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.

Where Does Elizabeth Warren Stand on the Issues?

The following are a few of Elizabeth Warren's views on important issues. I will attempt to explain these, in layman's terms, as best I can so you, the reader, are able to understand what she stands for and the repercussions of her policies.

On the economy:

Ultra-Millionaire Tax on America’s 75,000 richest families to produce trillions.

So, Ms. Warren wants the taxpayer to believe that taxing the top 75k families more will produce trillions of dollars. How, exactly, does that work? Those top wage earners don't make that much. Is she going to take all their money from them and then some? If she wants to tax enough to make trillions of dollars in federal revenue, she will end up taxing everyone more and more. According to wsj.com the Treasury Dept. brought in $3.3T last year with spending at $4.2T.

According to the Tax Foundation (taxfoundation.org) the lowest percent paid was 1.5% for the lowest income earner and the top 1% paid 33.3% tax. Also, the income before taxes and after taxes (this is the really important part) is surprisingly unfair. The lowest quintile earners before taxes share of income is 3.7% but after taxes (you know, with all the refundable credits, AKA redistribution of wealth) is 7.3% while the 81^st to 99^th percentile's is 38.4% before and 35.1% after. The top 1%, 16.6% and 13.2%. Looks to me like the lowest percentile earners are getting their fair share while the top wage earners are paying for it. And Ms Warren wants to make that an even larger gap in the before and after taxes percentages.

You have to understand that those high wage earners and corporations are the ones that are paying the wages to the lower earners. Those corporations spend billions on expanding their businesses to create more jobs so more people are working and earning. I agree that corporate greed is out of hand but it isn't the businesses, themselves, that are greedy. It is the CEOs, Board members, higher management that are greedy. And let's not forget the shareholders that demand those businesses make more and more profit to give to them.

On education:

Canceling student loan debt for most college graduates, eliminating all tuition costs at public two- and four-year schools.

“The entire cost of my broad debt cancellation plan and universal free college is more than covered by my Ultra-Millionaire Tax — a 2% annual tax on the 75,000 families with $50 million or more in wealth."

According to Americanprogress.org the federal student loan debt for the country is $1.5T with another $119B in private student loan debt. Ms Warren wants to have the Federal Government pay off that debt and then make college free? I don't think those 75K families have that much money to give away along with paying for all the other things she wants them to pay for. Once again, the taxes won't just be coming from the wealthy; she will raise taxes on every working family in the nation.

On energy and the environment:

Cutting carbon pollution roughly in half by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. As the world’s largest historical carbon polluter, the United States has a special responsibility to lead the way.

Wow! Can you believe that? How is she going to cut carbon emissions to net-zero? Along with AOC and the Squat Squad she wants to do away with internal combustion engines. Are you ready to start walking everywhere? Are you ready to quit using your AC and electric heat? Are you ready to quit buying things at the store? To cut carbon emissions to net-zero that is what it would take. Why would you have to stop buying things? It takes an internal combustion engine to power that truck down the road to deliver your iPhone, Nike's, PlayStation, Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. Electricity is produced using coal. You won't be able to own a car.

USCUSA.org reports that the US is number 2 for greenhouse gas emissions with China as being number one with almost twice the emissions as the United States.

On gun regulation:

 "As president, I will immediately take executive action to rein in an out-of-control gun industry — and to hold both gun dealers and manufacturers accountable for the violence promoted by their products. I will break the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress by passing sweeping anti-corruption legislation and eliminating the filibuster so that our nation can no longer be held hostage by a small group of well-financed extremists who have already made it perfectly clear that they will never put the safety of the American people first.”

Let's see, if gun dealers and manufacturers are to be held responsible for gun violence shouldn't auto manufacturers and dealers be held responsible for car deaths; tool manufacturers and dealers for deaths due to someone using a hammer, crowbar, screwdriver, etc.; doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies held responsible for prescription drug deaths; and maybe the government for deaths during war?

As for the NRA – there has yet to be an NRA member that has committed a gun crime. All the NRA does is stand up for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Ms. Warren would love to disarm the people totally so that the government can take complete control over the people instead of the people controlling the government.

On healthcare:

"The Medicare for All Act of 2019 would ensure that Americans could get the care they need, when they need it, without going into debt. It would empower the federal government to negotiate prices with drug companies. And it would expand coverage to include home- and community-based long-term care services, ensuring people with disabilities can receive the care they need to stay in their homes and remain part of their communities."

Single-payer, government-controlled healthcare. That's worked so well for the vets in this country. It's also worked well in every country that uses it. People aren't rushing to Canada, the UK, Venezuela, or any other socialist country for their healthcare. They come to the US. Why? They come here because the United States has the best healthcare in the world. Is the system broken and extremely expensive? Of course, it is. Does it need to be fixed? Of course, it does. Does it take government policy to do it? Oh, HELL no! The government shouldn't be involved in anything more than protections for the country. If the US government was put in charge of the Sahara Desert within 10 years there would be a shortage of sand.

On immigration:

 "Decriminalize migration and refocus enforcement on serious criminal activity. Separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement to strengthen our communities. Remake CBP and ICE in a way that reflects our values. Create accountability for the abuse perpetrated during the Trump Era."

"End unnecessary detention. Eliminate private detention facilities. Expand the executive use of parole and invest in alternatives-to-detention."

"Establish professional, independent Article I immigration courts. Eliminate expedited removal and provide due process."

: "Reject exclusionary policies based on race, religion, and nationality. Raise the refugee cap. Affirm asylum protections."

Ok. I get it. The Democrats want to flood the country with illegals. They want to give citizenship to illegals without those individuals going through the same process as the legal immigrants have. They want to do away with ICE so that those illegals in the country don't have to worry about being deported. I get it. They want people that will vote Democrat.

There is nothing else to say about the Democrat's immigration policies. They want open borders, no American sovereignty, and the entire world to be able to come to the United States and have the American taxpayer pay for their healthcare, housing, food, and education.

On impeachment:

"Every member of Congress took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States — not to protect and defend Donald Trump. Every elected official should read the Mueller report. And once they do, they’ll see the facts are inescapable. The House should do its job and begin impeachment proceedings.

This is to the point of being laughable. The Mueller Report stated clearly that there was no collusion and no obstruction committed by Donald J Trump, his campaign, his family, or his administration.

What the Mueller Report did find is that the Clinton Campaign paid for an unverifiable dossier from a foreign spy that got it from a Russian.

The Obama DOJ lied to the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on an opposing candidate. The FBI exonerated Hillary Clinton before she was even interviewed, for any wrongdoing by having an unsecured, private server with government emails that were hacked by the Chinese. Hillary Clinton obstructed justice by destroying over 30K emails that were subpoenaed by the Congress, then destroyed phones and computers using BleachBit and hammers and removing SIM cards.

Who all was involved in the Trump Spygate? When it all comes out in the IG report I believe the entire Obama Administration, FBI, DOJ, Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama, himself, will be implicated.

If Congress was actually doing its job, it would stop investigating Trump over and over for trying to find a crime he committed and start doing something about illegal aliens, the economy, infrastructure, foreign policy, etc. If they were interested in equal justice and 'no one is above the law' they would be looking at several of their own members such as AOC, Ilan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, and Frederica Wilson.

There is no equal justice in Congress. Democrats are above the law as has been proven by Hillary Clinton. There are several state officials that have been accused of some terrible crimes but aren't being prosecuted or even investigated. Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, is being humiliated by false accusations and Trump has been investigated since he was inaugurated for crimes he hasn't committed.

And the Democrats are demanding his impeachment. It is almost laughable.

So, these are the policies that Elizabeth Warren stands behind; the Green New Deal, open borders, disarming the American citizens, free everything for anyone, taxing the American people into poverty while paying for everyone else, and impeaching a President that has done nothing wrong. Yep! My kind of candidate. Especially since she claimed to be Native American just to get into Harvard and get her first job and then continued to claim minority status until Donald Trump called her out on it. She fits into the Democrat Party just fine.

All information on Elizabeth Warren's standing on the issues is from ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign 2020

A Short Examination of the Constitution

We, The People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for The United States of America.

The preamble to the Constitution starts out with “We, The People of the United States,…” It does not say, ‘We, the government of the United States.’ That, my friends, is the most important thing about the experimental government that the Founders established. Never before had a country been ruled by the people but by a centralized, usually tyrannical, monarchy or parliament. They separated the powers of government into three branches to have checks and balances so that no one person, or branch, had too much power. Each branch was given specific powers and those were enumerated within the body of the Constitution.

‘Article 1, Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.’ Read that again. What this says is that the Congress makes law. That means that the House and Senate legislate. It does not say that the Supreme Court, or any Court, can legislate law. It doesn’t say that if one Party doesn’t get its way that they can go to the Supreme Court, or any Court, and bring suit to get a law passed. It doesn’t say that a President can legislate by Executive Order. It says, specifically, that ‘all legislative powers’ are held by the Congress.

What have the Democrats done, time and time again? They have gone to the Supreme Court, or a District Court, to get their agenda passed. They can’t get their far-left ideology through a fair and balanced legislative process, so they go the Courts to do it. Why do they do this? Most of the laws they do this with are so far left, and against the people, there is no way that the people would allow it. 

  

‘Article 2, Section 1. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the Persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Senate.’

Thus was established the Electoral College. This was the fairest way to elect the President so that each and every State had a voice in who was running the government. Without the Electoral College, the most populated areas of the country would decide who would be President regardless of that the less populated areas wanted. Today, California and New York, the two most populated states, would control the election, leaving the rest of the country without a voice.

‘Article 3, Section 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; - to all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; - to all cases of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; - to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; - to controversies between two or more States; - between a State and Citizens of another State; - between Citizens of different States; - between Citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or Subjects….’

Here is where the power of the Supreme Court is established. There is no clause that gives the Supreme Court authority to legislate, only to hear and try cases. Historically, the Supreme Court determines whether a law is Constitutional when it comes to legislation but that is as far as it goes. The Constitution does not give authority to the Court to turn a bill into law.

‘Section 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to the Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort….’

Treason. That word has been tossed around a lot in the last few years; especially against Donald Trump. The Democrats have accused the President of treason numerous times, stating that he was colluding with a foreign power to win the Presidency and being an agent of Vladimir Putin.

Who, exactly, has aided and abetted our enemies? Who has given comfort to our enemies? Who has adhered to our enemies? Barack Hussein Obama handed $150 Billion dollars to Iran, our enemy. Isn’t that giving aid? Hillary Clinton sold 20% of our uranium to Russia, isn’t that giving aid to our enemy? Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib adhere to Islam. Isn’t Islam a religion that directly goes against our government and our country? The Democrats, or many of them, demand that our borders be open to all comers regardless of who, or what, they are. Isn’t that giving aid and comfort to an enemy? The State of California and several cities across the nation, including Chicago and New York City, have declared themselves ‘sanctuary cities’ for illegals. Isn’t that the same as giving aid and comfort? Isn’t that aiding and abetting our enemies?

‘Article 4, Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasions; and on Application of the Legislature, or the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened against domestic violence.’

What is President Trump trying to do at the Southern Border? He’s doing the job of Congress, which has decided that the safety of the nation isn’t that important. With the violence that hundreds of the illegals crossing our southern border is committing, the President is doing everything he can to close that border and protect the nation against an invasion of millions of illegal aliens and the violence that comes from some of those illegals.

The Democrats say that it is a conspiracy theory that says the influx of illegals is an invasion. If it were just a few hundred, I would concur. It isn’t just a few hundred; it is millions. There have been thousands at one time. If that isn’t an invasion I’d hate to know what the Democrats would call an invasion; and without knowing who these people are, there is a huge influx of the criminal element crossing unchecked.

To be fair, it isn’t just the Democrats that are fighting Trump on securing the border. There are a few Republicans that are mixed in there, also. It is as if our elected officials, those people that we, the people, have chosen to represent us, don’t care about our safety or the sovereignty of our nation. Without borders, there is no country.

What is a ‘Republican’ form of government? A Republican form of governance is one which is considered a ‘public matter,’ not the private concern or property of the rulers. In other words, we, the people, are our rulers not a centralized government that we have no control over. It appears the power is becoming more and more centralized and our representatives are not representing the wants, or the needs, of the people. Trump made a campaign promise to give power back to the people and he is doing his best to do just that; being obstructed at every turn through lawsuits against his policies on the border. Who is fighting against him the most? Not just the far left. There are a lot of conservatives that are caving to the liberal ideology of open borders. Where is our ‘Republican’ form of government?

‘Article 6. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.’

What, exactly, does Article 6 mean? It seems clear to me. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land and every member of the government, both federal and state, are bound to obey the laws set by the Constitution. There are three branches of government and each branch has certain powers that keep checks and balances against one person, or branch, from becoming a tyrannical dominion. It gives the people control over the government to keep all three branches from turning against the people. Is there room for ‘interpretation’ of what the Founders meant? Not really. It states clearly what the powers of government are, where those powers lay and with whom. What does need ‘interpreted’ is the laws passed by Congress and signed by the Executive. There have been 45 Presidents since we became an independent nation. There have been liberals and conservatives. There have been 116 Congresses. There have been both liberal and conservative majorities in those conventions. There are laws on the books that are unfair, unnecessary, and, in some cases, unconstitutional.

It is we, the people, that are the rightful rulers of our destinies. We own the government. We own the country. 243 years ago we fought against a tyrannical dominion and won our freedom. Over those 243 years, we have slowly let ourselves be ruled over once again. The Federal Government has usurped its power and now believes that it controls us. Over the last four or five decades, our young have been indoctrinated into the liberal ideology through the public school system, the mainstream media, and, now, social media.

We have become dependent on the government and ruled by the government. It is not a basic right, nor within the authority of the federal government, to receive an education, be fed, have healthcare, receive an income, or have our debts paid by the general public. The biggest problem today is that our young have been indoctrinated into believing that those are basic rights and should be given to them at no cost or effort from them.

Our basic rights, our inalienable rights, are enumerated in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. Those, and only those, are our basic rights and guaranteed by the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land. The freedom of speech (now being taken away through political correctness), freedom to worship as we please (now being taken away through ‘separation of church and state’ and some state governments demanding Islam to be taught), freedom of the press (even though the press reports rumor and opinion as truth and fact), freedom to peaceably assemble and petition the government for grievances (now meant as rioting and destruction of property); the right to keep and bear arms (now being regulated even though there are no limits stated); the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search and seizure, warrants not issued but upon probable cause (all it takes is someone with a grudge to be probable cause or the government deciding that you are committing an offense against it); protected against double jeopardy, tried for a capital offense unless upon indictment of a grand jury, to be made to incriminate ourselves in court, or be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations and to be confronted with the witness against the accused, to be able to obtain witnesses for him and have the assistance of legal defense; to have a trial by an impartial jury of our peers, that no fact tried by a jury will be taken before another court; excessive bail or fines, or cruel and unusual punishment will be inflicted upon us (tell that to Paul Manafort); that there are other rights retained by the people that are not enumerated in the Constitution; secure in the fact that our homes will not be used to house the military; and that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or the people.

In recent months there have been citizens that have been deprived of some of these basic rights. As mentioned above, Paul Manafort was held in solitary confinement just to pressure him into fabricating ‘evidence’ against the President, General Michael Flynn was told he didn’t need an attorney while being interviewed by the FBI; Roger Stone, an old man, was raided by the FBI in the early morning hours and, somehow, CNN just happened to be there to film it; Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, had his office raided and records confiscated against the policy of attorney/client confidentiality. All these people were coerced by the FBI and/or the Mueller Investigation team to speak out against Donald J Trump, his campaign and his administration. What the Mueller team was doing was trying to find a crime that was committed thus depriving Trump of presumption of innocence. Just as Brett Kavanaugh was accused of being a sexual predator while being confirmed as Supreme Court Justice and the Liberal Left openly said that he was guilty even though the accusations were denied by the people that were supposedly witnesses (later to be admitted as false accusations).

The Second Amendment, in my opinion the most important, has been infringed over and over through regulation. The Constitution is very clear on this right. “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Read that again. And again. And again. “A well-regulated militia, being NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY of a FREE STATE, the RIGHT to keep and bear arms, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.” There are no limitations on this basic, necessary right. It doesn’t limit arms to single-shot long guns. It doesn’t state that a person needs to buy a permit or license. It doesn’t say that a person needs to pass a background check or that there should be ‘red-flag’ laws. It states extremely clearly that the right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

Does mean that anyone should be able to buy and carry weapons? Actually – yes. Do I want anyone to be able to acquire weapons? It doesn’t matter. If someone wants to get a handgun, a rifle, an AR-15 or AK-47, a bazooka, a grenade launcher, land mines or any other weapon, they will do it whether it is legal or not. The only thing that these regulations do is keep honest, law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves; which is the very reason for this right to be guaranteed. Criminals don’t obey laws or regulations. The only reason the government institutes these laws is to disarm the citizens. And once disarmed, the citizens won’t be able to protect themselves from the criminal element or a tyrannical takeover from the government.

Political correctness is doing away with our freedom of speech. Why would the government want to do that? Without being able to speak our minds, without being able to offend someone, we start to think with one mind. We become automatons, bricks in the wall, mindless serfs. It is not against nature to offend someone. It brings on debate. It is a differing of opinions. Just because someone’s feelings get hurt doesn’t mean it should be against the law. As is happening around the world today, it has become a hate crime to speak against Islam, homosexuality, transgenders, minorities, etc. Hate crime! Just because a person is against a religion bent on the destruction of all other religions and ways of thinking, that person, if he/she speaks out against Islam, will be arrested and their lives destroyed because of a manufactured hate crime. Because a person speaks out against boys in the girl’s bathroom or a man saying he’s a woman doesn’t mean that it’s a hate crime. Just because a person speaks out against illegal aliens invading the country doesn’t mean it’s a hate crime.

The worst part of political correctness, which includes racist speech, is that only white people are accused and convicted of it. Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays, etc., can say anything they want with impunity. Only straight, white, conservatives are racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, etc. All the while, Islamists, blacks, gays, etc., can say whatever they want against those straight, white conservatives. Minorities demand equal justice but commit the crimes they accuse whites of committing. Unequal equality; a double standard.

Being a Constitutional originalist is being on the right side of morals and values. Not being a very religious person, I still believe in Christian principles. Morality is a social construct. What is moral and legal in one society may not be in another and vice-versa. Once Christian principles were done away with in schools, governmental policy, and even in homes, the culture changed. Where once every pickup truck in the parking lot of any school in America had a gun rack and shotgun in it and nothing thought about it, now is seen as an active shooter and that kid will be arrested and charged with terrorism.

It isn’t more laws we need. It is fewer laws; less government interference in our lives. We need more involvement between parents and children. Less social media and game consoles and more fishing and hunting. Less tolerance taught and more industrial arts and home economics taught. Less liberal indoctrination in schools and more basic education. More caring for American citizens and less importance put on illegal aliens; charity starts at home. Less climate change and more ecology. Less spending on countries that would rather see us dead and more on our own infrastructure. Help our allies, not our enemies. Less socialism and more capitalism.

We are losing our country because of our complacency and more and more dependence on government handouts. It is we, the people, that is allowing the government to gain more and more power over us. I believe it was Lincoln that said that the US would never be overtaken from an outside enemy but from within because of our complacency. Guess he was right.

What the Constitution Means and What Is Happening to It

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 were 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 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 citizen's 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 the 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.

Is McCarthyism Making A Comeback?

Is McCarthyism making a comeback? Some would say it is. With all the Hollywood elites spouting off about doxing Trump supporters, a lot of far-left wing liberals bashing anyone that supports Trump, with the mainstream media destroying the character of anyone that works for Trump, etc., it sure looks a lot like McCarthyism.

When you look at the rhetoric of the far-left, the policies of the far-left, the attitude of the far-left, it makes a person wonder just who, and what, they are. They scream racism against Trump and anyone that likes him; they scream homophobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe, and every other -phobe and if that doesn’t work, they scream antisemitic. All the while it is they, the far-left, that continually victimize minorities and promote antisemitism. Just listen to what they say.

Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the mainstream media are constantly spewing forth diatribes against Jews, endless speeches of how minorities can’t do anything for themselves and need the Democrats to do for them, stand on their soap-boxes and yell about how law enforcement is unfair to blacks (whether those blacks broke the law or not), and an endless stream of rhetoric against America’s culture, morals, and values; even our heritage and founding.

It was Republicans that fought against slavery. It was Republicans that fought for the rights of blacks and women. It has always been the conservatives that have championed for minorities. On the other hand, it has always been the Democrats that fought against all that; until now. Now, with Donald Trump as President, they are ‘fighting’ for the little guy. But, then again, they have always said they were fighting for the little guy, the downtrodden, the minority. Let me ask all you minorities one question: what has the Democrat Party ever done for you? Have they given you jobs? Have they lifted you out of poverty? Have they made life easier for you?

Take a look at those cities that have been controlled by the Democrats for decades and tell me how the Democrats have enriched the lives of the poor. Tell me how the Democrats have made jobs for Blacks, Hispanics, or women. What have they actually done for you? They have given you government handouts and kept you under their control; all the while doing nothing to help you get ahead in life. And don’t tell me that the low unemployment rate among minorities is because of Barack Obama. He was, and still is, keeping the poor - poor and the downtrodden - downtrodden. Without the poor and miserable, the Democrat Party is powerless. They would have no one to make empty promises to.

The Left has always promised the world to those that needed a hand up. What they have given is a hand-out. There are signs everywhere in state and federal parks across the nation that read: Do not feed the animals. They will become dependent on it and not be able to forage for themselves. Guess what? If you feed people for nothing then they, too, become dependent and unable to forage for themselves. In other words, once a person is given a free-living, they come to depend on that without giving anything in return. Try taking that welfare check and food stamps away from the poor and replacing it with work. A lot of those people will raise the roof. A lot, not all. There are actually those that would prefer to work and support themselves instead of depending on the government to support them. Proof of that is the lowest unemployment rate among minorities and women in history.

The left hates that. That is the one biggest reason that 99.9% of Democrats in power want open borders. They can no longer depend on the minority vote among Americans, so they have to import voters from other countries and give them free healthcare, free housing, free food, free education, and a guaranteed income. All paid for by the hard-working American taxpayer. With open borders and decriminalizing illegal entry into the country and giving those illegal aliens state-issued IDs, those people will vote for those that are giving the handouts. In other words – the Democrats.

Back to the McCarthyism. While doing their best to import voters, the far-left is black-listing all Trump supporters. Several Hollywood elites have openly called for black-listing so that they know who not to work with, who to shun, who to ridicule and destroy. They don’t want conservatives to earn a living if at all possible. Maxine Waters called out to the people to ‘get in their faces wherever they are. In gas stations, restaurants, and even at their homes. Johnny Depp stated, “I wonder when it was the last time an actor killed a President.” Madonna stated, “I have thought many times of blowing up the White House.” It is McCarthyism against conservatives instead of communists. It’s vogue to be a ‘Democratic Socialist’ today.

During the McCarthy years, a lot of people’s lives were destroyed simply by being accused of being a communist. Several of those people were communists but that shouldn’t have mattered. Senator McCarthy destroyed anyone and everyone that was accused. Several of those people committed suicide and the rest died in poverty, unable to find work. That is happening right now, in the 21^st century with all the Democrats calling for conservatives to be fired, harassed, destroyed. They don’t care one iota about families. All they care about is turning the entire country blue and destroying conservatism; doing away with the checks and balances that are so desperately needed to continue a healthy government.

How does this make McCarthyism alive and well in the brave, new world? Because, just as Senator McCarthy destroyed anyone put before him as a communist, anyone that the Left doesn’t like (that would be anyone that thinks and believes differently than them) are systematically destroyed. How are they being destroyed? It isn’t by a Senate Judiciary hearing. They are being destroyed by harassing them wherever they are, labeling them as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, antisemitic, xenophobic, or whatever the name-of-the-day is. Conservatives have quit working for the government by droves because they don’t need, or want, the drama or the character assassination.

Oh, yes, my friends, McCarthyism is alive and well today as much as it was in the 1950s. The only difference is then it was against communism and today it is against conservatism. Everyone knows that to be a Socialist, a Democratic Socialist or a communist is in vogue in politics today. The more radically left a person is the better off they are in Washington, DC.

If we don’t keep watch the far-left will destroy our way of life. They are out to destroy everything American, especially the Constitution of the United States. They have been whittling away at the Bill of Rights for decades; most notably the Second Amendment. Why the Second? That is the one right that the American people have to protect all the others. If the far-left can disarm America, they can, and will, make this Constitutional Republic into a Socialist/communist state and there will be no left or right. It will be a Democrat-controlled dictatorship. McCarthyism will have won the day.

"Now Is The Time For All Good Men To Come To The Aid Of Their Country"

“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” A phrase any typing student knows well. Where did it come from? From what I have gleaned from the almighty internet is this: The original phrase came from Patrick Henry as, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” Then, again, I also found that it was nothing more than a phrase from Charles Keller, a typing teacher. Either way, it makes for a resounding cry to any patriotic person from any nation.

Phrases from the past, from such noble historical figures such as Patrick Henry, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, William Wallace, Robert Bruce, Plato, Socrates, Alexander the Great, etc., are fodder for anyone wanting to incite patriotism, energy, fanaticism, or even common sense from a group of people. (Wow! That was a long sentence.) These, as were all great historical figures, were people worth quoting. These were great men and women that accomplished great things. But, does it really take quoting a great historical figure to bring everyday people into the fold?

What about those people that are normal, every day, working-class people that have a good head on their shoulders? I have had people give good advice that no one has ever heard of. Some of the best knowledge comes from those that don’t have a college degree, that may not even have a high school diploma. I knew a man once that hadn’t even finished the eighth grade that had more common sense and usable knowledge that it was incredible. I would have traded all my formal education for a fraction of his ‘street smarts.’

You see, it isn’t education that makes a person smart. It is the knowledge gained from life that counts. A college degree shows that you have formal education in a certain area. You may know accounting forward and backward, or engineering, or political science, or medicine and not have an ounce of common sense. As an example, just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here is a woman that supposedly graduated quite high in her class from a major college with a degree in economics. When she opens her mouth, what comes out shows that she has absolutely no idea about real life, history, or common sense. I actually feel sorry for her at times. I’m not AOC bashing. I am using her as a great example of how formal education means nothing when it comes to living.

I have a friend that turned me on to a certain author. He brought over a book and told me that he thought I might like it. I’d never heard of this author, but I read it. It was a great read. Since that time, I have bought almost every book this author has written. Why? I have read this woman’s words because she writes about life, about how hard it can be, about how anyone can overcome any obstacle if they just persevere. “Over, under, through, or around. There is always a way.” The funny thing about it is that when I went to Barnes and Noble to buy her books, I found them in the – ROMANCE section. I’ve never read romance novels. I was surprised, to say the least.

Wondering who that author is, are you? Well, let me say this: this woman has had a hard life, she was abused as a child and as a wife, she is dyslexic, she came from a poor family, she has attained wealth and fame in spite of all she had against her. In her novels, she writes of overcoming adversity and betrayal. “We are nothing more than life’s whipping boys, but we continue to fight because of the ones we love.” Through her characters, she tells a story of how a person can be more than what the believe; that life isn’t fair but that, no matter what, we must continue to live, and things will get better.

The author: Sherrilyn Kenyon. Her books: The Chronicles of Nick, The League, The Dark-Hunters, The Dream Hunters, and The Belador Series.

Here is an example of how an everyday person can inspire anyone. This is not an advertisement for Ms. Kenyon or her books, although I do recommend them to everyone. This woman has overcome great hardship to achieve great things. She isn’t a great political figure, social justice figure, community organizer, or historical figure. She is just a common woman with a story to tell. Throughout her books are life lessons worth learning; especially in the Chronicles of Nick series.

You see, there are people that haven’t gained notoriety that are quite knowledgeable in life. Some of these people have little formal education. It is LIFE that teaches us the most. If you don’t have some form of common sense, then life will beat you down. That is the problem in today’s world: all it takes is a lot of money or knowing someone in power and you don’t have to worry about a lot. Look at any political party in any nation and you can see that common sense is not at the top of their agenda.

The days of patriotism, commitment, loyalty, and common sense are over. Today is the day of feelings; how a person feels about any given subject is what is important. What the individual wants is more important than what the community needs. Special interest gets the venue, not common-sense policy. It boils down to where politicians can gain more power; and it isn’t just here in the United States.

“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” A great quote, even if it is just a typing exercise. It’s just too bad that more people don’t take it to heart. This quote isn’t just about patriotism. It is about life. United we can achieve anything. Divided, we will fall to whatever comes along. Not just as a nation but, also, as normal, everyday people living together in a world that is hell-bent to destroy us.

Families need to get back to being families. Friends need to get back to being loyal and having each other’s backs. Communities need to get back to helping each other. “The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.” Too often the few demands more than the many can accommodate. When a minority’s wants are put before the needs of the majority it puts undue pressure on everyone. As can be seen in today’s world, minorities are fast becoming the influencers of policy regardless of the consequences of those policies. Political correctness is destroying the freedoms that every person should be enjoying. Families are no longer together, friends turn into enemies, communities become individuals hiding behind locked doors.

Maybe that great quote should be changed just a little. Maybe, instead of ‘the nation,’ or ‘the party,’ it should read, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their neighbors, their families, their friends.” Whether it be local, state, national, or global, isn’t it time we came to the aid of those we care about? Isn’t it time we got out of the idea that the individual is more important than the community?

I’m not talking about opening our borders to anyone and everyone that wants to come to the US. I’m not talking about the working people paying more and more taxes to support those that are unwilling to support themselves. I’m not talking about giving up inalienable rights because of another becoming offended. I’m talking about making sure that those inalienable rights are available to everyone wherever they are. Maybe if the people of the world would just let each individual be who they are it would be a better place to live. Let the LBGT community be gay. Let the hunters hunt. Let the vegans eat their veggies while the omnivores eat whatever they want. Let people worship the way they please without demanding the oppression of other’s beliefs. Don’t demand that everyone think and believe the way you do.

It’s a big world that is becoming smaller every day. There are a lot of people living on this little rock in space. As the Beatles once said, “Let it be.”

What Do The Democrats Have In Mind?

What, exactly, do the Democrats have in mind? What is it that they want for the country? Those are the $64,000 questions. I will attempt to address them and explain my reasoning.

First of all, the biggest thing that all the Democrat candidates for President in 2020 are expounding is eliminating the Electoral College. Why would they want to do that, you ask? Why would they want to do away with a Constitutional institution that guarantees that every state has a voice in electing a President and Vice-President? Here’s why: they can’t win while there is an Electoral College. They can win a popular vote just as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. That would be a democratic majority. This country is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic. The Electoral College makes sure that high population states such as California, New York, and Illinois cannot supersede the will of the entire country. There are 50 states in the Union, and they all have a say as to who will occupy the Oval Office. If there were no Electoral College, only three or four states would decide who is best.

I think that I should probably change the antagonists. Instead of Democrats, it should be politicians. It isn’t just one party that is doing this. I have always blamed the Democrats for all the ills of the country. Why? Because they are much more vocal about what they want. The Republicans are no better. The biggest difference between the two parties is one is obvious and the other is more discreet

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I can say that throughout the history of this great nation, at least since the inception of the Republican and Democrat parties, the Republicans have leaned much farther to helping the downtrodden and the poor. It was Lincoln, a Republican, and his administration that fought hard to end slavery. He probably even pulled some liberal tactics to get it done. It was the Democrats that fought hard to keep slavery, to the point of forming the Ku Klux Klan to instill fear into anyone that would advocate for freeing the slaves.

If you listen, and watch, what is going on in Washington, DC today, you will understand why I rant about Democrats; and am now including the Republicans. The Liberals have not stopped their extreme demand for the impeachment of Trump, even though he has not been involved in any high crimes or misdemeanors that would warrant impeachment. They still believe that Trump colluded with the Russians even though the evidence clearly shows that it was the Clinton Campaign and the Obama Administration that did the colluding and obstruction of justice. The mainstream media’s headlines continually accuse Trump for every mass shooting, extreme weather, climate change, social injustice, and whatever else comes into their minds.

What do the conservatives do? Nothing. They are either A) scared of the liberals or B) part of the liberal’s schemes. For two years the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House were Republican. What got accomplished? We got two Supreme Court Justices; which is great as they are Originalists. Other than that, not a lot got done through Congress. Since the 2018 election, in which the Democrats won the House, what has gotten done? Investigations. Stonewalling. Obstruction. Hearings. Accusations. More and more crisis.

We still have a multitude of illegals, excuse me, ‘undocumented’ aliens, excuse me again, ‘immigrants’ streaming across our southern border by the tens of thousands. We have more and more ‘mass’ shootings. I question the number needed for a mass shooting. In today’s world if a person kills more than two people that is classified as a mass shooting. We still have the failed Affordable Care Act (which made health insurance premiums skyrocket to the point of no one being able to afford them and deductibles so high that no one would use their insurance anyway) which only helps the people that don’t pay for it. We now have junior members of Congress that have no idea how our government works and that would love to see the United States turned into a communist country. We have a group of Democrats that are running for President that campaign on higher taxes, disarming the people, opening our borders, free everything to everyone, and impeaching Donald Trump.

That’s the crux right there: Donald J Trump. He is the bane of American politicians. He is the archenemy of the status quo. He isn’t a politician, he’s a businessman. He doesn’t follow the rules of politics. He has proven that, even with all the odds against him, he can get things done. Washington, DC hates him for it because he’s done more in two and a half years, alone, than Congress has gotten done in 50 years.

His accomplishments? Let’s see: He’s gotten North Korea to the bargaining table and is the ONLY sitting President to ever set foot in North Korea; he has made the NATO nations start paying their fair share of supporting NATO; he’s instituted the largest tax cut in decades; he is securing our borders; because of Trump, the Stock Market is all-time highs; how about the lowest unemployment rate since the 1960s and the highest employment rate for minorities and women in a couple of generations; record numbers of people off the welfare rolls; the downfall of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS (not total dissemination but not nearly as strong); because of Trump we are seeing just how corrupt career politicians are, including the DOJ; and let’s not forget he’s forcing fair trade agreements with foreign nations, including China; he’s brought manufacturing back into America and created more jobs than Obama lost. I’d say that he’s done pretty well for having the ‘establishment’ against him – both Democrats and Republicans.

So where are the politicians taking us? The City of San Francisco has recently declared the NRA an official terrorist organization, even though there has not been one member that has committed a gun crime. They are advocating the murder of babies up to, and even after, birth. The Liberals want open borders with illegal crossings decriminalized. The 2020 Democrat candidates are promising socialized medicine, guaranteed income, free education, reduced housing, the end of fossil fuels, the end of the Electoral College, party-packing the Supreme Court (because they can’t get legislation passed in Congress so they have to do it through the Courts), eliminating millions of jobs, raising taxes to unprecedented rates, eliminating the Second Amendment (although they don’t come right out and say it, their regulatory policies prove this), and centralization of industry. Sounds a lot like communism.

There are ‘sanctuary cities, counties, and states. What are those, you ask? A sanctuary city is where any illegal can go and not be afraid of being deported. The Constitution specifically states that the FEDERAL government has jurisdiction over immigration, not the states. The thing about these ‘sanctuary’ cities and states is that they are all Democrat-controlled.

If you look at the major cities that have been under Democrat control for decades you can see how fine a job they are doing. Most look like Third World countries. Rampant poverty, unemployment, drug use, violent crime (yes, in strict gun-controlled areas there is a lot of gun crime), filth, and disease. And they think they can run the country better than the conservatives? If you want to live in squalor, vote Democrat for sure. The Republicans aren’t doing much better for the simple fact that they aren’t doing anything about it.

Congress declared that a President can serve only two terms to keep the Commander-in-Chief from gaining too much power. There are Congressmen that have been serving for thirty, forty, even fifty years. The power of Congress is great, especially that of the Speaker of the House. If something were to happen to the President and the Vice-President, the Speaker would become the leader of the Free World. That, my friends, is a scary thought when it comes to Nancy Pelosi, a far-left wing liberal.

Congress isn’t held to any of the laws that they pass. They don’t have to adhere to socialized medicine, they have their own, taxpayer-funded, healthcare. They don’t have to adhere to putting their children into public schools that teach nothing but diversity, tolerance of others, boys in the girl’s bathroom, common core math, and everyone who participates is a winner. They don’t adhere to the anti-gun rhetoric; they have their armed guards and walled mansions. They don’t have to adhere to their ecological legislation, after all, they need to be able to travel by plane (As Bernie said, “I’m not going to walk to California.”) and car. As has been proven in the last few years, they don’t even have to worry too much about any laws they pass. Elites can commit treason, obstruction of justice, spying on the American people, and even murder and get by with it.

That is unless you are against the socialist agenda. Then you are toast.

That, my friends, is where politicians are taking the country – to socialism, communism, tyranny. A complete makeover of our Constitutional Republic into a government-controlled state where we do what they want. Period. It has been changed from a government for, and by the people to a tyrannical dominion and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be getting any better any time soon. Unless the career politicians are ousted, and true American patriots replace them. I’m not talking just the President. I’m talking the entire Congress, both the House and the Senate. Yes, there are some very fine representatives in Washington. Yes, there are some true patriots that are serving. The majority of those in the hallowed halls of the Capitol are nothing but career, power-hungry, egotistical politicians that would do anything to keep their power and wealth.

Liberals will disagree with me. Some conservatives will disagree with me. As Andrew Wilkow says, “My arguments cannot be broken.” All you need to do is open your eyes, open your mind, and you will see what is going on. What’s been going on for decades. It takes 6% of a population to change a government. With the most liberal states becoming too expensive, crime-ridden, and filthy to live in, a lot of those people are moving into Red states. Do you think they are going to change their politics because they changed states? Not a chance. Those liberals take their political views with them. They are changing the dynamic of the country. They are changing Red states into Purple or Blue states. They have been brainwashed and are brainwashing their children and contaminating the minds of conservative’s children. How? Through the schools, social media, and propaganda.

I only hope that I do not live long enough to see my country fall into the hands of total socialism. As the Declaration of Arbroath stated: (paraphrased)  'as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under tyrannical rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.'