Let’s begin by defining pedophilia and sex trafficking as evil and anyone promoting or benefiting from it as evil as well. We have established this in three previous columns: “What About the Children? We know, We know!! But they were Silent!,” “God’s Children are not for Sale, ‘The Sound of Freedom,’” and “Movie Broke Sound Barrier on Pedophilia so WHO is Selling God’s Children?” This column tells us how to stop it in the United States and potentially in the world. We begin with the premise that we are personally responsible for this evil unless we are doing everything in our power to stop it. We look for ways to stop it.
Because it is pure evil. “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)
We must return to 2020, before the practice greatly amplified. Trump, as president, did more than any other in our history to combat human trafficking and to end modern-day slavery. One of his first acts in office in 2017, was to sign “an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people.” Congress passed, and Trump signed into law “The Frederick Douglass trafficking victims prevention and protection Reauthorization Act,” authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking. Trump “signed legislation to crack down on foreign countries who are not meeting standards for eliminating trafficking,” There were many. He also “signed into law the Abolish Human Trafficking Act, which strengthened programs supporting survivors and provided more resources for ending modern slavery.” He “created the first ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.”
Since the United States is mostly a recipient country for sex and labor trafficking it is not normally our children that are kidnapped and sold to other countries, Trumps actions targeted mostly international trade. But the one issue that benefited our national problem with pedophilia and sex trafficking the most was the Trump wall. This created the most secure border in US history and dealt a major blow to the cartels and traffickers. A finished wall would have virtually stopped human trafficking by land. While the wall was being built Trump even got Mexico, free of charge, to provide “28,000 soldiers to protect us from people coming into our country illegally” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3121b, July 24, 2023, 28:00). Unfortunately what was accomplished under Trump has been reversed or ignored by the Biden/Harris Administration thereby creating a haven for perverts to feed on defenseless children.
We must restore what we had. We must remove ANY CANDIDATE FOR PUBLIC OFFICE that will not commit to finishing the wall and restoring all the protections against human trafficking implemented by Trump and adding to this list other necessary legislation until human trafficking is extinct worldwide. This includes all congressman, senators, both state and federal, all governors, mayors and city councils. This is not a strange request. Every elected person in the land is already required to swear an oath to protect the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlaws slavery in the United States. Also remember, we do not have to trade with or recognize countries who market human beings.
To be proactive we begin by watching the movie “Sound of Freedom“ which the Deep State worked hard to censor from us but its box office success has made it a national event because the people made it so, which energized the issue in America as never before. Give friends a pre-purchased ticket to view it. Nothing unites good people more than a child in danger and Democrats and Republicans should be united on this issue. “Everyone should see it,” said President Donald Trump.
In our last column, we asked, “who supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites? We named Disneyland, Hollywood, Deep State news outlets, most social media outlets, and finally, even the Biden Administration. From these, where is the opposition to the hideous practice of pedophilia the movie documented? By their actions they still mostly defend the practice.
No he has probably never admitted it publicly but indeed he does. Biden has removed virtually all Trump barriers to child sex trafficking across the Southern border. Child trafficking is government sponsored and taxpayer funded, perhaps like Amazon, right to the slave purchaser’s front door. I can find nothing in his behavior that counters the view that he supports a society selling children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites.
The public must stop attending any Disneyland activity or Hollywood productions that cater to perverseness in its productions. If no one purchased tickets they would go under. Actors that do not ASAP publicly condemn the practice of selling children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites and distance themselves from those who do, should be boycotted. Those engaged in pedophilia should be arrested and punished to the full extent of the law. Otherwise, Disney’s or Hollywood’s silence on this issue is a form of approval .
The Deep State news outlets, by omission, have been accomplices to pedophilia for decades. If they are not now condemning the practice, as exposed in “The Sound of Freedom,” turn off that source. Let propaganda news self-destruct. Almost certainly they have also not covered “2000 Mules,” the Durham Report, the overthrow of the government in 2020, and the over 20 Biden shell companies to launder over $41 million received from influence peddling to foreign countries.
Elon Musk already showed what must be done by all social media outlets. As we previously reported he cleansed Twitter of 99% of pedo sites between December 2022 and the end of February 2023 in just three months. We must refuse to use social media companies that will not purge themselves similarly. Both parties should sponsor bi-partisan legislation providing stiff penalties for those that allow recruiting and preying on children.
When Trump returns he promises to restore everything he did before, including the use of Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis “by returning all traffic children to their families in their home countries and without delay.” But he adds one new long overdue aspect, “I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty.” Yes we can stop pedophilia in its tracks if the good people are proactive against it..
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 724
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The effects of the movie “Sound of Freedom” are that child trafficking is now one of the hottest stories in America—it no longer can be hidden. The vast number who viewed it was large enough to break the sound barrier. As evidence the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter declined to cover it but still box office sales reached 18.2 million surpassing “Indiana Jones” (X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3113b, July 11, 2023, 21:25). Hiding such evil is unconscionable but worse, who supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites? Let us name a few: Disneyland, Hollywood, Deep State news outlets, most social media outlets, and finally, even the Biden Administration. Opposition to the film “Sound of Freedom” by these is obvious and universal but where is the opposition to the hideous practice of pedophilia it documented. By their actions they still mostly defend the practice.
There is no issue that will unit good people more than child safety. Those who watched The Sound of Freedom visibly took a stand on this issue forcing it from darkness and into the light. If too few had gone to the theater the harm against children would have continued as usual. We will not allow the entities identified in this column to turn on the children to satisfy their perverse sexual appetites. We are more united in defending them from the dark side than ever. Those who have not yet watched this movie, to gain such resolve, are encouraged to do so. If we can’t take a stand on ending child sex slavery, it is doubtful we will on any issue.
Such is the case with Disneyland who has already lost the confidence of the American people by going woke and by catering to perverseness in its productions exemplified by its upcoming redo of “Snow White and the Seven Dwaffs” each representing some level of perversion in society. Legalese with Disney is the major reason the “Sound of Freedom” could not come out for almost five years.
Hollywood, also supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites. as an organization, or actors individually. These should be vehemently distancing themselves from the appearance of pedophilia in news releases or video clips and thus far are not. On this their quietude is deafeningly loud.
Any major news organization could have broken the story of the massive extension of child sex trafficking and slavery since Haiti in 2018, but didn’t. This, even through the disgusting pedophilia trials of Jeffrey Epstein and later with accomplice Guilane Maxwell and the little “black book” of supposed customers to Epstein Island that remains hidden from the public.
ABC could have broke the story long before had it wanted to. ABC anchor, Amy Robach, almost did on “Good Morning America” in November 2019, when everyone was covering Jeffrey Epstein—a story she had assembled previously but had been blocked by her ABC bosses. In total frustration she said, “I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail. And now it’s all coming out and it’s like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it.” “I’m so pissed right now.” Robach correctly predicted, “There will come a day when we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.” “I had it all, three years ago,” she stated. “I had this interview with Virginia Roberts,” who was one of Epstein’s child victims who was sexually trafficked by Epstein to Prince Andrew, the brother of now King Charles of Great Britain. “Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us in a million different ways.”
Roberts was in hiding at the time. “We convinced her to talk to us,” Robach said. “It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything” (“ABC’s Robach caught on hot mic claiming network killed Epstein story 3 years ago,” By Joe Concha, The Hill, Nov. 5, 2019). Today it is common knowledge that Epstein and Bill Clinton were friends; Bill traveling to the island numerous times and Hillary three or four.
Who supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites? Let us name a few: Disneyland, Hollywood, Deep State news outlets, most social media outlets, and finally, even the Biden Administration. Today there appears to be more interest in protecting the pedophiles and perverts than in protecting the children.
Social Media, also supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites. It appears, they play three roles one, to publish child explicit sexual material of which the US is the #1 consumer in the world, two, to censor information opposed to pedophilia and those involved, and three, to serve to connect those engaged in the activity. The pedophile underworld works to keep connected through social media primarily Twitter (before purchased and cleansed by Elon Musk ), Facebook (META), Instagram, YouTube, and Google (Ep. 3113b, July 11, 2023, 32:46). This is likely why the Deep State is bashing the “Sound of Freedom”—pedos want access to each other and the children without publicity or penalty.
Florida’s AG, Ashley Moody, has taken the lead in exposing the role of social media in the pedophile industry. She wrote Mark Zuckerberg, According to a survey, “146 of the 271 reported instances of social media platform used in human trafficking were attributable to Meta platforms (lnstagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), more than 53% of the reported instances involved.” These are all owned by Zuckerberg. Moreover, she said. “Facebook was the No. 1 platform for human trafficking from 2019 to 2022.” She requested that Zuckerberg “testify to our Statewide Council on Human Trafficking about what his company is doing to prevent its platforms from being used to assist, facilitate or support human trafficking” (“Florida AG Seeks to Grill Zuckerberg on Meta’s Status as ‘Preferred Apps for Human Traffickers,’” By Tom Olohan , The Western Journal, July 14, 2023, Gateway Pundit). All they really have to do is flush the system of pedo’s as Elon Musk did Twitter. It took only three months.
Finally, The Biden Administration also supports a society selling its children to satisfy adult perverse sexual appetites, by its open border policy allowing human traffickers almost free, unrestrained access to America’s heartland even flying children to their specific purchasers (Ep. 3117b, July 16, 2023, 17:00). This has been going on for most of two years. More recently, on May 12, 2023, the Biden DOJ removed the following sections from the DOJ’s website under Child Sex Trafficking: International sex trafficking of minors, Domestic sex trafficking of minors, and Child victims of prostitution (Ibid., July 11, 2023, 22:57) Why?? No explanation was given. Perhaps because they knew that these issues were coming to light and they were avoiding having to prosecute against them.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 723
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In the movie “The Sound of Freedom” the subject mater, pedophilia, is handled as tactfully as it is possible to do so. I heard no profanity and saw no graphic sexual imagery, nothing that would, or should, normally keep me from viewing it. Yet I was as deeply touched and angered as I’ve ever been. I personally could have castrated all those hedonistic, satanical men and the one women in the story, posing as a talent scout, who kidnapped the children into sexual slavery.
The little sex enslaved girl rescued by actor Jim Caviezel, playing Tim Ballard, from human traffickers deep in the Colombian amazon forests, is a powerful story. Hollywood and the Deep State have failed to suppress this movie. Being allowed to view it, though an unpleasant topic, is a great victory for freedom of speech and the press. We have victimized the most innocent and vulnerable of our population. Only the truth can help set these children free and make others pay for their crimes.
The biggest effect was I lost my societal innocence—my naivety. Of course, I knew this was going on somewhere, but not around me or in my community. And what could I do about it anyway? We aren’t that wicked, are we? Yes we are, even as Sodom and Gomorrah!!! We are guilty of “electing” people to govern who tolerate this evil in our society—even a president whose daughter Ashley claims in her diary, he showered with her. As a society we have been hard on our “little people” allowing millions of abortions since Roe V. Wade, mutilated by the scalpel, one by one, down the street in Planned Parenthood clinics. In this sense we are personally responsible. That is the loss of societal innocence I’m referencing. We let it happen!! We are personally responsible to God for our not speaking out enough, not just for our voting for evil leaders.
The enemies of our children seek openly to normalize pedophilia even boldly recently chanting, “they are coming for our children.” Yes, the movie “hurts to watch” in places but is a call to arms, in this country and the world, to defend the children perhaps many times more than we presently do—to drive these perverts and pedophiles from our society.
Yes, you are likely to be bothered for having seen it but YOU NOW ARE FULLY AWAKE AND MOTIVATED TO END THE PRACTICE. God’s children are not for sale. Yes, those who have not yet seen it should and be fully armed, enraged, and engaged in protecting our children from the dark side. Unfortunately, the theater was largely empty. God needs more recruits. That is the problem. How much longer can he hold back his judgement on us when we enslave his children in sex slavery?
The film makers warn, “We know this is heart breaking, …and it hurts to look at. But the first step in helping these children is hearing their story. Not enough people know this problem exists and even fewer people are willing to do anything about it.” We have to break the sound barrier to this evil practice. The movie was made almost five years ago. Its makers speak of the indescribable opposition to its getting to the people such opposition invites the suspicion that Hollywood is engaged in the practice. It is as though the demons crawled out of hell to unit against it. But, despite this opposition, it is already outpacing any other summer film.
Director John Paul Rice too expressed his concerns about pedophilia through a compelling film he produced in 2018 called “A Child’s Voice,” depicting a fictional child trafficking ring.” It was heavily censored by the Left so is hard to find. When one gets too close to the truth they are silenced. Although highly rated, his movie was banned by Amazon. There is no topic Hollywood is more sensitive about, causing speculation as to how involved they are as an industry in pedophilia. That the “The Sound of Freedom” broke through for public exposure is a miracle.
Elon Musk has worked hard to cleanse Twitter of pedo sites. In February alone he “suspended 800,000 accounts that distributed child sexual exploitation (CSE) material, and the company had reduced successful searches for such material by 99% since December.” He said, “What I’ve been told is that we’ve done more to eliminate [CSE] material, than on Twitter in the last four months than what has been done in the last 10 years. It will continue to be our #1 priority, a 100 fold reduction in CSE search patterns is pretty gigantic” (“What About the Children? We know, We know!!! But they were Silent!,” Harold Pease, Ph. D., column #708). Unfortunately only Twitter was cleansed. Those removed from Twitter likely just took their pedo recruiting to the other social media platforms and it is conceivable that double or triple this number are producing CSE materials for sale. Worse, these sites have voiced no concern about adults sexually drooling over the images of our precious little ones.
The film producers tell us that child sex slavery “is the fasters growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it is going to pass the drug trade because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time but a child 5 to 10 times a day.” Its a $150 billion a year industry. Never in history has there been more slavery than now.
In the United States it is likely the principle reason the Democrat Party insist upon open borders; children can be smuggled in without notice; “350,000 plus unaccompanied minors have already come across Joe Biden’s open border since 2021 and 85,000 plus of these children have ‘gone missing’ according to DHS” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3112b, July 10, 2023, 15:00). Google acknowledges that “The US Department of State estimates that 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year” (Ibid. Ep. 3111b, July 10, 2023, 34:29). This seems very low.
Tim Ballard, the hero in the story played by actor Jim Caviezel, was asked, “Why are you doing this?” He answered, “Because God’s children are not for sale.” He elaborated, ‘“The Sound of Freedom” is one of those films that can legitimately change this world. So we want to ignite a fire in audiences and open their eyes to the days reality of million of children that need our help. Let’s make this film a historic event and start the end of child trafficking. Viewers, by attending, are sending “the message that God’s children are no longer for sale.”
Continuing, “An estimated 2 million children are trafficked and we can help them. Our goal is to inspire 2 million people to attend the film’s opening weekend. Two million for two million trafficked children around the world. Every parent, every teenager, in America should see it. If millions of us come together to see this film we could propel the movement to help save millions of children around the world. Help send the message that God’s children are not for sale.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 722 Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
Unless one is profoundly asleep or willfully ignorant one cannot escape the avalanche of documentation confirming the above column title and the FBI and DOJ are running cover for the Bidens. Justice on the federal level is no longer possible with these two organizations. But this is old news for those who pay attention, read a lot, do their own thinking, thus have escaped the matrix. For the others deprograming takes time. It’s all on the Hunter Biden laptop known to be authentic by the FBI since received in 2019 but knowingly peddled as Russian disinformation to influence the 2020 presidential election. Had Hunter been prosecuted when the DOJ first got the laptop, rather than nearly four years later, both he and Joe Biden now likely would be serving time.
In May 2023 Chair James Comer of the House Oversight Committee announced, … “we can now confidently trace at least $10 million in total from foreign nationals’ and their related companies going to the Biden family, their business associates and their companies. What services did the Biden’s provide in exchange for this money? It is unclear what they provided other than access and influence.” By the end of June 2023 he had raised the amounts extracted from nationals by the Biden’s to at least 40 million dollars: Ukraine, China and Romania.
Marco Polo released a 634 page report on the Biden laptop with 2,020 citations thoroughly documenting 459 crimes committed by the Bidens and their associates: 140 business crimes, 191 sex crimes, and 128 drug crimes. (“The 634-page report on Hunter Biden’s laptop — and 459 alleged crimes,” By Miranda Devine, New York Post, October 26, 2022). As the evidence for each crime was placed on the laptop by Hunter himself making it his confession he has already plead guilty. He chose to be a witness against himself but the DOJ won’t allow this to stand because the information also witnesses against his dad, Joe.
Ironically Senator Joe Biden was the architect of the “1994 Crime Bill that sent millions of Americans to prison for doing what his son is doing right here” yet under the recently announce DOJ “sweetheart” deal, Hunter is charged with only the lowest three; of the 459 crimes, two tax evasion misdemeanors and one possession of a fire arm, a felony. He serves no jail time at all, nor does pop, and all other evidence on the Biden crime family goes away (“NO JAIL TIME: Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty in Deal to Avoid Jail”, by Brianna Lyman, Daily Caller, June 20, 2023). The average sentence for what Hunter was charged with is 3-5 years in federal prison,(X22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep 3098b, June 21,2023, 16:49).
But this is four-year-old stuff. The new crimes coming to light for both son and dad are many times worse just coming out of the House Oversight Committee beginning last May. Chair James Comer announced, “We have now established a network of over 20 [shell] companies formed by the Biden’s and their associates. Most … formed when Joe Biden was Vice President.” … we can now confidently trace at least $10 million in total from foreign nationals’ and their related companies going to the Biden family, their business associates and their companies. What services did the Biden’s provide in exchange for this money? It is unclear what they provided other than access and influence.” The only purpose of the 20 shell companies was to launder the ill-gotten gains. According to bank records the Biden’s “took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal payments they received from foreign nationals.” He implicated the following Bidens by name: “Hunter, James, Sara, Haley, Kathleen, Melissa” and, of course, the “big guy,” Joe Biden, without whom no nationals would have anything to bribe (“House Finds Biden used over 20 Shell Companies to Hide Money from China,” LibertyUnderFire.org, #714).
Apparently their was some level of coercion regarding the bribe and the whistleblower had 17 recorded conversations, two of which were with Joe himself according to the FD 1023. What services did the Biden’s provide in exchange for this money? It is unclear what they provided other than access and influence.”. Chairman Gomer knew that the FBI was hiding Form FD-1023 which was the documentation for the above and FBI Director Christopher Wray surrendered it only after he was threatened with jail time. This and other FD-1023 forms documented the likelihood of both bribery and treason, with foreign nationals selling state secrets for millions of dollars to Ukraine, China and Romania. (Ep. 3095b, June 15, 2023, 13:06). By June 28, the $10 million Biden bribe money trail amount estimate escalated, “Overseas payment to Biden Family could exceed $40 m Comer says ‘This was organized crime.’” (June 28, 2023 by Vickor Nava, X22 Reports, Ep. 3105b, June 29, 2023).
The most recent new whistleblower revelation was the App Message demanding payment from a Chinese businessman. According to the bombshell testimony, the president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s DE home when he texted communist party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him if he did not follow Hunter’s ‘order.’ (Ep.3100b, June 23, 2023, 18:37).
We are content that Henry Zhao and Henry Zhang are the same persons and that the Henry pictured here is the same as Hunter was texting in the Apt Message. We are not making any attempt to verify the other data in this photo . Comer has not yet published his breakdown of the $40 million coming to the Biden’s.
Hunter’s note read: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.” Then Hunter threatens, “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me, and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.” Then Hunter concludes, “I am sitting here waiting for the call with my Father.” Joe Biden did know about his son’s business dealings after all. He profited from them.
Had the Hunter “sweetheart deal” indictment been offered and administered four years earlier when Biden was perceived by Democrats to be a man of some respect and the FBI and DOJ institutions of integrity, this may have been enough for an ignorant nation allowing the remaining to be swept under the rug, but not today. Its too little too late. Now the issues are bribery, treason and overthrowing the government of the United States—crimes many times worse. The FBI and DOJ have both turned roque on investigating Biden and have combined with foreign nationals to imprison Biden’s leading opponent (Trump) in the election of 2024 to perpetual prison and to remove this nation as a constitutional republic. This is way beyond treason.
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 columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 721.
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Recent columns have documented that November 3, 2020 was a successful coup to overthrow the government of the United States. Some knew this when it happened but for most it was just too hard to accept initially but are moving to this conclusion more slowly—all will be there eventually. It happened. Elon Musk told us what we must do to escape decades of programing, “The only way to escape the matrix is to unlearn everything that you have been taught and rebuild your entire belief system based on critical thought and analysis.”
But the magnitude of the insurrection which included past and present presidents, contenders, and trusted iconic organizations like the FBI, DOJ, DHS, CDC, and seemingly at least 75% of all Internet and media news outlets knowingly plotting and carrying out such a thing was, and still is for some, impossible to comprehend. But the flood of documentation cannot be ignored. The matrix got us.
We have to have an outside force, one that has not been a part of the coups of 2016 or 2020, and one that is set up to hold tribunals separate from our present corrupted judicial system. The military is our only recourse. Yes we have a few woke TV generals elevated by the Biden Administration, who wish to feminize the military, but quickly fled the battlefield in disgrace in Afghanistan. But nobody really believes that in this present war between patriots and globalists that they run anything major respecting the military or have the actual nuclear football. Otherwise, we would presently have troops in Ukraine and war with Russia to cover-up the coups mentioned.
We learned in “With Treason Documented, When Do the Arrests Begin? NOT YET,”LibertyUnderFire.org, that the criminals will never turn themselves in. The FBI will never arrest itself. The DOJ will never prosecute itself. And the news and Internet platforms will never fire themselves. The penalty for treason must be severe enough that overthrowing the government would be unthinkable for many generations to come. Otherwise justice will never result.
The military is the most patriotic element of our society. They are already MAGA in uniform for several reasons. First, they put their lives on the line for our freedom. Second, they know the enemy, for the last 100 years they have fought socialism (whether fascist or communist, whether Europe, Asia or now in the homeland) and see / know the difference. Third, the military is the only group in America (outside politicians), who, to be a part must swear an oath of allegiance to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Fourth, they are disciplined (a quality normally absent in gangs or thugs organizations like Antifa). Fifth, the Left, as a group, is traditionally anti military. But most importantly, sixth, now that Donald Trump has been decidedly exonerated from the Russia Collusion scheme and they know him to have been the REAL elected president—absent the 2020 coup— and the likely winner of 2024 as well, will follow his lead now so long as it isn’t against the Constitution. This, largely because he is innocent and follows the rule of law. Philosophically, as a body, the military is as far away from Joe Biden as it is possible to be.
But how do we get to tribunals from here? It is happening now. As the evidence of treason by the Deep State transcends from drips to a flood, Americans will flock to Trump even more. The raid on his home last summer for classified documents he was entitled to have, the 27-year-old E. Jean Carroll rape case that lacked any real evidence, the present indictment for espionage from his classified documents and probable arrest on this “trumped-up” charge —all frivolous and political motivated election interference charges—will bring droves to him. Biden has weaponized his DOJ to imprison his only real opponent at the height of a presidential election, something that happens in third world countries. More so as people see nothing ever happening to those on the Left like the Clintons and the Biden’s. When America concludes that there is no justice for the Right side of the political spectrum, they will welcome military tribunals.
Chaos in the streets, like unto the Summer of 2020, is anticipated sometime before the inauguration of newly elected Donald J Trump as president in January of 2025. Now that two insurrections have been documented one in 2016, the other in 2020, and Trump is now known to be the actual winner of 2020—absent the election interference—the military will have no difficulty using the Insurrection Act of 1807 in dealing with any subsequent chaos whoever calls them, as soon as the vast majority of the public, is ready.
Actually the Constitution allows military intervention under unusual circumstances—notably insurrection. George Washington used the Calling Forth Act of 1792 (“original statute for the Insurrection Act”) as authority “to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in 1792.” Gradually it came to be called the Militia Act and was next used by President John Adams “to put down the Fries rebellion in 1799 in eastern Pennsylvania after landowners rose up in opposition to a federal property tax.” Thomas Jefferson “signed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to foil a plot by Aaron Burr” to seize lands in Texas and presumably form a new government. President Abraham Lincoln used it in 1862 to authorize “a draft to increase the number of soldiers in state militias.”
In 1871 the Ku Klux Klan’s terroristic activities against blacks in the south required “the use of federal troops during the reconstruction period after the Civil War.” Its overuse, “led to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts the use of federal forces in domestic and civil cases except when specifically authorized by law”—but not insurrection. It was used by presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy during the 1950’s and 1960’ segregation issues (“What is the Insurrection Act?,” By Brad Dress, The Hill, Oct. 6, 2022).
President Trump used great restraint in not using it against the Antifa / BLM led demonstrations of destruction and violence in the summer of 2020. In 2024 and 2025 this will not be tolerated.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 has been generally applied to insurrection at the state level. Insurrection at the federal level—the overthrow of the entire executive branch of government—which impacts the other two branches is untested waters but undoubtedly treason. Treason is defined in 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.” Those charged will be tried in military tribunals as soon as enough realize justice can’t happen any other way.
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 columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 720. Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
The Second Continental Congress, having been convened for six months, had been engaged in the wrestle for or against independence, the vast majority of delegates being decidedly against such drastic action most of this time. Surely there should be a way of reconciling their differences with Great Britain instead.
Caesar Rodney whose 80 mile 24-hour ride to Independence Hall through torrential rain and lightning, though sick, made it possible for unity among the colonies on the submission to England of the Declaration of Independence. His ride and arrival was the first of three little miracles that made the Declaration, at that time, possible. He was a signer of the Declaration and a veteran of the War for Independence. He placed his life on the line for our freedoms.
This was so even after the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker (Breeds) Hill and the British occupation of Boston. We were at war. King George III had already rejected the Colonists Declaration of Rights, arguing the violation of colonial rights under British law, and the pacifist Olive Branch Petition, which reaffirmed colonial loyalty to the king and blamed their problems upon Parliament alone. Moreover, he had declared the Colonists in open rebellion. A full six months prior to the signing a declaration of independence, Parliament had removed the colonies from the protection of the British military, ended all British trade with them, and authorized the confiscation of any American vessel on the seas. Still, delegates could not bring themselves to separate from the British Empire.
On July 1, 1776, the Patriots finally risked “putting the question” to a tentative count but were numbingly shocked by the result. Four colonies New York, South Carolina, Delaware and Pennsylvania did not support declaring independence from Great Britain. The Patriots needed to show solidarity. A vote of only nine colonies would show disunity.
This is where the brilliance of John Adams, from Massachusetts, and Richard Henry Lee, from Virginia, came into play. They got Edward Rutledge to use his influence to persuade South Carolina, for the sake of unity, to join those supporting independence, if Pennsylvania and Delaware could be persuaded to do likewise. Convinced that that could never happen, Rutledge agreed. Next, Adams and Lee worked on Delaware which had three representatives, one for and another against independence and a third, Caesar Rodney, who was pro declaration, was recuperating from health problems at his farm 80 miles away and probably would not be able to be there to vote the next day. Apparently he had skin cancer and a sore on his face the “size of a large apple.” The Delaware delegate favoring independence sent a messenger to Rodney to try to get him to the Convention for the vote. This necessitated an 80-mile all night ride by the sick delegate.
Now to change the vote of Pennsylvania with seven delegates, four against independence. Amazingly Adams and Lee convinced two of these to be absent for voting the next day. This would place Pennsylvania in the camp of the Patriots. New York, without instructions to vote for independence, remained neutral refusing to vote at all. Decidedly too many ifs, and would everyone keep their promise? They needed a “little miracle,” perhaps three.
Sometime after lunch the next day July 2, 1776, Caesar Rodney, “caked with mud from head to foot,” having ridden though a severe thunderstorm and torrential rain “entered the assembly room, and when his name was called for Delaware he rose with difficulty but in a clear voice stated: ‘As I believe the voice of my constituents and of all sensible and honest men is in favor of Independence and my own judgment concurs with them, I vote for Independence’ ” (Declaration of Independence: The Keepsake Album of its Creation, by Joseph P. Cullen, American History Illustrated p. 34).
The statue of Caesar Rodney in Wilmington, Delaware was torn down on June 12, 2020 as part of the siege on monuments of our Founding Fathers by Antifa and BLM anarchists during the Summer of 2020.
This “little miracle” made Delaware the 10th colony for a declaration that these colonies were free and independent states. The two lesser “miracles” followed. Pennsylvania followed as planned when the two con-delegates did not show to vote as promised, leaving a simple majority for independence, and Rutledge kept his word and persuaded South Carolina to become the 12th colony for the sake of unity. With New York abstaining the Patriots could announce to the world that the vote had carried without an opposing vote. All this happened within 26 hours, when the day before, at 10:00 a. m., only nine colonies supported independence. God was in the details of the Declaration of Independence.
A draft of The Declaration of Independence had been written, reviewed by committee, and tabled on June 28, until after an affirmative vote for independence. This achieved, its finalization by the whole house followed on July 4, 1776, passing 12 to 0, again with New York abstaining. But could all this be vindicated on the battlefield, that seemed just as improbable perhaps needing additional “little miracles,” or would these men merit only the gallows, but that is a story for another column?
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. His columns are published in four countries. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 719.
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