The Supreme Court v New York Decision on Gun Control

 The Supreme Court just overturned a New York law that prohibits lawfully licensed people to carry firearms outside the home. Justice Thomas wrote wrote a 63 page majority opinion explaining why. Justice Alito, on the other hand, had much more to say, especially to Justice Breyer, who wrote the dissent.

Breyer spent most of his dissent quoting statistics on gun violence, including suicide, as a reason to back the New York law. Alito argued back that the liberal Justices, especially Breyer, were just saying, “guns are bad.”

MSN News reported, 'Breyer -- in writing what may be one of his last big dissents before retirement -- struck back.

"I am not simply saying that 'guns are bad,'" he said.

But he said that balancing "lawful uses" against the "dangers of firearms" is primarily the responsibility of elected bodies such as legislatures.

"Justice Alito asks why I have begun my opinion by reviewing some of the dangers and challenges posed by gun violence," he said.

Breyer said he did so because the "question of firearm regulation presents a complex problem -- one that should be solved by legislatures and not courts."'

My only question to the liberal Justices is this: What is in the Second Amendment that says the legislature can infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms? Were does it say that only government employees are allowed to own and carry firearms?

Our so-called representatives aren't really representing the people that have given the authority to legislate and those representatives are inserting Justices and judges that are not following the Constitution of the United States of America.

The Second Amendment has been a big deal to government for quite some time. Our elected officials seem to think it is their duty to just wipe away our Constitutionally guaranteed rights, especially for protecting ourselves from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Why are they doing everything they can to disarm the American People? Conspiracy theory says it's because they want to do things they could get shot for.

When Madison initially introduced the various proposed amendments that would later become the Bill of Rights, he proposed to insert the bulk of them, including what would later become amendments one through five, part of the sixth amendment, and amendments eight and nine, into Article I, Section 9, between Clauses 3 and 4.  His speech to Congress can be found here.

This is the portion of the Constitution which limits Congressional power over individuals.  Clause 3 is the prohibition on Bills of Attainder and ex post facto laws.

Clause 4 is the limitation on the imposition of taxes directly on individuals as oppose to excise taxes on economic transactions.  This clause has been substantially abrogated by the sixteenth amendment, authorizing the federal government to tax incomes.  In other words, Madison proposed to put these amendments into that part of the Constitution that protected individual rights of the people from the federal government. The context of Madison’s original introduction to Congress of the Bill of Rights, including the second amendment, is powerful evidence supporting the conclusion that the right to keep and bear arms was intended to confirm an individual right of the people to arms. (Madison on the 2nd Amendment & milita clause | Human Events – Bearing Arms )

Here are ten quotes from the Federalist Papers concerning the People's right to keep and bear arms:

1. “The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams

2. “…arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them….” – Thomas Paine

        3.“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be                 taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…”- Richard Henry Lee

        4.“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole                 body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that             can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” – Noah Webster

       5.“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-                   digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such                     manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military,                 supplies.” – George Washington

        6.“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their             people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson

        7.“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who             are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the                 assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,             for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas                 Jefferson

        8.“I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”             – George Mason

        9.“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …” – Richard Henry Lee

        10.“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of                         them.”- Zachariah Johnson

(10 Essential Quotes On The 2nd Amendment From Our Founding Fathers (thefederalistpapers.org)

There should be absolutely no debate at all about the People's rights. The Constitution is a legal document, not an opinion. What if the courts decided to 'interpret' the law codes however they wanted? Oh, hang on, they do; at least when it comes to the far-left radical Democrats. As far as conservative Republicans, well, the law is the law and no one is above the law.

Kudos to the Supreme Court for taking the State of New York down a notch or two. Now, if only Congress would actually stick to their Oath of Office and uphold the Constitution instead of shredding it.

What happened to America

The ‘New Normal;’ Government control of businesses, whether they are open or closed; Governors forcing people to wear ineffectual surgical masks and social distancing; Governors and mayors allowing rioting, looting, arson, and assault by terrorist organizations while demanding their law enforcement to stand down and not allowing federal agents to assist in any way; The coin shortage and businesses not accepting cash payments for goods or services; a vaccination that is much more expensive than an FDA approved drug that has been tested for over 20 years; Stimulus checks that make it more profitable to stay at home than to go to work; Congress and government employees still getting paid (huge) salaries while most Americans are going broke getting next to nothing; Democrat’s pet projects getting millions of dollars through legislation that is supposed to be helping everyday Americans; Illegal aliens receiving money meant for citizens; Democrat and liberal-leaning government officials given a free pass on incontrovertible crimes; obvious treason and attempted overthrow of a duly elected President; mainstream media’s obvious bias and the continual attack against any conservative voice and especially against the duly elected President; the silencing of conservative voices on social media and in the mainstream media; The list goes on and on and on how we, the People, are being controlled, subjugated, and being forced into a Marxist, Socialist/Communist, fascist society.

Anonymous, the 3Percenters, the Militiamen, the Minutemen, the NRA, etc.; ALL the so-called Constitution upholding, patriotic, rights protecting organizations are silent. Where are they? Why are they silent on all that is happening in the country? Are they, dare I say it, afraid? If so, what are they afraid of? If being called a racist is the equivalent of being called a witch in the Middle Ages, then so be it. I remember a time when being called a COMMUNIST was about the worst thing that a person could be called. Now, it’s a badge of honor to be labeled a Communist, a Marxist, a Socialist. In the last bastion of freedom, the land of the free and the home of brave; a country that has fought against tyranny and oppression for 244 years. Since the Colonists decided that they had had enough of tyranny, taxation, and oppression from a government across the Atlantic, we, as a nation, have fought two world wars, two wars of Independence (the War of 1812 was actually fought, once again, for our right to be a free nation. Look it up if you can find a history book that hasn’t been rewritten to fit the liberal agenda), a civil war (yes, it started as a war for State’s rights but was turned into a war against slavery – in other words – oppression), a police action and a conflict (Korea and Viet Nam), and have been engaged in the Middle East for well over 20 years against oppression (and, of course, oil, for those that want to be technical and liberal-minded). What happened?

When did Americans become so – anti-American? Why did we? Was it because we have been blinded by the constant liberal assault on our institutions (such as the liberal takeover of our primary and secondary school systems)? Maybe it is because we have allowed our sense of fairness and well-being for all to overshadow our sense of freedom and self-reliance. “The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” That is a great slogan for the liberals. After all, ‘from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.’ That works if it is voluntary. If forced, it becomes tyranny. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

The First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” What, exactly, does this say? It seems clear cut to me. The citizens of this great nation have the right to worship as they please, or not. We have the right to speak our minds, vocally and in the press. We have the right to assemble for any reason as long as it is peaceful. Lastly, we have the right to go to the government and complain that we do not like the way they are running things.

There is some clear wordage here: NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or PROHIBITING the free exercise…; abridging the freedom of SPEECH; PEACEABLY assemble. What Congress and the Supreme Court have done to this Amendment is bastardize it. Now, freedom of SPEECH includes actions (such as burning the Flag); it’s against the law to have the Ten Commandments anywhere near a government-owned building or in the schools, but it’s alright to teach Islam; rioting, looting, arson, other destruction of property (both private and public), even assault on another person, is considered peaceful protesting. What a sad situation this country has come to because of the far-left liberal ideology; and it is because of the far-left.

How do these policies get into law? Simple. The Democrats put policy into legislation that is needed or the appearance of being needed because that policy would never get passed on its own. If the President, or conservative members of Congress puts through legislation that the liberals don’t like, they take it to the Supreme Court, or a Circuit Court that is liberal, and put it down and vice-versa if it is a policy that they want and the President or conservative Congress is against it. This makes the Judicial Branch legislators, not jurists. Another way this has happened is in what people call the Deep State.

The Deep State are those government employees that are not elected but hired into positions of making regulations that Congress does not want to be bothered with. Yes, Congress has made the choice of letting agencies and departments make rules that are the same as laws but are not voted on. These employees make rules that they feel are needed according to their beliefs and ideology whether those rules are Constitutional or not. A lot of these people are far-left leaning. A lot of these regulations are unconstitutional and infringe on our Constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms.

What is happening right now, today, in cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, etc., is criminal. Obviously. Yet, the Democrat governors and mayors of these states and cities sit back and allow the destruction. They are doing all they can to defund law enforcement and instructing the law to ‘stand-down’ and allow what is happening. The sad thing is that, once the destruction is done, the looting is over, the assaults are through, etc., these same Democrats are demanding that the Federal Government step in and pay for what they allowed and blame President Trump for it all. No, where in the Constitution does it state that the President is responsible for what happens in any state. There are specific, enumerated powers that the federal government has, and the rest is up to the individual states. The federal government is not responsible to fix any state’s problems. That is up to the governors and mayors of those states.

If we, the people, don’t open our eyes and start standing up to these Congressmen, governors, mayors, etc., and fight for what the Founders fought for, we are doomed as a free nation. The last bastion of freedom will no longer exist and the world will be cloaked in darkness, tyranny, and oppression for the foreseeable future. The world looks to us, the American people, the United States of America, for hope and freedom. If the United States was even a fraction of evil that the Democrat, far-left, socialists say it is, why do people from around the globe come here, both legally and illegally? Why is there such a push to get to the U.S. instead of the utopian, socialist/communist countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Russia, etc.? I’ll tell you why – because this country, the United States of America, is still the best, the greatest, the freest country in the world. Yes, there are other capitalist countries that have basic human rights but none come close to ours. We are the most prosperous country in the world because of our capitalist economy, our freedom to do as we please with our lives, the ability to go out and take risks without government interference.

We are on the event horizon. Will we fall into the black hole of socialism, tyranny, oppression and government control of every aspect of our lives or will we fight back and regain what the Founders fought for 244 years ago? Are we going to allow people like Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and a host of other far-left radical liberals to control our very souls; or will we fight back and keep people like Donald J Trump, Mike Pence, Jim Jordan, Dan Crenshaw, Andrew Wilkow, Mark Levin, Kevin Sorbo, etc., keep watch on our rights and freedoms to make sure they don’t disappear? There are far more liberals out there that need to be leased and/or chained up than there are conservatives that need to be freed.

Major league sports, Hollywood, international business, the internet, social media, mainstream media, federal, state, and local governments are filled to overflowing with enemies of freedom. It is an uphill battle to be sure. A lot of good, clean, patriotic Americans have been brainwashed by the far-left. I call out Anonymous, the 3Percenters, Militiamen, Minutemen, the NRA, and every freedom-loving American out there to start fighting back. We will not go quietly into the night if we all stand together and fight this war that the left has thrust upon us. We, the conservative voice, did not start this war. We are not the ones rioting, looting, assaulting, destroying. We are taking care of our families, working our jobs, respecting the rule of law, upholding our responsibilities. We have not the time for such foolishness as rioting. I will venture that once the left has woken the gentle giant, they will rue the day they decided to fight against us. Even the Japanese after Pearl Harbor knew better than to attack Americans on the mainland.

We will prove victorious if we stand united against this assault on our freedoms. But we must not tarry. To wait will be to lose. The Colonists, a rag-tag army of farmers, fought against the mightiest army in the world and won. We will win again.

I Really Do Get It

I get it. I really do. For the last, almost three years the Democrat Party and the Never-Trumpers have screamed, usually at the top of their lungs, that Donald J Trump has to be impeached. Since he was ELECTED, not even sworn into office, they have not ceased their incessant rhetoric about how he has impugned the office of the Presidency, humiliated the United States, colluded with our enemies, obstructed justice, and the list goes on and on and on…. In the last debacle, other than the blatant lies about collusion, Rep. Adam Schiff read a ‘transcript’ of a phone conversation between our President and the President of Ukraine. What Schiffty Schiff read was a total fabrication. The real transcript was released, with the permission of Ukraine, and there was absolutely nothing untoward about it.

That has been the policy of the Democrats and Never-Trumpers since the beginning. It wouldn’t matter if President Trump cured cancer, world hunger, or made peace throughout the land, they would find or manufacture something to get him out of office. Why? With record-low unemployment, including historically high employment for minorities, record-high GDP, manufacturing returning to the States, historical tax cuts, fairer trade agreements with several countries, NATO members finally paying their fair share, North Korea at the bargaining table, securing our borders, building up our military, etc., why do they want to impeach and remove the President from office?

I’ll let you in on a secret: they don’t like him. The Democrat Party and Never-Trumpers hate Donald J Trump. He was not supposed to win the election in 2016. Hillary Clinton was supposed to win so she could finish the job that Barack Hussein Obama started. Trump promised a lot of things on the campaign trail just as any politician would. The biggest difference between Trump and a politician – Trump delivers on his promises. He promised a stronger, safer America. He promised economic growth, tax cuts, higher wages, and a border wall. Most of all he promised to drain the bloody swamp of Washington, DC and that is exactly what he is doing. That is why they all hate him. They, the Democrats and Never-Trumpers, are so corrupt and imbedded into the governmental quagmire that they don’t want him to out them; which is exactly what he is doing.

With all the left-wing rhetoric that has been propagandized over the last three years, Trump is showing the American people just how inept, corrupt, and useless the Congress is. From the Clinton email scandal to the Ukraine call ‘whistleblower’ he is showing just how low the Democrat/socialist/communist Party, et. al. will go to keep from being discovered. Attorney General Barr is investigating the investigators. The Mueller Investigation was a farce from the beginning. Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strokz, Page, Clinton, Lynch, Gates, and the rest of the Trump haters will be outed. Will they be charged? Will they be tried? Will they be convicted? Will they be sentenced to a fair punishment? I hate to say it but it is doubtful. The coup crew are so well-entrenched and powerful they will escape prosecution and punishment.

The ’whistleblower(s)’ are afraid for their safety. Their attorneys are keeping them secret and refuse to let the President and the American people know who they are. Why? Do these whistleblowers have information against the Clintons? After all, Trump hasn’t had any witnesses die mysterious deaths like Jefferey Epstein committing suicide in a federal prison while under suicide watch while the temporary guards fall asleep and the cameras stop working. What are these people afraid of? It is the right of the accused to face their accuser. Just because Trump is President doesn’t mean he has given up his civil and Constitutional rights. Let the cowards show themselves so that he, and we, can scrutinize his/her/its character. It’s already be ascertained that they are connected to the far-left wing’s attorneys and political associations. George Soros is bankrolling many of these associations and probably paying for the attorneys. That is why they are afraid to show themselves. They don’t want the American people to know just who they are and that they are part of the coup against the present administration.

What do the Democrats and Never-Trumpers hope to gain by impeaching the President and removing him from office? If Trump is removed, Pence becomes President and he is behind Trump one hundred percent. Will Hillary have him offed in some way like she has so many others? Nancy Pelosi will not become President and neither will Hillary Clinton. That is what they want, though. They want to take over the country at all costs – even if they have to destroy the country to do it.

Just how are they getting away with this not-so-silent coup? Through the mass media. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and every other media outlet, even down to Facebook, Google, Bing, etc., are behind them. Even FoxNews is becoming a mouthpiece for the left. The communist, anti-American, impeach the President, we want everything free media gives a 24/7/365 barrage of far-left-wing propaganda. ‘News’ anchors and talk show hosts ask leading questions. When guests refuse to give the left-wing answer and start talking truth, those hosts and anchors start arguing with their guests, talking over them, shutting them up. There can be no argument against the left’s agenda. There can be only one – and that one must be Hillary Clinton.

After eight years of societal decay and economic failures brought on, or continued by Barack Hussein Obama, the rebirth of America under Trump is astounding. Obama said that a one percent economic growth was the best we could ever hope for. Obama said that it would take a magic wand to bring manufacturing back into the country. Under Obama, there were over four million new recipients of food stamps. Under Obama, we were taxed to our teeth, fined for not having health insurance that was unaffordable to those that work, law enforcement was undermined, riots were just a part of societies right to protest, boy were allowed in the girl’s bathroom, our enemies were invited into the country as ‘refugees,’ our enemies were given $150 BILLION dollars cash and other currency. Our country was going downhill at a high rate of speed. It was Barack Hussein Obama’s mission to destroy our Constitutional Republic and the capitalist society that made this country great. He hated then and still hates today the United States of America.

Hillary Clinton was to continue Obama’s legacy of destruction. She was to put the final nail in the coffin and turn our freedom-loving country into a socialist/communist, open border, a government-controlled dictatorship under the guise of free elections. Trump waylaid their plans. The American people decided that the left’s agenda wasn’t for them. The American people, through the fair Electoral College, elected Donald J Trump to the White House. It was time to drain the swamp. After decades of the government taking away our rights and freedoms little by little, we, the people, decided to take our country back and make America great again. We, the People, are the rightful owners of this country and the government that sits in Washington, DC. The elected government is not all-powerful. The power belongs to the people. The Founding Fathers knew that there would come a day when the government would become so large that it couldn’t be stopped. That is why they wrote the Constitution the way they did. To limit the government and restrict its’ power.

The Democrat Party has fought against the Constitution since its’ inception. They look at the Constitution as an obstacle to be gotten around. The conservatives, the patriots, the true Americans, believe the Constitution to be a road map, a guide. Conservatives do not ‘interpret’ the Constitution to their advantage. It is the Law of the Land as written. There is no ‘interpretation’ of what the Founders and writers of that most important document meant. When it says we have the freedom of speech it doesn’t mean only if you speak liberalism. When it says we have the right to keep and bear arms and that that right shall not be infringed it means we are able to own and carry weapons. When it says we have the right to be secure in our possessions and homes it means just that. There is no interpreting what, exactly, our rights are or what those words mean. They mean what they say – period. Exclamation point. End of story.

The government demands, by law, that our children go to school. Most of our children go to a public, government-controlled, school. Why? Because private school is expensive, and it usually takes a two-income family just to pay the bills and buy food, so homeschooling is out of the question. What happens in public schools? Indoctrination. From kindergarten through college our children are inundated with leftist ideology. There is no getting around it. We are forced to send our children there to learn what the government demands that they learn. What are they learning today? Tolerance for Islam; LGBTQ; capitalism: bad – socialism: good; America is the bad guy; history has got to be erased because it hurts someone’s feelings. Haven’t you wondered why there are so many young people that are pro-socialism? That, my friends, is why. That is what they are taught from day one in our public schools; usually by teachers that are there only for the paycheck and to promote their ideology. (I am NOT saying that all teachers are bad, only that most of them are not up to snuff.)

As the 2020 election cycle gets underway, I listen to the Democrat candidates and wonder just what planet they are from. Do they not understand that socialism has failed around the world throughout history? Do they not see what happened in the last 20 years with Venezuela? Do the celebrities and the elites outside of government think that they will be immune to the demands of the tyrannical dominion they so desperately want? Do they really think that socialism/communism is a Utopia? If so, they are less informed and mentally challenged than I thought. Once the Communists take control only the elite government officials and a handful of their favorites will have anything.

I heard an interview today on SiriusXM Patriot that explained, exactly, what the Democrats are after. I don’t remember who was being interviewed but it was someone high up in the Democrat Party and she was being interviewed on CNN. What this woman said should scare the hell out of any red-blooded American from either Party. She told the interviewer that Trump needed to be gotten out of the way as well as Pence. After that, if Trump didn’t appoint a Democrat approved Vice-President replacement, Nancy Pelosi would become President and then the Oval Office would be in the right Party’s control and there it would stay. Read that sentence again. And then once more. As the Democrats accuse Trump of being an autocrat, a dictator, and ignoring the Constitution it is they that are doing exactly that, and they have finally said it on the record. They want total control of the country with no chance of a conservative ever getting into power again.

As Brian Mudd said on the Mark Levin show tonight, “Two sides to every story. One side to the facts.” The only problem with facts is the liberal left doesn’t care about them.

It is dark and dangerous times in which we live. This is a fight for our freedoms, our liberties. If the Democrats win the White House and the Senate, we are lost. They will do away with the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment. Without a way to fight back against their tyrannical rule, the Constitution will no longer exist; conservatism will no longer exist; freedom of speech – gone; presumption of innocence – gone; free elections – gone. That is their goal. The endgame is total control over the people, even our lives. If you don’t believe me, as I have reiterated numerous times, just look at Venezuela.

For those that are too young to have been taught the correct way our government should be run and how socialism/communism works, read Animal Farm or 1984. If you don’t know how to read because the school system didn’t teach you, watch The Hunger Games, The Darkest Minds, Maze Runner, even Robin Hood will show you just how a tyrannical dominion treats the citizens under their control. Hollywood predicts what is actually happening or going to happen in the near future.

Don’t believe me? Zombie movies started coming out by the dozens and then the CDC put up posters on their website stating – Don’t be a Zombie, Be prepared. Now, what is coming out in theatres from the great City of Make-Believe? Dystopian world movies such as the aforementioned Hunger Games, Darkest Minds, Maze Runner, etc. Movies where the government has total control over the people.

Patrick Henry’s statement of, “Give me liberty or give me death” resounds quite loudly in today’s world of American politics. It isn’t the British coming for our lives but our own elected officials. Remember this, Hitler did not invade Austria. They voted him in on the promises of a better life. It took the Austrians about five years to finally see what kind of monster he was. It was too late by then. Is that what will happen in our country? Will the leftist propaganda win the day with all the free stuff that is unaffordable by any standard? With a yearly budget of around $4 Trillion, the cost of the New Green Deal alone is unattainable. If you add to that free healthcare, free college, and a guaranteed income it becomes mind-boggling. The GND alone will cost approximately $9.4 Trillion a year. Free healthcare is about $4.3 Trillion and free college is around $2.5 Trillion. There isn’t enough money in the country to pay for any of it. So, will the leftists win the day, or will freedom ring true?

They Hypocrisy of the Left and the Declaration of Independence

Let me see if I’ve got this correct. I am not going to put this in chronological order by any means. I just want to make sure that I have my facts straight.

Hillary Clinton pays Fusion GPS for a dossier from a former British spy who obtained it from the Russians. But Trump was the one colluding with the Russians.

The Obama DOJ and Intelligence Community filed false information to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. But Trump is undermining national security.

Joe Biden brags on camera about extorting the Ukrainian president, saying that he will not release $1B unless the federal prosecutor, who is investigating a company Biden’s son is part of, is fired. But Trump is the one that is accused of mafia tactics and threatening the Ukrainians, even though there is no quid pro quo.

Hillary Clinton destroys over 30K emails that have been subpoenaed by the FBI and DOJ, destroys cell phones with hammers and removes SIM cards to keep the information from becoming evidence against her. But Trump is accused of obstruction of justice.

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives do nothing towards legislation that would help the American people, such as infrastructure, a border wall for a secure border, mass illegal immigration, anything on the economy, etc. Yet Trump is doing nothing for the people with his historically high tax cuts, over 4M off of food stamps, manufacturing jobs returning to the US, North Korea brought to the table on nuclear dismantlement, strong sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other countries out to do us harm, record low unemployment rates, historic employment for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and women.

Since the day he was elected, the Democrats have been screaming that he needs to be impeached. Repeat, since the day he was elected. That was two and a half months before he was inaugurated. The rhetoric hasn’t stopped. After two and a half years of investigating the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, nothing was found to be amiss. After three other investigations searching for wrongdoing, nothing has been found amiss. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are still screaming to impeach President Donald J Trump. It’s been rumored that if Trump cured cancer, the liberals would rebel because he was mistreating the tumors.

The liberals have called him a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, anti-Semite, misogynist, bigot, and a plethora of other radical labels all while he has championed extreme criminal reform (thus releasing hundreds of blacks from prison); he is one of three recipients of the Rosa Parks medal for work against racism; he dated a black woman; he is married to an immigrant; he has championed the rights of gays the world over; he is a staunch supporter of Israel the Israeli Prime Minister; he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem thus proclaiming that as the capital of Israel; should I go on?

What are the Democrats doing? Promoting racial divide and victimization of minorities; undermining legal immigration by championing for the decriminalization of illegal border crossings; agreeing with legislation against Israel; siding with radical Islamists against the Bill of Rights, women’s rights, and for pro-Muslim, pro-socialist, anti-American legislation. They don’t even hide it anymore that they are against the Constitution and The American way of life.

All the while that the Democrats have been doing everything in their power against the President, what have the Republicans done about the Democrats criminality? Not a thing. They have allowed the liberal left to undermine the power of the Presidency, the reputation of the country, the rule of law, and even common sense to go on and on without repercussions. With overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Clinton campaign, the Obama DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, several Representatives and Senators, the Republicans just sit there and let them lie and scream and investigate and propagandize the American people against the President. They are conservatives, Americans, in name only. There have been a handful of elected officials that have stood up for the President and the American people, but in voice only. No action has been taken against anyone that has committed treason against the country.

Fifty-seven men swore their loyalty, their fortunes, their honor to the freedom of this country on July 4, 1776. By doing so, the signed their own death warrants. If the Colonies had not won the War of Independence they would have been hung for treason. Do you know why the Colonies decided to claim independence from Great Britain? Have you read the Declaration of Independence? There were thirty direct reasons, usurpations, that drove the Colonies to declare their freedom from the Empire. Several of these reasons were addressed and taken care of by enumerating them in the Bill of Rights while most were addressed and taken care of in the body of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Here are some of the grievances against King George. “He” is referring to the King.

“He has refuted his Assent to Laws,…”

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance,…”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws…”

“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices,…”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and hither swarms of Offices to harass our people…”

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

“… abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

“…declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty # Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,…”

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,…”

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

These are just a few of the grievances; in my opinion the most relevant to our circumstances today. The Congress has not assented to the laws it has passed on the people and they have refused to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance (such as immigration laws, infrastructure legislation); the Congress has obstructed Justice by refusing to hold the liberal elites accountable for their crimes; the Democrats have warned the Supreme Court to rule the way the liberals want, or else (I don’t recall at this time which Representatives sent the letter to which Justice); the government has grown to an enormous size with redundant and unnecessary offices with thousands of employees that have power of the people without being elected.

To continue: our military is huge and independent of any civil authority. The National Guard is answerable to the governors, true, but the military is controlled by the federal government, which in no way represents the people anymore.

Congress has acquiesced to Islam, radical terrorists, anti-Semites, but especially to the UN, which is doing everything it can to undermine our Constitution and, most notable, disarm us against our Laws.

Just listen to the 2020 Presidential candidates. Each and every one of them wants to fundamentally change our government and abolish our most valuable laws – the Bill of Rights. They want to disarm us, free speech on if you agree with the liberal agenda, freedom of the press as long as it is anti-conservative, freedom to worship Islam but not Christianity, the presumption of innocence only if you are a Democrat… should I go on here?

The Congress and the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates have all decided that they know what is best for the American people. They know how much we should make and save and how much we need to give to them. They want to tax us into poverty, tell us whether we can use plastic straws or not (sorry, that is California, then again, they think they are the federal government), they are wanting to legislate our rights away that the Founders fought to guarantee for us.

The liberal left has said that the mass migration of illegals across our southern border is not an invasion, nor a crisis. That, in and of itself, is a lie. This mass migration is sanctioned by the liberal left and, in some cases, financed by them. These illegals will become the army of the liberal left by voting Democrat. A lot of these illegals are criminals such as MS-13 gang members, rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, etc. Yes, it is a foreign army being transported to our shores by the liberal left.

Look at the division of the country. Look at the shootings, the murders, the riots. Who are doing these things? It sure isn’t the NRA members or staunch conservatives. The vast majority of these ‘insurrections’ are committed by far-left-wing liberals or radical Islamists. And the Democrats sit back and refuse to do anything but hammer and investigate the President. “We need more gun legislation!” “It’s all the NRA’s fault.” “Donald Trump is the main cause.”

The American people have cried out for the endless persecution to end; for Congress to do what we sent them there for – to legislate. The American people have told the Congress over and over what we want and don’t want, and the Congress does what they want regardless. We have no representation in Washington anymore. Our so-called representatives represent their own power and wealth and the wants of special interests that support their endless stay on the Hill.

We declared our freedom from a tyrannical dominion not once but twice and we won both times. As Abe Lincoln said, “Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” Can we endure? Will we endure as a free Constitutional Republic or will we succumb to the wiles of a socialist/communist tyranny that hammers at our door?

The Left has shown what they are made of through the last almost three years. They are liars and as corrupt as any tyrannical dominion in history. They will stop at nothing and there is no depth that they won’t stoop to just to get what they want. And what do they want? All the power. All the control. All the wealth. Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists. Try to take the money or home or guns from the elites. Ain’t gonna happen, baby. That ain’t for them, only for you.

With the facts laid out in front of you; with the evidence against the accusers; will you stand by your country or go with the crowd of entitled miscreants that believe the world owes them? This country was built on guts, risk, uncertainty, and a lot of belief in oneself. The Founders, the Colonists, the Frontiersmen, all had nothing handed to them. They worked hard for what they had and if they didn’t – well, they didn’t survive. They relied on no one but themselves for their well-being and that is the way it should be now.

With all the corruption in Washington, DC, don’t you think it’s time to take back our country? Don’t you think that the one man that is doing everything he can for us should be helped instead of hindered? With all the good that the President has done with everyone against him, just think where we would be if he had Congress behind him, helping him? The sky is the limit, people. We don’t need more career politicians. We need patriotic Americans to represent us. As King Edward said about Scotland in the late 13^th century, “The only wrong with Scotland is it’s full of Scots.” Well, the only thing wrong with politics is it’s full of politicians. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Washington, DC is proof of that, as is Venezuela, China, North Korea, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc.

How Relevant is the Declaration of Independence?

Let me see if I’ve got this correct. I am not going to put this in chronological order by any means. I just want to make sure that I have my facts straight.

Hillary Clinton pays Fusion GPS for a dossier from a former British spy who obtained it from the Russians. But Trump was the one colluding with the Russians.

The Obama DOJ and Intelligence Community filed false information to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. But Trump is undermining national security.

Joe Biden brags on camera about extorting the Ukrainian president, saying that he will not release $1B unless the federal prosecutor, who is investigating a company Biden’s son is part of, is fired. But Trump is the one that is accused of mafia tactics and threatening the Ukrainians, even though there is no quid pro quo.

Hillary Clinton destroys over 30K emails that have been subpoenaed by the FBI and DOJ, destroys cell phones with hammers and removes SIM cards to keep the information from becoming evidence against her. But Trump is accused of obstruction of justice.

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives do nothing towards legislation that would help the American people, such as infrastructure, a border wall for a secure border, mass illegal immigration, anything on the economy, etc. Yet Trump is doing nothing for the people with his historically high tax cuts, over 4M off of food stamps, manufacturing jobs returning to the US, North Korea brought to the table on nuclear dismantlement, strong sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other countries out to do us harm, record low unemployment rates, historic employment for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and women.

Since the day he was elected, the Democrats have been screaming that he needs to be impeached. Repeat, since the day he was elected. That was two and a half months before he was inaugurated. The rhetoric hasn’t stopped. After two and a half years of investigating the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, nothing was found to be amiss. After three other investigations searching for wrongdoing, nothing has been found amiss. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are still screaming to impeach President Donald J Trump. It’s been rumored that if Trump cured cancer, the liberals would rebel because he was mistreating the tumors.

The liberals have called him a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, anti-Semite, misogynist, bigot, and a plethora of other radical labels all while he has championed extreme criminal reform (thus releasing hundreds of blacks from prison); he is one of three recipients of the Rosa Parks medal for work against racism; he dated a black woman; he is married to an immigrant; he has championed the rights of gays the world over; he is a staunch supporter of Israel and the Israeli Prime Minister; he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem thus proclaiming that as the capital of Israel; should I go on?

What are the Democrats doing? Promoting racial divide and victimization of minorities; undermining legal immigration by championing for the decriminalization of illegal border crossings; agreeing with legislation against Israel; siding with radical Islamists against the Bill of Rights, women’s rights, and for pro-Muslim, pro-socialist, anti-American legislation. They don’t even hide it anymore that they are against the Constitution and the American way of life.

All the while that the Democrats have been doing everything in their power against the President, what have the Republicans done about the Democrats criminality? Not a thing. They have allowed the liberal left to undermine the power of the Presidency, the reputation of the country, the rule of law, and even common sense to go on and on without repercussions. With overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Clinton campaign, the Obama DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, several Representatives and Senators, the Republicans just sit there and let them lie and scream and investigate and propagandize the American people against the President. They are conservatives, Americans, in name only. There have been a handful of elected officials that have stood up for the President and the American people, but in voice only. No action has been taken against anyone that has committed treason against the country.

Fifty-seven men swore their loyalty, their fortunes, their honor to the freedom of this country on July 4, 1776. By doing so, they signed their own death warrants. If the Colonies had not won the War of Independence they would have been hung for treason. Do you know why the Colonies decided to claim independence from Great Britain? Have you read the Declaration of Independence? There were thirty direct reasons, usurpations, that drove the Colonies to declare their freedom from the Empire. Several of these reasons were addressed and taken care of by enumerating them in the Bill of Rights while most were addressed and taken care of in the body of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Here are some of the grievances against King George. “He” is referring to the King.

“He has refuted his Assent to Laws,…”

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance,…”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws…”

“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices,…”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and hither swarms of Offices to harass our people…”

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

“… abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

“…declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty # Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,…”

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,…”

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

These are just a few of the grievances; in my opinion the most relevant to our circumstances today. The Congress has not assented to the laws it has passed on the people and they have refused to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance (such as immigration laws, infrastructure legislation); the Congress has obstructed Justice by refusing to hold the liberal elites accountable for their crimes; the Democrats have warned the Supreme Court to rule the way the liberals want, or else (I don’t recall at this time which Representatives sent the letter to which Justice); the government has grown to an enormous size with redundant and unnecessary offices with thousands of employees that have power over the people without being elected.

To continue: our military is huge and independent of any civil authority. The National Guard is answerable to the governors, true, but the military is controlled by the federal government, which in no way represents the people anymore.

Congress has acquiesced to Islam, radical terrorists, anti-Semites, but especially to the UN, which is doing everything it can to undermine our Constitution and, most notable, disarm us against our Laws.

Just listen to the 2020 Presidential candidates. Each and every one of them wants to fundamentally change our government and abolish our most valuable laws – the Bill of Rights. They want to disarm us, free speech only if you agree with the liberal agenda, freedom of the press as long as it is anti-conservative, freedom to worship Islam but not Christianity, the presumption of innocence only if you are a Democrat… should I go on here?

The Congress and the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates have all decided that they know what is best for the American people. They know how much we should make and save and how much we need to give to them. They want to tax us into poverty, tell us whether we can use plastic straws or not (sorry, that is California, then again, they think they are the federal government), they are wanting to legislate our rights away that the Founders fought to guarantee for us.

The liberal left has said that the mass migration of illegals across our southern border is not an invasion, nor a crisis. That, in and of itself, is a lie. This mass migration is sanctioned by the liberal left and, in some cases, financed by them. These illegals will become the army of the liberal left by voting Democrat. A lot of these illegals are criminals such as MS-13 gang members, rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, etc. Yes, it is a foreign army being transported to our shores by the liberal left.

Look at the division of the country. Look at the shootings, the murders, the riots. Who are doing these things? It sure isn’t the NRA members or staunch conservatives. The vast majority of these ‘insurrections’ are committed by far-left-wing liberals or radical Islamists. And the Democrats sit back and refuse to do anything but hammer and investigate the President. “We need more gun legislation!” “It’s all the NRA’s fault.” “Donald Trump is the main cause.”

The American people have cried out for the endless persecution to end; for Congress to do what we sent them there for – to legislate. The American people have told the Congress over and over what we want and don’t want, and the Congress does what they want regardless. We have no representation in Washington anymore. Our so-called representatives represent their own power and wealth and the wants of special interests that support their endless stay on the Hill.

We declared our freedom from a tyrannical dominion not once but twice and we won both times. As Abe Lincoln said, “Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” Can we endure? Will we endure as a free Constitutional Republic or will we succumb to the wiles of a socialist/communist tyranny that hammers at our door?

The Left has shown what they are made of through the last almost three years. They are liars and as corrupt as any tyrannical dominion in history. They will stop at nothing and there is no depth that they won’t stoop to just to get what they want. And what do they want? All the power. All the control. All the wealth. Socialism is for the people, not the Socialist. Try to take the money or home or guns from the elites. Ain’t gonna happen, baby. That ain’t for them, only for you.

With the facts laid out in front of you; with the evidence against the accusers; will you stand by your country or go with the crowd of entitled miscreants that believe the world owes them? This country was built on guts, risk, uncertainty, and a lot of belief in oneself. The Founders, the Colonists, the Frontiersmen, all had nothing handed to them. They worked hard for what they had and if they didn’t – well, they didn’t survive. They relied on no one but themselves for their well-being and that is the way it should be now.

With all the corruption in Washington, DC, don’t you think it’s time to take back our country? Don’t you think that the one man that is doing everything he can for us should be helped instead of hindered? With all the good that the President has done with everyone against him, just think where we would be if he had Congress behind him, helping him? The sky is the limit, people. We don’t need more career politicians. We need patriotic Americans to represent us. As King Edward said about Scotland in the late 13^th century, “The only thing wrong with Scotland is it’s full of Scots.” Well, the only thing wrong with politics is it’s full of politicians. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Washington, DC is proof of that, as is Venezuela, China, North Korea, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc.

I Pledge My Life, My Fortune, My Sacred Honour

“Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.”

The Gettysburg Address; one of the most important speeches that Abraham Lincoln ever gave. Read that paragraph again. I mean really read it. Understand what the 18^th President was saying. Lincoln, like many of our Commanders-in-Chief was fought on just about every policy he wanted put into legislation. The South, the Democrats, did not want to abolish slavery. Why, without those black workers the plantations would go bankrupt. Those people needed to be subjugated and enslaved to the privileged white plantation owners. After all, they were just n*****s, property, not even worth a decent thought.

Lincoln hated slavery, as did a lot of the Northern Republicans. In fact, the Founding Fathers weren’t that keen on slavery, either. Why did they own slaves then? A lot of them didn’t. The ones that did were just following the norm. The thought that the Founders did not believe that all men were created equal is just liberal propaganda today. The Founders were God-fearing, Christian men. The norms for 240 plus years ago would not be tolerated in today’s world. Just think, women took care of the house, the children, the cleaning, cooking, the mending; they weren’t allowed to vote, take care of business, most didn’t even have a voice in any decision-making at all.

Children were disciplined by the use of a switch from a willow tree, a belt pulled off a pair of trousers or a good backhand. They were not allowed to talk back, show any disrespect for their elders (whether those elders were related or not), forced to work alongside the men, and expected to follow the rules. If Father told them to do something, it wasn’t put off for a week, or a day, or an hour. It was done immediately.

Yes, things were different in Colonial times; they were different right up until almost the 21^st Century. Yes, civil rights were important in the 1950s and 60s and segregation was done away with. Women’s suffrage was taken care of on June 4, 1919, when the 19^th Amendment was passed with 2 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Children still respected their elders, families still sat down to eat together, common sense was still alive and well. Things were starting to change, though.

Women entered the workforce during WWII and became wage earners; their voices were becoming more important in decision-making when it came to the family finances. The sexual revolution of the 1960s brought about free love, promiscuous sex, and then, on Jan 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided that Roe v Wade would become policy. Women could get a divorce whether the father wanted her to or not. Women were gaining more and more power in the world.

While the Confederation delegates were debating on a constitution for the new nation, there were a lot of arguments as to just how this new government should be set up. The delegates were divided on a lot of issues. One thing they all agreed upon was that the central government should be limited, regulated, controlled. Each man feared that an unchecked, centralized government would become a tyranny and overpower the people just as King George had done. A lot of them wanted a Bill of Rights added before the constitution was taken to the states to be ratified. The opponents to that stated if they did, it would be the government setting into law what should be put before the people. The Constitution of the United States was sent to the several States minus the Bill of Rights.

Each delegate wanted to make sure that the central government, the federal government, didn’t usurp the States powers. At one point, several of the delegates believed that the new country would go to civil war or become a monarchy if the new constitution wasn’t worded just right. As it turned out, the Constitution was ratified. James Wilson, a signatory on the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, also a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, stated in a speech given on Oct 6, 1787, to the new Congress, “Regarding it then (regarding the new Constitution and government), in every point of view, with a candid and disinterested mind, I am bold to assert, that it is the best form of government which has ever been offered to the world.”

That was the government that the new nation adopted as their own; a government for and by the people. Then, less than a hundred years after that, it was eighty-seven years, we were in a civil war; brother against brother, American against American. Why? This war was not over slavery as has been taught over the years. It was fought because of State’s rights. The Southern States believed that the federal government was becoming too powerful and taking power from the states. Slavery was just something that Lincoln wanted to get rid of; needed to abolish before the war ended. That is why he worded his Gettysburg speech the way he did. “Testing whether this nation…could long endure.” We endured. We remained one nation, under God, indivisible; but at a huge price of blood.

Now, two hundred and forty-three years after we declared our freedom from a tyrannical dominion, now, a hundred and fifty-four years after the end of the Civil War, we are once again faced with the prospect of our Constitutional Republic failing. Can we endure? Are we able to once again beat back the oppressive and backward policies of socialism/communism that the Democrat Party is trying to force upon us? Will we persevere and keep the rights and privileges guaranteed to us by the most important document in world history since the Magna Carta? Or will we go peacefully into the night and fall to the will of those that abhor our freedoms?

Throughout our short history, it has always been the Democrats that wanted to keep power over people. First it was the blacks they wanted to keep in slavery, they wanted to keep segregation, they have wanted minorities to suffer so that they could give them a hand-out instead of a hand-up. Now, it is the Democrats that want to disarm the people, silence their opposition, enforce unconstitutional laws, tell us what we can eat, what we can earn, what we can save, where we can live. It has always been the Democrat Party that has legislated restrictive laws that go against the people’s freedoms. Usually in the name of safety; safety of children, the safety of motorists, safety people’s health. But what have they done, actually? Taken away our rights, little by little.

We are required by law to wear seat belts, for years we were forced to have health insurance whether we could afford it or not, children are forced into car seats until they are so tall, so old, so much weight; smokers are banned from public places; arguments between citizens are now fought in court, at huge expense; now, in California, it is illegal to use plastic straws. The 2020 Democrat candidates for President want to take from the rich and give to the illegals. The Constitution gives the federal government the power to collect and levy taxes for certain things. Government handouts are not on the list.

The Founders knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, that a large, unchecked, government would become corrupt. That is why they set up the checks and balances of a three-branch federal government that was restricted in its power. The States retained more power than the federal government. Over the course of our short history, the States have relinquished many of their rights and responsibilities to the federal government. With an ever-growing population, especially with an open-border policy such as the Democrats want, the government will keep growing bigger and bigger and more powerful and more restrictive on the people while less restrictive on it. The Democrats are charging full steam ahead for that ever more powerful centralized government. Just read through the Green New Deal.

The Green New Deal has nothing to do with climate. It doesn’t matter what we, as one nation, do to stop climate change. Unless the entire world stops using fossil fuels and polluting the rivers, lakes and oceans, the air will never be pristine. Climate changes. The Earth has had six Ice Ages and several global warming cycles. This planet takes care of itself and nothing humanity does will change the cycles. What the GND is all about is fundamental economic and societal change. It is Marxism in modern terms. It is totalitarianism. It is government taking full control over the private sector, doing away with private ownership, redistribution of wealth (and not from the rich to give to the poor; it will be taken from all the citizens and given to the government), and power to an elite few. Socialism is for the people, not the Socialist.

The Founding Fathers warned us 243 years ago. They tried to protect us with the greatest form of government ever created. They also told us that if we didn’t keep fighting for it, if we became complacent, if we let our guard down, we would lose our freedoms. That is where we are right now, today. Presumption of innocence has been done away with. Freedom of speech has been done away with. Freedom of the press is done away with. The right to keep and bear arms is being stripped away through regulation. We have become complacent.

Can we endure? Will we keep what the Founders fought and died for? They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to give us these freedoms that we have taken for granted for so long. Are you willing to pledge anything to keep those freedoms?

Guaranteed Freedom of Speech?

The First Amendment gives the guaranteed right of freedom of speech, the press, religion, the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Five basic, God-given rights that the government cannot take away from us as United States citizens. These rights are not to restrict the people but to restrict the government. Congress cannot legislate any law that would restrict our rights to speak our minds verbally or written, it cannot restrict our right to assemble in public as long as there is no violence, it cannot legislate a certain religion over another, and it cannot keep us from suing the government over things we feel that the government is doing wrong.

This Amendment, ratified by the States on 15 December 1791, made sure that the experimental government of the new nation would not, could not, become a tyrannical dominion over how the people talked, wrote, worshiped, assembled, and that the people could go before the governing body and complain about how they were governing. Those founders, all the citizens of the new nation, had just fought a long and bloody war against the mightiest country in the world to free themselves from a tyrannical government that did restrict everything in their lives. Thousands died to free the colonies from King George’s iron-fisted rule over them. Wasn’t that why they came to the New World in the first place? To be free from tyranny? To be able to speak freely, worship as they pleased, and to be able to gather together without fear?

Flash forward to 2010.

Over the last 234 years, this nation has become the world’s leading power. We have become the bastion of freedom. Downtrodden people the world over want to come to the United States so they can enjoy the freedoms that we took for granted. They want to be able to speak their mind, write down their opinions for the world to read, worship whatever deity they want without worrying whether they will end up in chains, and they want to be able to assemble wherever and whenever they want for whatever reason, even to protest against the government that welcomed them in. America is the beacon in the night for a world kept in darkness.

Barack Hussein Obama, the first multi-racial President of the United States, promised ‘hope and change’ for the nation that was the ‘hope and change’ for millions of immigrants. He wanted to ‘fundamentally change the face of the nation.’ In other words, he didn’t like it the way it was. He didn’t like that America had the leading economy, that individualism was what made this country wealthy, strong, and great. He didn’t like that conservative voices spoke out against him and his policies. He didn’t like that he had to go through Congress to make his policies law. He didn’t like that law enforcement actually upheld the law against any who broke the law, including his fellow blacks. He didn’t like that when a young man, while robbing a store at gunpoint or threatening the life of law enforcement, would get shot and killed. He didn’t like anything about America; except that he had the rights that everyone else did while becoming the leader of the free world. Now that he had made it, he was going to change it.

Change it, he did. He legislated by Executive Order because Congress wouldn’t pass his unconstitutional laws. He turned his head from the violence against law enforcement and rioting by minorities. He used his position against conservatives and conservative companies by ordering his DOJ and the IRS to target those people and companies. He went around the world apologizing for America’s ‘crimes.’ He opened his arms to our enemies and spurned our allies. He invited millions of ‘refugees’ from enemy countries into the United States with little to no vetting. He changed the face of the nation from a world power, respected by everyone, to a weak, effeminate, disrespected country.

With disregard to the wants, and safety, of the people, he allowed men into the women’s bathroom. Why would he do that? His political correctness changed our vocabulary. His policy negated our freedom of speech and our right to petition against government overreach. The press became his propaganda agencies. Christianity was all but outlawed. Our history was being erased, one statue at a time, one picture at a time, one book at a time. He refused to acknowledge individual greatness by saying that it took everyone to create anything, no one person ever created alone. He brought racism back in force by claiming that minorities were still oppressed by the white population. It didn’t matter that he, his partner, his pastor, his mentors, and his colleagues that were minorities had achieved greatness because of the privileges of this nation.

There are black, Hispanic, and Asian people that have achieved great things because of what this country is. People like Ben Carson, a man that was raised in poverty that became a leading neurosurgeon and on to become HUD Secretary. General Colin Powell. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Representatives Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson, Elijah Cummings. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Athletic superstars such as Magic Johnson, Mohammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, ‘Refrigerator’ Perry, Tiger Woods. All these people are modern, black Americans that achieved greatness. Most were not privileged growing up. They overcame their disadvantages to gain greatness because of what America is: the greatest country in the world. Even those, such as Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson, that speak against the greatness of America can become great.

There have always been those that spoke against the country, against the President, against governmental policy, and that has always been their right. In days past, people have protested policy and unfair laws. How were those protests conducted? Peaceably. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. protested the way blacks were treated. He blocked traffic by walking down the middle of the street with hundreds, even thousands, of people with him. Were stores looted, people beaten, fires started, or lawmen killed? Not when he was there. Dr. King peaceably protested just as the Constitution says we can. Were there riots and lawlessness during those days? Of course, but Dr. King didn’t condone that behavior.

Once again flash forward to 2010 and compare the way protesters conduct themselves. Fires, looting, killings, and destruction of property are all a commonplace occurrence for today’s protests. Our right to petition the government and peaceably assemble has been taken to new levels. During the Obama Administration, law enforcement was made a target and the President did not say a word. Whole neighborhoods were destroyed by such groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, Black Lives Matter, and the Black Panthers and nothing came from the White House against these people. Why? Because they had the right to assemble, petition, and to say what they want. I really don’t think the Founders had this behavior in mind when they guaranteed those rights.

Before we became an independent nation, before the Constitution was written, before our rights were guaranteed by the government, we were controlled by a tyrant across the Atlantic Ocean. King George never set foot on American soil, yet he ruled us, by proxy, with an iron fist. The colonists, once taxed beyond what they thought was fair, went to Boston Harbor and rioted by destroying a shipment of tea. Why would they riot and destroy property? They did it to get the King’s attention. They had tried everything they could from letters to personal appearances before the King to petition their grievances. The King ignored them. They had to do something drastic.

That is one of the reasons that the First Amendment is first. We can go before the government and petition against policy and law. Are we always successful? Of course not. There are plenty of laws on the books that are unfair, unnecessary, and even unconstitutional. But, for over 200 years the people’s representatives actually represented the people. If they didn’t, they were voted out and others replaced them. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The liberal left has always deemed it their mission to subvert our freedoms. They fought against freeing the slaves. They organized the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate those that were freeing the slaves and to keep slaves indentured. They have done what they could to limit our rights and freedoms; and they have done this discreetly behind our backs, a little at a time so as not to be too conspicuous about it.

In the 50s Senator Andrew McCarthy went full steam against communism. A lot of innocent people lost their livelihoods and freedom because of an accusation of being communist. America had fought a war alongside the rest of the world to combat the threat of a communist take-over. Why would an elected official do such a thing? Why would the government limit what the people could talk about and believe in? It was because of the threat against our rights and freedoms. Communism directly goes against everything that America was built on. Was Senator McCarthy right in doing what he did? Some would say he was. Was it necessary? Some would say it was. Was it conducted in a non-tyrannical way? Absolutely not. Presumption of innocence was thrown out the door and the accused had to prove he/she was innocent; for that reason, he was wrong on all counts.

Now, flash forward to 2015 and on to the present year of 2019. Donald J Trump stood at the top of the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President. There were a lot of candidates on the Republican side, well-known people that had served the nation as elected officials and had done a fairly good job for the people. Why did Trump feel as though he needed to give up a billionaire lifestyle to serve as the leader of the free world? He did it because he loves this country and could see the corruption in government, and he wanted to clean it up. It was as simple as that.

What was the Democrat’s reaction to his announcement? “There’s no way that Trump could win. He won’t even get the nomination.” The nomination he got. The Democrat’s reaction to that? “He can’t win against Hillary Clinton.” Election night, 2016, the results coming in as fast as they can, and Trump is winning. The Democrat’s reaction? “Impeach him!” The “Impeach him” rhetoric has not stopped since.

The Obama DOJ used false information, bought by Hillary Clinton, to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, and the Trump Presidency. For over two years the Democrats had an investigation going to prove that Donald J Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. Our government, that guaranteed our rights and freedoms against such actions, unlawfully spied on Americans. The presumption of innocence was gone. The mainstream media, throughout this whole ordeal, continually ‘reported’ on the lawlessness of the Trump Train.

Freedom of the press (which today includes newspapers, television, radio, and internet social media) failed the country. The mainstream media did not report the news. They did not verify any information. They just reported rumor and opinion as the news and truth. Even Bernstein and Woodward did their best to verify what Deep Throat told them about Watergate. Not today. But the Constitution guarantees the right to a free press and freedom of speech. They could say, write, and report what they wanted. They have the Constitution behind them.

Political correctness is another form of limiting speech. With the sexual revolution of the 21^st century, there are now about a million different ‘genders’ and each one has its own name. Far-left liberals are demanding that anything connected with men can no longer be spoken. Just recently I heard on The Wilkow Majority that some university in the North East has declared that using the word “guy,” or “guys,” is offensive and is no longer allowed. Across the country, there are many, many terms and phrases that cannot be spoken because of being offensive to some people.

With the freedom of speech comes the freedom to offend. It doesn’t matter whether a word or phrase, is offensive to some minority, it is the freedom to speak your mind. Without freedom of speech, the right to speak your mind, there is no debate, no sharing of ideas, therefore there is no differing opinions. You are limited to one way of thinking. When government begins to limit speech, it is time to take a closer look at that government. Maybe it is time for a new revolution. With political correctness as the form of speech in today’s world, and this is not just in the United States but worldwide, the people are becoming more and more controlled.

How do we stop this limiting of speech, the irresponsibility of freedom of the press, rioters using the freedom to protest to destroy property, needing a permit to have an assembly, and the freedom to worship taken from public places? We do it with the Second Amendment.

The founders knew what they were doing way back in 1789. The knew what government could, and would, do if left unchecked. The Constitution set up the way the government would be run. The first ten amendments, The Bill of Rights, limited the power of government and guaranteed the basic rights that the Creator gave to all men. The American government has been whittling away at those rights for decades. It is just in the last 10 years that the Left has not even tried to hide that fact. Believe me, it is not just the liberal Democrats that are doing this. The conservative Republicans are just as guilty, they just continue to hide what they are doing.

As the First Amendment gave us freedom of speech, the press, to worship, petition the government, and peaceably assemble, the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear arms. This is no small thing. This amendment is not just so that Americans can go hunting every fall. This amendment guarantees that the citizens of this country can protect themselves against tyranny and take-over from enemies, whether foreign or domestic. The Founders knew that without an armed citizenry, the government could, and would, turn tyrannical. The people would be subjugated once again as they were under the rule of King George. The Second Amendment is also the only one that states clearly that it ‘shall not be infringed.’

Once a country is unarmed, it is unable to protect itself from anything. If only the government has weapons, then the government can do what it wants to the people. Without the right to keep and bear arms, we, the people, the rightful owners of the country, cannot protect ourselves from the government. Washington DC could, and would, do as it pleased. Just as with political correctness going against the freedom of speech or taking down and not allowing any Christian symbols on public property, the rest of our freedoms will go away.

Listen to the 2020 Democratic candidate’s policies. What do they want to do with the country? In a nutshell, they want to do away with the capitalistic, free-market economy and make it socialistic and controlled by the government. They want to open our borders to all comers regardless of who they are. They want to tax the rich into poverty and redistribute that wealth to the poor. They want to pack the Supreme Court so that they can get more liberal Justices. They want to allow abortions up to, and even after, birth. They want to eliminate the Electoral College. They want universal everything from healthcare to education to income. They want to eliminate the Second Amendment and limit the First Amendment. This is not just an opinion. These are policies coming from the mouths of the candidates; all of them.

What does that say to you? When a government wants that much control over a nation, what kind of government is it? Is it a limited government that is bound by the freedoms of the people? No. It is a dictatorship that wants total control over the people. It is what happened in North Korea, Venezuela, China, Russia, and a host of other nations that went to socialism and then on to communism. The Democrats espouse the virtues of the Scandinavian countries that have socialism. What they don’t mention is that those countries are taxed to the point of very little private ownership, limited speech, and no right to petition against the government.

It is known by the State of California that everything they don’t like should be against the law in the rest of the country. Thankfully, it is known by the rest of the country that California is full of morons. Let’s be honest, just this month the State of California outlawed plastic straws and declared the NRA a terrorist organization. They have safe places for addicts to shoot up; the homeless are defecating and urinating on the streets, there are used hypodermic needles laying everywhere; the homeless are sleeping in doorways and entering businesses begging for handouts; tent cities are abundant. San Francisco and Los Angeles are beginning to look like third world countries and the State decides to outlaw straws instead of taking care of the major problems.

To give the devil his due, the State of California is a sanctuary state for illegals and those illegals are given free healthcare, free food, and housing; and they don’t have to worry about being deported by ICE.

What am I saying here about California and what does it have to do with the rights and freedoms of the citizens of the United States? The State of California cares more about illegal aliens and THEIR rights than about their own citizens' safety and rights. It is just this type of government that makes the Bill of Rights necessary; especially the Second Amendment. What California is doing is usurping its power. Granted, what isn’t specifically enumerated in the Constitution as powers granted to the Federal Government is left to the several states. That doesn’t mean that those states can take away the rights of the citizens guaranteed by the federal Constitution which is the Law of the Land.

The State of California and the State of New York are the two most populated states in the Union and have the most representatives in Congress. Because of this these two, far-left, states have a lot of say in legislating. Thank the gods of every pantheon that regardless of what the House of Representatives try to pass, it only takes a 51 vote against any bill in the Senate to keep it from becoming law; and the Senate has only two votes per state so each state has an equal voice. That doesn’t mean that California and New York don’t try to push their far-left ideology on the rest of the nation; they do.

If you look at these two states and what is happening there you can see just how much of a failure the far-left’s ideology is. People are leaving California and New York by the hundred because of high taxes, regulations, and crime. These people are moving into mostly Red (conservative) states where the taxes are reasonable, crime exists but not prevalent, businesses thrive, unemployment is low, and people are happy. The only problem with this is that these Californians and New Yorkers take their liberal ideology with them and do their best to turn that Red state Blue. Simply put: they do their best to turn an economically prosperous, business friendly, low crime state into what they just left.

There will come a day when the socialists gain enough support in Congress to change the nation from our Constitutional Republic into a socialist/communist state. I just hope that that day does not come in my lifetime.