, said of this speech, “This alone puts DJT in company with the greatest U.S. presidents since Lincoln.”
Why is freedom of speech so important? Donald Trump answers, “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one, they’ll go down.” He announced a five step plan “to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans” emphasizing, “reclaim is a very important word … because they’ve taken it away.”
What specifically provoked this action? “In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of Deep State bureaucrat Silicon Valley tyrants, left wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress final information on everything from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately….” Freedom of speech must be in place to remove the Deep State from power.
President-Elect Trump will implement his five step plan to restore this “God given right” immediately upon taking office. “First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis or dis information, and I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
“Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law and anti trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory and constitutional offenses. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, —and we have to do this right now —to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign and every Silicon Valley Tech giant ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.”
Biden and Trudeau view free speech as a threat to democracy that needs to be stamped or driven out. But democracy has no guard rails to protect liberty. The Founders created a republic not a democracy that gives us God given rights. No wonder the Deep State seeks to destroy our Constitution—a free societies’ guard rails prohibiting free speech removal. The document clearly says, “Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech.
Trump continues with his third and forth actions. “Third, upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism, while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.
“Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called miss and disinformation. The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any US universities [are] discovered to have engaged in censorship activity or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.”
We must stop Deep State’s easy access to U.S. user data. “Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year calling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.”
And finally, a digital Bill of Rights. “Fifth, the time is finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information requests, such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow banned or otherwise restricted. No matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself.”
Trump ends, “When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech, we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.” This is Constitutional, clear, concise and powerful; undiluted freedom can return. Trump gave this speech Dec. 15 2022, but it was largely censored. By this date he had been banned by the following media outlets: Discord, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, Tiktok, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube. He reposted it November 9, 2024; censorship largely remains.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 800.
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For our newspapers this Christmas season we retell the greatest story ever told, God was Born. It is our almost 800th column telling readers mostly what the Deep State presses do not share. But this story is the reason for the season of America’s most favorite holiday. Unfortunately it is today largely not shared outside christian churches and active members homes. We share it boldly and hope our newspapers will dare share it openly also. This IS the Christmas story.
The wise men, perhaps, “We Three kings from Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar…Following yonder Star,” as the song goes, visited the toddler Jesus. “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worship him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented them to him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” This God will be the Savior from the wisest to the most unlearned, from royalty to the “least of these.” It is important to note that Shepards were first to see and worship him outside family.
For four millennia the Old Testament prophets foretold the birth of God (Jesus). The Jewish culture anticipated that he would come to them. He did, but not as the powerful military leader they expected. His birth is the greatest story ever told. An angel revealed his coming to the virgin Mary, the intended mother, and later to Joseph, Mary’s to be husband, of the Christ child, each told separately the child was to be named Jesus. Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was six months pregnant with John the Baptist, who “leaped in my womb for joy” at Mary’s visit in recognition of the God carried by Mary in her womb (St Luke 1:36, 41, 44, New Testament, King James Version).
We go to Luke for the birth story. “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus… that the world should be taxed, … And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
“And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
“And there were in the same country, shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shown round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said onto them, fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ, the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.
“And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds, said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad, the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the Shepard’s returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told onto them. (Ibid., St Luke 2:1–20).”
Mary and Joseph next took the Christ child to the temple where the infant was recognized by two temple workers as the expected God prophesied. These were Simeon, who had been promised he would not die before seeing “the Lord’s Christ,” and Anna a prophetess, “who served God with fasting and prayers night and day,” in the temple (Ibid. 2:22-38).
Mary visits her cousin Elisabeth with her good news. Both are pregnant with historic babies shown in this photo, Elisabeth with John the Baptist and Mary with Jesus. Elizabeth notes that John “leaped in my womb for joy” at Mary’s visit in recognition of the God carried by Mary in her womb.
Then when Jesus was a young child about two, three “wise men from the east,” (they knew what the prophets had prophesied concerning the coming of Christ), following a star in the heavens came to worship him. These were men of standing or King Herod would not have seen or believed them. They visited Herod hoping for more specific directions. Saying, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.” He called forth his chief priests and scribes and they identified Bethlehem in Judah. Still led by the star, they found the home of Joseph. “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented them to him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God, in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way” (St. Matthew 2: 2-5, 8-12, New Testament, King James Version).
“And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him “(Matthew 2). While Joseph was in Egypt the exceedingly wroth King Herod “slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under.” When alerted by an angel in a dream that Herod was dead Joseph returned his family to Israel (Ibid. 13-16, 19-21).
With all the prophecies of Christ’s coming fulfilled, the miraculous conception, angels visiting, dreams given to announce or protect, and eyewitnesses attesting that this child is the Lord, it is the greatest story ever told. What other event had such witnesses? He was born in the lowliest of places—a stable—but was ushered in by a heavenly choir. Common Shepards were the first to see and worship him. He is the friend to the lowest among us; our God indeed.
THIS IS THE CHRISTMAS STORY, the first five letters of which is Christ. We will never forget!!!
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 799
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