After nearly a year-long investigation looking for the supposed crime of insurrection, the January 6 Rally has the appearance of having been a false flag operation, which is defined as a hostile or harmful action that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it. This has been common in the socialist revolutions throughout the 20th century. Often a massacre occurs and the ones doing the deed are dressed in the uniforms of their opposition. Leaflets printed of the uniformed men near the dead are convincing to the ignorant. The innocent targeted enemy was discredited and blamed by the public.
Though billed by the controlled press as an insurrection to take over the government only one firearm was used and that by the capitol police killing an unarmed women, a veteran who had defended her country in Iraq and participated in the rally. Nothing in the video coverage released showed her doing anything posing a threat to the officer who killed her.
Insurgency is defined as “the organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgents seek to subvert or displace the government and completely or partially control the resources and population of a given territory.”
Democrats are anxious to define this mostly peaceful demonstration as insurgency but none of it fits the definition above. As far as I know no insurgency in history has ever been tried without military styled weaponry. The only “weapons” used appear to be one baton to break a window, flag poles, an alleged fire extinguisher, and some hand sprayers. Good Luck! Not one participant has been charged with insurrection!!
But violence was a part of January 6. It is in the clips that were shown hundreds of times by our compromised media: Capitol Building windows were broken, police and demonstrators did clash somewhat, and Ashley Babbit was shot and killed by Capitol police. A deeper dive into the clips also show police opening doors of the building—even waving demonstrators in, and police and demonstrators visiting with each other in a friendly manner. There also exists video footage showing the police throwing a stun grenade into the middle of a non-threatening crowd outside. Clearly heard on the same clip, from someone in the crowd was, “You guys started this! You guys started this!!” The January 6 Commission demonstrates no interest in investigating any of these stories; defining Trump and followers as insurrectionists is the only thing that matters to them (Jan. 6, Insurrection, Greg Kelly, Nov 3, 2021, Newsmax).
Who were these agitators? One is likely to have been Ray Ebbs shown in film footage telling everyone to go into the Capitol building others saying, “No No No!!! You’r a fed!!! You’r a fed!!! You’r a fed!!!” He was initially thought to be a suspect trying to incite the crowd—even photographed as a suspect, photo 16, on the FBI wanted list, but subsequently removed from the list. Most believe him to be an FBI informer posing as a patriot but hired to bring violence to the demonstration.
Another probable FBI informant was an alleged bomber, though photographed holding a phone, but never identified. This information was used to make the alleged “insurrection,” appear more extreme. The Committee has shown no interest in investigating these stories either. Nor that of the known presence of several Antifa thugs dressed as Trump supporters known to have been bused in and previously active in the Summer 2020 riots, especially John Sullivan who admitted on camera his activity in the supposed patriot “insurrection.” If any of these stories involving the FBI are true, the long trusted organization is taking on the characteristics of Hitler’s SS.
Regarding the entrance into the Capitol building, Attorney Merrick Garland testified that the number arrested was about 650. Then Congressmen Louie Gomez asked him about the FBI potential role on January 6. “How many protesters on January 6 were charged with obstructing an official proceeding for four to six hours? Do you know?” Garland answered “I do not know the exact number?” These were charged he said, “into three groups: assaulting officers, obstructing proceedings, and conspiring to obstruct proceedings,” but again, no one for insurrection. Not one.
Then Gomez hit Garland with this revealing question. “Regarding the men who broke the glass in the two doors there at the Speakers lobby, when the two Capitol police, who had been standing there, moved to the side to allow them access. Were any of those people who broke glass and did damage to those doors working for the FBI or federal law enforcement entities?” Garland stumbled, “Ah ah this is an ongoing criminal investigation. I’m really not at liberty to discuss. There have been some filings of um um ah, in the nature of discovery which has been provided to the defendant but ah ah other than that, I can’t discuss that now” (Ep. 2607B—Big Tech [DS] Panic, Strategically Planned, Dark to Light, [Truth] = End, Oct. 21, 2021, 33:45) Of course, they were. Some undercover FBI agents dressed as Trump supporters, with Capitol police looking on, broke those windows and were first to enter the building.
Not one person has been charged with insurrection nor will be. Increasingly information is revealing the role of the FBI, the Capitol Police, Antifa and those that directed all this, especially Nancy Pelosi as accomplices. Washington D.C. is governed by the House of Representatives, Pelosi is presently its speaker. Nothing happens there without her knowledge. Until an investigation includes these participants, the truth will remain hidden, but that may mean an investigation of the investigators. This event certainly meets the definition of a red flag event, but instead of exposing Trump as intended, the Left is exposing themselves.
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.
Since 2008 half of America was lured into voting socialist despite the harsh lessons of our socialist beginnings. Plymouth and Jamestown rejected socialism and so MUST we to provide the level of universal prosperity America has provided its citizens for centuries.
This Thanksgiving Day we think of the Pilgrims enjoying abundant food, but this was not their real reality. To few note the starving times their first year in 1620 when half died of starvation. Harvests were not bountiful the first year nor the next. Plymouth was beset by laziness and thievery. William Bradford, the governor of the colony, in his History of Plymouth Plantation reported that “much was stolen both by night and day” to alleviate the prevailing condition of hunger. The somewhat mythical “feast” of the first Thanksgiving did fill their bellies, he reported, and they were grateful, but abundance had been anything but common. Why? Because they had fallen victim to the socialistic lure of “share the wealth.” This dis-incentivized the productive base of society.
Then suddenly, as though night changed to day, the crop of 1623 was bounteous, and those thereafter as well, and it had nothing to do with the weather. Bradford wrote, “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” He concluded later, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” They ended universal poverty.
One variable alone made the difference and ended the famine. They abandoned the notion of government (or corporation) owning the means of production and distribution in favor of the individual having property and being responsible to take care of himself. Every family was issued its own land. Before, no one benefited by working for the common store because he received the same compensation as those who did not. After the change everyone retained the benefits of his labor. Those who chose not to work basically chose also to be poor and the government (corporation) no longer confiscated from those who produced to give to those who did not. No government food stamps here.
Ironically all this could have been avoided had Plymouth consulted history and communicated with their neighboring colony, some distance south of it, who had previously been down the same trail. Jamestown too was first a socialist society where each produced according to his ability and received according to his need, which, of course, affected supply. One cannot divide what does not exist. Our textbooks tell us that only one of twelve survived the first two years for precisely the same reason, starvation. The problem, as noted by Tom Bethel in his work The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages, was identified by an unnamed participant as “want of providence, industrie and government, and not the bareness and defect of the Countrie.”
Captain John Smith is credited with having saved the floundering colony by his “no workie, no eatie” government program (the Virginia Company was the government) and was hated for it. Addicted to the promise of getting something for nothing, even if it is always less than promised, the receiving part of the population will always oppose their not getting their “fair share.” Sound familiar? Captain Smith was eventually carted off to England in chains as fast as the parasitic population could do so. Once again, why? Philip A. Bruce in his Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, p. 121 called it agricultural socialism. “The settlers did not have even a modified interest in the soil…. Everything produced by them went into the store, in which they had no proprietorship.” When settlers finally were allowed to own their own property, and keep what they produced, things changed overnight.
Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote of incoming prosperity, beginning in 1614, after ownership of land was allowed. “When our people were fed out of the common store, and labored jointly together, glad was he [who] could slip from his labor, or slumber over his tasks he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week, as now for themselves they will do in a day, neither cared they for the increase, presuming that however the harvest prospered, the general store must maintain them, so that we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty as now three or four do provide for themselves.”
This Thanksgiving let us be grateful for the prosperity that we have—even the poorest among us. Jamestown and Plymouth set us upon a course that recognized that prosperity requires incentive to flourish and that the profit motive stimulates industry. We are so grateful that, having recognized the poison of the “share the wealth” philosophy, they purged it from their midst and proceeded to make, what later became America, the most prosperous country on earth.
On January 20, 2021, Democratic Socialists took over the White House and both branches of Congress. In ten short months of socialist rule, food prices have skyrocketed and shelves are emptying. Once totally energy independent, we now see fuel prices soar and severe shortages are predicted this winter; some economist even see an economic collapse. Joe Biden’s prediction of a “dark winter” appears on the horizon under Biden—not Trump. Socialism kills incentive to produce— it always has and always will.
Plymouth and Jamestown rejected socialism and so MUST we. Will we be as smart as they? Let us share this message at the table as we feast upon turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving Day so that our children will know how prosperity is really produced.
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.
For decades I read in my college classes messages smuggled out of socialist / communist prisons in Romania, Cuba, North Vietnam, the USSR, Communist China, North Korea and etc. some no worse than now coming out of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections in the United States. American citizens have been thrown into cells, denied family visits, fed horrible food, and imprisoned in essentially solitary confinement for up to 24 hours daily.
Approximately 650 January 6 Rally participants were “later charged and arrested in raids that involved armored military vehicles and SWAT teams.” Many of these thereafter were detained for most of a year without trial on Nancy Pelosi’s and the Democrat Party media outlets’ supposition of insurrection. Still, not one has been charged with insurrection!! Evidence of insurrection does not exist or this would have been charged. Confinement and tortuous treatment is largely punishment for their support of Trump in the Electoral College vote count.
They are instead American political prisoners. 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). All, dissident punishment techniques of communist countries cited above.
I had never supposed that I would see the same in the United States—political prisoners. But I also never supposed that socialists would take over this country implementing censorship, lock-downs, and mandates as in communist regimes. Washington D.C. is governed by the House of Representatives, presently led by Nancy Pelosi as speaker. None of this could happen without her knowledge and consent.
What follows is one of those letters smuggled out. Its author Nathan Degraves has no unlawful or violent history. He did not break anything nor hurt anyone.
Nathan Degraves.
“Dear fellow Americans, I never thought I’d write a letter like this but we’re living in very different times. This is my cry for help. My name is Nathan Degraves. And as a non violent participate at the January 6 Rally I’ve spent the last nine months detained as a political prisoner in pod C at the DC Department of Corrections, otherwise known as DC’s Gitmo.
“The conditions here for January Sixers have been inhumane. In fact, some inmates are even begging to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where they have more acceptable standards. Class action lawsuits are being filed against this prison and even the ACLU has gotten involved.
“So let me tell you about me and many others who are January Sixers and what we’ve been experiencing in DC’s Gitmo, our conditions for the last 120 days. For DC’s Gitmo January Sixers experienced daily lockdowns for 23 to 24 hours before being allowed to leave our small 120 square foot cell. 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 helps 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 standards of the guard on duty. This changes from day to day.
“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 lock-down upon the publishing of this letter. So I have already warned those I know in advance.
“I suffer headaches and nausea. I have already lost 15 pounds since I’ve been detained and I was quite thin and fit to begin with. After in person visits, legal or otherwise we are forced to undergo humiliating strip searches despite all visitors being thoroughly checked for contraband. If it’s an illegal visit we are placed in a 14 day quarantine with no out of cell time even if your attorney is vaccinated and tests negative for COVID. Visits with friends or family members for unvaccinated inmates are never allowed.
“I am being unfairly prosecuted and definitely overcharged. I never assaulted anyone destroyed property or stolen anything. Please don’t be fooled by the media. I am a loving and peaceful person with no history of violence.
“Please share this letter with everyone you know friends and family, senators, representatives, political organizations, organizers, civil rights groups and media outlets. The truth has to get out and the jail must pay for what they are doing to this country’s citizens. The government has essentially cancelled me.”
My publisher, LibertyUnderFire.com, publishes stories and / or information heavily censored by the controlled press in America. This letter was read by Greg Kelly of Newsmax on November 1, 2021. As far as we know Kelly is the only outlet for this story, besides you.
All America must unite in condemning censorship and tyranny. If the government can do this to one philosophy, political party, or person it can do it to anyone. The government has nothing on Nathaniel Degrave or they would have produced it long ago. They must assume his legal fees, pay compensation for his incarceration, and set him free immediately. Until then he remains a political prisoner in America.
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.
The purpose of a comprehensive forensic audit is not to report the total ballots cast but to determine how many votes were real and how many fraudulent. Nor is it necessarily to establish who won or if cheating occurred, it did and on a massive scale, but it is to identify criminal election behavior. That evidence was laid out in “The Arizona Nuclear Earthquake, ‘The Election Should Not be Certified’” (LibertyUnderFire.com). The controlled press ignored proof positive evidence submitted in the first Cyber Ninjas report and predictably will do the same in this second report as well. Nevertheless, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, based on the presented forensic documentation, appears ready to unleash indictments leading to prosecution.
Maricopa County since has argued that, “These logs are configured according to factory settings and have a storage limit of 20 megabytes,” thus, despite the law requiring them to keep all election records for 22 months, they did not do so because of limited computer space. They also bypassed the findings of the auditors and left the question unanswered “Why was a script with over 37,000 long inquiries anonymously executed to delete security logs?”
In this new report auditors reminded the County that their feeble excuse for the deleted data was “disingenuous at best when the county had the full control to properly modify this setting to ensure that the log data was properly retained.” Their excuse itself is fraudulent. They broke the law. Notice how often the word deliberate (not originally emboldened) was used in the auditors reprimand.
Section 1.9.4 of this report entitled Log Management, read in part. “So the response of Maricopa County does not address the fact that the user leveraging the EMS admin account deliberately and purposely executed a script that checked the accounts for duplicate passwords 38,478 times. This deliberate execution of the script occurred over three days: specifically on February 11, 2021 there were 462 log entries overwritten, on March 3, 2021 there were 37,686 log entries overwritten, and on April 12, 2021 there were 330 log entries overridden…. The act of executing these scripts had the effect of deliberately ensuring that the Windows security logs covering the dates of the General Election would not be available for review” (Ep. 2607b – Big Tech/[DS] Panic, Strategically Planned, Dark To Light, [TRUTH] = END, X22 Report , October 21, 2021).
Thus overwhelming evidence of election fraud provided in the first report, now amplified by a deliberate coverup and deliberate obstruction of justice,—destroying evidence— is even more overwhelming. They never expected to be caught. Remember these 38,478 deleted votes were likely Trump votes. Trump only needed to exceed 10,457 of these votes to win Arizona. And this is only one county of 15 in Arizona.
Remember also that Cyber Ninjas could not confirm the accuracy of 284,000 votes in their first report. “Buried in Volume III of the audit report. Cyber Ninjas notes that 263,139 ballot images were corrupted and another 21,273 were missing from the forensic images of the election equipment, which prevented the team from confirming the accuracy of the vote totals.”
Continuing, “It was impossible to confirm that the electronically recorded votes corresponded to the corrupted TIFF images. It is possible that manipulation of the election vote totals occurred in the instances where the TIFF images are corrupted or missing. The tabulators process 1.3 million votes from 10:20 to 11:01 [presumably p.m.] without a single corrupt image, nearly 300 suspiciously corrupted missing ballot images evidence that the EBS the EMS was connected to the Internet and the deletion of the GE results, database and thousands of security log files the day before the audit began, make a compelling case for the cover up of the electronic vote manipulation” (Ep. 2588b-Tide Is Turning, How Do You Prevent This From Happening Again, Prosecution Is The Only Way, X22 Report , September 28, 2021).
Once again, of these 284,000 corrupted ballots it is likely that these were Trump ballots Trump needed only to exceed 10,457 from this number to claim Arizona. And this is only the results of one county in Arizona. Any honest reporter has to admit Trump easily won Arizona.
All this corruption despite Arizona state law 13-2407, “Tampering with a Public Record. A. A person commits tampering with a public record if, with the intent to defraud or deceive, such person knowingly: 4. Destroys, mutilates, conceals, removes or otherwise impairs the availability of any public record” (Ep. 2585B-Fraud Vitiates Everything, It’s Time To Investigate the Cheating And Bring Criminal Charges, X22 Reports, September 24, 2021).
But movement for similar audits in other states too is ongoing. “In Georgia, 19,000 ballots were counted from a single Zuckerberg drop box over one weekend, but surveillance shows only 24 people dropping off ballots” (Ep. 2588b-Tide Is Turning, How Do You Prevent This From Happening Again, Prosecution Is The Only Way, X22 Report , September 28, 2021).
Six states have door to door canvasing with teams looking and finding thousands of voters that didn’t exist at their registered addresses. These are: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Michigan and Washington. Texas Secretary of State announced that it will do a full comprehensive forensic audit in four Texas counties including the two largest Democratic counties in the state. Movement for audits in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania is strong. Virginia governor elect Glenn Youngkin previously called for a 2020 election audit in Virginia (Ep 2595b-America Will Start Winning Again Like Never Before, The Castle Runs Red, Yes, X22 Reports, October 7, 2021). A recent Rasmussen Report poll found that 56% believed cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election (Biden 2020 win ‘tainted’ 56% say it was a cheater paradise,” by Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, Oct. 11, 2021).
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.
Finally a breakthrough in the war against ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin in the treatment of COVID-19 which, according to proponents of these drugs, could have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives had they not been politicized by the FDA, CDC, WHO, NIH, AMA, APhA, and ASHP. These strongly opposed “the ordering, prescribing or dispensing” of these drugs to prevent or treat COVID, despite their enormous success by physicians all over America and throughout the world. The largely controlled press, like robots, chimed in against.
Despite the weaponization of these drugs, Nebraska supports doctors’ freedom to prescribe them with informed consent of the patient. At the request of Dannette Smith, CEO of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Nebraska Attorney General, Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion, after a thorough review of the clinical studies of the two drugs before and after COVID and concluded, that the preponderance of scientific evidence favored their use in treating COVID for those who wished to use them (“Groundbreaking: Nebraska AG Says Doctors Can Legally Prescribe Ivermectin, HCQ for COVID, Calls Out FDA, CDC, Fauci, Media for ‘Fueling Confusion and Misinformation,’” By Megan Redshaw, The Defender, October 18, 2021).
In this review Peterson “cited numerous studies showing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine reduced mortality by up to 75% or more when used as a preventative or prophylaxis for COVID, suggesting hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved had the drugs been widely used in America.” Both drugs have been used successfully long-term, hydroxychloroquin discovered in 1949; ivermectin, discovered in 1975, (“3.7 billion doses … administered since the 1980’s”) safely and each for multiple afflictions and off-label usage.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense, spoke of Nebraskas’ bold Attorney General’s effort to reestablish medical freedom in his state, “Every citizen … should be grateful for Doug Peterson’s thoughtful and courageous counteroffensive against the efforts of Big Pharma, its captive federal regulators, and its media and social media allies to silence doctors and deny Americans life-saving treatments.”
Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense President, identified best the effect of the AG’s decision, let “doctors get back to being doctors — without being second-guessed by government, pharmacists and others interfering in the crucial doctor-patient relationship.” Neither Big Government nor Big Pharma should tell doctors or patients what they can and cannot do regarding their health.
His report summarized findings on these two drugs. Respecting hydroxychloroquine a study in 2004 revealed chloroquine to be “an effective inhibitor of the replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in vitro” and should “be considered for immediate use in the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV infections”—the virus causing the disease COVID—19. A study the following year showed it “had strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection and was effective in preventing the spread of SARS-CoV in cell cultures.” More studies revealed that “hydroxychloroquine significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization and death when administered to particularly high-risk outpatients as part of early COVID-19 treatment.”
Ivermectin too proved especially good treating “antiviral activity against several RNA viruses by blocking the nuclear trafficking of viral proteins.” COVID is a virus. In the SARs epidemic of 2003 ivermectin demonstrated an “ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication,” like COVID a respiratory infection, leading to lower infection rates. Countries using ivermectin “with routine mass drug administration of prophylactic … have a significantly lower incidence of COVID-19.”
Attorney General Peterson found that peer reviewed COVID studies treating patients with ivermectin “reported positive outcomes, including shorter time to resolution of disease manifestations that were attributed to COVID-19, greater reduction in inflammatory marker levels, shorter time to viral clearance, [and] lower mortality rates in patients who received ivermectin than in patients who received comparator drugs or placebo. The drug led to improvement of COVID outcomes when used in early treatment or as a prophylaxis.”
He noted also that the few negative studies on the use of ivermectin as a COVID treatment were not peer reviewed, “excluded most available evidence, cherry picked data within studies, misreported data, made unsupported assertions of adverse reactions to ivermectin and had conclusions that did not follow from evidence.” In the case of the hostile treatment of hydroxychloroquin published in the Lancet, “the statistics were flawed and the authors refused to provide analyzed data.” Even its editor, Dr. Richard Horton, admitted later after publication, “that the paper was a ‘fabrication,’ a ‘monumental fraud’ and a ‘shocking example of research misconduct’ in the middle of a global health emergency.”
Why the opposition by Big Pharma to two drugs that already cure COVID? MONEY!! Even without ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin 99% will survive COVID. Vaccines would not be necessary. They do not work anyway, else why would one need boosters every three months? Look at all the industry profits already made. The truth is, COVID is a trillion dollar industry. Are we smart enough to see the obvious?
Probably the best evidence for ivermectin as an effective cure for COVID is, however, Merck the patent holder of ivermectin, who is not promoting it as a COVID cure. Ivermectin, a cheap 46 year-old drug, has long wore out its profit potential. Why not create a “new” drug, largely ivermectin, call it molnupiravir, up the price a hundred times plus, and market it as a “just discovered” cure for COVID? “[T]he U.S. government has agreed to pay [Merck] about $1.2 billion for 1.7 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 treatment, if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by U.S. regulators.” Molnupiravir, “aims to stop COVID from progressing when given early in the course of disease”—just as ivermectin does now.
Forward a copy of this column to your elected state leaders asking them to join Nebraska in restoring doctors’ medical freedom to prescribe what they and you feel is best for you.
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.
As a college professor for forty years, I instructed the Constitution and Current Events and still teach both in LibertyUnderFire.com columns on line such as this one. I know the Constitution worked well for every situation this nation confronted in those 40 years. My current events classes began. “You are not Democrats or Republicans, you are constitutionalists.” “Every issue presented here will be debated and resolved with this document.” When applied as written it has never failed us and students learned how to use and love it.
The following parts of the Constitution when followed, demonstrate why tyranny can never gain hold in the United States and why the Constitution remains its principle antidote. Follow along with your own copy of the Constitution.
Every single law must be initiated and passed by elected members of Congress—the Legislature. After signed into law the executive and judicial branches were given power only to act on existing law, one to administer the other to adjudicate.
Lawmakers initially had limited time to make law. Congress assembled on the first Monday in December (Article I, Section 4 ) and our Christian founders wanted to be home for Christmas, December 25. Getting home in time, in a horse and buggy day, gave them less than three weeks to make law. Such limited time was practiced until changed by the 20th Amendment ratified Jan. 23, 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted the federal government to meet continually.
Lawmakers must adhere to a list in making law, not just make it up (Article I, Section 8). Today neither political party pay any attention to this list. The list gives them only four areas from which to make law: taxes, paying debts, provide for the common defense, and general welfare of the United States. The remainder of this, originally one long sentence of 17 paragraphs, were qualifiers on these last two powers, common defense and general welfare so that these were further restricted. The Founders had no intention of leaving these broad phrases unspecified.
The Federal government was limited in the amount of property it could hold to just 10 square miles for a capital and only land for military purposes which must be purchased and approved by the state legislatures from which taken (Article I, Section 8, Clause 17). Today federal land encompasses about a third of the U.S., this without any approval other than their own.
Presidents must adhere to a list of areas where they can execute the law found in Article II, Sections 2 and 3. There never was, nor is there today, constitutional language authorizing presidents to make law, executive orders, decrees or mandates. Nor can they combine ancient pieces of law to create a new law. Initially executive orders were interdepartmental directives.
The Supreme Court must adhere to a list of areas where they can adjudicate the law and be in compliance with two types of adjudication—original and appellate (Article III, Section 2). There exists no constitutional language authorizing ruling in such a way as to create new law as that belongs to the legislative branch alone. Nor does any language exist enabling them to undermine or destroy federalism. Remember the states created the Constitution. Housed permanently within it is shared government or federalism (See Article V and Amendment 10).
The Constitution allows change to it but only through 3/4ths vote consent of the states (federalism)—no exceptions (Article V). This is why enemies of the Republic despise it. They can’t go through it, around it, or over it. They tried. The Constitution also has no language allowing any authority to be passed to a higher government than itself such as the United Nations. Globalists have wanted world government since Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations.
States would not ratify the Constitution without a specific list of things the government could not do to them, a Bill of Rights, arranged in order of their preference—“thou shalt nots.” These include Amendment I the expression rights: religion, speech, press, and assembly specifically were denied governmental control. Amendment II was especially important as it included the right of revolution, the same authority they used to revolt against British tyranny. This could not be denied their posterity should government tyranny again prevail. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms,” was made nonnegotiable, by “shall not be infringed.”
The first three words of the Constitution were “We the People,” Amendment 9 wanted it understood that any “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,” of the people could never mean that these alone were their rights. It would always be “We the People.”
But Amendment 10 is today probably the most important sentence in the Bill of Rights and in the Constitution as it places the states between the individual and the federal government to protect him/her from federal tyranny. It established federalism as the heart and protector of the Constitution. It defined how the entire Constitution is to be interpreted. “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.” But today it is one of the least applied sentences.
Finally, every office holder federal, state and local is required to give an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. From the president down to every person employed in the armed services it is in substance similar to the following for the president: “I do solemnly swear … that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United State.”
For these reasons tyranny can never prevail in America with the Constitution as written. But when it is shredded, as is happening, tyranny will reap through American like a whirlwind.
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.
