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The right to bear arms

..is not a right to bear arms in the Ninth Circuit

US Appeals court rules Americans don’t have right to open carry guns in public
On Wednesday, an en banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the second amendment right to keep and bear arms does not citizens include the right to carry a firearm, either openly or concealed, in public.

The case is Young v. Hawaii. Hawaii doesn’t alllow any carry without a permits in the state are “may-issue-if-if-the-applicant-is-connected-or-makes-a-big-enough-campaign-donation. Young was neither. While the ruling is outrageous, it’s also consistent with the Ninth’s previously displayed contempt for the Constitution in Peruta v. County of San Diego.

I “love” this part, too.

The en banc court rejected Young’s argument that HRS
§ 134-9 is invalid as a prior restraint because it vests chiefs of police with unbridled discretion to determine whether a permit is issued. Joining its sister circuits, the en banc court held that the prior restraint doctrine does not apply to Second Amendment challenges to firearm-licensing laws.

In a futile appeal to sanity, dissenting judges pointed out one or two little problems with the majority ruling.

Dissenting, Judge O’Scannlain, joined by Judges
Callahan, Ikuta, and R. Nelson, would hold that both HRS
§ 134-9 and the 1997 County regulation destroy the core right  to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home and are
unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny. Judge
O’Scannlain stated that the majority holds that while the
Second Amendment may guarantee the right to keep a
firearm for self-defense within one’s home, it provides no
right whatsoever to bear—i.e., to carry—that same firearm
for self-defense in any other place. In his view, the
majority’s decision undermines not only the Constitution’s
text, but also half a millennium of Anglo-American legal
history, the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of
Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and McDonald v.
City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), and the foundational
principles of American popular sovereignty itself.

I expect we’ll see this appealed to SCOTUS, where it will left to languish, until months later when denied cert. The blanket denial of the right to bear arms, will be used to support the Dem’s tidal weave of victim disarmament legislation.

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Purim Reflections on a country הפוך upside down

Purim started Thursday night, and continued on Friday till sunset, when Shabbat started. One of the things about Purim is we don’t listen to the scroll as mere (HAHA, mere) history, but as current, as our reality today, to see it through the lens of current events.

I listened to a very interesting podcast last week, the podcast discusses the genocide chart and points out the flaws in it. Nope, it’s not too negative, it’s too optimistic. It’s not that long, and well worth listening to.

Well, that’s not too hard. Let’s see, government that hates a segment of it’s own population and wants to kill them.

Basically, we are living under martial law, and have been for over a year. We no longer have the right to run our own businesses as we see fit, people that have had a business in their family for generations are losing their businesses and homes. The government decides whose life is essential and worthy of continuing.

You no longer have the right to redress of grievances, or even express an opinion on the past election, at least that’s how the rulers would have you believe. Don’t believe me? RUSSIA is saying that American citizens are being treated unfairly.

Quick pop quiz: Which supreme court justice served the shortest length of time? Amy Coney Barrett. Because with her and Kavanaugh (both who made so much of their faith, like Judas Pence) siding with the liberal court justices refusing to hear evidence in the election they have pretty much rendered the SCOTUS irrelevant. They will be packed soon enough. It will never be anything close to a real SCOTUS again. She carried on about how she “loves” the Constitution. Uh huh, like OJ loved Nicole. If they didn’t want to do the job, they shouldn’t have taken it.

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, February 4, 2021 Persecution of participants in January mass protests in the United States

We are deeply concerned about the ongoing persecution campaign against participants in the so-called storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and against anybody at all who does not agree with the results of the latest presidential election. US officials and an obedient media have labelled them “domestic terrorists.” By the way, did the ambassadors of EU countries or EU representatives in the US react in any way? Did they express concern about Washington’s rhetoric regarding its own citizens? No? Too bad.

The FBI has reportedly opened more than 400 criminal cases and applied for more than 500 search warrants and subpoenas for suspects; it has also brought charges against and detained around 200 people. Only several dozen defendants have been released on bail or placed under house arrest. The others are being subjected to harsh pressure, with members of their family and social circle being coerced into giving a “convenient” testimony. Moreover, people who have not even been officially charged are losing their jobs; they are being banned from social media and publicly ostracised.

Among other things, there is a question about the objectivity of the law enforcement agencies because they are essentially acting under orders and in line with the narrative of the current administration who declared the events of January 6, 2021 a riot and everybody who was near the US Congress on that day all but plunderers. Whereas in fact, the majority of those people were ordinary citizens concerned about the situation in their own country. These were 74 million voters who voted for their president and defended their views. I am using the same words that Washington has used with respect to our country.

Their protest will not just go away. You cannot just sweep discontent under the rug. Even the rhetoric that the United States allows itself to use with respect to Russia will not help distract public attention from the country’s own problems. They will have to be dealt with. US citizens deserve to be treated according to the law and in line with Washington’s international obligations. In this context, we have every reason to express concern and demand that basic human rights be observed. US officials are constantly and hypocritically taking care of these rights when it comes to other countries; and yet, they have no scruples in ignoring them at home. Why don’t you deal with your own problems? There are plenty of them and they need to be solved.

We intend to continue monitoring this issue and have a serious talk with Washington.

I’d just add we have darn good reason to doubt the validity of the election when 3 months after the election TIME magazine (I don’t take it, my puppy is house trained) publishes an article bragging about how they stole influenced “fortified” the election. Reminds me of a comment a Rabbi made sometime last week on a radio show about how evil has to brag about what it’s done. So meaningless show elections. Characteristic of communism and totalitarian?

Yes, I quoted the whole item in case it “disappears”. How sad is it when Russia has to point out the injustice. And they are correct. There are absolutely stories out there of people that were just at the capitol that day, but were identified (read ratted out) and have had visits from the FIB, full of threats and intimidation. One pair of brave FIB agents even took on a pregnant young mother at home with her four children under the age of 7.

It’s about the ideology, that tops everything. The media celebrates transgender Rachel Levine, the nominee for assistant health secretary who took her mother out of a nursing home two weeks before she started stuffing Wuhan flu patients into them. Meanwhile there is another transgender woman who has been in jail, stripped naked and left in open display with the lights on in her cell for 24 hours a day for 4 days. As of 22nd February, she was still being held without bond. Her crime? Right wing thought. She is a member of Oath keepers and was at the capitol on January 6th. Did she break anything? No. Did she attack anyone? No.

Meanwhile antifa and blm seem to be skating for their participation. UPDATE: BLM-Antifa Organizer John Sullivan, Who Was Arrested After Storming US Capitol, Bashing Windows Is Writing a Book, Being Paid for Video as Trump Supporters Rot in Jail

IGNORED BY THE MEDIA ELITES AND FBI: List of 20 Individuals at the Capitol on January 6th – All Appear to be Connected to Antifa or Far Left Groups

Unequal application of the law depending upon political beliefs?

PELOSI’S FAULT: Speaker Pelosi told Sgt. at Arms to Deny National Guard at Capitol Due to Optics – Left Building Unprotected then Lied About it- MUST RESIGN!

President Trump: Capitol Officials Controlled by Pelosi Rejected My Recommendation of 10,000 National Guard for January 6 Because of Optics

Propaganda style media covering for totalitarian regime?

I’d make a joke about Pravda here, but I’m not sure they aren’t more honest than American mainstream media at this point.

Is the government working to enslave citizens by using ruses?

HUGE EXCLUSIVE: US Dr. Ralph Baric Was Reviewing Moderna and Dr. Fauci’s Coronavirus Vaccine in December 2019! — What’s Going On?

Again, remember, Fauci was paying the Wuhan lab, even after Osama Obama told him to knock off the gain of function studies on the virus.

Did Fauci know the fix was in for Obama’s third term in the guise of hiden Biden, because he sure isn’t in jail. Why Is Dr. Fauci Receiving International Awards? Why is He Not Fired or Behind Bars?

There are some very interesting graphs in that article. Remember, it was the feckless Fauci who insisted the whole country had to be shut down ruining the economy and lives. But with leftists, the end justified the means.

Why is a Democrat campaign committee thanking Fauci? The whole article is pretty interesting.

As I was viewing The Hill’s website a day after Joe Biden’s “inauguration,” an interesting ad popped up on the screen. It featured a smiling Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the caption read ‘Thank you, Dr. Fauci!’ along with a link to “sign the card.” And who created (and paid for) this ad? Curiously, it was a fundraising arm of the Democrat Party, namely the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Why would they congratulate Fauci? Could it be that they’re grateful for the massive in-kind campaign donation by his advocacy of a massive lockdown of the American economy in a presidential election year?

The ruse that Wuhan flu justified the ruining of lives and the economy. Special favors for rats?

Branches of the government weaponized against its own citizens?

And as to some animals being more equal than others, may I just present this little conundrum.

While American citizens are masked, and locked in their homes losing their livelihoods, Obama’s sock puppet Beijing Biden has thrown open the border. We have no idea who is coming in, they are not masked, not Wuhan flu tested and we have no idea of the criminal background. Breaking: After Opening Southern Border to Illegals During Pandemic Biden Proposes Sweeping Amnesty Bill.

While American children are locked out of in class schooling due to pressure from the teacher’s union who want to be paid without having to actually, you know, teach, illegal alien children are treated to in class learning courtesy of the American taxpayer. WATCH: Trump Rips Into Biden for Bragging About Educating Migrant Kids at the Border — While American Children Can’t Go to School

I was talking to a friend of mine the other night. He’s an ex-pat living in Nicaragua and has for the last 20 or so years. He said tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have left and are in the US, now. He says they are met at the border with buses, loaded up and taken into America. I said America is becoming a communist country, why would they leave to come here? His answer? Because there they are going to get free stuff. He said one of these days when the government finally lets people out of their houses, there are going to be all these people and we are going to wonder where they came from. Neither one of us felt the need to mention who would be paying for the “free stuff”. Cloward-Piven, here we come. Wonder why congress wouldn’t work on the merit based immigration system President Trump was pushing for? Don’t even get me started on the “covid relief” bill. Children today will be living in economic slavery all their lives. Only about 09% has anything to do with covid relief. Citizens enslaved? Yepper.

So, you tell me, they let all these illegal aliens in, they don’t have to observe social distancing, masks, take experimental injections, have Wuhan flu swabs rammed up their noses and they get in person learning. Is Wuhan flu really that deadly a threat? Lying to the citizens to gain control?

We all know about the disaster in Texas, Texas Deaths May Be Due In Part to Biden’s Garbage Climate Change Executive Order and Related Actions

The loss of lives in Texas is due to the unusually cold weather but it may also be due in part to an Executive Order Joe Biden signed on his first day in office a month ago today.

Yesterday we reported on the recent Executive Order (EO) signed by Joe Biden one month ago today regarding climate change and the US’s actions related to it.

World Economic Forum Deletes Latest Video After Cheering Global Lockdowns that Pushed 100 Million Humans into Extreme Poverty

Schwab and the WEF cheered the empty streets insisting the global pandemic lockdowns were “quietly improving cities around the world.” The video highlighted deserted streets, empty factories and grounded planes. Evidently, the WEF has no concerns for the world’s poorest citizens who suffered greatly under the Fauci lockdowns for a virus that targeted 80-year-olds.

The Fauci global lockdowns will plunge 100 million into extreme poverty.

Don’t forget, these are the people that say by 2030 you will own nothing, have no privacy and be happy about it. Ask yourself, does Beijing Biden seem like an America first kind of guy? We’re back in the Paris climate accords, the WHO and the Iran nuclear deal, and out of the tough trade deal President Trump had with China. Nope, seems more like a globalist kind of tyrant with American citizens last kind of guy. He’s cool with the WEF plans.

If you haven’t listened to the podcast, one of the things the Rabbi points out is to take over a populace you have to keep them beat down and miserable. I’d say the items listed above are steps in that direction.

And last but not least, a Bill Clintoon advisor is concerned. How bad is it when a Clintoon advisor is concerned about what she sees? Former advisor to Bill Clinton and author, Naomi Wolf, was on Tucker Carlson’s Show on FOX News on Monday night. Naomi warned that under Biden America was becoming a ‘totalitarian state before our eyes’.

I’ve been writing for months and months about what I see as the terrible crisis that we’re in, that we have to recognize under the guise of a real medical pandemic. We’re really moving into a coup situation, a police state situation and that’s not a partison thing, that’s, as you say, that transcends everything you and I might agree or disagree on that should bring together left and right to protect or Constitution. We’re absolutely moving into what I call step 10.

I wrote a book in which I pointed out there were 10 steps that would-be tyrants always take when they want to close down a democracy. Whether they’re on the left or the right they always do the same 10 things and now we’re at something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime. You described it really, really well. It is step 10 and that’s the suspension of the rule of law, that’s when you start to be a police state and we’re here, there’s no way around it.

הפוך

Upside down, honest American citizens are being used and abused, the attempts by the communists to use the power of the government against it’s own citizens is on full display.

But just like Hamen in the Purim story who had the power of the government on his side, he still ended up hanging from a tree. And as the Rabbi pointed out in the podcast, every totalitarian government will try to disarm the populace. It’s been that way since back in Biblical times. Do we have a tyrant in office with such aspirations?

But also like in the Purim story, even though G-d himself is never mentioned and remained hidden, he was there. He responded to Esther and Mordachai’s fast and their prayers. I know many in this country have been praying for G-d to intercede. I do not believe the majority of America wanted to turn their backs on the best economy in many years, the lowest rate of unemployment for minorities for years, if not ever. A man who absolutely embraced citizens being allowed to practice their faith openly, as long as it didn’t involve driving vehicles into crowds of people or blowing up buildings or people. Well, you get the idea. I do not believe the majority of Americans decided they wanted G-d out of America and their lives.

But there is one G-d, only one, and like it says in the Purim parody song, we know who really runs the show. אין עוד מלבדו

There is none besides him.

If you don’t know, that song is a parody of this one.

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Waving the (false) flag

First and foremost, I don’t know I wasn’t there.

You know, there have been massive Trump rallies going on all around the country, all year. Actually all around the world. I never realized how many people around the world loved President Trump till I watched the latest episode of Intellectual Froglegs. I think the part where he shows clips from all around the world is towards the beginning.

Intellectual Froglegs

What did all these have in common? Well, President Trump supporters never started any violence at any of them. Now local police departments stood down and allowed them to be attacked. And as I mentioned in this column DC police have forced President Trump supporters to walk through blm/antifa gauntlets before. Not exactly Officer Friendly, eh? But if there was violence, it wasn’t President Trump supporters that were starting it. And goodness knows it wasn’t police departments that were stopping it either. In fact, it seems blm were hiding behind the police. Apparently some foolish Trump supporters attempted to go to what is now called blm plaza. They didn’t realize only blm and antifa are allowed to go there and so police stopped them. They had to maintain law & order you see.

The Nationalist Review reports, “A Black Lives Matter supporter attacked an elderly Trump supporter this evening in Washington, leaving her face bruised and bloody. When other Trump supporters demonstrating for the president’s reelection struggle stepped in to protect the victim and request that the police arrest her assailant, the police responded by pepper spraying the entire group.”

Unsurprisingly, the resulted in a clear diminishing of support for “Back the Blue” amongst those sprayed by the police as they protected antifa/blm who are the only ones allowed to be in blm plaza (a previously public area known as Lafayette Square, part of President’s park).

A pro-Trump Marine went off on the DC Police after officers maced Stop the Steal protesters the night before Wednesday’s big rally.

Police have been using a very heavy hand with Trump supporters to protect the Antifa and Black Lives Matter militants who are gathered in BLM Plaza.

“You lost both sides of support. We had your f***ing back, but we ain’t got your back no more!” Trump supporters yell at police after they block access to BLM Plaza and make arrests of some of the group tonight #DC #WashingtonDC #January6th pic.twitter.com/M2syNacscv

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 6, 2021

Which makes what happened at the capitol somewhat less surprising. According to one report, the DC police let a busload of antifa in.

According to a former FBI agent on the ground at the US Capitol, at least one bus load of Antifa goons infiltrated the Trump rally as part of a false flag operation.

Chaos erupted at the US Capitol building on Wednesday after Vice President Mike Pence announced he would not block Biden’s electors.

Trump supporters are being blamed for all of the violence and chaos but according to a former FBI agent, Antifa has infiltrated the Trump rally.

At some point things at the rally began to go south and some people started trying to break windows. Some questions are raised if they really were Trump supporters as Trump supporters tried to stop them.

President @realDonaldTrump supporters pulling Antifa terrorists away from building. There’s plenty of these videos. Why isn’t the #mainstreammedia reporting? pic.twitter.com/ItzN2YWETL

— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) January 7, 2021

One would think Bernie Kerik would know a bit about law and order.

Yes! Trump supporters tried to stop breaking of windows more than once —even ended fighting with them. I was there watching n taping! pic.twitter.com/Ah0klHv4Fw

— Emma Right (@emmbeliever) January 7, 2021

Trump Supporters Stop ‘Antifa’ From Breaking Windows at Capitol

Videos taken of Trump supporters gathered at the West Front of the Capitol during Wednesday’s protest show that they stopped a person whom they believed to be an Antifa thug who was trying to break windows in the Capitol. In one of the videos, Trump supporters can be heard calling out, “Don’t break the window!” “No Antifa! No Antifa!” as several Trump supporters intervened and stopped the attack by someone dressed and acting like Antifa but with a Trump sticker on the back of their helmet.

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Violence by Antifa on the south side where Trump supporters were told to March to. Supporters stopped the breakage but he started again later. MSM keeps saying it’s Trump https://t.co/0EIewoCwxb’s not. pic.twitter.com/eYLD3FlKiG

— Emma Right (@emmbeliever) January 7, 2021

Then there was that storming of the capitol business.

It didn’t look all that violent.

Nor did this part after they were inside. ONE officer? Really? I want to know who was filming.

Some of the pictures from inside raised questions for me. The guy in the “viking” hat for one. I’ve read he was at a blm rally in Arizona wearing the same outfit, and on the Chris Salcedo show he said someone told him the guy really is a Trump supporter. Seems odd to me, usually it’s antifa you see running around missing part of their wardrobe.

Then there is this picture

A false flag?

Some of these people in the photo look like antifa that someone plunked a MAGA hat down on their heads. The photo just looks off to me.

Then we have a wider angle shot, in which the guy on the viking’s right has a communist tattoo.

Journalist Tayler Hansen who was attacked by antifa earlier this year recognized some of the people there as antifa.

CNN (communist news network) did interview someone that was there. CNN #FakeNews like to stick with who they are comfortable with though. Activist Interviewed by CNN Who Stormed Capitol Building Is Radical Leftist from Utah Who Threatened on Video to “Rip Trump from White House”

Meet BLM criminal John Sullivan was arrested for threats and violence against conservatives in Utah!

John was interviewed on CNN about the film he took inside the CAPITOL of Ashli Babbit lying in a pool of blood dying – WHY was he there?

Listen to John threaten Trump & Violence pic.twitter.com/uAVM6y1NxT

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) January 7, 2021

Utah citizens are so terrified of Antifa/BLM John Sullivan they begged authorities to protect them from him!

Wonder why this left-wing criminal who was arrested for rioting in the past was at the capitol? https://t.co/CXFs0Rv6vf

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) January 7, 2021

Another thing that causes me to question this is that the police did attack some of the protesters, without provocation. “We had No Weapons. We Were Peaceful. They Started Shooting At Us.” Police Attacked Protesters With Pepper Spray, Tear Gas and Clubs.

We had no weapons. We were peaceful. They started shooting at us.” Protesters at today’s event in DC. Another protester saw the police fire tear gas on the protesters for no reason. They also beat people with their sticks:

Which makes it all the odder that the ones that originally entered the capitol met with almost no resistance initially, well, till the capitol police started shooting unarmed Trump supporters.

According to The Blaze, two conservative journalists very familiar with antifa say it wasn’t antifa behind it.

I think there is good reason to think they absolutely had a hand in it. Conservatives don’t destroy statues, antifa/blm do. Conservatives don’t damage buildings, antifa/blm does.

If you know the nature of a critter, you are less surprised by what it does. That’s true with animals four legged and two legged.

The result? Only a handful of senators stood firm against vote fraud. Only a few of our elected politicians felt the American people were worth standing up for. We weren’t asking for the results to be overturned, we were asking for an investigation. The proposal was five senators, five representatives and five supreme court justices to investigate the massive amount of voter “irregularities”. Free and fair elections are a thing of the past. I hear talk show hosts talking about yeah, it’s going to be a rough couple of year, but boy in two years! Fools. The steal succeeded. No one has been called to account, and it doesn’t seem anyone will be. When crime is allowed to succeed, it grows.

Perhaps it’s who gets to determine what is crime. ABC is calling for Trump supporters to be cleansed from America. That’s not a crime. The violence of the last four years by blm/antifa has not been considered a crime by the the MSM #FakeNews, or democratic politicians. The FIB, the courts, the #FakeNews and the DOJ have seen no evidence of voting irregularities. Well, one would have to open their eyes for that to happen. So apparently crime is now a subjective, not objective term. The disgraced FIB has decided what they consider “crime” FBI Has Already Put Together a List of “MAGA Most Wanted” From Yesterday – Considering Adding President Trump so working for the country and American citizens apparently doesn’t concern them much. I don’t believe I heard of them putting together a list of antifa/blm that were torching cities, beating and killing people and attack police, but hey, if you’re the protected class, all that was “mostly peaceful”.

Meanwhile Mike Pence is pulling out his shiny new 30 pieces of silver and holding them up to the light and admiring how they sparkle. He contemplated his selling out of the American Republic and Israel to the Communists that hate them both. He was heard to mutter “I can’t believe they gave me this much for the American people and the Republic! I never thought they were worth this much!”

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Hanukkah 2020

Because I can never see this enough.

What.A.Year. Paging Judah Maccabee….

We’ve had several columns written about Hanukkah, possibly because I love the holiday. People of faith in both America and Israel have had threats to their ability to worship freely in both countries for as long as I’ve been doing columns.

http://zelmanpartisans.com/?s=Hanukkah

Chabad has a really good story of Hanukkah that gives more of the history leading up to the pivotal moment when Mattityahu killed the Hellenized Jew that was going to sacrifice a pig on the alter in his name. Then he went after the army that had come to enforce the decree. https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102978/jewish/The-Story-of-Chanukah.htm

While both Purim and Hanukkah celebrate the survival of the Jews against an enemy, there are differences. Purim, like the holocaust was an attempt to wipe the Jewish people from the face of the earth. The goal of the Syrians-Greeks was to make the Jewish people like everyone else on the face of the earth, meaning idol worshipers.

This year as we approach Hanukkah, I see my country in a place I could never have imagined growing up. I wonder if it was like that was for the Maccabees? Did they see the threat of the Greeks growing? Because initially when the Greeks gained control over Israel they were respectful. But as some of the Jews began to assimilate, the Greeks lost respect and began to treat them more cruelly. One might say, the mask came off.

As it is here.

I don’t think there is any doubt that there has been massive election fraud in the 2020 elections. And of those that would deny it, I would be curious to know how much they actually know about it. As the always brilliant Jack Englehardt writes in his column about censorship,

Turns out my neighbor up the road never heard about the Hunter/Joe Biden scandal that weeks ago was all the rage on the New York Post, and later Fox News.

That’s the one where Hunter allegedly served as bagman for himself and his dad off money scooped up from China, Ukraine and Russia.

“How come you didn’t know?” I asked this neighbor.

“Never heard of it,” he said proudly. “I don’t read the Post. I only read the Times, and I never watch Fox News.”

If he knew the story, would he still have voted for Biden?

“It would have been something to consider.”

Yes, it would…and I read somewhere that more than 60 percent who voted never heard of it, either

It seems people that lack information make really poor choices that  cause everyone else to suffer. And suffering there will be.

In addition to censorship, there is just flat out lying by the MSM. The Nick Sandman category of lying, brings us the latest story involving the Papa John’s Pizza chain and accusations of racism. Except it never happened. Ex-FBI director clears Papa John’s founder of racial bias, slams ‘clearly inaccurate’ media Hope he sues the AP into oblivion. If the media will lie about something like a pizza chain, how could anyone ever doubt the lengths they would go to in the quest to manipulate voters The media made this story up out of whole cloth!

It seems daily more and more information comes out about ballots unloaded in the middle of the night, pulled out from underneath tables, or Timmy found them in the well. Then there are the ballots that got ran through multiple times, President Trump losing votes on a cnn scoreboard refresh, tractor trailers with ballots disappearing. There has been quite a lot of evidence. Unless you are Brian Kemp urging the Chinese to come to GA. Governor Brian Kemp on Video in Front of Communist Flag Asking Chinse Companies to Invest in Georgia

What’s that Lassie?

No need Governor, they’ve already invested in you and the GA Secretary of State Raffensperger who shows a stunning lack of awareness by using Dominion’s President Trump hating Eric Croomer to say there is nothing wrong with their systems. Perfectly safe. Georgia Attorneys and Secretary of State Defend Dominion Voting Systems Instead of Voters In Their State. Never mind the 2016 video in which Croomer was saying ” possible to bypass election systems software during the vote counting process.” Actually there are two videos of Croomer demonstrating how to use Dominion to switch votes. Or like Stzrok and Page, Croomer had his power trip moment:

“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!” – Dr. Eric Coomer VP of US Engineering for US Dominion Voting Company

Isn’t it interesting that in 2016, when Kemp was Secretary of State, there was a Dominion problem.

Georgia Secretary of State Says 10 Cyberattacks Traced to DHS – Calls for Investigation. Yep, that’s right kids, in 2016 Obama’s DHS (the ones that said in this election there was no sign of fraud, right?) attacked the Dominion voting machines in GA. The IP addresses were traced back to the DHS. And yet, GA keep the Dominion machines. Boggles the mind, doesn’t it? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/georgia-secretary-state-says-10-cyberattacks-traced-dhs-calls-investigation/

Dominion had some help though, for example Mark Zuckerberg of Fakebook. We talk about how he censors posts and information, but he did a lot more than that. About 350 million more than that.

This year, left-leaning donors Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan gave $350 million to an allegedly “nonpartisan” nonprofit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which in turn re-granted the funds to thousands of governmental election officials around the country to “help” them conduct the 2020 election.

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What these grants did was build structural bias into the 2020 election where structural bias matters most – in densely populated urban cores. It converted election offices in key jurisdictions with deep reservoirs of Biden votes into Formula One turnout machines. The hundreds of millions of dollars built systems, hired employees from activist groups, bought equipment and radio advertisements. It did everything that street activists could ever dream up to turn out Biden votes if only they had unlimited funding.

In 2020, they had unlimited funding because billionaires made cash payments to 501(c)(3) charities that in turn made cash payments to government election offices.

Massive numbers of people have come forward to testify under oath about things they’ve seen, or like some nursing home residents, things that have happened to them. Things people were told to do, things that have been recorded on video. Everyday citizens stepping up because they know what they are seeing is wrong, and evil. And those who should care, judges, secretaries of state, attorney generals at federal and state, multiple state actually, levels just don’t care. I’m very disappointed that SCOTUS wouldn’t hear the case Texas and other states brought against those corrupt states. It seems to me if the whole country is about to suffer under the tyranny of the harris/biden regime we should be heard. Some of these states that foolish choose not to be involved are going to be in for a big shock. Because once the socialist/communist party seizes control their autonomy is over. Has anyone ever seen much autonomy in a communist country? Thought not.

Remember the doofus known as Eric Swalwell who threatened to nuke American citizens  who refused to be disarmed and then just claimed he was joking? I’m sure most people realized it’s not normal for elected officials to threaten citizens with nuclear weapons. Well, not communists, no, they wouldn’t see a problem with that. But normal people. So lately it’s become much more clear as to why that would even cross his mind. He was in bed with the communists, no wonder he thinks like them. Yes, literally in bed with them. A Chinese spy named Christine Feng who also implanted a few people into other political positions. Republicans have a problem with Rep. Swalwell being on the intelligence committee and sleeping around with Chinese communist spies.

Demoncratic/Communists do not. Pelosi Defends Swalwell’s Chinese Spy Scandal – Then Deflects by Saying QAnon is a Danger to Congress Poor old bat, she needs help.

How much voter fraud, illegal voting, ballot manufacturing etc has taken place? Who knows for sure, the FBI is out investigating garages and subways sandwich shops. But I would hazard a guess that if this level of corruption and a power grab of this magnitude is allowed to succeed, we’re pretty much all done but the shouting. There will never be a real election again, it worked. If it works once that’s all it needs to work because then the communist government has taken control. Things that are moral and honest have been shoved aside. And evil people have been allowed to break the law, lie, cheat, steal and bully and intimidate with no repercussions. Why wouldn’t they do it again?

The democrat/communist party knows the majority of Americans voted for President Trump, thereby rejecting their radical platform. It took a massive amount of vote fraud to overcome those votes cast by real Americans. And yet, the communist/democratic party is now willing to attempt to force their will on those citizens. Those who voted for biden because he was a “moderate” are going to be very shocked when they discover their trial subscription to living in a communist country compliments of Wuhan Flu controls becomes a permanent feature.

I heard a very interesting interview with Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Smith from www.SaveOurFreedoms.org Rabbi Smith is also a lawyer, has studied molecular biology, virology and infectious diseases at the University of California at Berkeley. He maintains what is being done to the fearful American citizens is psychological warfare and he has some pretty good reasons for saying that.

And at a time of great challenge, the aspiring tyrants in power in NY and CA have forbidden people to attend worship services. And all over the US older Americans have been deprived of getting to see loved ones in their waning years, families are kept apart by fears of a virus with a greater than 99% recovery rate. NO ONE IS SAYING IT’S NOT REAL. We know, it’s real. And it’s also really being used to control people. So things that are normally a large source of strength and comfort to people, things that have helped hold the fabric of our society together in troubled times are the very things those aspiring to rule over us are denying us. Illegally I might add.

I have as much faith in vote tallies as I do Wuhan flu statistics. Sad, isn’t it?

After Supreme Court ruling, New Yorkers go back to synagogue

The decision resolved two cases at once: one brought by Agudath Israel of America, an organization representing Orthodox Jews, and one brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.

“This is the first time in my memory that we have assumed the role of plaintiff before the high court,” Avi Shafran, Agudath Israel director of public affairs, told The Jerusalem Post. “What impelled us here was the singling out by New York’s governor of Orthodox neighborhoods as virus spreaders, repeatedly calling pointed attention to the residents’ religion, when other neighborhoods with even higher virus transmission rates were not given the same ‘red zone’ status. Our rabbinic leadership felt that we needed to speak up and defend our, and all Americans’, religious rights.

As in the times of the Maccabees of Hanukkah, cruel tyrants tried to forbid people from from the free worship of G-d. They have that in common with communism. Nothing is allowed to be more powerful or revered than the government. People of faith live by G-d’s laws, and love and revere G-d, not big government.

Justice Barrett Casts Deciding Vote, Justice Gorsuch Hammers Gov. Cuomo’s COVID-19 Restrictions on Churches and Synagogues

Democrat California Gov. Newsom Ignores SCOTUS, Doubles Down on Worship Restrictions

Yes, I think I’ve laid out enough information as to why these times are dark, with similarities to the times of the Macabees, and in fact some of the same circumstances. And some of those same circumstance are for the good as well. Namely, G-d is still in control

אין עוד מלבדו

There is none but him.

The festival of lights, Hanukkah, season of miracles. The miracles are many. That the Maccabean army was successful. From 1 Maccabees Chapter 3

10 Then Apollonius* gathered together the Gentiles, along with a large army from Samaria, to fight against Israel.

11 When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him and struck and killed him. Many fell wounded, and the rest fled.

12 They took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius and fought with it the rest of his life.

13 But Seron, commander of the Syrian army, heard that Judas had mustered an assembly of faithful men ready for war.

14 So he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom. I will wage war against Judas and his followers, who have despised the king’s command.”

15 And again a large company of renegades advanced with him to help him take revenge on the Israelites.

16 When he reached the ascent of Beth-horon,* Judas went out to meet him with a few men.

17 But when they saw the army coming against them, they said to Judas: “How can we, few as we are, fight such a strong host as this? Besides, we are weak since we have not eaten today.”

18 But Judas said: “Many are easily hemmed in by a few; in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between deliverance by many or by few;

19 for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven.

20 With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us;

21 but we are fighting for our lives and our laws.

22 He* will crush them before us; so do not fear them.”

23 When he finished speaking, he rushed suddenly upon Seron and his army, who were crushed before him.

24 He pursued Seron down the descent of Beth-horon into the plain. About eight hundred* of their men fell, and the rest fled to the land of the Philistines.

They reclaimed the Temple, they were able to replace the desecrated and stolen items and finally to find the one small cruse of oil. The oil that was only suppose to last for one day, but instead burned for eight. But that’s not the only miracle with the oil. The miracle is that they used the oil and lit the Menorah. The part that I’m apply starts about 5 minutes in. I promise, from minute 5 to the end is good medicine.


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14And My people, upon whom My name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My presence and repent of their evil ways, I shall hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. ~~II Chronicles Chapter 7:14

That’s the thing about Hanukkah, the Maccabees and the Jews that were remaining faithful to G-d were outnumbered, out gunned and didn’t even have NewsMax on their side. But they did have something better, they had G-d, who loved them. Yes, I think we could be facing an escalation in this fight we’ve been engaged in now for some time. But G-d is not a man who changes, he is the same and the things he wants from us and for us are the same.

I don’t know how this will turn out. I know we can’t rely on people or institutions to save us, almost every institution and so many politicians that campaigned that they would represent us have failed us. The corruption is in so many places, some not even known yet.  No matter what, we can continue to seek G-d, and ask for his blessings on us, our families, homes, country and our way of life. We can try to be prepared and filled with resolve. And we can remember this is the season of miracles. As Rabbi Zev says, “Think good and it will be good”.  I believe in miracles.

Chag Hanukkah Samach

חג חנוכה שמח

Happy Hanukkah or Merry Christmas (a bit early) to our TZP family

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Yelling ‘Liberal’ In A Crowded Fire

Yitzhak Goldstein, Professor Errant

Ouch!

To be a conservative in a high school socialIST studies department is to experience what a whitetail deer does on opening day. Hunted on all sides. Only, the season never ends and there is no bag-limit. I often thought about forming an organization for conservative history teachers. We could meet together in a telephone booth. Alas, I never found a booth or another such teacher for that matter. Once viperous colleagues, dexterous with cutlery, got me “canceled”, this need seemed moot. Maybe. Still, Americans need to realize, the dearth of conservative teachers means only one side takes the field.

U.S. Government and Constitution was my forte. I was in my 17th year when, on Wednesday 27 January 2010, the principal summoned me to his office. “Close the door” he said, a bad sign. Like an attorney, he scribbled notes on a yellow legal pad during interrogations. Looking up, an angry scowl on his face, he said, “You have a reputation for being a conservative, a problem that has persisted for years. It is the number one topic among staff. They complain to me about what you teach and your bias”. A parent said her special education son never did well with conservative teachers and wanted him transferred from my government class.1 Stunned, I asked when conservativism became a crime. If simply being a conservative was controversial, it demonstrated who was really biased. He was not amused. His eyes went from blue to purple meaning he was furious. “No, you’re the problem” he yelled at me. “You’re the only one I receive complaints about for bias”!

I explained government courses by nature are political. Controversial issues are bound to arise. Because I was the only Constitutional Originalist among the four teaching it, naturally I stood out. Second, I was not the only one receiving parent complaints (if his claim was even true. He was famous for telling teachers unnamed parents complained about them). Each semester parents confided in me objections to the liberal and anti-Christian bias of their kid’s teachers. I witnessed this including those trashing students out behind their backs because their dad was a pastor. I asked these parents to speak up but they declined. Each worried the district would label them “troublemakers”. Worse, they feared liberal teachers would retaliate against their kids. I told the principal I spoke with another teacher who shared my experiences not revealing it was Tim Latham, fired by the Lawrence, Kansas school district for being a conservative (it made national news).2 In addition, liberal colleagues mocked me by name (students told me) in front of their classes. They spread gossip and false stories about me. Nor did I mention the secret journal in which I recorded names, places, and dates of liberal bias and persecution. The principal laughed in my face saying none of what I said was true. I was a liar. I was the problem and cause of controversy in the school. I protested this was not true but he insisted I was making up everything I said. He even claimed there was no liberal bias among colleagues. I was the only one using the classroom to push my views. He could not have been more wrong.3

Because he judged me guilty (of doing what my accusers actually did), from that day forward, I was to turn in weekly lesson plans along with copies of every article, handout, homework assignment, quiz, and test I used so he could scour them for bias. I noted, absent the same requirement for liberal teachers, this amounted to a double standard. He said they did not use biased materials in their classes. “The one’s teaching out of Time, Newsweek, and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth certainly are”, I replied. I added basing his requirement purely on my being a conservative constituted a degree of harassment and even persecution. He was about blow his stack. He claimed many (I believe the term was “parade”) of teachers had come to him wanting to know why he had not disciplined or fired me yet. I demanded to know the names of my accusers. His response was sardonic laughter. He refused to divulge their names adding, with a mocking sneer, “You’d really be surprised if you knew who some of them were”. I insisted it was unfair to demand I answer accusations of anonymous people. He said in a slow drawn out sentence, “You will never know who they are”. Because these teachers did not want their names public, he could not institute formal proceedings however, he was commencing an investigation of me for bias. Dismissed. As I reached the door, he said, “This is not over. We’re not through yet”.4

Somehow, word got out I was on the hot seat. Colleagues called me “toxic” and “radioactive”. They refused to sit near me at faculty meetings, (where I had all 11 seats in the row to myself) in-service training, department meetings, and school sponsored lunches and dinners…for the next six years. Teachers were required to stand in hallways during passing periods monitoring student behavior. When the principal and assistant principals walked by, colleagues said it would be a good career move to be seen slamming me into a wall or knocking me down steps. Word of my troubles “spread” to students. Several revealed they had been involved in debates with liberal teachers over the Constitution. When asked the source of their information, they said I was. Oh brother.

In April my liberal socialIST studies department supervisor revealed I was no longer teaching U.S. Government or Advanced Studies American History. I was demoted. I asked why. She repeated the same pabulum; unnamed parents and colleagues complained about my conservative bias. She refused to share what the principal told her. Even though I was the only history teacher in three high and three junior high schools with a Masters’ degree and published thesis in history, they demoted me to the least desirable courses. A week later, a guidance counselor and an art teacher told me they heard rumors I was being fired. Diabetic, stress played havoc with my blood glucose and heart. My students also said they heard the principal was firing me. The stress was almost unbearable. A custodian I knew warned that history teachers in the other building were “flaming liberals” and hated me. He became involved in a political debate with them, mentioned Rush Limbaugh, and they were furious. My supervisor warned they were “evaluating” him. The principal transferred him to another building. Later that day, a socialIST studies colleague said he too heard the principal was firing me. His students knew this as well. By Friday, I was having chest pains and difficulty breathing. A student walking into my class and said, “Mr. G, what are you doing here? I heard you were dead” I laughed my head off.

Aware for years Lefty colleagues were spying on and trying to cancel me, my self-defense strategy was to use primary source materials, e.g. the Declaration and Federalist Papers in government classes. I was golden, untouchable. I was wrong. Teaching the Constitution from the perspective of those who wrote and ratified it constituted unacceptable bias and got me booted. Worse, I had developed the nefarious practice of examining self-validating political clichés to test their validity. This sparked interested discussion among students. Chief among them was, because one cannot yell “fire” in a crowded theater First Amendment rights are not absolute. Therefore, it is up to those in power to determine the “limits” to what people may say, write, and publish. If government may “limit” one right, why not others? Can there be any doubt as to where this will lead?

The Career Suicide Gang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ongoing Tales of the CSG (Career Suicide Gang)5

Nancy Pelosi,6 whose visage evokes images of dark cobweb, choked ancient castles where Dracula reposes, recently used the old “fire in a crowded theater” cliché in support of Beijing Biden’s plan to confiscate from Americans various classes of firearms.7 In a 2017 interview, Pelosi first repeated the hackneyed cliché that no right was absolute because you cannot yell “wolf in a crowded theater”.8 In her dotage, we can forgive a misquotation but not Constitutional ignorance. Pelosi wrote a letter to the ‘National’9 (sic) Park Service demanding they not grant a permit to “alt-right” group, Patriot Prayer, to hold a demonstration. A journalist asked Pelosi, whether her request infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights. She answered, “The Constitution does not say that a person can yell wolf in a crowded theater” adding no one has a right to say anything that would endanger others.10 Unfamiliar with this “alt-right”, I read Michael Malice’s book on the subject. I concluded they are comprised of Leftwing capitalists, Rightwing socialists, and anarchists. I came away more confused than ever.11 I never heard of Patriot’s Prayer. Liberal online sites label them racists and “white nationalists”. However, their webpage denounces racism and violence. It concedes such groups show up at their rallies along with violent goon squads from Communist Pantifa chapters but they have no control over this.

If Pelosi knows anything about the Constitution, she keeps this knowledge a secret. The Constitution recognizes, not grants rights. It is a restraining order against government infringing on the rights of individuals. Because rights are G-d given, they preexist all governments. Those rejecting divine origin nevertheless insist rights are part of one’s humanity. People create and construct government solely to protect these rights. The subordinate cannot modify the supremacy of the superior. Government has no authority to regulate free speech nor may it deny a group access to the public square because it finds its speech objectionable. Police authorities are “required to protect liberty” as much as they are people. Pelosi mangled a phrase uttered by Chief Justice of the United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes at the conclusion of Schenck v. U.S. (1919). In support of the Court’s 9-0 vote to suppress a man’s free speech, Holmes quipped that the First Amendment did not protect anyone who “falsely” shouted “fire in a theater causing panic”. Schenck was such a bad ruling even Holmes came to regret it. The Court overturned it in Bradenburg v. Ohio, 395, U.S. 1969. The Court held that under the First Amendment, an individual could, “advocate violence even in front of an armed crowd” as long as the speech was not intentionally planned to result in immediate acts of violence. Yet Pelosi reprises a quip from a discredited case.12

What did Schenck say that was so terrible? It was 1917 and President Wilson had just taken the U.S. into Europe’s Great War. Wilson worked feverishly to suppress criticism of his decision. Schenck, Secretary of the Socialist Party, USA, published and distributed a pamphlet arguing conscription was unconstitutional. Wilson, a ‘Progressive’, arrested and prosecuted Schenck under the Espionage Act of 1917. Schenck appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which ruled against him. Holmes’ made his comment about shouting fire in a theater after the Court’s decision. It was unrelated to the facts of the case. It was not part of the ruling and had “no binding authority”. Today, those who deny any right is absolute use Holmes’ quip to justify intentions to violate that right.13 Denial of a right being absolute of necessity requires someone to determine the limits of that right. Naturally, that “someone” is government. To employ Holmes’ rationale for denial of a right creates an open-ended justification to impose any number of restrictions on the exercise of that right.

What purveyors of the yelling fire cliché miss is the real standard established by Holmes. He declared government could suppress free speech if it determined that speech posed a “clear and present danger” to the government’s effort to prosecute the war.14 His standard assigns government the power to create its own test for what constitutes a clear and present danger. If governments, at all levels couple this “authority” with declarations of states of emergency, from tornadoes to a virus, the threat to the Bill of Rights becomes particularly dangerous. Liberals use Pelosi’s adaptation, “one cannot yell rats on a Black Friday sale in Saks Fifth Avenue”, and Holmes’ clear and present danger test to promote a political agenda having nothing to do with the First Amendment. They use it as a rationale to suppress Second Amendment rights.

If enemies of individual liberty convince Americans Holmes’ comment carries the weight of law, “proving” no right is absolute, what follows? They will use it to restrict targeted rights, incrementally, e.g. Second and First Amendment rights to bear arms, religious expression, and free speech, respectively, ultimately to extinguish them.

A union worker approached Joe “Boss Tweed” Obiden who was touring an automotive plant in Detroit, Michigan accusing him of wanting to take away people’s guns. OBiden flared up in anger and told the worker he was full of s#*t, that he supported the Second Amendment, but he would take away “AR14s (sic). OBiden declared no right was absolute. No one can yell fire in a crowded theater. He also threatened to slap the worker.15 To prove he supports the Second Amendment, OBiden stated he and his sons own “shotguns” and “hunt”.16 OBiden evinces little knowledge of firearms. Growing up in Maryland, I heard his campaign ads, including on gun control, from nearby Delaware. The words, ‘blithering idiot’ come to mind. This is how OBiden and other Liberals read the Second Amendment:

The people, following submission to an extensive and expensive federal

background check, training, and testing, proving a need to own a firearm

may purchase one from a government approved list for hunting and target

shooting at approved ranges. They must register it with the government

and reapply for approval on an annual basis. All semiautomatic rifles and

handguns are military weapons, the property of the U.S. government and

must be surrendered to the nearest arsenal”.

Nick Leghorn notes gun control advocates “invariably” recite the Holmes’ cliché to “prove” no right is absolute therefore they can limit the types of firearms citizens may possess. Holmes based his free speech exception on an emergency; government does not have to tolerate as much free speech in wartime as in peace.17 Holmes was wrong on every count. The Constitution is over and above the government. The subordinate cannot alter this relationship. The Constitution provides no exceptions or escape clause for government to violate the Bill of Rights. Those who argue to the contrary are setting the stage for intended violation of rights based on some conjured up exigency. Leghorn follows this argument to its logical conclusion.

Yelling fire in a theater when there was none would be illegal. However, if there was a fire, or a pack of Pelosi’s wolves running loose, it would not. If mere possession of a human voice does not constitute a clear and present danger, neither does mere possession of a firearm. Government may not regulate the ability to speak prior to criminal misuse. The same holds true for firearms. Mere possession of an AR15 poses no greater potential threat of criminal misuse than OBiden’s shotgun. For the government to apply the Schenck standard to restrict gun ownership, it would have to prove all people purchasing guns do so with the immediate intention to harm someone. This standard is even more problematic considering most purchases are for self-defense. Buying a firearm does not automatically cause harm to anyone. Arguments based on the potential for future harm are hypocritical otherwise gun-Confiscationists would ban the more lethal automobile. At best, banning an AR15 would do nothing with respect to reducing crime (their misuse being miniscule), and, at worst, would infringe on an individual’s ability to protect himself. According to the Declaration, the right to life is, absolute. For an individual to illegally shoot an innocent person violates the latter’s absolute right to life. Sanctions should be on individuals, not the means.18 Nevertheless, the Pelosi’s and Schumer’s of the world stamp their feet insisting no right is absolute so the state has the power to restrict rights.

Thomas Jefferson described rights as “unalienable” meaning under no circumstances could government or anyone else separate people from them. Because rights are endowed by G-d, they exist prior to and apart from government. They are inherent in one’s humanity.19 Because of their inherency, if one person has a right, all do. For a right to be a right, the “exercise of the identical right at the same time” by more than one individual does nothing to compromise its exercise by anyone else. If government can alter or rescind a right, it never was a right. It was a privilege.20 The Constitution contains no ‘Bill of Privileges’. An individual’s exercise of free speech, religion, and association does nothing to limit the same exercise by others. If someone is giving a speech or preaching a sermon, no one is compelled to visit that venue and listen. The same holds true for firearms. Individual possession of a firearm does not deny the same right or pose a threat to anyone else.21 How can proponents of using the yelling fire standard to limit rights define where limitations would end? They cannot. Instead, they would establish an arbitrary standard. Because their plan is to limit targeted rights, that standard is already contaminated. It is beholden to an agenda seeking to abolish that right. Thus, we can see, the yelling fire position is invalid. Perhaps we should prohibit yelling liberal in a crowded fire as it might provoke a search for more gasoline.

11 From my contemporaneous Journal, names included January 27 2010. The student was in what used to be called the Learning Disabled Program (LD) changed simply to Special Education. I was one teacher selected for a push to “mainstream” Sped Kids in regular classes. In the end, he did not transfer from my class, did well, and said he like the class and me.

22 Joshua Rhett Miller, “Kansas Teacher Claims Conservative Views Led to Job Loss”, FOX NEWS, June 12, 2009 at https://www.foxnews.com/story/kansas-teacher-claims-conservative-views-led-to-loss-of-job/. I communicated with Tim by email at first and then by phone. Not only did he lose his job, his Lawrence Kansas District blacklisted him to make sure he never could work as a teacher again. I cannot prove the powers that be are doing the same to me but…

33 The principal operated under a popular business model. Bosses, managers, principals, etc. bring in the accused and confront them with charges. Regardless of the validity or veracity of the charges, the accused is supposed to supplicate themselves, confess to their crimes, admit total guilt, and beg forgiveness. The boss then guides them back onto the right path meaning becoming a total “yes-man”. I read this in one of the books they assigned teachers to read. They told us to skip a chapter in the book and of course, I read it. I also witnessed this. A math teacher, who I had never met, came to me in anger. Why me? Everyone had told him I was the principal’s favorite “whipping boy” and he was to stay far away from me. He was a math teacher, who was butting heads with the principal and wanted my advice. I told him to shut up, stop talking about the principal, stop confiding in other people, and to trust no one. He chose another path. He became a supplicant and allowed the principal to reform him. Once completed, he would not give me the time of day. I was in the right, the target of a malicious campaign by the Turnip Witches to get me fired, so I refused to play the game. I learned how vindictive the principal was.

44 IBID. At the risk of sounding cliché, the account was worse than space allows me to express. Much worse.

55 CSG: “Career Suicide Gang” is a label invented by my final socialIST studies department supervisor when he saw me standing in the hallway talking to CC, also in the principal’s hot seat but nowhere near my level of revulsion and hatred shared by the principal and his stooge minions. It was his way of warning other teachers never to associate with people like us.

66 Known affectionately known as ‘Bela Pelousy’ in some parts…

77 William Jennings Bryan won the Democrat nomination for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908. He lost all three times.

88 David French, “Yelling ‘Wolf’ in a crowded theater? Nancy Pelosi Flunks Constitutional Law” August 24 2017, National Review at https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/yelling-wolf-crowded-theater-nancy-pelosi-flunks-constitutional-law/

99 Federal and National are not the same or interchangeable. A “Federal” government may exercise only those powers delegated it by the States. No such power to create parks exists among the federal government’s powers in Article I, Section 8.

1010 French.

1111 Michael Malice, The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics (New York, N.Y., St. Martin’s Press, 2019).

1212 French.

1313 IBID.

1414 Richard Parker, “Clear and Present Danger Test”, Middle Tennessee State University, at https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/898/clear-and-present-danger-test/

1515 Kylee Zempel, “Biden Tells Man Accusing Him Of Gun Grab He’s Full of Sh_t’ But I’ll Take Your AR-14s”, The Federalist, March 10, 2020 at https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/10/biden-tells-man-accusing-him-of-gun-grab-he’s-full-of-sh-t-but-will-take-your-ar-14/

1616 IBID.

1717 Nick Leghorn, “The Second Amendment And Yelling Fire In A Crowded Theater”, The Truth About Guns at https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/second-amendment-yelling-fire-crowded-theater/amp/

1818 IBID.

1919 Mark Spangler, Editor, Cliché’s of Politics (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1996), 9. From Charles Baird’s essay, “I Have A Right”.

2020 IBID. 9-10.

2121 IBID. 10-11.

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GOP-RIP

As our nation is held hostage by a cabal of corrupt demoncratic operatives a few things come to mind.

The media is attempting their cherry on top coup. For years they’ve pushed their Russian collusion farce when it was Hillary that colluded. Fox news has come out of the closet as cnn light. In fact I’ve heard folks switched over to cnn on election night from Fox because it was LESS biased. But now the media is pushing the lie of President Elect Biden. They have no interest in truth, only in agendas.

Bret Baier, Who’s Promoting “President-Elect Biden” Gets Savaged on Twitter by Furious Former Fox News Viewers

And they will tolerate none of their people discussing the rampant attempts at vote fraud taking place. Because you know, a Judge talking about vote fraud, why that’s just crazy!

Newsmax: Jeanine Pirro’s Show Was Cancelled Tonight on FOX News After They Found Out She Was Going to Report on Election Fraud

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Newsmax TV Surpasses Fox Business, CNBC in Key Ratings

I don’t know about your area, but in mine you can get NewsMax free with just an antenna. Their election night coverage was far different than fox’s apparently. Fox was slow to call Florida for President Trump, but way too quick to call Arizona for Mr. Biden. Even cnn or msdnc didn’t do that.

So the mainstream media with a couple of exceptions have gone into the (septic) tank, and nobody even had to put a gun to their heads. Judas Goats

Tons of stories of vote fraud in various and sundry forms abound.

Paper Warned About the Software Company at Center of Ballot Glitches in Swing States; UPDATE: MI SOS Responds

GOP: Dozens of Michigan Counties Used Software That Wrongfully Gave Votes to Democrats

The letter from the Texas Secretary of State office detailing the problems with that voting machine system. It’s a .pdf file

USPS worker arrested at Canadian border with bin of mail, undelivered ballots

BREAKING: Signed Affidavit From Erie, Pennsylvania USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins Now in Hands of Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham

Just by the by, I head the postal workers union endorsed Biden. It defies logic that the people of Pennsylvania would vote for a man and his running mate that have promised to eliminate so many of their jobs by banning fracking. Then there will be the cost to the state in terms of lost revenue. If there’s not much income, there’s not much income tax, not to mention people don’t spend. But the socialist/democrat party are willing to hurt any and all in their quest for power. The line is always shifting, flatten the curve>no more cases of Wuhan flu. Energy independence (which we are) > no fracking. Hypocrisy the name of democrats

LAST NIGHT, AS THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS PARTIED IN THE STREETS, SHERIFFS ENTERED THIS POTTERY SHOP, OWNED BY A SINGLE MOM OF FIVE.

BREAKING: Project Veritas: Bucks County, Pennsylvania Board of Elections Director Confirms “Spoiled” Ballots Were Illegally Handled and Destroyed

Republican PA House Speaker Calls for “Full Audit” of Election Returns Before Any Results Are Certified

The Georgia Secretary of State has already said there will be a recount.

“This Felt Like a Drug Deal!” – Asian-American Ballot Observer in Detroit Describes Mysterious Van Dropping Off 61 Boxes of Ballots at 4 AM

From former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens new show Actionable Intelligence

But President Trump is fighting back on behalf of Americans who don’t want to live in Kamala Harris’s communist Amerika. THE MASK IS OFF: Kamala Harris Endorses Communism Two Days Out From Election Day Nope I wasn’t kidding or being sarcastic.

Trump Campaign To Challenge Mail-In Ballots Counted In Absence Of GOP Observers In Battlefield States

What I find interesting is the GOP gained seats in the house and held the senate. Yet President Trump would lose? Very odd indeed. Now, I’m not good at statistics, but I found a really interesting column by someone who says he is a retired accountant, and he did audits. This column is fascinating, yes there are some naughty words, but the column is still well worth reading. He lists the number and types of “red flags” as being indicators of fraud.

THE 2020 ELECTION: FOOLERY IS AFOOT

I’ve heard politicians and radio hosts talk about that even if the demoncrats steal this election we’ve held the senate and in January the two senate seats in Georgia that are facing a run-off election will stay Republican.

Are you kidding me??? If, and I say IF the demoncrats pull off this level of corruption in the voting system, no republican will ever win an election again unless it’s some tame puppet like Mitt Romney. It would do Republicans good to remember all those parades taking place this year were waving TRUMP flags and banners, not pictures of elephants or REPUBLICAN…

Now I understand why demoncrats did all those sound bites about President Trump accepting the results of the election and having to drag him out of the White House. It was just to set up the notion in people’s minds. Just like FakeBook and Twatter started yammering on about how it’s normal for elections to take month. They lay out their scenario and the media pushes the facts into the mold.

I saw a line in one of the columns I was reading for this article/rant.

And this is why Trump isn’t going anywhere. The Deplorables now have to become The Ungovernables. No more negotiations, discussions, turning the other cheek, etc.

Ungovernable. Just say no to Commies.

I’d say The Deplorables are The Wolverines. 

Rabbi told a little joke this morning during services.

Bibi Netanyahu calls up President Trump and says “Wow, all the division, anger, hostility and violence in your country now. I can tell you how to solve this. Let me tell you about the two state solution”.

You know, I’d prefer that to this. Because I really don’t want this.

If you want to pray up on this, here is a little collection of prayers that I got from a group that is praying for him. It’s in Hebrew, Transliterated and English. Prayers for President Trump

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Knives In Black Satin

Following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the spectacle of Republicans and conservatives in a wild stampede to give her a tongue bath was appalling. Praise from self-proclaimed guardians of Constitutional Originalism was so lavish and extravagant it amounted to nothing less than deification. Had Ginsburg not been Jewish, I half expected the Pope to announce her canonization.

Martha MacCallum breathlessly described Ginsburg like a rapturous teen at the airport awaiting the Beatles arrival in America. Her face glowed as she praised Ginsburg’s towering intellect, great legal mind, inspiration to all women, and lamented Ginsburg being irreplaceable.1 MacCallum was far from alone slathering promiscuous adulation on this stalwart foe of the Constitution and its Judeo-Christian underpinnings. Effusive praise for Ginsburg came from Jeanna Ellis on the Tucker Carlson Show. Chyrons running under her face declared her a constitutional “authority”. An online bio states she is author of The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America’s Constitutional Crisis, that she is a Constitutional “Originalist”, and senior legal advisor to President Trump. Nevertheless, she declared Americans must respect Ginsburg’s service and legacy. She added Ginsburg was an inspiration to all women.2 Why was she, and not Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court (appointed by President Reagan in 1981, 12 years before Ginsburg) an inspiration to women? How a self-proclaimed “Originalist” and author of a book on America’s Constitutional crisis can heap such praise on a chief architect of this crisis is incomprehensible. Also appearing on Tucker’s show was conservative Judge Jeanine Pirro. She praised Ginsburg’s unconstitutional ruling against the Virginia Military Institute’s establishment as an all-male military academy.3

This strange outpouring of praise and worship for Ginsburg erupted on conservative Sean Hannity’s program so I flipped over to One America News until Laura Ingraham’s Show. I should have remained with OAN. Her guests included Constitutional “scholar” John Eastman (Chapman University) who asserted Americans should thank Ginsburg for her lasting work with respect to equality and social issues (those near and dear to liberal hearts: abortion and the homosexual agenda).4 Republicans continued to weigh in throughout the evening. George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz were almost unrestrained in their praise for Ginsburg. A guest on one of these shows allowed that Ginsburg was up in heaven now, hanging out with former colleagues William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia. How fortunate I am to have a strong stomach. Appalled, I turned the television off. Conservative online groups were no better. I read in disbelief as one “conservative” after another stated we all must respect and admire Ginsburg for her work and “service” to her country. Service? Service to the ongoing campaign to destroy the U.S. Constitution? Disgusted, I logged off and retreated into the mundane world of email. There I found a message from the Trump Re-election campaign declaring Ginsburg an “amazing woman” who led “an amazing life”. I responded asking what was so amazing about a career dedicated to destroying the Constitution and liberty. I received no reply. After beholding what so many Republican “leaders” had to say, who could be faulted for believing it was Ronald Reagan who had just died?

Lavish and effusive praise by Republicans for Ginsburg begs the question, if she is “all that”, why don’t they simply nominate another radical left-wing ACLU lawyer, who also despises the Constitution, instead of casting about for a conservative replacement? If Ginsburg was so wonderful, why don’t Republicans appoint some Stepford liberal to replace her?

Callers to conservative talk radio the following day commented on this stunning spectacle of Republican praise for Ginsburg. Some allowed that perhaps they were being overly “nice” to win political points. Really. With whom? With Constitutional originalists like myself? No way. We despise treason against the Constitution. Praise for those who want to destroy Judeo-Christian values and all that people of faith hold dear is repulsive. Points with liberals? It will never happen. If you are a conservative, the Left hates you. They are waging war against you. They despise every belief, principle, and value you hold dear. The lesson people should have learned from the Bolshevik Revolution is the left is dedicated to your total destruction and subjugation. Another reason no one mentioned comes to mind. Is it possible the Republican establishment worships the same institutions and organs of government power as Democrats? Do they fear criticism of Ginsburg might undermine support and obedience among Americans to the Supreme Court? Could criticism of Ginsburg spur Americans to ask on what basis the Court wields the power of judicial review and find there is none? Moreover, if Americans discover this truth, will they then look at the other branches and ask if what they are doing is constitutional? If Americans discover what public schools do not teach, that the actions and claimed powers of the three branches does not comport with the Constitution, how will they react? Will they try to take government back from their overseers? What does Ginsburg’s record, prior to and during her tenure on the bench, reveal?

In 1980, President Carter appointed Ginsburg to the D.C. Circuit Appeals Court. President Clinton then elevated her to the Supreme Court in 1993. Prior to these appointments, Ginsburg was a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. She rejected the notion rights come from G-d, rejected the principles of federalism and limited government, the Tenth Amendment sovereignty of states in their political spheres, and she rejected traditional Western Judeo-Christian values. Throughout her lifetime, her views never moderated.

From the start, America’s lawgivers grounded cultural, social, familial, and legal distinctions between the sexes (men and women for liberals) in the Law of G-d. Because Ginsburg despised a world based on a patriarchal G-d, her agenda was to remake America into a nation sterilized of sex distinctions. With government force, she sought to dismantle all single-sex institutions, organizations, and clubs including the military, prisons, fraternities, the Boy Scouts, private colleges, and so forth. She even pushed to abolish Mother’s and Father’s Day holidays but that was not enough. Ginsburg opposed laws against bigamy and polygamy because statutory regulation criminalizes these behaviors based on the sex of those involved. Naturally, her radical views applied to prohibitions against prostitution and same-sex “marriage” (sic) which she sought to overturn. To the delight of pervo child molesters, sodomites running down little Cub Scouts, and sex-slave traffickers, Ginsburg pushed to reduce “the age of consent for sexual acts to people who are less than 12 years”. She even argued for overturning the Mann Act which criminalized the “interstate trafficking of women and girls” for the purposes of engaging in sex acts because it violated the “privacy rights” of those involved.5 The authors of the Mann act sought not only to stop the transportation of women, especially young girls, across state lines for prostitution, but also to put a dent in the kidnapping of young girls for such purposes.

It should come, as no surprise Ginsburg abhorred the traditional family in which the man went to work and mom stayed at home to raise the kids. In order to undermine the role of husbands, as a step toward dismantling the Judeo-Christian family, Ginsburg pushed government [taxpayer] supported daycare for unwed mothers. She did not stop there. In her brave new world, not only would women be subject to the military draft but would be billeted with men and sent with them into combat. Ginsburg pushed affirmative action hiring and promotion rules for the military, police and fire departments, public education, and private businesses. Facing federal scrutiny if failing to meet affirmative action “targets”, companies, and organizations calculated the minimum number (quota) of minorities they needed to hire and promote to avoid government sanctions. This led to qualified candidates being passed over, by the less competent, in order to satisfy quotas, especially within police departments. I saw this first hand.6 Nevertheless, this was still not enough. Robespierre Ginsburg pushed to create federal commissioners who would ride through the bowels of government offices in search of people and publications using “sexist” words and expressions. They would scrub these offending words from documents and the mouths of employees. Transgressors would be re-educated. Next, they would fan out across the nation, storming businesses, schools, churches, and maybe homes in search of banned “sexist” terms. Offensive words included, woman, women, she, her, man, men, he, him, and many more. They would root out any word based on a person’s sex (gender refers to the femininity or masculinity of nouns) like noxious weeds and burn them so that no memory of their existence remained. Ginsburg’s Commissars of conformity began to realign pay scales associated with genitalia, for example, librarians versus those operating jackhammers to “equalize” them. Angry liberal feminist harridans, their hair pulled back into severe buns call this “comparable worth”, equal pay for unequal work. They scoured all publications for the slightest reference to an individual’s sex and removed them. Anyone who has read 1984 understands control of what people read and know is central to Orwell’s novel. Ginsburg also supported abortion on demand, for any reason, throughout each trimester paid for by taxpayers including those opposed to child murder based on religious objections.7

In 1996, Ginsburg voted with the majority (Scalia dissented) to strike down the elite Virginia Military Institute’s male only admission policy. Not only did this comport with Ginsburg’s fanatical drive to destroy any organization based on sex, she also saw VMI’s policy as a roadblock to female advancement in the military. Does the federal government have the right to interfere in the education policies of the States? We shall look at that soon. In 2000, Ginsburg again voted with the majority in Friends of the Earth (sic) v. Laidlaw Environmental Services. Ginsburg ruled individuals have a right to sue companies for pollution even if the claimants can prove no harm and the company is out of business.8 This is akin to a patient suing a doctor following surgery even though they can demonstrate no harm. Had Ginsburg’s opinion been that of the majority instead of the minority in Bush v. Gore (2000), Democrats would have succeeded in stealing another presidential election [John F. Kennedy, 1960] and Gore would have been president. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), Ginsburg sided with the minority arguing against any limits on late term (including live birth) abortions. She again sided with the liberals in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), wanting the Supreme Court to control, supervise, and set election policies and practices for Southern States, forever. Does the Supreme Court have such authority? In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), Ginsburg again sided with the radical liberal minority seeking to force Christian owned companies to provide abortion coverage in employee medical plans even though this violated their deeply held Christian beliefs.9 Ginsburg argued the government’s “need” to reorder the nature of society superseded anyone’s First Amendment religious rights. Ginsburg voted with the majority, (5-4) in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) legalizing same-sex “marriage” (sic). Torturing history and the Constitution, the majority claimed the 14th Amendment, ratified to insure Constitutional rights applied to former slaves, actually meant homosexuals, and lesbians could “marry” each other, respectively.10 Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas, writing for the dissent, correctly noted the Constitution delegates no authority to the federal government, and therefore the courts, over marriage. Under the Tenth Amendment, what constitutes marriage is a state issue. Therefore, the Court had no jurisdiction to rule one way or the other.

If Ginsburg had no respect for religious freedom, and the Tenth Amendment, let alone human life, what then was her view on the right of self-defense? In Heller v. D.C. (2008), she and the liberals wrote the Constitution does not guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms. There is only a collective, not an individual right. A person may exercise this collective “right” only while serving in the military or a State National (sic) Guard. She also agreed with Justice Breyer that no one had the right, under any circumstance, to maintain a loaded weapon in their home. Nor did anyone have a right of self-defense.11 Through a 5-4 vote, had Ginsburg and the other Knives in Black Satin been the majority, they would have eviscerated and ultimately abolished the Second Amendment. Once a government hostile to the bill of rights is in power, they will extinguish your right to keep and bear arms. They would ban the manufacture, importation, and sale of firearms in the United States followed by banning the production and sale of ammunition. If you do not have a right to own firearms, you have no need for ammunition. Next, they would close gun stores and ranges. You do not need a place to buy and or practice with what you may not own. Denials to the contrary, confiscation of all firearms in private hands has always been the left’s end game. England, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada testify to this fact. As for burying and hiding firearms, what is the point? By then it is too late. You will never be able to keep and bear them again. Ever. Republicans and conservatives lavishing praise on Ginsburg mentioned none of this. Nor did anyone ask if the Court has the right of judicial review in the first place.

Each State sent delegates to what became the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia (1787). Jealous of their fresh won independence from Britain (1783), the Founding Fathers were not about to surrender sovereignty to a new never before tried form of government. Proposals made by delegates to subordinate state executives, legislatures, and courts to federal counterparts were voted down by the majority each time. This is even more remarkable considering many opposed to scrapping the Articles of Confederation refused to attend the Convention.12 The Constitution’s drafters created the U.S. Supreme Court as the final court of appeal with respect to federal law, disputes between state governments, and between people of different states in some cases. They did not delegate to it any authority to make, modify, or alter law, amend the Constitution in any way, create, or abolish rights. So-called “Federalists” (more accurately, “nationalists”), saw creating for the court a power of judicial review over state laws as a means to erode and ultimately annihilate Tenth Amendment state sovereignty.13 Those mislabeled “anti-federalists” by “federalists” opposed them every step of the way.

Convention delegate Edmund Randolph of Virginia proposed creating a national judiciary with authority to veto the laws and rulings made by State legislatures and courts, respectively. This would be similar to the English Parliamentary system Alexander Hamilton and his supporters cherished. The majority of delegates voted down Randolph’s proposal. Charles Pinckney, South Carolina, and Gouveneur Morris, Pennsylvania, followed up with similar proposals and delegates rejected them as well. Randolph did not give up and attempted to convince delegates to accept a revised version of his proposal but it too was defeated.14 The States never gave to the federal Court, the power of judicial review. Proponents of ratification promised delegates to each state convention the court would never exercise such power.15

It was Chief Justice John Marshall, an ardent nationalist and opponent of state sovereignty, appointed by President John Adams, who got the ball rolling. He simply invented for the Supreme Court a power of judicial review. He began by seizing cases beyond the purview of the court. It did not matter how it ruled, only that the court ruled in order to create precedent. Beginning with Marbury v. Madison, 1803, each case was a step toward establishing by the court, through practice and custom, the power of judicial review. This was unconstitutional because the Founders did not delegate but denied this power to the Court. Federal branches may exercise only delegated powers. Second, it constituted a violation of Article V reserving to the states sole authority to amend the Constitution. Third, and finally, it constituted a violation of the Tenth Amendment reserving all powers not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the states. Hence, sovereign State powers and functions falling within its political sphere are outside the jurisdiction and purview of federal courts. Marshall wanted to destroy those reserved powers by denaturing the Tenth Amendment. He referred to Thomas Jefferson and the Republican Party as “absolute terrorists”. Marshall ran full steam ahead, working with other nationalists, to transform the federal into a national system of government with the states as mere corporations of the general government.16

Although Jefferson and subsequent presidents rejected the notion the Supreme Court possessed the power of judicial review, in time future presidents and political parties came to see this as a tool to enhance executive power and overcome state resistance to their agendas.17 Chief among the Constitution destroying culprits was Franklin Roosevelt.18 Over time, Americans stopped questioning the Court’s claim to the power of judicial review. They assumed the court must have this power because, after all, they exercised it. This is known as “circulus in probando”, circular reasoning. Because the court exercises judicial review, it must have the power to do so. However, they are wrong. Granted, in post-Constitutional and post-literate America, its citizens are ignorant of what powers States delegated to the federal government and too lazy to care. In addition, profligate federal largesse to States led them to prostitute their Tenth Amendment protection against unconstitutional judicial review. Even if the Supreme Court had this power, it would only apply to the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8. The Founders created a limited government whose powers are few and clearly defined. The Constitution prohibits the exercise of any power not specifically delegated to the federal government in the enumerated powers.19 Americans appear unaware of this. Great Scott, did they go to public schools?

The States delegated to the federal government eighteen powers in Article I, Section 8. An examination reveals most have to do with foreign relations and war. There is no mention of education, marriage, abortion, firearms, the make-up of the military, clubs, colleges, organizations, the freedom of association, and so forth based on sex or any other criteria.20 Silence in any area means, the federal government has no authority to legislate and the Supreme Court review in those areas. None. Every ruling by the Supreme Court that disregards the Tenth Amendment and the States’ reserved powers does violence to the Constitution and any safeguard with respect to the Bill of Rights. It destroys federalism, the rule of law, and creates a chaotic free-for-all scramble by various factions to gain control of it by any means possible. Now Republicans from Senator Mitch McConnell on down are stressing the need to replace Ginsburg with a jurist who will protect the Constitution. Really? When the Senate was considering the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the following Republican Senators voted yea:

Bond MO, Danforth MO, Hatfield OR, Pressler SD,

Brown CO, Dole KS Hutchinson TX, Roth DE,

Burns MT, Domenici NM, Kassebaum KS, Simpson WY,

Chafee RI, Durenberger MN, Lott MS, Specter PA,

Coats IN, Faircloth MN, Lugar IN, Stevens AK,

Cochran MS, Gorton WA, Mack FL, Thurmond SC,

Cohen ME, Gramm TX, McCain AZ, Wallop WY,

Coverdell GA, Grassley IA, McConnell KY, Warner VA.

Craig ID, Gregg NH, Murkowski AK,

D’Amato NY, Hatch UT, Packwood OR,

Nay: only the following three Republicans stood up for the Constitution:

Helms NC, Nickles OK, Smith NH.

Living in Missouri, I wrote Republican Senator Bond asking why he voted to confirm Ginsburg. He explained it was Senatorial “courtesy” not to oppose Court nominations of presidents regardless of party. I wrote back asking, what about courtesy to the rule of law, to the Constitution, and to the American people? He did not respond. Americans elect Senators to protect the Constitution, and they, in turn, stab them in the back in the name of logrolling. What a disgrace. We must hold them to account for their perfidy.

11 Martha MacCallum Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

22 Tucker Carlson Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

33 IBID.

44 Laura Ingraham Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

55 Phyllis Schlafly, “Senators Overlooked Radical Record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” Human Events at https://humanevents.com/2005/08/23/senators-overlooked-radical-record-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

66 Sergeants told white officers at my department to look into transferring to other departments. They believed no white male could be promoted for about 5 years and or until the liberal Chief reached the right quota. Judgments as to the competency of those promoted are subjective. However, officers across the board bemoaned the lack of qualifications and incompetence of more than a few affirmative action hires and promotions. Liberal virtue signaling and quota filling.

77 Schlafly

88 Richard Wolf, USA Today, 18 September, 2020, “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s top opinions and dissents from VMI to Voting Rights Act”, at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/18/i-dissent-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-most-memorable-opinions/2661426002/

99 IBID.

1111 On The Issues, Wall Street Journal, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Gun Control; Heller v. D.C.”, at https://ontheissues.org/courth/ruth-bader-ginsburg-gun-control.htm

1212 John Taylor of Caroline Virginia/James McClellan, editor, New Views Of The Constitution Of The United States (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1823/2000), 2-23, 29-30, 35, 40-42, 48-49, 133-137, 143-154, 174. See also Clyde N. Wilson, “Toward Real Federalism”, Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Free Market 9 (August 1995) at https://mises.org/library/ttoward-real-federaism/ and Clarence B. Carson, Basic American Government (Wadley, Alabama, American Textbook Committee, 1996), 37-40, 506.

1313 IBID. li-liv.

1414 IBID. 19-23.

1515 Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 2010), 287-291.See also, Taylor, 25, 143, 127-128, 177-179, 196-197, 309,331, 372.

1616 Brion McClanahan, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America And Four Who Tried To Save Her (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2016), 14, 61, 198-202.

1717 All laws, bills, legislation, regulations, and so forth by law must originate from the legislation branch. Beginning with “Progressive” Teddy Roosevelt, executives began to take this function away from the legislative branch.

1818 McClanahan, 75-98. See also, Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression And The New Deal (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2009), 11, 18, 27, 59-60, 102, 116-117. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), 17-30, 139-156.

1919 Clinton Rossiter, Editor, The Federalist Papers: Madison, Federalist #45 (New York, N.Y., A Mentor Book from the New American Library, 1961), 292-293.

2020 William A. McClenaghan, Magruders American Government (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2006), 763-765.

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Barrett Nominated for Supreme Court

I hadn’t spoken up publicly on Trump’s possible choices to replace Ginsburg, even though nearly everyone expected it to be Judge Amy Coney Barrett. I was a little less sure.

But Saturday afternoon, he did nominate her.

Donald Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
The president made the announcement in the Rose Garden, thrilling conservative guests who were present and gave her a standing ovation when the president appeared with Barrett.

“She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution,” Trump said, while introducing Barrett.
Barrett thanked the president for the honor of serving on the court, should she be confirmed by the Senate.

For me, a key point in Barrett’s favor was her dissent in Kanter v. Barr:

[The federal and Wisconsin laws] would stand on solid footing if their categorical bans were tailored to serve the governments’ undeniably compelling interest in protecting the public from gun violence. But their dispossession of all felons—both violent and nonviolent—is unconstitutional as applied to Kanter.… Neither Wisconsin nor the United States has introduced data sufficient to show that disarming all nonviolent felons substantially advances its interest in keeping the public safe. Nor have they otherwise demonstrated that Kanter himself shows a proclivity for violence. Absent evidence that he either belongs to a dangerous category or bears individual markers of risk, permanently disqualifying Kanter from possessing a gun violates the Second Amendment.

But that was also why I was unsure Trump would pick her. Republicans love them some law ‘n order, and anything that makes more people “prohibited persons” is just peachy (think Fix NICS), and I think some Senators may be dubious of a nominee who is open to allowing non-violent felons to have rights.

Let’s hope I’m wrong about that, too. Barrett, age 48, could potentially defend Second Amendment rights for another four decades. In other areas, she’s a mixed bag of opinions, but in balance, probably the best choice we can get.

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Can’t get one by them!

I can’t tell you how much confidence knowing the FBI is involved in an investigation inspires in me!

They are people of honor, of integrity known for their truthfulness and commitment to through investigation. Their crime solving ability is legendary, right? Criminals know they don’t stand a chance with those reknown sleuths are on their trail! They can’t be fooled, they are relentless and thus we can rest assured that truth, justice and American interests are safely protected in their capable hands.

I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.

I’m sure that just because people like Andrew MeCabe, Peter Strzok, and Robert Mueller have long and proud histories of corruption we can rest easily knowing at least they get the basics right. We can trust the FBI with evidence in important cases. It’s not like they would try to influence politics or elections with their positions.

So I’m sure it is in fact climate change that has set our beautiful forests in Oregon and Kalifornia ablaze. But whatever, we can rest assured, it is not antifa!

FBI Says Antifa Not Responsible For Setting Wildfires in Oregon

The FBI on Friday released a statement addressing viral ‘online rumors’ that political groups like Antifa are setting fires in Oregon.

“FBI Portland and local law enforcement agencies have been receiving reports that extremists are responsible for setting wildfires in Oregon. With our state and local partners, the FBI has investigated several such reports and found them to be untrue. Conspiracy theories and misinformation take valuable resources away local fire and police agencies working around the clock to bring these fires under control. Please help our entire community by only sharing validated information from official sources.” – the FBI said in a statement.

Spokane Girl Arrested for Arson Posted Picture on Facebook “Feeling Cute, Might Burn All Your S**t Later”

Arsonist Caught on Video Starting Brush Fire in Kelso, Washington

Oregon Man Charged with Starting Fire with Molotov Cocktail – Went Back and Started 6 More Fires After Release

Oregon Woman Catches Arsonist on her Property with Matches — Holds Him at Gunpoint Until Police Arrive

Oregon Law Enforcement on Video Talking about Political Arsonists in the Area

Oregon Fisherman Shares Video of Suspected Arsonists in Black Hoodies, Black Pants and with Gas Cans

Washington Serial Arsonist With Long Record Arrested for Starting Fires While Crews Worked to Fix Fallen Power Lines

Oregon Officials Announce Arrest of Two More Alleged Arsonists Including Criminal Transient

PURE EVIL! Oregon Woman Warns Her Followers If You See Suspicious Activity on Your Property Call Law Enforcement Right Away

I recently got a desk calendar book from ArtScroll, and I just love it. At the bottom of every other page is a little something. This was the little something quite recently.

from Pirkei Avot

And this is exactly what we are seeing. Mob rule and elected officials that are scared like rabbits to do their job.

Omaha Bar Owner Shoots Protester Who Was Assaulting Him, Won’t Face Charges; Leftists Vow To Burn Bar Down

And why you ask, were the peaceful rioters after Jake Gardner? A) He was a volunteer on a Trump Campaign. B) He was accused of white supremacy. Why?

The harassment campaign against Gardner did not begin with the rioter that he shot in self-defense, but it may have been the reason that the mob was at his bar smashing his windows in the first place. For years, the far-left in Omaha has been targeting Gardner for supporting President Donald Trump and for building a third, unisex, bathroom in his bar for transgender customers to use.

….

In 2016, Gardner installed a third bathroom after an altercation between a transgender person and a biological woman took place in the restroom of one of his bars. The story made the local news after major outcry from LGBTQ activists in the city. He explained that a person wearing women’s clothes, but with male genitalia, had urinated standing up in the women’s bathroom, making a woman in there uncomfortable. She confronted the person, who then assaulted her. The attacker was kicked out of the bar and the victim declined to file a police report. That incident made Gardner decide to install a third bathroom, which could be used by people who needed it.

“The last thing I would want to do is hurt a member of (the transgender) community,” Gardner told the Omaha World-Herald at the time. “But people’s feelings are going to be hurt when you bring something up that is sensitive.”

For this the left went after him, attacked his bar (and other establishments) attacked his 71 year old father and him. He shot in self-defense. There is video of Jake trying to defuse the situation.

The left lost their collective minds, he wasn’t going to be charge? They were going to riot. So a grand jury was called.

His friend Sharp confirmed this, and elaborated on the threats against Gardner and his family, both prior to fatal incident with the rioter, and before.

Sharp noted that people were doxxing his mother and that his family was receiving death threats — in no small part thanks to a local activist named JaKeen Fox.

“Bottom line, without pressure from BLM the grand jury would have never been called,” Sharp said. “The leader of that push, JaKeen Fox, wrote tweets saying ‘Rest In Power’ to the Dallas cop killer.”

A “Go Fund Me” account was established for him to pay his legal expenses. Go Fund Me took it down.

And then Jake committed suicide. The Body of Omaha Bar Owner Jake Gardner Was Found 20 Minutes From Portland

And this piece of elected human detritus celebrated. Trashy Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt Admits Jake Gardner Persecution Was Mob Rule, Continues to Smear Him After His Suicide

“The indictment of Jake Gardner would never have happened without the community, the people, who stood up for justice and demanded action from city officials. Jake Gardner is gone, but the white supremacist attitudes that emboldened him are still with us today,” Hunt tweeted

And this is where we are. Not one single shred of evidence that Mr. Gardner was ever a white supremacist. The Democrats, #AspiringTyrants haven’t been able to abolish the 2nd Amendment (yet) so they will persecute you and prosecute you if you defend yourself. Your fate is subject to mob rule and threats. People are swallowing each other using the force of mobs and corrupt government. The agency responsible for law-enforcement is dirty and running cover for the mobs, and the mobs are preying on honest citizens. R’ Chanina was very wise, and very far-sighted.

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Freedom and the Role of the Militia Part II

What I find most galling are not Republican allegations former Democrat Vice President Joe “Boss Tweed” Biden leveraged his position to benefit his son Hunter in Ukraine.1 Nor do I find Democrat accusations President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine pressuring President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate potential Biden influence peddling most galling. Democrats want Americans to believe Trump withheld aid while Ukraine was at war with Russia. However, Putin invaded Ukrainian Crimea on 20 February 2014 and later sent military units across Russia’s western border into Ukraine to assist “separatists” in May of the same year. Trump did not place his party line call to Zelensky until July of 2019, five years later.2 Can we be frank? Notions Ukraine would survive let alone prevail in a war with Russia are preposterous. Therefore, American military and economic aid would be pointless. Why then do Democrat and Republican administrations send it? Are Americans willing to offer their sons to die for Ukrainians fighting Russia? Is the U.S. willing to risk nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine? We must address yet another reality.

Since Tsar Nicholas I, Russia has pursued a policy of “Russification” in conquered nations and territories. Imperial Russia took control of the education system, mass media, and popular culture in subjugated countries. They replaced native tongues, customs, history, literature, art, music, and holidays with those of Mother Russia. Whether the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania for those who attended public schools) the Caucasus, Poland, or Ukraine, conquered people were forced to grow up as Russians.3

Soviets added a new dynamic to Russification by transplanting hundreds of thousands of Russians to the Baltics and especially Ukraine. The Communist’s goal was to displace natives and breed them into a minority population or, at least have a forward base of Russian immigrants embedded in targeted nations. Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviets uprooted entire Russian villages and moved them to Ukraine. In 1926, only 8.2% of Ukrainians were ethnic Russian. That figure rose to 16.9% in 1959 and 22.1% in 1989. In addition, by 1985, the Soviets had relocated by force, over 185,000 Ukrainians to faraway places in Russia and to the Baltics. So successful was Russification (America’s open-borders crowd pay attention), that native Ukrainians living along their eastern border with Russia dropped from 33.4% in 1926 to 2.3% by 1970. In a conflict with Russia, where will their loyalties lie? With whom will ethnic-Russian “Ukrainians” side?4 The idea that America can simply show up with her military and straighten this all out is ludicrous but still, this is not what is most galling. Instead, it is the profound degree of self-inflicted constitutional ignorance afflicting so many Americans. Who asks; what part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to seize the wages and property of American citizens and hand it over to foreigners in other countries? Go ahead and look. I’ll wait. You will be the subject of an archeological dig before you find it because no such authority exists. What the Constitution does not authorize it forbids.

The Constitution’s Framers and State Ratifying Conventions were clear in 1787-1788; powers they delegated to the new federal government were finite and few. The Framers enumerated (listed) them in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. These powers are explicit. They rejected notions that, through novel interpretations later on, anyone could create implied from explicit powers. Scottish immigrant James Wilson became a prominent Philadelphia attorney and patriot. He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and was a “Federalist” delegate to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention. Wilson described the new form of government that would replace the Articles of Confederation as a “confederate republic”. It was not a “single centralized state” because that would lead to “despotism” and tyranny. The federal government had only those powers delegated to it by the States. It could not exercise powers it did not have nor could the government imply powers into existence.5 No one is asking why the U.S. government, under Democrats and Republicans, is stealing the money and property of its citizens in order to buy and reward “friends” around the world.

I suspect to some degree America’s ruling class elite have always hamstrung the cause of liberty. They do not quite trust Americans, even their political followers, with liberty. A condemnation of liberals and Democrats? On the contrary. Republican Presidents, including Richard Nixon, George H W and George W Bush, and candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney ran as conservatives who would defend the Constitution. Once in office, as Presidents, Governors, or Senators, they shed conservative principles like snakes squirming from old skin. It is as if they believe the job of supporters is to get them elected and then shut up and go away until the next election. They talk a good game and then make one compromise after another always moving in the direction of opponents. One can find unease and mistrust of social “inferiors” even in the writing of some conservatives.

Writing for conservative The American Spectator, Daniel McCarthy notes liberals believe the mere existence of firearms, in conjunction with the election of Donald Trump, whose words have radicalized the young, is the cause of public mass shootings (PMS). For liberals the only remedy is to remove Trump from office, ban and seize all firearms in private hands, and double down on suppression of “hate speech”. This in spite of the fact police investigations reveal those guilty of PMS are typically creatures of the Left, not Trump supporters. McCarthy notes the Second Amendment’s intent was to protect the firearms liberals want to seize. He adds that a “well-regulated militia” means a citizenry well practiced with arms as opposed to a standing army. To be effective, the militia must have the same firearms as a federal standing army. So far so good. Then McCarthy runs off the rails. He asserts notions the Second Amendment supports citizen rebellion, like Shays’ Rebellion, is “right-wing folklore”. McCarthy offers as proof the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored by George Mason that “inspired” the Second Amendment. Its stated reason for arms is to maintain a well-regulated militia “under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power”.6 Where to start? Part one covered the meaning of “militia”. Here we turn to a story of mistrust by the people’s “betters”.

Typical high school government textbooks allege the Articles of Confederation had failed. This led to unpaid State and private debt, violence, and economic chaos verging on tearing the union apart. “Shays’ Rebellion in Western Massachusetts (31 August 1786-June 1787) was only the most spectacular of several incidents”.7 They assert “By 1786, people in many states were on the verge of rebellion…Led by Daniel Shays, a veteran of the Revolution, hundreds of angry farmers and laborers banded together, marched on court houses, and freed imprisoned debtors from jail”. Richard Hardy, like other government textbook authors, uses Shays’ Rebellion (a name invented by enemies of the farmer’s protest) as an argument for abolishing the Articles and replacing it with a strong national government of centralized powers.8 This interpretation was strongly echoed by liberal teachers (is there a distinction?) with whom I taught and the jock-coaches principals assign to teach government. Ill-versed in the subject, the latter deviated not from the script. Little, if any, of what they teach, including the book’s representation, of Shays’ Rebellion is accurate. The same holds true at the University. For example, a typical college text explains “hard times, tight money, and heavy taxes” sent Massachusetts farmers to debtors’ prison while others “lost their land”. The farmers’ rebellion was “put down” by “state troops”.9 Liberal John Garraty’s text asserts Shays’ Rebellion was the result of Massachusetts attempting to pay off its war debt with the tax bite “falling most heavily on those of moderate income”. He describes mobs shutting down courts to prevent foreclosures and Daniel Shays leading an army to seize the federal arsenal in Springfield, a battle they lost.10 Liberal historian Samuel Eliot Morison, despised by Communist Howard Zinn, author of the most popular fictionalized history passing as truth in public schools and universities,11 writes that Shay’s Rebellion consisted of poor farmers facing harsh economic conditions who demanded relief from their State government. They seized control of courts in Western Massachusetts preventing them from opening until the legislature amended the Constitution. Their demands included ending requirements debts be paid in specie and ending legal favoritism of coastal commercial interests at the expense of farmers. Morison labels Massachusetts’ Governor James Bowdoin a “staunch conservative” who called out the militia to put down these illegal protests.12 Postwar economic conditions were indeed harsh in several colonies but were not the cause of the so-called Shays’ Rebellion. Liberal teachers wield the story in classrooms as a “cautionary tale” to convince students the United States must have a strong national government of consolidated powers. Moreover, at the expense of State and individual rights.

Scare stories are part and parcel of the weapons used by those pushing an agenda to effect a desired outcome. Their creators spin and spoon-feed them to gullible Americans all too willing to embrace lies over truth. It works because Americans are too intellectually lazy to think beyond the accepted wisdom of the herd. Manipulators fuel preexistent worry and fear already planted by mass media and government schools (global warming, Putin under every bed) to create panic and alarm. Their goal is to cause rash imprudent reaction. The nation’s “Father” was the target of such an effort.

With no desire to leave Mount Vernon again, George Washington was enjoying retirement from public life. In 1786, he received visitors and letters from friends and veterans reporting on a “rebellion” in Massachusetts. Their shared goal was abolition of the Articles of Confederation and replacing it with a strong national government of consolidated powers. They wanted to reduce or eliminate State sovereignty. They weaved scare stories ranging from exaggeration to outright lies. Washington was already discomfited by hysterical scare stories he read in newspapers written by editors who also shared a strong desire to scrap the Articles. Political leaders, former army officers, bankers, merchants, and large landowners added their voices to claims the nation was falling apart and about to disintegrate into revolution or civil war.13

General Henry Knox, Washington’s former artillery commander, along with others, knew Washington was a large landowner constantly dealing with squatters. Therefore, they painted Massachusetts’ rebels in the most lurid and false terms. They told him rebels wanted to close courts to stop foreclosure on land for unpaid debt, seize land belonging to the rich, and that Massachusetts’ militias were too weak to oppose them. Knox claimed a “licentious spirit” was widespread among the rebels and they were “malcontents” and “levellers” who, through violence, would abolish all social, economic, and class distinctions. In addition, they would erase all private debt and redistribute amongst themselves the land they seized.14 Knox used the term “levellers” to spark alarm in Washington and others. It sprang from the English Civil War of 1642 between Charles I and Parliament. Near the end of that war, common soldiers discussed what improvements they desired for postwar England. Levellers wanted to abolish the tax-supported state church, establish basic natural rights belonging to all men, declared sovereignty was in the people not kings, and that government was a social-compact with the people.15

Through malice or ignorance, Knox was conflating Levellers with English “Diggers”. The latter were essentially proto-communists. Basing their doctrine on the New Testament, Diggers wanted all unenclosed land seized and made communal, farmed, and its produce distributed by the commune to the poor. England would abolish private property along with “unequal wealth”.16 Knox’s misrepresentation of Shay’s Rebellion, and use of the term “Levellers”, had the desired effect. He conjured images of rogue uneducated, poor, and debt- ridden rabble rising up to burn the homes and farms of the rich, looting businesses and banks, and overthrowing the government in Boston. None of this was true.

The men in Western Massachusetts who marched on and closed courts in several towns were comprised of farmers, large landowners, merchants, Revolutionary War heroes and veterans, and political leaders. They were typically middle class, from leading long established families, and were neither poor nor debtors. They rebelled because land and note speculators, led by Governor James Bowdoin, had taken over the government in Boston. Like other states during the war, Massachusetts issued paper notes to pay its soldiers, farmers, and merchants from whom it requisitioned supplies. Not backed by specie, inflation ensued and soon, like the famous Continentals, they were worthless. People had to eat and pay bills so, when speculators offered to buy these notes for a fraction of their face value, their holders sold them. After the war, Bowdoin and his cronies bought up as many notes as they could. Once in power, they passed a law requiring the State redeem them at full face value, with interest, and much of it paid in specie. To finance redemption, Bowdoin’s government passed a head tax on families for every male 16 and older and farm families tended to be large. In addition, the state would tax their land. Those unable to pay faced losing family farms and going to prison. The State had forced soldiers, farmers, and small merchants to accept worthless notes during the war. From them speculators bought these notes for next to nothing. Now the state was taxing those who lost an enormous sum selling the notes to speculators to pay an even greater amount to redeem them on their behalf.17 Public school texts seem to leave out this part of the story.

Is it any wonder farmers in Western Massachusetts reacted in anger and protest? They demanded a change in the law. Specie was scarce and farmers knew the government in Boston was robbing them to benefit Bowdoin and his wealthy cronies. Boston was deaf to farmers’ complaints. Their protests became larger and eventually they closed local courts to force change. They were not attempting to overthrow the government. Bowdoin reacted with force. The State Legislature granted him authority to arrest, torture, and even hang rebels. He could also seize their land and sell it. To his benefactors, naturally. He suspended habeas corpus meaning he could arrest and keep rebels, even political enemies, in jail until they rotted. This he did. Massachusetts’ militia was more than large enough to suppress the rebellion but, when Bowdoin called it out, they refused. They would not march against men they knew to be honorable, patriots, and war veterans. Bowdoin and his rich speculator friends passed the hat amongst themselves and raised enough money to hire a mercenary army of 4,400 led by war veteran General Benjamin Lincoln to suppress the “rebellion”. Following several skirmishes, the rebellion ended when Lincoln’s State army seized the federal arsenal at Springfield before the farmers did.18 Proponents of a new “national” government did not tell George Washington this side of the story.

Although a war hero, Daniel Shays was a newcomer to Western Massachusetts. He was leader of one of many groups who protested what Boston was doing. Those comprising “rebel” groups never called themselves “rebels, insurgents”, or “Shayites”. The press and allies of Bowdoin invented these labels. The same way the left uses “right-wing” for conservatives implying the latter are Nazis. Shame on you Daniel McCarthy. Instead, they referred to themselves as “Regulators” a term originating in England during the 1680s. Britons who took this name opposed corruption, cronyism, and tyranny in government. Americans knew this history. The term Regulator gained usage In Britain’s North American colonies in the 1760s, first in North and then in South Carolina. Lawyers and land speculators gained control of Carolina County Courts and used their position to levy heavy taxes, fees, and fines on farmers. They jailed delinquent taxpayers, seized, and sold their land. When the governments in each colony refused to reply to the farmer’s pleas for relief, they took matters into their own hands forming organizations of Regulators who drove corrupt lawyers, judges, and officials from office. Like Massachusetts, the aristocracy consolidated political power into its hands rewarding themselves and cronies at the expense of farmers, exactly what Britain’s appointed Royal Governors had done in the colonies. Each state in turn suppressed rebellion. Following in the footsteps of those who came before, Massachusetts’ Regulators vowed to end tyrannical government in Boston based on cronyism and corruption. Their goal was to rewrite the hated State Constitution of 1780.19

Men who favored creating a European style strong national government with centralized powers used Shay’s Rebellion to argue the government under the Articles was too weak to survive. They stoked fear and panic. “Nationalizers” created and disseminated false narratives through the media they controlled. They pressured Madison and Washington to support abandoning the Articles in favor of a yet, unwritten new form of government.20 It is remarkable that American patriots did not realize that, in beholding the rebels of 1786, they were seeing themselves in the mirror of 1776. There can be but one explanation. These men evinced a trait shared from time immemorial among those who would rule. They do not trust “lesser” citizens to rule themselves sharing the same amount of freedom as their “betters”. It is why they target the Second Amendment, freedom of speech, and challenge the outcomes of elections. Even some Republicans, conservative pundits, opinion makers, and movers and shakers believe in government for, not of the people. They want their base to vote and then shut up. Do not accommodate them. Read and learn the truth.

11 Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires (New York, N.Y., HarperCollins Publishers, 2018), 55-73. Spoiler alert, Republicans have their hands in the till as well.

22 Natalyia Vasilyeva, The Associated Press, “Russia’s Conflict With Ukraine: An Explainer,” 26 November 2018, The Military Times at https://www.military-times.com/news/yar-military/2018/11/26/russias-conflict-with-ukraine-an-explainer/

33 Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, Sixth Edition (Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2000), 332, 333, 380, 394, 397, 575-576.

55 Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, N.Y. Simon & Schuster, 2010), 104, 108.

66 Daniel McCarthy, “Liberalism Cannot Stop The Shootings”, American Spectator at https://spectatorus/liberalism-cannot-stop-shootings/

77 William A. McClenaghan, Magruders’ American Government, 2000 Edition (Needham, Massachusetts, Prentice Hall, 2000), 37.

88 Richard J. Hardy, Government In America (Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), 45.

99 Rebecca Brooks Gruever, An American History, Second Edition, Volume 1 to 1877 (Reading, Massachusetts, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1976), 175.

1010 John A. Garraty and Robert A. McCaughey, The American Nation: A History Of The United States, Sixth Edition (New York, N.Y., Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987), 151.

1111 Mary Grabar, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, 2019), 6, 12, 14, 23-28, 251, 257.

1212 Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History Of The American People, Prehistory to 1789 (New York, N.Y., A Mentor Book from New American Library, 1972), 390-394, 395.

1313 Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 1-3.

1414 IBID. 3-4.

1515 Goldwin Smith, A History of England (New York, N.Y., Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974), 305-334.

1616 IBID. 334.

1717 Richards, 1-10, 15-16.

1818 IBID. 23-61.

1919 IBID. 64-74, 61-63.

2020 IBID. 89-116, 129-138.

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