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.
These are unprecedented times. No president has intentionally failed to protect this country from invasion until now. Previous to this time all political parties, would have supported impeachment to rid themselves of this major threat to national security.
The Joe Biden Administration pretend there is no border crisis as a million and a half unvetted invaders coming from at least 150 countries have illegally crossed into the United States during his time in office. America has no southern border. Biden has never been on the border and shows no interest in upholding any of the long established laws regarding it while narcotics and sex traffickers flow freely through. Presently Florida is suing Biden for human trafficking as his administration purposely flies or buses illegals into our cities nation wide.
All this on a border that was more secure under the Trump Administration, largely by building a wall, than at any time in our history. Even now we know of 60,000 illegals, mostly Haitians, approaching our border to overwhelm our border patrol and invade our states, counties, and cities. This would be the second Haitian invasion in six weeks and the Biden Administration has no announced plans to deter them, and in fact by negligence, he encourages their coming.
Does the Constitution allow this? No!! Article IV, Section 4 specifically guarantees each state protection “against invasion.” When taking office the president swears by oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” (Article II, Section I, Clause 8). His primary function is to execute the laws passed by Congress: “He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” (Article II, Section III). He refuses! His administration is the greatest threat to the Constitution in U.S. History.
What is the countries recourse when its chief executor openly defies established immigration laws, engages in human trafficking of illegals into the interior, and refuses the primary duty of his office to protect the nation? An unsecured border is America’s biggest national threat. The answer is not to wait three plus years for another “fraudulent” election, there will be no America left to save. Nor is it the 25th Amendment as Kamala Harris appears no more fit for the office than Biden—especially on the subject of illegal immigration. Nor is it Impeachment as the House of Representatives, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, constitutionally charged with initiating this process will defy this part of the Constitution as well.
Until one of these options is activated removing him, the only remaining constitutional option and answer is that the states must secure their own borders. Remember, under federalism, implemented with the Constitution, we operate under two co-equal governments federal and state; the federal to govern primarily foreign policy, the state entirely internal interests. Should the federal government refuse to protect the border, an open border translates into a state issue one foot inside.
Arguably a state, with Biden opposition, cannot order federal agencies to protect it from an invasion, but it can use the state militia without his authority. The militia is not the army. It is the people, the citizens, and in the 2nd Continental Congress, even before the Constitution, the militia was defined as every able bodied male 17 years of age and older.
In 1903 the Dick Act clarified the 2nd Amendment definition of militia by dividing it into Part A, the unorganized militia, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed,” and Part B, “a well regulated Militia,” the National Guard. Both “being necessary to the security of a free State.” The organized militia was to remain a separate body from the army and navy and retain its distinct internal function and control under the state legislatures and governors (when they could not be convened) “against domestic violence” (Article IV Section 4). Notice the wording in the Constitution authorizing Congress, “to provide for calling for the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”—all internal functions (Article I, Section 8, Clause 15). Congress and state legislatures can call it forth.
Unlike the army the militia is allowed to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections including, with state authorization, domestic violence . The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the military these internal functions.
The National Guard was never to be thought of as merely a pool of reserve troops for the army. Impeachment proceedings should have been threatened against President George W. Bush when he treated them as such deploying 100,000 of them in 2005 to Iraq and Afghanistan, when enlistments were not enough, rather than asking Congress to restore the draft. This alteration of the Constitution by blatant ignorance is serious. The National Guard was simply an easy target and no one from either party objected. But it cannot perform its constitutional duty outside the United States. President Barack Obama ordered one-year deployments of Guardsmen in Afghanistan in 2014. Both parties have violated this part of the Constitution.
The rational for a militia separate from the army is very simple. The first line of defense from unwanted aggression is oneself (2nd Amendment), followed by local law enforcement agents, followed by the National Guard guarding the nation from within (2nd Amendment), followed by the military. Biden, by unconstitutionally flying or busing illegals into the interior rather than vetting them fully in Mexico, should motivate all state legislatures to send their Guardsmen to the border immediately. Placing them on the border to repel the coming Haitian invasion would be entirely constitutional. It would also help discourage future invasions.
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.
