Mathew 15: 17-20 (NIV)
[Jesus asked them.] ‘Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder [abortion], adultery, sexual immorality [homosexual behavior], theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
Update: President Trump pardons former Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
This was an appropriate and needed pardon. The Obama Administration Department of Injustice went after him for only one reason: The Obama Administration did not approve of his politics and political actions. As it was, the only charge they could convict him of was a misdemeanor “contempt of court” ruling. Given the Leftist radical judges in the federal courts, most Americans should have contempt for them. They don’t even pretend to use the Constitution as the basis for their decisions anymore. CONGRESS needs to start holding federal court judges accountable as prescribed in the Constitution.
http://blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/188685-24-republicans-vote-to-preserve-transgender-ideology-in-military
“24 Republicans Vote To Preserve Transgender [Transsexual] Ideology in Military
Warner Todd Huston | July 14, 2017”
My full post on the above article:
https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/07/transgendertranssexual-mutilating_15.html
Here is the link to read my previous post on this mockery:
https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/07/transgendertranssexual-mutilating.html
House of Representatives Republicans “Wall of Shame” as established by their own votes:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll369.xml
“FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 369
H R 2810 RECORDED VOTE July 13, 2017 5:41 PM
AUTHOR(S): Hartzler of Missouri Amendment No. 10
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment
Yes: Republican 209 ~ Democrat 000 = TOTALS 209
No: Republican 024 ~ Democrat 190 = TOTALS 214
Not voting: Republican 06 ~ Democrat 04 = TOTALS 10
House of Representatives Republicans “Wall of Shame.”
These 24 Republicans voted to force taxpayers to pay for mutilating surgery for delusional transsexuals who are in the military.
Republicans voting No to defeat the amendment:
[Conservative Review Conservative Scorecard grade]
01) Justin Amash [Michigan-District 3 A 96%]
02) Jack Bergman [Michigan-District 1 F 50%]
03) Mike Coffman [Colorado-District 6 F 56%]
04) Barbara Comstock [Virginia-District 10 F 19%]
05) Paul Cook [California-District 8 F 43%]
06) Ryan Costello [Pennsylvania-District 6 F 19%]
07) Carlos Curbelo [Florida-District 26 F 19%]
08) Jeffrey Denham [California-District 10 F 33%]
09) Charlie Dent [Pennsylvania-District 15 F 29%]
10) John Faso [New York-District 19 F 50%]
11) Brian (Michael) Fitzpatrick [Pennsylvania-District 8 F 50%]
12) Darrell Issa [California-District 49 F 55%]
13) John Katko [New York-District 24 F 25%]
14) Steve Knight [California-District 25 F 31%]
15) Leonard Lance [New Jersey-District 7 F 42%]
16) Frank LoBiondo [New Jersey-District 2 F 31%]
17) Tom MacArthur [New Jersey-District 3 F 25%]
18) Brian Mast [Florida-District 18 F 50%]
19) Tom Reed [New York-District 23 F 43%]
20) Dave Reichert [Washington-District 8 F 28%]
21) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [Florida-District 27 F 23%]
22) Bill Shuster [or, is it Shyster? Pennsylvania-9 F 47%]
23) Elise Stefanik [New York-21 F 19%]
24) Claudia Tenney [New York-District 22 F 50%]
No votes from Republicans by State:
1) Paul Cook [California-District 8 F 43%]
2) Jeffrey Denham [California-District 10 F 33%]
3) Darrell Issa [California-District 49 F 55%]
4) Steve Knight [California-District 25 F 31%]
1) Mike Coffman [Colorado-District 6 F 56%]
1) Carlos Curbelo [Florida-District 26 F 19%]
2) Brian Mast [Florida-District 18 F 50%]
3) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [Florida-District 27 F 23%]
1) Justin Amash [Michigan-District 3 A 96%]
2) Jack Bergman [Michigan-District 1 F 50%]
1) Leonard Lance [New Jersey-District 7 F 42%]
2) Frank LoBiondo [New Jersey-District 2 F 31%]
3) Tom MacArthur [New Jersey-District 3 F 25%]
1) John Faso [New York-District 19 F 50%]
2) John Katko [New York-District 24 F 25%]
3) Tom Reed [New York-District 23 F 43%]
4) Elise Stefanik [New York-21 F 19%]
5) Claudia Tenney [New York-District 22 F 50%]
1) Ryan Costello [Pennsylvania-District 6 F 19%]
2) Charlie Dent [Pennsylvania-District 15 F 29%]
3) Brian (Michael) Fitzpatrick [Pennsylvania-District 8 F 50%]
4) Bill Shuster [or, is it Shyster? Pennsylvania-9 F 47%]
1) Barbara Comstock [Virginia-District 10 F 19%]
1) Dave Reichert [Washington-District 8 F 28%]
Everyone of these Republicans In Name Only should be primaried and defeated by an actual constitutional conservative who has not capitulated to the radical homosexual lobby in this nation. These 24 RINOs by voting to affirm the delusional fantasies of transsexuals are helping to destroy the military and are, in my opinion, putting both delusional transsexuals and all other military personnel in danger on the battle field during combat.
Update: Illinois Leftists “Wall of Shame.”
Original Article: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/08/transgendertranssexual-delusion.html
“Transgender/Transsexual Delusion, Legislative Fraud, and a RINO Governor Who Signed into Law His Reelection Defeat”
1) Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner
2) 64 members of the Illinois State House of Representatives [Listed at the end of the original article]
3) 32 members of the Illinois State Senate [Listed at the end of the original article]
Update: The Illinois House of Representatives overrides the Governor’s veto increasing the individual State income tax rate by 32%.
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/unsustainable-raising-taxes-solves-nothing-makes-illinois-worse-off/
“The Illinois State House was back in session this afternoon to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of a 32 percent permanent tax hike on Illinois families (SB 9). This tax grab also raises the corporate income tax rate by 33 percent. As anticipated, the House voted to override the veto this afternoon by a vote of 71-42 [71 being the minimum number of votes to override.]—with 61 Democrats and 10 Republicans voting in favor of increasing our taxes [By raising the tax rate by 32%. Plus, no doubt, increasing the cost of goods and/or increasing unemployment by raising corporate income tax rates by 33 1/3rd percent.].
To see how your state representative voted, please click HERE. To see how your state senator voted, please click HERE.
Much has been written for many years now about how Illinois is being mismanaged. The votes to override common sense is only the latest chapter in that mismanagement.”
Illinois Republicans “Wall of Shame.”
From: David E. Smith of Illinois Family Action
July 7, 2017
“The Republicans who voted for the tax grab include:
01) Steve Andersson (Geneva)
02) Terri Bryant (Carbondale)
03) Mike Fortner (West Chicago)
04) Norine Hammond (Macomb)
05) David Harris (Arlington Heights)
06) Chad Hays (Danville)
07) Sara Jimenez (Springfield)
08) Bill Mitchell (Decatur)
09) Reggie Phillips (Charleston)
10) Mike Unes (East Peoria)
David E. Smith, Executive Director
Illinois Family Action
P.O. Box 93
Mokena, Illinois 60448”
“The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this—it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity. If it has never been considered in that light, it is because its compass has not been perceived.” ~ John Quincy Adams
Y Mike Unes (Republican voted to increase taxes! Lives in East Peoria)
Y Gordon-Booth (Democrat voted to increase taxes! Lives in Peoria)
Four of the seven Morton, Illinois District 709 School Board members voted to support transsexual sexual delusions. The “Four Pretenders” are:
Shaun Bill elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Clint Heinold elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Kelly Scarfe elected term ended in 2017. She is off the school board.
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019. [Will she run for reelection after the results of the 2017 election?]
Board decisions have consequences. Elections have consequences.
Note: [ ] = my additions
Roe vs. Wade decided January 22, 1973 = 44 years ago as of January 22, 2017
Over 44 years of government sanctioned murder of our own children. Evil personified!
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Seven months after the 44th year of the illegal, unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade decision, approximately 580,822 babies within the womb have been murdered because of federal government sanctioned evil based upon one million murders of babies within the womb per year. And the murders continue day after day. What has Congress done to stop the unconstitutional murder of our own children? Absolutely NOTHING. Congress can not even defund Planned Murderhood.
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Petition: http://nationalprolifealliance.com/lacAM_petition.aspx?pid=0219&npla=EH17
Abolishing the murder of babies within the womb by Congressional law will actually be faster and more effective than waiting on the court. Right now there are five justices on the court who support the murder of babies within the womb. The four radical Leftist justices appointed by Democrat Presidents and Justice Kennedy. Therefore, to even have a chance of the court reversing, we need one more Constitutional Justice and the one appointed has to replace one of the five pro-murdering babies within the womb justices. Even then, it would take a couple of years, at least, to get the case through the court system.
Passing a law of Congress is the best way of ending the terror of our American holocaust. The best way to abolish the murder of babies within the womb. The best way to stop any State from passing a law allowing the murder of babies within the womb. And it is also best constitutionally.
Life for all persons within the United States including babies within the womb is guaranteed and protected by the Declaration of Independence, Amendment V of the United States Constitution, and Amendment XIV of the United States Constitution. No court, no government body, no individual can constitutionally sanction the murder of babies within the womb. All such decisions, laws, and regulations are patently unconstitutional and illegal and should be immediately abolished by Congress by law!
Statistically, everyday of delay over 2,700 babies are murdered in the womb through abortion using 1 million abortions a year as a baseline. It is past time to attack the evil of murdering babies within the womb on every front with every legal weapon we can use until the murder of babies within the womb is abolished completely throughout the United States and its territories. Murder of babies within the womb is a horrendous evil that needs to and must be terminated.
Sign the petition to Secretary Price to help put an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Murderhood.
Click here to sign the petition.
http://www.stopp.org/price-petition/
No organization that murders babies within the womb and/or supports and promotes the same should ever receive federal government money either directly or indirectly.
The latest released video exposing Planned Murderhood and the murder of babies within the womb industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1ycCmX3uU
Above video was removed by youtube as it censors video that is in opposition to its LEFTIST agenda.
New link to the video:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=746_1495760241
This one has now been removed too. What does the murder of babies within the womb industry fear? The truth and the truth getting out to the world. No better proof than this censorship.
Newer link to the video:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-need-4-intact-limbs-planned-parenthood-abortionists-describe-beheading-ri
As of 1PM CDT Saturday 5/27/2017 the video is at this link. I do not know how long it will remain. I am listening to it as I write.
As of 3:33AM CDT Sunday 5/28/2017 the video has been removed.
“Sorry
This video does not exist.”
Censorship by the Left reigns supreme in the United States of America.
My post on the judge who censored the videos: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/06/abortion-california-federal-judge-and.html
Order given by federal judge William Orrick who was appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama.
Preview The Center for Medical Progress
Petition to Defund Planned Murderhood NOW!: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately.html
NO organization, including Planned Murderhood, which is involved in any way with the sinful, evil, barbaric practice of murdering babies within the womb should ever receive our taxpayer money!
The lies of Planned Murderhood supporters and promoters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjSPsVuS8g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=456b90d2cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-456b90d2cd-86729901
DEMAND FULL REPEAL of OBAMACARE
Petition: http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/demand-full-repeal-of-obamacare/
Petition to defund the United Nations:
http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/defund-the-united-nations-h/
The UN is a completely failed organization. It needs to be defunded.
¨ For its attacks on the sovereign State of Israel,
¨ For its promotion of and support for murdering babies within the womb and the radical homosexual agenda.
¨ For supporting and promoting the scientific nonsense of man-made global warming,
¨ And for its call for one world government in direct violation of the sovereignty of the United States of America.
¨ Then, the US needs to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
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A brief quiz on the Constitution:
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Isaiah 1: 1-31 (NIV)
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem [Applicable to the United States today, in my opinion. GOD is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. HE is righteous, just, and true yesterday, today, and tomorrow!] that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me [The United States has and is rebelling against GOD!]. The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel [the United States] does not know, my people [the United States] do not understand.’
Woe to the sinful nation [the United States], a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord [the United States]; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel [the United States] and turned their backs on him [the United States] .
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!], we would have been like Gomorrah [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!].
[Read Genesis 18 and 19 for the Biblical account. Genesis 19: 23-29 (NIV)]
“By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he [GOD] overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities [A righteous act by a righteous GOD WHO destroyed evil people who refused to repent from their evil. And yes, I believe the account and so did JESUS the SON of GOD. HE referenced Sodom and/or Gomorrah several times. Matthew 10: 15 (NIV) “Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”]—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he [GOD] brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.”
This is also why homosexual radicals attack Christians who speak out against homosexual behavior. Christians who know the Bible know that homosexual behavior is sin punishable by spiritual death. There is NO “right” to homosexual behavior and people are NOT born homosexual. Homosexual behavior is learned behavior. Therefore, people do not have to be involved in the behavior and people can repent and STOP being involved in the behavior!]
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom [the United States]; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah [the United States]! ‘The multitude of your sacrifices—what are they to me?’ says the Lord. ‘I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you [the present or the future for the United States?]; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening [the present or the future for the United States?].
Your hands are full of blood [the present for the United States as we as a nation MURDER over a million babies a year through government sanctioned abortions!]!
Wash and make yourselves clean [Will we?]. Take your evil deeds out of my sight [Will we?]; stop doing wrong [Will we?]. Learn to do right [Will we?]; seek justice [Will we?]. Defend the oppressed [Will we? Who are more oppressed than murdered babies?]. Take up the cause of the fatherless [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s]; plead the case of the widow [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s].’
‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient [Stop rebelling], you will eat the good things of the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her—but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.’
Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. ‘You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.’”
Another murder of babies within the womb factory closes UPDATE:
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/26/planned-parenthood-permanently-closes-another-abortion-clinic-in-new-jersey/
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] Permanently Closes Another Abortion [Murder of babies within the womb] Clinic in New Jersey
Steven Ertelt | June 26, 2017
The Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] abortion [Murder of babies within the womb] business has closed another clinic, this time in New Jersey. In recent weeks the Planned Parenthood abortion company has closed several abortion clinics nationwide. This brings the national total up to 17 this year.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/31/planned-parenthood-to-close-three-abortion-clinics-in-california/
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] to Close Three Abortion [Murder of babies within the womb] Clinics in California
Micaiah Bilger | May 31, 2017
“Three more Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] abortion [murder of babies within the womb] facilities will close this summer in California, bringing the national total up to 16.
The abortion [murder of babies within the womb] chain has announced quite a few facility closings across the country already this year, including four in Iowa, two in Pennsylvania, one in Maryland, three in New Mexico, one in Wyoming and two in Colorado.
This week, Californians for Life confirmed that the Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] abortion [murder of babies within the womb] clinics in Vacaville, Pittsburg and central Richmond are slated to close on June 30. All three are located in northern California; they did abortions [murders of babies within the womb] on unborn babies up to 10 weeks.”
Planned Murderhood does not provide healthcare video:
https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10155273054558728/?utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=cb5b583ece-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-cb5b583ece-86729901
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] says it needs hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding to help pregnant women. Yet when moms need prenatal care, ultrasounds, and adoption services, Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] turns them away and tells them to ‘Google it.’ How is the abortion [murder of babies within the womb] giant using our tax dollars [Over half a billion dollars of federal money in the last fiscal year and funded by a Republican Congress through the 2016-2017 fiscal year that ends September 30, 2017.]?”
Video: “Pregnant women call Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] to hear about their options”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acb1KUESU6M
Donate to Live Action: https://donate.liveaction.org/checkout/donation?eid=125628&utm_source=lan&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=live_action_news&utm_content=side_ad_square
Bonus video: The advantages of a Harvard education and being a Leftist:
https://crtxnews.com/lighter-side-just-cant-make-stuff-female-millennial-snowflake-comes-unglued-white-male-patriarchy/
UNBELIEVABLE! She needs to go back to Harvard? No wait, Harvard obviously did not do a thing to educate this individual to the realities of the real world.
Is this the future for the United States?
UPDATE #2:
The Senate has postponed the vote on “Trumpcare,” “Mitchcare,” “RINOcare,” “Ryancare,” “Obamacare-lite,” whatever one wants to name the abysmal lie of the Republicans repealing Obamacare until after the July 4th holiday recess. It seems they lack the votes to jam this monstrousity2 down the throats of the American people, at this time.
From: The Convention of States Team
June 27, 2017
“Republicans talk a big game on the campaign trail, but the last few months have made it clear that they have no intention of delivering on their promises.
The federal foray into healthcare has been a disaster. But rather than learning from their mistakes and moving on, the GOP is doubling-down on the federal takeover of America’s health decisions [Decisions that are OUR decisions NOT the federal government’s. Decisions that are OUR decisions NOT the federal government’s. Decisions that are OUR decisions NOT the federal government’s. Tyranny from Republicans is just as bad, if not worse, than tyranny from the Left.].”
Boycott Target UPDATE:
The purpose of the Target boycott is to help Target change its current policy of allowing men into the facilities of women and allowing women into the facilities of men by hurting its bottom line. A classic “follow the money” approach. Is it working? Your decision:
Target stock as of the day American Family Association called for a boycott of Target because of its transsexual policy [Figures for 4/20/16 are from the yahoo link].
link: ttp://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TGT/history?ltr
4/20/16: Open price: 83.94 High price: 83.96 Close price: 82.87
The following are selected end of the week closing prices for Target common stock:
Target: 05/17/16 close: $ 73.61 DOWN $9.26 in just under a month.
Target: 06/18/16: 67.50
Target: 12/05/16: 77.68 Peak retail businesses time of the year
Target: 12/30/16: 72.23 end of year. Christmas time and after is the most important time of the year for retailers such as Target.
Target: 01/20/17: 64.10
Target: 03/15/17: 54.57
http://www.bing.com/search?q=target+5+year+average+price&qs=n&form=QBLH&pc=EUPP_U377&sp=-1&pq=target+5+year+average+price&sc=0-27&sk=&cvid=BC19F7C97A7749B8924F9439FAF2B862
5 year price for Target stock as of March 15, 2017
“High 84.69 on July 17, 2015
Low 54.56 on March 15, 2017
Average 68.03 for past 5 years”
Target: 06/02/17: 55.52
Target: 06/16/17: 52.61 ▼ new weekending low since boycott started
Target: 06/23/17: 50.67 After Hours ▼ new weekending low since boycott started
Target: 06/30/17: 52.24
DOWN $30 a share in just over a year and two months. DOWN $30 a share.
Follow the money. One million shares of common stock equals a loss in share value of 30 million dollars.
Boycott update:
Target: 09/01/17: 56.15
Dow Jones Industrial Average June 1, 2017 closed at 21,144.18
Dow Jones Industrial Average September 1 closed at 21,987.56 up 3.99%
Target from 55.52 on 6/2/17 to 56.15 on 9/1/17 up 1.14%
August is back to school month which is normally the second busiest season for retailers like Target. Yet, while the Dow Jones was up 3.99%, Target was only up 1.14%. The boycott stills seems to be having the desired effect.
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/one-way-to-break-free-from-the-crushing-constitutional-crisis
NOTE: The footnotes for this article were at the end of the article. For easier reading, I have moved them between the paragraphs where the footnotes were given. I have also left them at the end of the article.
“One way to break free from the crushing constitutional crisis
Daniel Horowitz | September 16, 2017
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in September 2016. It has been updated for the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.
The overwhelming majority of Americans don’t know that September 17 is the celebration of the 230th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution [I’m not sure they would care either way. They don’t seem to care that the Constitution as written has been bastardized by the federal courts, Presidents and the federal bureaucracy, and Congress.]. On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention from 12 states [Which State was not represented? State as used here means a sovereign nation. The original 13 States were all considered to be and were sovereign nations. Hard to believe in today’s America where States are treated as nothing more than provinces of the federal government unless it is a Leftist State that is in defiance of federal law.] signed the document establishing the most effective form of government ever known to man [Yet, the same document is being emasculated by the federal government on a daily basis.].
Towards the end of his life, James Madison reflected in his notes on the Constitutional Convention:
‘[T]here never was an assembly of men, charged with a great & arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787, to the object of proposing and devising a constitutional system which would … best secure the permanent liberty and happiness of the country [Does anyone believe the Left would agree with this statement?].’[1]
[ [1] James Madison, Preface to The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, 1830: Writings of James Madison, ed. Jack Rakove (New York: Library of America, 1999), 842.]
Sadly, over two centuries later, almost every word of that document has been contorted beyond recognition, flipping our system of governance on its head [True. And we the people let it happen. To be reversed, we the people need to make it happen. We need to personally GET involved and STAY involved. With action not just words. It will not be done with the present politicians in office. We need to change the politicians. Yes, unelected judges and bureaucrats are part of the politicians that need to be changed. We do not need to change the Constitution. The Constitution is fine as written and amended.].
There are numerous facets to the severe constitutional crisis we are confronted with today and a myriad of culprits to blame for the source of this crisis. But perhaps the biggest facet is the one resulting from the collapse of representative democracy—with Congress impotent [Or, at least acting that way. Congress has been given MORE power than any other branch of the federal government. Congress has neglected its constitutional duty to govern rightly as provided within the Constitution.] and the federal executive and judiciary crushing the states while stealing the sovereignty of the nation, states, and individual citizens [Congress has done some stealing also including creating eight unconstitutional Departments.]. The clear culprit for this aspect of the constitutional crisis is the rise of political parties, which have replaced our republican system of governance with a ruling class of oligarchs loyal to their parties instead of to the Constitution [I tend to disagree with this. Parties have become a problem. However, it was and is rather natural for likeminded people to band together. Banded together, they are more influential than when acting individually. The problem is that we the people have failed to elect people based upon issues rather than based upon parties. And I was guilty of that as were and are many others. The parties also did not do a good job of policing its own ranks. That is always a problem with any large group. The Left totally and deliberately subverted and took control of the Democrat Party and has infiltrated the Republican Party as well. After all, the Republicans in 2016 nominated for President a New York Leftist, Progressive.].
The system of government we adopted:
The Constitution signed on that day in Philadelphia was a sacred document forever fixing the terms and conditions of our form of government. The beauty of that document, of course, is that it also prescribed the narrow and exclusive path through which the American political system can be changed [Which has been utterly perverted.].
What was that system?
The Constitution addresses the relationship between three entities: the people, the [sovereign] states, and the federal union [Of course, originally the federal union did not exist. There was a confederacy enforce at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. See below.]. Misunderstanding the rightful powers of each ‘branch’ is the reason for our existing constitutional crisis [I don’t believe it is a misunderstanding. I believe it is a deliberate power play of the Left to make the centralized government all powerful. A centralized all powerful government is the easiest way to control the United States which is one of the ultimate goals of the Left.]. Our Founders were quite clear in their intent to assign the federal government only enumerated powers dealing primarily with national defense, external affairs, and subject matter that required uniformity, such as naturalization, currency, and interstate trade [In contrast to intrastate trade over which the federal government has NO authority.]. They vested all other powers needed to foster internal order with the states, except for issues affecting natural and inalienable rights that were left to the people [And confirmed it with the addition of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.], as laid out in the Declaration of Independence. It was the job of the state and federal governments in their respective spheres not only to leave those rights to the people, but also to check each other’s power in order to secure those liberties for the people.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
“The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states.”]
Madison explained the arrangement of federalism best in Federalist #45 as keeping the powers of the federal government ‘few and defined,’ applied ‘principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.’ State powers, on the other hand, were to be ‘numerous and indefinite,’ extending ‘to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State [The reverse of today’s reality.].’ Madison was also quite clear which one would be most dominant in people’s lives:
‘The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government.’
Reading these thoughts from Madison 230 years later should jolt any patriot who celebrates the Constitution into a sense of shock as to how dramatically our system of governance has been altered [Turned upside down and inside out. Done so, for the most part, deliberately especially since the early 1900’s.].
Despite the very narrow, yet vital, purview of policy that was granted to the federal government, our Founders still wanted to ensure that its power would be kept in check and that it would remain dedicated to the prudent use of the critical power that was ceded by the states after the collapse of the Articles of Confederation. Writing in Federalist #47, Madison very presciently recognized that ‘the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.’
To that end, the Framers vested Congress—the elected branch with the most transparency (through public votes)—with the ‘predominant’ power to legislate and fund the functions born out of those ‘few and defined’ enumerated powers [Exactly correct. Today, Congress is the weakest of the three branches not become it lacks the power but rather because it refuses to hold the other branches accountable and often transfers its powers unconstitutionally to the other branches and even to Washington D.C.]. The executive was to faithfully execute those laws. The judiciary, which was to be comparatively the weakest branch and wield ‘neither force nor will’ over the direction of the country, was to interpret the application of those laws [I would not even include interpret. Rather, the courts were to apply the law to the specific case before the court. They were not to interpret the law and were certainly not to overturn the law. They have NO constitutional authority to overturn laws passed by either Congress or the States including subdivisions of the States.]—not overturn them.
Once again, let’s explore how Madison viewed this division:
‘The magistrate in whom the whole executive power resides cannot of himself make a law, though he can put a negative on every law; nor administer justice in person, though he has the appointment of those who do administer it. The judges can exercise no executive prerogative, though they are shoots from the executive stock; nor any legislative function, though they may be advised with by the legislative councils. The entire legislature can perform no judiciary act, though by the joint act of two of its branches the judges may be removed from their offices [Impeach by the House and conviction by the Senate.], and though one of its branches is possessed of the judicial power in the last resort [The Senate confirming the appointment of judges.]. The entire legislature, again, can exercise no executive prerogative.’
It’s not that our Founders didn’t envision tyranny or usurpations from one corner of government. Rather, they were confident that if one area of the government stepped out of line, the people’s representatives, in conjunction with a group of states, would check that power.[2] This is at the heart of the republicanism the Constitution sought to foster. In establishing this system of federalism, representation, and separate branches of government with distinct roles, ultimately the critical decision-making power was vested in the people. As Madison wrote in Federalist #39, ‘We may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior [Good behavior is the term of office for judges. The term of office for judges IS NOT a life term, according to the Constitution. Who determines “good behavior?” The House of Representatives by impeachment and the Senate by conviction or lack thereof. The impeachment process is a primary way to hold federal judges accountable. It is NOT being used as intended by the Founding Fathers. These nonsensical decisions of federal court judges should not be happening. They would not be if Congress did its job of holding federal court judges accountable. A MASSIVE failure of Congress.].’
[ [2] In Federalist #51, Madison wrote that the division between the states and the federal government as well as each entity being divided into three branches would safeguard liberty: ‘In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.’]
This is the sacred contract our founders signed; this is the system of governance they adopted. Nothing in the ensuing 17 amendments adopted after the Bill of Rights, including the much-contorted Fourteenth Amendment [The most misused and abused Amendment in the Constitution, in my opinion. The federal courts have all but destroyed the meaning, intent, and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment by deliberately misinterpreting it and misapplying it.], countermanded or vitiated that document [Agreed. The Amendments are not the problem. The intentional misinterpretation and misapplication of some of the Amendments are a large part of the problem.].[3]
[ [3] Undoubtedly, the movement behind the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments sowed the seeds for an expanded federal government, but the actual amendments did not fundamentally alter the system of government and justify a single usurpation we face today. Moreover, they were enacted through the legitimate amendment process, unlike today’s illegal ad hoc constitutional conventions that take place on a daily basis.]
As Supreme Court Justice William Paterson wrote in 1795:
‘What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental law are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed [It is NOT a “living” Constitution as claimed by the Left. Isn’t it evil that the Left claims that a parchment writing is “living” and yet denies the life of a living baby within the womb of his/her mother even as they sell the body parts of the murdered baby?]; it contains the permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land [The Constitution. NOT court decisions.]; it is paramount to the power of the Legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by the authority that made it [We the people.].’[4]
[ [4] VanHorne’s Lessee v. Dorrance 2 U.S. 304, 308 (1795). William Paterson was one of the primary drafters of Article III of the Constitution, was one of the original members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who created the court system, and was one of the early Supreme Court justices. Few people should be accorded greater respect in their views of constitutional construction.]
How the system got turned upside-down:
To say our constitutional system is undergoing a crisis is an understatement. The states have been crushed by the federal government, and the national legislature [Congress]—the predominant branch of the federal government—has allowed itself to be neutered by the executive and judicial branches, abdicating its responsibility to protect the people and the states from such usurpations.
With the exception of Obamacare, almost every recent perversion of our system has come at the hands of the unelected branches of government or are the result of poorly crafted legislation from years ago. The legislative branch, with the power to legislate, the prerogative of oversight, and the control over the purse, has refused to lift a finger to stop the runaway leviathan [Because many of them want a strong, controlling central government.]. The judicial branch of government has now become the final arbiter over every political and social issue [Absolutely unconstitutionally.]. has stripped the states of power, has flipped fundamental rights and natural law upside-down, and has rewritten every [not every clause] clause of the Constitution to mean the exact opposite of its intent.
Together with the executive agencies, as I warn in ‘Stolen Sovereignty,’ the judiciary has taken over the sovereignty of the individual, the state, and the federal union [The courts have tyrannically given themselves veto power over anything and everything they desire to control. In some instances they also “enact” law as in the instance of the murder of babies within the womb which never was and never will be legal under the Constitution as written and amended.]. While the judiciary greenlights the federal bureaucracies to regulate every aspect of our lives—over and beyond even the powers granted to the states—the federal agencies refuse to exercise the main power they actually hold: to protect the sovereignty and security of this country. Madison foresaw the results of a perverted government that is preoccupied with ill-gotten power and abdicates the responsibility it does have: ‘The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.’
The decisions of the bureaucracies and the judiciary not only render the results of elections moot by overruling the people, the states, and the Constitution on major societal issues, they steal the sovereignty of the citizen by ensuring that non-citizens can vote and illegal aliens get citizens’ rights [Which is absolutely obscene. It is all done for the purpose of establishing an all controlling centralized government.]. They ensure that the most sacred question of a society—the decisions governing the future membership of the society and the voting populace itself—are stripped from the people, the states, and their elected federal representatives.
As I observed in my book, how ironic that the preamble of the Constitution, declaring ‘We the people,’ was authored by Gouverneur Morris, who was such an early advocate for American sovereignty and consent-based immigration, and is now being used by the federal judiciary to bestow citizens’ rights on all ‘people.’[5] How unfortunate that the man who declared ‘every state enjoys sovereign power’ must watch from heaven as the document he helped draft is being perverted to crush the states.
[ [5] ‘Every society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted, there can be room for no complaint.’ Gouverneur Morris, ‘Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787,’ Elliot’s Debates, Vol. V, as republished on the Teaching American History website, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/elliot/vol5/0809_1787/.]
The political party system is to blame:
[I tend to disagree with this. Parties have become a problem. However, it was and is rather natural for likeminded people to band together. Banded together, they are more influential than when acting individually. The problem is that we the people have failed to elect people based upon issues rather than based upon parties. And I was guilty of that as were and are many others. The parties also did not do a good job of policing its own ranks. That is always a problem with any large group. The Left totally and deliberately subverted and took control of the Democrat Party and has infiltrated the Republican Party as well. After all, the Republicans in 2016 nominated for President a New York Leftist, Progressive.]
How have we fallen so deep into the abyss of a post-Constitution Gomorrah?
How it is that Madison thought the most mischief would come from the legislature, which had the most power, yet they have stood by idly as the other two ‘weaker’ branches crush the people and the states?
The culprit is the binary choice of two political parties and the intellectual dishonesty that it has spawned. One of George Washington’s final warnings in his sagacious Farewell Address (before extolling ‘religion and morality’ as ‘indispensable supports’ of prosperity) was that the seeds of dissolution of the republic were sown in the promotion of political parties. He warned:
‘The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty …’
Sadly, every premonition of Washington has come true. He likely never even envisioned political factions in which one party (Republicans) was the ultimate false-flag operation for the other party (Democrats), as is our predicament today.
Instead of having the people, states, and federal government balance one another, instead of having the executive, legislative, and judicial branches balance one another, we have two political parties as both means and ends to themselves. One reason Congress fails to check the other two branches is because at any given time at least half or close to half of its members are of the same political party as the usurpers in the other branches. Consequently, they are happy to go along with illegal power grabs because it advances their party’s agenda [Why do we keep electing them to office? Where is the responsibility of we the people in this? Why are WE not holding our elected officials accountable? Is it because as a people we agree with the outcomes? Is it because we are not willing to act? Complaining is easy. Putting yourselves in the crosshairs is a lot more difficult. I have said for years that we the people get the government we deserve. Sometimes, a better government than we deserve. Never a worse government than we deserve. Ultimately, in a republic, it is the RESPONSIBILITY of we the people to hold the governments accountable.].
For example, our Founders put strong faith in the power of impeachment[6], yet that tool has been rendered moot because the opposing party, which invariably has at least one-third of the seats in the Senate, will never vote to impeach a member of the same party [They would if demanded by the people. If not, VOTE them out of office. Actually, convictions are not often necessary. Impeaching culprits sheds light on their sins. If a judge knows he will be impeached for violating his oath of office, it is much less likely he will violate his oath of office. Teachers know this. Hold people accountable and they stop the inappropriate behavior to a great degree. No society has perfect people or perfect representatives. That is why we need laws to govern behavior and that is why we need to hold people accountable. Don’t hold them accountable and they will continue their bad behavior and others will join in because they realize that no one is being held accountable. We need to demand that Congress holds unelected officials accountable as well as the President. If Congress does not, we replace them with Congressmen who will. It is called a Republic for a reason. We the people have a responsibility to hold government accountable. The burden is on us as it should be in a republic.]. Forget about the president. The political party system has bred such intellectual dishonesty that Democrats [Leftists] won’t even impeach the IRS commissioner who blatantly lied to Congress and destroyed documents covering up the agency’s targeting of political groups [When does Congress hold anyone accountable? When have we the people required that they hold people accountable? When have we the people voted anyone out of office for not holding people accountable? We the people get what we demand when WE hold people accountable. Republic equals responsibility. First to be knowledgeable. Then to act on that knowledge. It is our responsibility ultimately. If there is failure of government it is because of failure of we the people.].
[ [6] During the Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph referred to ‘[t]he propriety of impeachments’ as ‘a favorite principle.’ Impeachment is mentioned 58 times in the Federalist Papers [Impeachment was one of the primary, if not the primary, methods put into the Constitution to hold members of the executive and judicial branches accountable. Not using it means the Congress has besmirched its duty to hold members of the other two branches accountable. By the way, members of Congress can not be impeached. The Constitution provides that the House may remove a member of the House and the Senate may remove a member of the Senate by following the constitutionally given process. Early on, the House tried to impeach a member of the Senate. The Senate refused to deal with it saying they are responsible for their own members.].]
{From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
July 7, 1797
William Blount
United States Senator (Tennessee)
Conspiring to assist Britain in capturing Spanish territory
Senate refused to accept impeachment of a Senator by the House of Representatives, instead expelling him from the Senate on their own authority (Before being impeached)}
Likewise, the reason Congress has sat idly while the courts have spawned social transformation without representation is because half of its members agree with the outcome, even if the process through which they achieved it was grossly illegitimate [And there is the problem. We the people are voting into office the wrong people. It is our responsibility to vote in Constitutionalists who will uphold the Constitution. If they do not, it is our responsibility to vote them out of office. That is why primaries and general elections are important and why they are held.].
It is also for this reason that states have been impotent in fighting back to defend their turf. It is hard enough for a state to challenge the federal government unilaterally, even if its entire citizenry supports the effort. Yet even ‘red states’ invariably have 35-45 percent of its members who are from the party that agrees with the federal action taken by their allies in Washington, even if it harms their state [Then, vote them out of office. Who gave us Barack Hussein Obama? The voters. Did they not?].
It would be destructive enough, ‘truly the worst enemy’ in the words of Washington’s aforementioned admonition, if we merely had two opposing parties supplanting our system of governance with a Republican Party firmly committed to opposing the Democrat Party with the same rigor and even the same intellectual dishonesty to achieve its ends. But it’s worse than that. Over the years, the two parties have morphed into one oligarchy that more or less shares the same perverted values and unconstitutional means of achieving them. Even when Republicans win back Congress and a majority of the states, and even on the few issues in which they claim to uphold the Constitution, their political caprice convinces them that it’s better to allow the federal executive and judiciary to ‘take the blame’ for any chaos resulting from bad policies rather than risk trying to overturn them. It’s all about politics and giving your side an election issue [Then, it is the voters who determine who is in office and it is the voters who are failing. It is not because of a party system of government. I know of no republic that does not have parties. If there is, where?].
It is this failed monopoly of Republicans and Democrats on the political system—one that has morphed into a de facto oligarchy—that has actualized Madison’s worst nightmare of a government not derived from a ‘great body of the society,’ but from ‘a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers’ who ‘might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.’
What are we the people to do?
There are no easy or quick solutions to restoring our Constitution after so many years of complacency in the face of endless usurpations [Complacency by whom if not by we the people?]. However, we must find a way to restore power back to the states and tilt the balance of federal power back from the judiciary and bureaucracies and toward Congress. We also need to work in the states to promote Article V conventions [I absolutely disagree with this. Article V conventions will do nothing that voting people out of office will not do. Voting people out of office is also easier than having an Article V convention. Impeachment and conviction is also easier than an Article V convention. Impeachment = simple majority in the House. Conviction = simple 2/3rds vote in the Senate. Article V convention = 2/3rds vote of the States to hold a convention. Article V convention = 3/4th votes of the States to pass any article coming from the convention. Do the math.], using the existing constitutional tools to restore and reinforce the original system of government we adopted [If we are not following the present Constitution, why would we follow new provisions to the Constitution if any such provision should happen to be adopted that would actually help which seems extremely unlikely?].
Concurrently, it is incontrovertibly clear that to continue down the same path of failure is not an option [Voting the same failures back into office does seem to be a bad practice. Therefore, stop voting the same failures back into office.]. So long as constitutionalists are stuck in this binary political game, we will continue to exemplify the definition of insanity by expecting a different result. The federal government will not willingly restore power to the red states [Unless the members of the federal government are changed. That is why we hold elections. Elections are used to hold elected officeholders accountable. Last year in a 4-3 vote, our school board pushed through a transsexual policy that catered to the delusions of transsexuals. Some of us let those four members know they would be held accountable. In our spring election, not one of the three members up for reelection chose to run. I still post their names on my blog every day I post as a warning to others who believe they can violate the will of the voters. Don’t like what they are doing in office, vote them out. As a bonus, both our superintendent and high school principal who was hired at the same time as the superintendent took positions at other districts. The last vote to renew the superintendent’s contract was a 4-3 vote with the same four voting for the transsexual policy and for the superintendent. Do the math on why she chose to leave the district.]; they must grab it back on their own. Doing so will require a new political vehicle [Not necessarily. Take back the Republican Party and run conservatives in the Democrat Party. The Left runs candidates in both Parties. Why not conservatives running in both parties?], one that is fresh, consistent, principled, and intellectually honest so that it might have the political capital to advocate for state powers, civil disobedience, shunning of the courts and the agencies, and so forth [Does he know how hard it is to start a new party in some States? The laws are designed to prevent third parties. I know they are in Illinois from personal experience.].
The existing Republican Party cannot and will not serve as that vehicle. We have learned from 1988 until the present—ever since Republicans stopped nominating constitutionalists for president—that members of the party will bend in the wind and change their long-held beliefs to comport with the capricious views of the party leaders [Then start nominating Constitutionalists. Ted Cruz came in second in 2016 and won in States that had closed primaries.].
Ideally, we wouldn’t have any factions or parties, but even Washington recognized in his time that they are ‘inseparable from our nature [Exactly.].’ The next best thing is to break the monopoly of the oligarchy by introducing choice and competition through a new party that is actually built upon republican principles. As Madison wrote in Federalist #10, the way to deal with the necessary evil of factions is to grow the pie: ‘[Y]ou take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens [State laws are geared to the two party system. Only one third party ever became a majority party and that was the Republican Party. Not saying that it can’t happen. Am saying it is hard.].’
This new vehicle will not launch overnight in all 50 states and will not take the same form in every state, at least not initially. But it must begin in the states where overwhelming majorities are still receptive to a constitutionalist message. And fortunately, most gubernatorial elections and more state legislative elections occur during non-presidential election years, when Democrat turnout is lower, which is why Republicans to this day control so much state government. Sadly, with the exception of a few states, they don’t do anything positive with the power they have.
That must change. A new vehicle that is consistently committed to federalism can tell the federal executive and judiciary where to go [Will they? The money the feds give away is incentive not to rock the boat.]. We have long passed the threshold of usurpations to justify civil disobedience, but we need a respected vehicle—the platform of a sovereign state and a new party—that has the support to see it through. In justifying the eventual need to ignore the courts, Robert Bork once said that ‘to the objection that a rejection of a court’s authority would be civil disobedience, the answer is that a court that issues orders without authority engages in an equally dangerous form of civil disobedience [More than equal since it is civil disobedience from a government entity.].’
For far too long, we have tolerated, legitimized, and codified the civil disobedience of the other side. What we need now in response is not the pursuit of the same failed tactics and strategies, which have led a significant portion of our movement to seek new and foreign principles. Rather, we need new and innovative strategies to restore the timeless principles set forth by our Founders.
As Justice Joseph Story once said, our constitutional principles are to ‘speak in the same voice now, and forever. They are of no man’s private interpretation [Or court’s.]. They are ordained by the will of the people; and can only be changed by the sovereign command of the people [If only that were the actuality.].’
[1] James Madison, Preface to The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, 1830: Writings of James Madison, ed. Jack Rakove (New York: Library of America, 1999), 842.
[2] In Federalist #51, Madison wrote that the division between the states and the federal government as well as each entity being divided into three branches would safeguard liberty: ‘In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.’
[3] Undoubtedly, the movement behind the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments sowed the seeds for an expanded federal government, but the actual amendments did not fundamentally alter the system of government and justify a single usurpation we face today. Moreover, they were enacted through the legitimate amendment process, unlike today’s illegal ad hoc constitutional conventions that take place on a daily basis.
[4] VanHorne’s Lessee v. Dorrance 2 U.S. 304, 308 (1795). William Paterson was one of the primary drafters of Article III of the Constitution, was one of the original members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who created the court system, and was one of the early Supreme Court justices. Few people should be accorded greater respect in their views of constitutional construction.
[5] ‘Every society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted, there can be room for no complaint.’ Gouverneur Morris, ‘Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787,’ Elliot’s Debates, Vol. V, as republished on the Teaching American History website, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/elliot/vol5/0809_1787/.
Morris’ importance as a founder is best captured by Madison’s claim that the actual text of the Constitution ‘fairly belongs to the pen of Mr. Morris.’ Max Farrand, ‘The Framing Of The Constitution Of The United States,’ (Kindle Location 1744). Kindle Edition. See also Richard Brookhiser, ‘Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution’ (Detroit: Free Press; Reprint edition (June 3, 2004)).
[6] During the Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph referred to ‘[t]he propriety of impeachments’ as ‘a favorite principle.’ Impeachment is mentioned 58 times in the Federalist Papers.”
Do we as a nation even recognize that there is a crisis?
Answer to the question: Which State was not represented? Rhode Island
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From: The Loop from Catholic Vote
“QUOTE OF THE WEEK // Hans Fiene on anti-Christian Twitter mobs: ‘Twitter: We hate Joel Osteen for not following the Bible. Also Twitter: We hate the Nashville Statement for following the Bible.’”
Supposedly, Joel Osteen said his church would not be available during the current Houston flooding challenge. The Nashville Statement confirms the long standing Christian acknowledgment that homosexual behavior is sinful behavior.
The Left hates anyone and anything that disagrees with them and their agenda.
https://spectator.org/at-the-orgy-of-self-righteousness/
“At the Orgy of Self-Righteousness
George Neumayr | August 18, 2017”
“One wonders what entitles this generation to speak so confidently about past evils given its inability to recognize present ones. Modern America is awash in the blood of millions of aborted [murdered] children—a monstrous evil we’re told is as central to the modern lifestyle as slavery was to the ancient one [Make no mistake about it. Murdering one’s own children is far more evil than slavery. And yes, slavery is evil.]”
The best, most constitutional way to accomplish abolishing abortion is to do the following:
1) Congress by law affirms that human life begins at conception/fertilization.
http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacaa_petition.aspx?npla=EH17&pid=0820c
2) Congress by law affirms that human life is protected by both Amendments Five and Fourteen from the beginning of life at conception to the end of life through natural causes.
3) Congress by law affirms that the taking of a human life within the womb is a criminal offense and establishes the legal parameters for prosecuting and punishing all such criminal offenses. Congress by law affirms that any local official and/or State official who tries to hinder and/or does not apply these laws properly has committed a criminal offense. Congress by law establishes the legal parameters for prosecuting and punishing all such criminal offenses.
4) Congress by law affirms that any and all previous court case rulings in contradiction to these specific laws passed by Congress are null and void.
5) Congress by law removes the courts from any ability to alter and/or invalidate any provisions of these specific laws passed by Congress.
Rules of Life:
1) Actions have consequences and may have a lasting impact on the rest of your life.
2) There is no reset, undo, or edit button in life.
3) You are the ONLY person responsible for your actions.
4) You are free to choose whatever action you want to take, but you are NOT free from the consequences of that action.
5) Doing nothing is an action.
Or, as GOD said in James 4: 17 (NIV)
“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.”
Matthew 12: 35-37 (NIV)
“‘A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned [We are all held accountable by GOD.].’”
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
For Life, for liberty
Don L. Vance
“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
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