Intro by John R. Houk
By Justin O. Smith
Posted January 3, 2020
I am still a huge Trump supporter! Nonetheless President
Trump has supported and/or signed some anti-Conservative legislation lately. This
has given rise to anger by many all-or-nothing Conservatives particularly in
the areas of National Sovereignty and Spending (can you bursting out of
control National Debt?).
My primary blog contributor Justin Smith appears to have
joined the ranks of Conservatives with frankly legitimate concerns of recent Trump-supported
legislation. I am in the camp where Trump pro-Patriot actions still outweigh the
recent stupid Trump decisions. NEVERTHELESS, Trump support of globalist USMCA will
quite probably lead to National Sovereignty and Rule of Law problems to our
U.S. Constitution in the long run from an
Originalist
perspective (
probably less concerns from
Republic-destroying supporters of a Living Constitution perspective). A fantastic
Originalist discourse is
HERE.
On a personal level I’m not ready to toss President Trump
under the bus for policy errors – YET. The source links that support Justin
Smith’s commentary will show my support of Trump more than my disappointment. If
Trump’s trend continues with bad decisions Impeachment will not be the solution.
Rather your votes for Representatives and Senators will decide America’s fate. I
for one will be voting Trump in 2020. Hopefully a 2024 Conservative POTUS
candidate emerges supporting the Trump good actions while reversing any bad
Trump decisions.
ANY election of the Dem Party’s current Left-Wing Globalist candidates
in Congress or POTUS will doom the American Republic to a government telling
people how to live whether they like it or not.
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Liberty Violated
The Constitution Has Been Perverted and Bastardized – Could
this Lead to the End of Liberty?
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 1/1/2020 12:28 AM
"
In an ever-changing,
incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at
the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was
possible and that nothing was true. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is
not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the
distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."
~
Hannah Arendt
President Donald J. Trump has done some fine things in the
domestic and foreign policy arenas, but even so, despite what the nearly 63
million Americans who voted for him believe, President Trump is not the best
thing in America to have come along since sliced white-bread. Unfortunately,
with each passing day, he has proven himself to be the Big Spending, Big
Government fascist that I knew him to be in 2015. Regardless of his "good
deeds", any American, who stays silent in the face of this president's
current harmful executive orders and signed pieces of legislation, such as the
recent
Omnibus bill that he signed on December 20th 2019,
is not a conservative or a patriot, and their silence does the nation a great
disservice, no matter how "great" anyone may view Trump at this
moment in history, and no matter Trump's claim of the "conservative
mantel".
America has also just witnessed the passage of the worst
so-called "trade agreement" ever negotiated in U.S. history on
December 19th 2019 -- the
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement [USMCA]
-- with President Trump's enthusiastic support, even though it was negotiated
by Obama era bureaucratic holdovers, the same exact negotiators responsible for
the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The USMCA kills individual liberty in America,
facilitates Open Borders and subverts our Constitution and national
sovereignty, as it also coincides nearly verbatim with approximately seventy
percent of the TPP, an agreement that Trump once called "a fraud" and
"one of the worst trade deals".
If this is an example of President Trump's great negotiating
skills, America's confidence in him is misplaced.
America was so focused on all the Congressional impeachment
drama, that nobody seemed to notice when the so-called "good guys"
and "bad guys" sat down to carve up another great portion of
America's wealth. After the House voted completely along party lines to impeach
President Trump and the historic dust settled, both the fraudulent champions of
Conservatism in the GOP and the Democratic Party Progressives, the mortal
enemies of America's Founding, set aside all differences to pass another record
breaking spending bill, with a mere 24 hours of review and
"discussion", that is so massive, its 2100 pages had to be split into
twelve packages -- gifts, if you will -- to conceal the fact that President
Donald J. Trump, the "Conservative", has
just signed the two largest spending packages in United States
History, totaling $1.4 trillion dollars.
Not one Congressman could have had the time to properly
review this albatross in a 24 hour period. It isn't any wonder that so much
that is so detrimental to America's well-being was allowed to creep into U.S. law
via this outrageous act.
Although President Trump eradicated thousands of federal
regulations, upon taking office, the results of many of his most recent bills
are adding thousands more. Some of the detrimental effects will arise in the
same way we saw through the struggle over property rights between the
Hammond and
Bundy Families and the Bureau of Land
Management [BLM], since both the USMCA and this recent Omnibus bill undermine
private property rights.
[Blog Editor: The BLM has been a tool of globalism and Marxist
Environmentalists:
Excerpt:
…
As neighboring Wyoming’s
economy, dependent on open pit coal mining, is perched on the edge of a free
fall as the market for coal shrinks, Gianforte and Daines, the self-described
high-tech mavens, seemed to have learned nothing.
Both are avidly supportive of
not only Trump Administration attacks on environmental protection but some of
the President’s political appointees whose ideology is sympathetic to selling
off public lands and making them available to the equivalent of 21stcentury
robber barons who again will treat the West as a natural resource colony.
…
Also in that list come all of
the natural resource industries—timber, precious metals, coal, and to some
degree, grazing. You may have heard how Acting Secretary of the Interior David
Bernhardt, in what can only be seen as a second tier appointment, recently
named William Perry Pendley acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
The move required no approval from the Senate and Pendley's appointment may
last only until this autumn.
Daines claims concerns about
Pendley are "overblown"
but how can he ignore the symbolism of the move, putting an anti-public lands ideologue
in place to oversee public lands that figure at the heart of Western identity?
Historically, Pendley hostile
attitude toward public land and federal land management has been demonstrated
over years, as a force with the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which has
advocated for getting rid of our federal public patrimony. Recently,
in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, an op-ed written by Ben Gabriel of the
Montana Wilderness Association and Dave Chadwick of the Montana Wildlife
Federation came with this headline: “Would we put an arsonist in charge of fire
department?”
In a separate piece, New
York Times columnist Timothy Egan wrote an essay titled “The Great Western Public Land
Robbery” and subtitled “Trump’s pick to be the steward of
America’s public lands doesn’t believe in public lands.”
…
“But you have to go pretty deep
into the ranks of the Worst People to find someone equal to the man Donald
Trump has now put in charge of your public lands — William Perry Pendley. The man now
overseeing 245 million acres owned by every
American citizen is a mad-dog opponent of the very idea of shared space in the
great outdoors. He has spent his professional life chipping away — in court, in
public forums, in statehouses — at one of the most cherished of American birthrights.”
… YOU CAN READ the whole anti-Trump
Leftist diatribe HERE
Sounds like President Trump is still irking enviro-Marxists
to me with the appointment of William Pendley.]
U.S. Map of Federal
owned-controlled land
The Environmental Protection Agency received $9 billion, a
$240 million increase over last year, and the Bureau of Land management
received a two percent increase. And the Land and Water Conservation Agency
received a whopping $500 million, no doubt so they can continue to tell Americans
they can't collect rain-water in barrels, as they have been aligned with UN
Agenda 21 mandates for many years, advocating for the same "sustainable
development" and the International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives, also a UN creation, that killed jobs and farming for decades in
any area that utilized these policies; these policies are also currently a part
of the anti-sovereignty, anti-American USMCA.
John Adams, the second U.S. President, once
proclaimed: "The moment the idea is
admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and
that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and
tyranny commence. Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist."
Exuding an abundance of brilliance and wisdom, James Madison
asserted: "Government is instituted
to protect property of every sort .... (including personal firearms) .... this
being the end of government, that alone is not a just government, .... nor is
property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal
safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of
citizens for the service of the rest."
In light of the
Democratic Party majority in Virginia recently stating their
intentions to confiscate their citizens' firearms through
newly proposed illegitimate legislation and "law", all Americans who
value freedom and liberty should be highly alarmed by their statements, when
viewed in conjunction with two sections of the December 20th Omnibus. In the
name of fighting "gun violence", this bill robs the American
taxpayers' and their grandchildren of $22.5 billion. This money is set aside
for the FBI, ATF, DEA and the US Marshall Service, so they can target our right
to keep and bear arms.
Neatly hidden within this
2100 page [217 page summary] monstrosity are a
few lines with ominous implications. Along with granting the ATF and FBI
greater finances to "combat gun violence", the Center for Disease
Control and the National Institute of Health are receiving $25 million for
their new mission to gather data on gun violence as if it were an epidemic or
national health crisis, in order to justify any future advocacy for stricter
gun control initiatives and measures. And as the Democrats are salivating and
wetting their pants over this new good fortune that's dropped in their laps,
the ATF -- the militant branch of firearm control -- receives nearly one
billion dollars, an increase of $50 million over last year, to target
"criminal firearm possession", something that is ever increasingly
becoming more subjective; the FBI will receive $131 million to run background
checks, which sounds like far too much to just field calls on firearm
purchases. All of this aligns with Trump's criminalization of bumpstocks
and his amenable attitude to the circumvention of "due process" and
"red flag laws", as these federal agencies are receiving a pretty
vague mandate from the Trump White House to "find illegal guns and take
them".
One should also note, although President Trump has been
extremely successful at manipulating the economy and keeping America safe from
her foreign enemies, he has violated the 4th Amendment by signing
H.R. 76, that
granted warrantless searches of houses and businesses in
proximity to the D.C. Metrorail [Blog Editor: Justin is
quite in HR 76 violates the 4th Amendment. Ergo I expect
a SCOTUS challenge more than likely by a monied criminal caught in an HR 76 crime search],
and by way of his signature on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Reauthorization, which now allows all U.S. citizens to be placed under NSA
surveillance, along with the foreign nationals it was originally created to
address, among several other failures regarding the Bill of Rights.
Among many other detrimental edicts, this albatross bill
hands the Department of Energy three billion dollars to research more efficient
means of producing renewable energy. It also pays additional funds to NASA, the
Department of Transportation and the Department of Indian Affairs to purchase
the less efficient options already available, in order to give further credence
and legitimacy to the bunk science of "climate change".
Please take note that on March 23rd 2018, after signing his
first massive $1.3 trillion Omnibus bill, President Trump
stated: "There are a lot of things
I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn't
have had in this bill, but we were in a sense forced if we want to build our
military .... I said to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this
again."
In a manner reminiscent of President George H.W. Bush's
"read my lips, no new taxes" moment and seeming to make peace with
The Swamp, President Trump issued the
following statement on December 20th 2019,
after signing the $1.4 trillion Omnibus: "Taken together, the government
funding bills guarantee that critical priorities -- investing in the military,
ensuring Americans are more prosperous and healthy, delivering border security,
engaging in criminal justice reform, and defending life -- will be met in the
upcoming year ..."
It's funny how fallin' can feel like flying for a little
while. [Blog Editor: This line was a part of many Justin Smith suggestions
for a title. 😊]
Far too many Americans are cheerleading for Trump, when he
has actually failed on several of his key campaign promises, such as securing
the border and building the wall and ending Obamacare, with one key promise to
reduce deficit spending. He could have accomplished all of this, when he had a
majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; however, today,
only work replacing 60 miles of old wall and 98 miles of new wall has been
completed, and the American taxpayer is still paying for Obamacare taxes and
subsidies for the uninsurable, even though the individual mandate was
eradicated. And in the meantime, President Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
lowered taxes by trillions of dollars without reducing a dime of spending, and
as a result, this administration has already added $5.6 trillion to the
national debt.
[Blog Editor: To contrast Justin’s dour outlook President
Trump failures:
Where is the fight for fiscal restraint? It never existed in
the Democratic Party and it certainly no longer can be found in the Republican
Party. The vote on this last Omnibus was 89 to 8, with three abstentions.
The "Great Economy" isn't all a lie, but neither
is the underlying truth being told about it. Many ordinary Americans are doing
fairly well, as far as it goes, and as America is being hollowed out. Real
economic decline is concealed by institutions that measure only areas that can
be manipulated to give a positive result, such as the Consumer Price Index, the
unemployment rate, Gross Domestic Product, and hundreds of financial numbers
associated with net wealth and bank loans among other items.
Does everybody really not see the rise in childcare
expenses, college tuition, and rent? They have risen at double-digit rates,
while shrinkflation has reduced the quality and quantity of goods, even as the
price has remained unchanged, or, in some cases, seen an increase. My own
daughter, my youngest, makes a decent salary as an office manager for a great company,
but she now pays a hefty $700 per month for daycare for my grandson, in order
to be able to work, a significant cut to her salary.
Essentially, official statistics are manipulated to give a
rosy picture of the economy, even as the nation's treasury and the U.S.
taxpayer are being robbed blind. Americans everywhere sense the disconnect,
however, since significant factors aren't measured, few objective indicators
are documenting the decline all Americans experience in their everyday life.
And so, Americans are regularly told that they are doing
fine, with manageable debt and rising incomes, when in the real world, their
auto loan defaults are soaring, forty percent of America's cancer patients are
wiped out by the co-pays, and most "middle-class" households are one
layoff or job loss away from default and going broke and to the poor house. [Blog
Editor: THESE ARE LEGITIMATE concerns every American should take note! These
should be at least a part of the issues in seeking a 2024 POTUS candidate. Depending
on the Trump DOJ to hold crooked Dems accountable in 2020 and a Trump
reelection, a law and order equal application to crooked Dems may also be a 2024
POTUS campaign issue. OTHERWISE an American Civil War might initiate between
2020 and 2024.]
In the fiscal year for 2019, the federal government spent
$660 billion on interest payments. This amount very nearly equals the U.S.
budget for Medicare, and it is more than what the U.S. spends on education,
transportation, housing and agriculture combined. Federal debt held by the
public is projected to double between today and 2049, rising from 78 percent of
the gross domestic product to 144 percent. So, if fancy accounting is all that
is hiding negative growth in the U.S. economy, times can't be all too good.
The Trump tax cuts have really helped big corporations, by
granting them subsidies, to help keep them healthy and solvent. This, in part,
has benefited ordinary workers by ensuring companies can keep their jobs in
place, but salaries have not increased to any significant level over the past
decade. This is outrageous, once one considers that in each of the past two
years, the U.S. Treasury has written checks of over $100 million checks to
Amazon out of our tax dollars.
[Amazon—and 56 Other Corporations—Took Your Tax Dollars;
By Leo Gerard; Common
Dreams; 4/19/19 – Do a page search for “Amazon” for
the details.]
This helps President Trump grow his political power, because
these windfall tax benefits received by large public companies like, Apple,
Microsoft and Amazon translate directly into higher stock prices, and in
Trump's own words, "the stock market is my report card". One can
argue whether or not the economy is really doing great, but one can't argue
with a new high for the Dow Jones.
Therein lies the problem. Gradually over time, the American
people have come to accept the redefining of "capitalism", by the
"elite" oligarchs, to mean "the stock is up", through
indoctrination and propaganda disseminated in the public education and university
systems. Capitalism is no longer associated with
Adam Smith's invisible hand or
Joseph Schumpeter's risk-taking investments in the real
economy, but simply reduced to only financial asset price
inflation in real time, by any means necessary. And so, from the White House to
the Federal Reserve Bank to corporate management, in the endless present,
America is handed an endless series of policies and decisions in service to
capitalism-as-financialization
[Blog Editor: So far the closest I could find
to the phrase is a reverse order such as “Financialization of Capitalism”. The
term implies political power is in the hands of a few Corporate Finance companies
ending the individualism of a Market Economy by which American Capitalism had
its beginnings. From my brief reading Market Capitalism is transformed more
akin to Market Communism with old terminology utilized to mislead the working common
man. Example reading below this paragraph], where capital markets are
operated as a political organization.
[Pro-Globalist/Socialist economic governance publications
I gets the idea I believe Justin Smith is trying to alert readers that very
well lead to the end of American Liberty if unaddressed:
A quote that should blowup the hairs on neck from the Communist
mind-speak using the brainwashing term “Democracy” to justify Socialist-Marxist
Globalization governance via a snake in grass economy:
Blinded by their own
propaganda, theorists, politicians and the general public have embraced a
course that threatens the stability and sustainability of Western society.
Globalization, financialization, global mergers and acquisitions, shadow
banking, international tax havens, the policy bias favoring energy-intensive
automation, maximizing share-holder value, state capture, oligarchy and
plutocracy have fueled soaring levels of economic inequality and insecurity.
More importantly, they have shaken the roots of the social consensus that is
the foundation of modern liberal democracies: polarizing and destabilizing
society and throwing political processes into chaos. The notion that economics
can be divorced and insulated from politics is an illusion. There is no economy
without politics and law. A return to unbridled capitalism is threatening the
culture of liberal values and the functioning of democratic institutions. …
(The Political Economy of Neoliberalism and Illiberal
Democracy; By Garry Jacobs; CadmusJournal.org; Volume 3 Issue 3
10/2017 - 20 page pdf)]
There isn't any free market in this nation, using honest
money on a level field, as educators and media would have one believe, and
there hasn't been a free market, since 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve
Bank. Americans live and work in what can only be described as a fascist
oligarchy, that relies on the premise of state and corporate partnership,
managed trade for special interests. This is what is exacerbating our current
economic situation, and taken in conjunction with massive bills that leave the
growth of government unchecked, growing the power associated with large
government at the expense of individual liberty, Congress is also undermined,
while the Executive grows stronger.
[Blog Editor: Prior to election as President, Donald
Trump’s international interests definitely placed him among international
finance. BUT this makes him an enigma as an individual who donates his POTUS
salary and has divested control of his international businesses to Make America
Great or Keep America Great. At this point in Trump’s life bettering Americans
appears more important than his place among the fascist oligarchs. BUT Trump’s
recent legislative signatures reverse the MAGA course. If so, I’ll have to
listen to Justin Smith say, “Told ya so”.]
And in the meantime, the Federal Reserve Bank is still
flooding the repurchasing markets with cash and preparing to deliver bailouts
of other markets, too. This is a sure sign that the nation is on the path to
another economic crisis created by the Federal Reserve Bank's manipulations of
the economy.
Reckless policies have created trillions of dollars of bad
investments, that will inevitably be liquidated and lead to an economic
disaster. This disaster will make the Great Depression seem like a mild event,
as our paper currency becomes worthless. Already the signals are rippling
across the global markets, as the Euro and the Japanese yen have crashed in
value, along with the Canadian dollar losing 26 percent of its value since
2013. The U.S. dollar is currently just the healthiest currency on its way to a
death-bed.
Designed for a moral society, the imperfect Constitution has
been repeatedly dealt thousands of hammer blows on its imperfections by
America's enemies, to the point it is ready to crack and fail. The
Constitution has been perverted and bastardized
by the nation's
communists, anarchists
[Thoughts
on Anarchism: HERE, HERE & HERE],
Muslims,
activist black robes, globalists
[Globalist
issues examples affecting the Constitution: HERE, HERE & HERE] and statists
[Perspectives
about Statists: HERE & HERE], all for "the general
welfare" of America's ruling class oligarchs. Its inherent negative
power over learned and moral citizens has been fully subverted to the positive
endorsement of the whims of those who would be kings and tyrants, incompetents
one and all.
Americans must find a way back to the moral underpinnings
that first led the way for the country, those
self-evident truths and the
knowledge that
God-Given Rights and the Bill of
Rights are not to be subverted, that they are inalienable
[Blog Editor: To
the nitpickers of the usage of unalienable or inalienable, my
frame of thought is they are the same]. And as such,
refuse to be led any longer by men who would rule over us rather than serve us.
Trumpet one's refusal to obey any rogue government seeks to keep us enslaved at
the altar of the state through a fiat currency, financial system and debt Ponzi
scheme that is a criminal fraud stealing money from hard-working Americans, and
refuse to obey any and all who seek to disarm us by coercion and force.
Most of the aforementioned facts could have seen completely
different results that supported liberty in every way, if only America had a
leader at Her helm who truly loved Liberty and understood its principles, as
the Founders understood them. Some of this, people will suggest, was due to
opposition in his own party, which is only true in regard to Obamacare's
survival. The rest has been enthusiastically advocated and facilitated by
President Donald J. Trump, who never was a conservative and never will be a
true conservative, as he continues to have his love affair with the progressive
globalist views he held so close in his youth, while Democrats and RINOs make
America pay the price in Her slow death by a thousand cuts from anti-American
policy, treachery, and treasonous bills. [Blog Editor: The last sentence was
also a part of a title suggestion by Justin Smith]
Today, America and Her people are facing their most
dangerous times, as the far left is positioning themselves for a hard
tyrannical push to control all, resources, wealth and people, by a select few,
who see themselves as "experts, after President Trump’s second term,
utilizing the current existing system. These are the advocates of controlled
allocation for society, centrally planned socialism, commanded by a top-down
Bolshevik-style Central Committee controlled by the few. And should the ranks
of Liberty loving American Patriots keep decreasing, as in recent decades, and
fail to halt the Democratic Party communists' success, it will mark the start of
a thousand years of darkness and the end of liberty.
By Justin O. Smith
++++++++++++++++++++
Blog Editor: Rather than
capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post
and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship
tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false
accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat
censorship by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you
belong to.
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An Intro to ‘Liberty
Violated’
Intro by John R. Houk
By Justin O. Smith
Posted January 3, 2020
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Liberty Violated
Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and
all source links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
