Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Homeland Security ‘messages’ coming to Walmart, hotels, malls

This disturbing story comes from www.rawstory.com, This article says how a DHS video with the Director of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano imploring people to report anything suspicious. Believe it or not this is going to be played in Wal-Mart stores Malls and Hotels across the USA.

DHS is turning into The German Gestapo, The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. This sounds too much like DHS, think of what they are doing with the TSA and also now with these messages in public areas. Remember when the Gestapo asked Germans to report Jews if they thought their neighbor was a Jew. This is the same thing report your neighbor report your friends. This is the start of the police state and I am afraid more then ever do to this announcement for the future of our Country and our Kids. We can not let to go on we must tell them when to stop if we don’t they will keep going.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/homeland-security-messages-coming-walmart-hotels-malls/

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Congress Confused by Own Healthcare Reform Plan

This is awesome! here is a post from newsmax.




Congress Confused by Own Healthcare Reform Plan
Tuesday, 13 Apr 2010 06:45 PM Article Font Size
By: Dan Weil

Congress may have unwittingly cut itself out of its own generous healthcare coverage in the new healthcare reform law.

The healthcare package might remove members of Congress and staff from their current coverage – in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program – before any alternatives are available, according a new Congressional Research Service report.

“The confusion raises the inevitable question: if they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?” wrote Robert Pear in The New York Times.

The law is supposed to guarantee that Americans can keep their current coverage if they want it.
And there is little reason for lawmakers and their aides not to want their current health insurance.

But the CRS report says, “It is unclear whether members of Congress and congressional staff who are currently participating in FEHBP may be able to retain this coverage.”

And even if they can, newly elected legislators probably won’t be able to join.

If Congress wants to maintain the status quo for itself, it will probably have to make a legislative adjustment or change internal policy.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, sees a basic problem in all this.

“If members of Congress cannot explain how it’s going to work for them and their staff, how will they explain it to the rest of America?” he told the Times.

Political consultant Dick Morris does understand the health reform package.

And he told Newsmax.TV that President Barack Obama has "broken" the American system of providing healthcare and will now be held responsible for spiraling insurance premiums and doctor shortages.

© Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Monday, April 5, 2010

US Constitution was Suspended since 1933!

Here's a great article that I found on the Net. It's a short explanation of why the government is passing seemingly unconstitutional laws, and how we can return back to a Constitutional Republic. The 1933 state of emergency was meant to be TEMPORARY, and FDR even promised to end it before leaving office:

“…The Republican Party of Texas recognized that acts of the Congressional body and the office of the President of the United States of America created an emergency condition, and that on and after March 6, 1933 and March 9, 1933 the same said Public offices effectively impaired and suspended the Constitution for the United States of America under pretense of these same created emergency conditions, and that the impairments and disabilities yet exist and are in full force and effect throughout the nation… [and] … that the Republician Party of Texas being duly apprised of the continuing emergency declared on March 9, 1933, demands that the Gold and Silver Coin be fully reinstated and maintained as the lawful money and tender of payment of debts within the United States of America, and that any and all notes and obligations heretofore or hereinafter issued be brought back to and maintained at par value with the said coin;” Be It Further Resolved that the Republican Party of Texas hereby demands the rescinding of the Emergency Banking Relief Act of March 9, 1933 and all subsequent related acts thereunder and demands a Presidential proclamation terminated thereby returning the United States of America to its original peacetime Constitutional Republic.” [Quoted in Part. Ed.]


Not only has the Republician Party of Texas recognized that the constitution has been suspended but so did the 1994 Republician Governors Conference and the 1994 California State Republician Assembly. When three separate “professional” entities begin to not merely consider, but endorse, then advocate a theory as extraordinary as Dr. Gene Schroder’s, the researcher who discovered this, then you got to believe.

Dr. Schroder says that “During times of war or national ‘emergency’ Americans have no rights; instead, the United States government becomes custodian of our rights. Under an emergency government, all rights to due process of law (long process) are suspended, leaving no bar against governmental violations of our rights. The people become mere objects (In Rem) with no unalienable rights to be protected.

“Once the government gains ‘emergency’ power, it is reluctant to relinquish that power. During the Wars of 1812, 1847, 1861, 1917 and 941, the ‘emergency war powers’ were gradually and insidiously defined. However, on March 9, 1933, our government declared a National Emergency and, based on the public’s ignorance and the complacency, took permanent control of the people.


Since March 9, 1933, the United States has remained in a continuous state of declared National Emergency. Since that time, the American people have lost their rights to government, and these rights have not been restored. The American government now claims the power of right, and rules the people by Statute – not the Constitution – in all cases. Under emergency powers, government can do whatever it deems ‘necessary’. The courts change from protectors of the people’s unalienable Rights to enforcers of the government’s statutes.

However, if the ‘national emergency’ were ended, government abuse and injustice would also end. When the American people demand that congress end the ‘national emergency’ they will restore the U.S. Constitution, and regain their rights, freedom and property…”

Mr. Alfred Adask, a legal expert but non-lawyer who ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1992 describes in AntyShyster (vol. 5 #4) the Emergency war Powers Act in America. He says that “during World War I, congress passed the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act as an ‘emergency’ (unconstitutional) measure to prevent American products from being sold and shipped to our wartime enemies. [Germany became our enemy after Zionist leaders promised Britain they would bring America into WWI in return for a British occupation of Palestine. This they did in 1917. Ed] In general terms, that 1917 Act granted the Federal government significant new powers to license, regulate, and tax the business transactions of foreign nationals who lived in the USA but worked as commercial agents for our enemies.

Although government could impose these new, unconstitutional burdens on foreign nationals, American citizens were specifically protected from Washington’s new powers. Therefore, if a German national came to the USA to buy steel for Germany (our wartime foe), that German would not be shot or jailed, but he would be licensed, regulated, and taxed until there was no point to buying American steel. However, since this was still ‘the land of the free’, if an American citizen wanted to sell his steel to Germany, well, he wouldn’t win any popularity contests, but he was free to do so without government interference.

WWI ended, Johnny came marching home again and life returned to normal in ‘the land of the free’ – except for one, largely unnoticed difference: the 1917 Trading With The Enemy Act, invoked as an ‘emergency’ (unconstitutional) wartime power was not revoked even though the war and the ‘emergency’ had ended. As a result, those ‘emergency war powers’ granted to government remained on the books.

“No matter, they only applied to foreign enemies, so America danced through the Roaring Twenties ‘til she crashed into the depressing 1930’s. On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany; on March 3, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office as the 32nd President of the United States. Within days of his inauguration, FDR amended the dormant 1917 Trading With The Enemy Act to include the American People on the list of ‘enemies’ of the United States, declared a ‘national emergency’ (the ‘Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933), and invoked the ‘Emergency War Powers’ of 1917 to rule the United States exactly as if we were at war, i.e. as a dictatorship.

“During the declared ‘emergency’, the constitution for the United States of America was suspended as ‘supreme national policy’. During the ‘emergency’, what was once mandated by law is merely recommended by policy. In other words, as a government agent, if you had the time and inclination, you can follow the precepts of the constitution: but if you are too busy, too hard pressed by the emergency, screw the constitution, kick in some doors, start shooting and kill anyone gets in your way. After all, the law of emergency is no law, only power.

“In fact, when FDR first asked congress to ratify his declaration of ‘national emergency’ and grant him the unconstitutional powers of an American dictator, he promised to terminate the ‘emergency’ and restore the constitution before he left office. If FDR ever truly meant to keep that 1933 promise, he apparently changed his mind when WWII broke out, and kept these powers intact until he died [or was murdered by the illu conspiracy which he served. Ed.] in office in 1945.

“Harry Truman took over the presidency dictatorship, and apparently found the emergency powers so helpful in running the United States, he didn’t revoke the emergency either. In fact, in over 62 years [to 1995 Ed.], not one American President-Dictator has even hinted that the ‘emergency’ should be ended, the war powers surrendered, and the constitution restored as supreme law. Not one.

“The ‘President’s’ role in ending the national emergency is crucial because, although congressional approval was required to initially grant the emergency powers to the executive, once these those virtually absolute powers were granted, no one but the almighty President Dictator himself could return them. In other words, if every representative and senator in congress voted unanimously to end the national emergency, the vote would carry as much weight as if they had voted to end aging, gravity and death. [The congress could, however, pass a resolution to end the emergency power & then suggest the President follow their suggestion. Ed.] Just as the people in the Bible once insisted on having a King (and came to regret it), the 1933 congress also created an American ‘King’. And so long as that ‘King’ rules, we shall regret it because we are all relegated to status somewhat like a POW…

End the national emergency and almost every ‘alphabet-agency’ will simply disappear since they have no constitutional foundation. OSHA, FDA, FCC, CIA, FBI, FTC, NASA, TVA and even the IRS will be gone…”

The text on this website has given you some of the research by people such as Mr. Adask and Dr. Schroder. In a June 5, 1995 U.S. News & World Report four-page report Senior Editor Victoria Pope wrote about such active Patriots in her article Notes From The Underground -- America’s New Dissidents. If you or someone you know, is a compulsive-litigator please contact Compulsive Litigators Anonymous (CLA) at 1-800-SUE-THE-SOBS for help in your area. Their groups which meet regularly will help you find other, less litigious methods to settle your disputes… like filing administrative complaints for discrimination, or commercial liens. The latter is also covered in Commercial Liens I by Mr. Adask which he describes as “a spiral bound, study guide [300][pages] on what may be the hottest legal strategy available for aggressive pro se litigants – commercial liens. The collection of essays, lien examples, case cites, etc. explains how private citizens across the USA are filing LIENS on judges, bureaucrats, even elected politicians to compel them to obey the law. Because these liens are non-judicial, they are inexpressive to file, and difficult for corrupt government officials to evade. Although this strategy is new, evolving, and not absolutely confirmed, everything I’ve seen since 1992 indicated commercial liens may be the most potent, explose strategy available for use by private citizens. The Pro Per Litigants Neutron Bomb.”

EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102

Would you like to see just how fast the Federal government can work take everything you have including your Constitutional rights? Read this account:



On March 3, 1933, the Federal Reserve bank of New York stated that the withdrawals of currency and gold had created a national emergency.



On March 4, 1933, FDR was inaugurated as president.



On March 4, 1933, before the Inaugural balls of the evening, FDR declared a bank holiday for March 5 - 7, 1933, effectively closing all banks within the United Sates, it's protectorates and territories.



In the early morning hours of March 8, 1933, Federal Agents of the Internal Revenue Service descending in hoards on every banks in the United States, seizing safe deposit box owner records and bank keys, ordering under Federal Warrant and penalty of Federal prosecution, that no bank owner, manager or other employee dispense any gold or silver coinage or open any bank safety deposit box unless in the presence of an IRS agent from that time forward. Then the agents entered the bank vaults and sealed every safe deposit box in the vaults of EVERY bank in America.



On March 9, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a special session of Congress, presented them with a pre-written declaration of national emergency, which he demanded they pass immediately.



Then just a few short minutes after Congress passed his declaration, on March 9, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 that outlawed the private ownership of gold and silver from that date forward.



And here we thought obama was moving things fast and exceeding Constitutional boundaries. Actually he just studied this well established liberal progressive method of governing well before he ever sought to run for the Senate in Illinois.



THE EXACT WORDING OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102:



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By Executive Order Of The President of The United States, March 9, 1933



By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, in which Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I as President, do declare that the national emergency still exists; that the continued private hoarding of gold and silver by subjects of the United States poses a grave threat to the peace, equal justice, and well-being of the United States; and that appropriate measures must be taken immediately to protect the interests of our people.



Therefore, pursuant to the above authority, I hereby proclaim that such gold and silver holdings are prohibited, and that all such coin, bullion or other possessions of gold and silver be tendered within fourteen days to agents of the Government of the United States for compensation at the official price, in the legal tender of the Government.



All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed, pending action in the due course of the law. All sales or purchases or movements of such gold and silver within the borders of the United States and its territories and all foreign exchange transactions or movements of such metals across the border are hereby prohibited.



Your possession of these proscribed metals and/or your maintenance of a safe deposit box to store them is known by the government from bank and insurance records. Therefore, be advised that your vault box must remain sealed, and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the Internal Revenue Service.



By lawful order given this day, the President of the United States.



Franklin D. Roosevelt – March 9, 1933



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I want to point out in this Executive Order a few curious uses of words and other statements.



1) "amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933" Under what authority then did the IRS seal Safe Deposit boxes on March 8, if neither Congress nor the president had declared a National Emergency or even issued a "quasi-legal" position on private ownership gold and silver until two days later?



2) "I as President, do declare that the national emergency still exists" If Congress declared a national Emergency on March 9, does this presidential genius have to "declare that it still exists" later that same day?



3) "continued private hoarding" When was it established that private hording was occurring and when as it suggested that people not keep gold and silver cols and bullion?



4) "by subjects of the United States" Americans were "free citizens" ... remember "all men are created equal"? Americans had ceased being "subjects" when they threw off the tyranny of the British Rulers.



5) "appropriate measures must be taken immediately to protect the interests of our people" ??? ... weren't those who had their own property in their own safe deposit boxes "our people"?



6) "your maintenance of a safe deposit box to store them is known by the government" Think about this especially in light to the act that everything in 1933 was manually written, typed, logged, filed and retrieved; but this doesn't stop the first recorded emergence of Big Brother into the daylight and shows exactly how the establishment of, the power grab of, and heavy handed tactics of the Federal government/IRS was founded.



THE HARD TRUTH OF WHAT EXECUTIVE

ORDER 6102 REALLY SET IN MOTION:



According to Black's Law Dictionary, A Serious Emergency or National Emergency is a state of national crisis; a situation demanding immediate and extraordinary national or federal action" Black's Law Dictionary

Congressman Beck said in 1933 prior to the passage of the Farm Bill: "I think of all the damnable heresies that have ever been suggested in connection with the Constitution, the doctrine of emergency is the worst. It means that when Congress declares an emergency, there is no Constitution... for when this bill becomes a law, ...there is no longer any workable Constitution to keep the Congress within the limits of its Constitutional powers."



ONCE AN EMERGENCY IS DECLARED,

THERE IS NO CONSTITUTION ANY LONGER!!!!



Senate Report 93-549 (written by Congress in 1973) states in the very first sentence: "Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and... control the lives of all American citizens."



This situation has continued absolutely uninterrupted since March 9, 1933. We have been in a state of declared national emergency for nearly 77 years without knowing it.

According to current laws, as found in 12 USC, Section 95(b), everything the President or the Secretary of the Treasury has done since March 4, 1933 is automatically approved:



"The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore, or hereafter taken,

promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March the 4th, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by Subsection (b) of Section 5 of the Act of October 6th, 1917, as amended [12 USCS Sec. 95a], are hereby approved and confirmed. (Mar. 9, 1933, c. 1, Title 1, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 1]".



THIS IS HOW THINGS HAPPENED:



On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as President. On March 9, 1933, Congress approved, in a special session, his Proclamation 2038 that became known as the Act of March 9, 1933:

"Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that a serious national emergency exists and that it is imperatively necessary speedily to put into effect remedies of uniform national application".

This is an example of the RULE OF NECESSITY, a rule of law where necessity knows no law. This rule was invoked to remove the authority of the Constitution.

Chapter 1, Title 1, Section 48, Statute 1 of this Act of March 9, 1933 is the exact same wording as Title 12, USC 95(b) quoted earlier, proving that we are still under the Rule of Necessity and continue in a perpetual

declared state of national emergency.

12 USC 95(b) refers to the authority granted in the Act of October 6, 1917 (AKA: The Trading with the Enemy Act, or, The War Powers Act) which was "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes". This Act originally excluded citizens of the United States, but in the Act of March 9, 1933, Section 2 amended this to include "any person within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof". It was here that every American citizen literally became an enemy to the United States government under declaration of war.

According to the current Memorandum of American Cases and Recent English Cases on The Law of Trading With the Enemy, we have no personal Rights at law in any court, and all Rights of an enemy to sue in the courts are suspended, whereby the public good must prevail over private gain. This also provides for the taking over of any enemy private property. (all American citizens are all declared enemies). Now we know why we no longer receive "allodial freehold title" to our land ... as enemies, our property is no longer ours to own.

The only way we can do business or any type of legal trade is to obtain permission from our government by means of a license.

SO WHO INITIATED ALL OF THESE EMERGENCY POWERS?

On March 3, 1933, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York adopted a resolution stating that the withdrawal of currency and gold from the banks had created a national emergency, and "the Federal Reserve Board is hereby requested to urge the President of the United States to declare a bank holiday, Saturday March 4, and Monday, March 6".

Roosevelt was told to close down the banking system. He did so with Proclamation 2039 under the excuse of alleged unwarranted hoarding of gold, silver and currency by Americans. Then with Proclamation 2040, he declared on March 9, 1933 the existence of a national bank emergency whereas:

"all Proclamations heretofore, or hereafter, issued by the President pursuant to the authority conferred by section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are approved and confirmed".

ONCE AN EMERGENCY IS DECLARED, THERE IS NO CONSTITUTION ANY LONGER!!!!



We are no longer under law. Law has been abolished. We are under a system of War Powers. Our money, our investments, our stocks, our bonds, our houses and our land can be seized as Americans are STILL considered enemies of the state. What we have is not ours under the War Powers given to the President who is the Commander-in-Chief of the military war machine.

Whenever any President proclaims that the national emergency has ended, all War Powers shall cease to be in effect. Congress can do nothing without the President's signature because Congress granted him these emergency powers. For over 73 years, no President has been willing to give up this extraordinary power and terminate the original proclamation. Americans are an enemy and subject to tribunal district courts under Martial Law wartime jurisdiction; in effect, a Constitutional Dictatorship.

We as a Nation are in a continued State of Constitutional and Social Emergency

Friday, March 26, 2010

Wow just proof that the health car bill is bad thank you fox news

AT&T Joins Growing List of Firms That Say Health Care Law Will Cut Into Their Profits

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AT&T is the latest and biggest company to announce the costly impact that the health care overhaul will have on its bottom line.


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AT&T President and CEO Randall Stephenson, delivers a keynote speech during the CTIA wireless show, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in Las Vegas.(AP)
AT&T said Friday that it is preparing for President Obama's health care overhaul to cost the telecommunications giant an additional $1 billion in expenses in the first quarter, possibly forcing the company to cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers.

AT&T is the latest and biggest company to account for the financial impact that the health care overhaul will have on its bottom line. It said the tax ramifications related to the legislation that Obama signed Tuesday will force it to take a non-cash charge -- an expense that does not require cash to be paid out but has to be charged against the company's earnings.

Earlier this week, AK Steel Corp., Caterpillar, Deere and Valero Energy announced similar accounting charges, saying the health care law will raise their expenses. On Friday, 3M said it will also take a charge of $85 million to $90 million.

But AT&T's charge is the largest disclosed so far. The other five's combined charges are less than half of the $1 billion that AT&T is planning. And the $1 billion is a third of AT&T's most recent quarterly profit. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the company earned $3 billion on revenue of $30.9 billion.

The sweeping health care legislation that Obama signed into law Tuesday requires companies of a certain size to provide health care coverage to their workers in an effort to expand insurance to some 32 million Americans.

Taxes on some companies are being raised to help defray the cost of the legislation.

AT&T said Friday that the charge reflects changes to how Medicare subsidies are taxed. Companies say the health care overhaul will require them to start paying taxes next year on a subsidy they receive for retiree drug coverage.

Business organizations, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have slammed the new law, arguing it will hurt companies by adding new costs and additional tax burdens.

Chamber spokesman Blair Latoff said Friday in an e-mail that altering the tax law "will have a negative impact" on companies' cash flows, particularly in the first year of the law's enactment.

Latoff added, "the government will quickly find out that by raising the costs for employers to provide retiree drug plans, they are incenting employers to drop these plans and send their employees to the Medicare program; in other words, the government will no longer pay a portion of their costs…it will pay all of their costs."

Karl Rove, a senior aide to former President Bush and a Fox News contributor, also predicted that more companies will drop their retiree drug plans and "put the entire cost on the federal taxpayer."

"There's no incentive any longer for them to continue to have a cordial relationship with their retirees by continuing to pay most of the cost of their drugs," he told Fox News.

An Obama administration official did not respond to a request for comment on AT&T's announcement but the White House in the past has suggested that companies are exaggerating the impact of the loss because they oppose the new law.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the tax law closed a loophole.

Under the 2003 Medicare prescription drug program, companies that provide prescription drug benefits for retirees have been able to receive subsidies covering 28 percent of eligible costs. But they could deduct the entire amount they spent on these drug benefits -- including the subsidies -- from their taxable income.

The new law allows companies to only deduct the 72 percent they spent.

The White House and Democratic leaders in Congress argue that under the old law, companies were in effect getting two deductions, not one, because they were able to deduct from the taxes they pay each year the amount of the subsidy the government was giving these companies to help them out.

AT&T also said Friday that it is looking into changing the health care benefits it offers because of the new law. Analysts say retirees could lose the prescription drug coverage provided by their former employers as a result of the overhaul.

Changes to benefits are unlikely to take effect immediately. Rather, the issue would most likely come up as part of contract negotiations between the company and unions representing its employees and retirees. AT&T is the largest private employer of union workers in the U.S.

Candice Johnson, spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America, which represents more than 160,000 AT&T workers, said these employees have contracts in place until 2012. An agreement covering retirees also runs through 2012.

AT&T rival Verizon Communications Inc. was among 10 companies that sent a letter to congressional leaders in December warning that their costs would increase with the health care changes. Verizon spokesman Peter Thonis said the company had no comment.

Fox Business' Dunstan Prial, Fox News' James Rosen and The Associated Press contributed to this repot.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Dates That Destroyed America

April 9, 1865

This is the date when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Regardless of where one comes down on the subject of the Civil War, one fact is undeniable: Abraham Lincoln forever destroyed the Jeffersonian model of federalism in America. Ever since, virtually every battle that free men have fought for the principles of limited government, State sovereignty, etc., have all stemmed directly from Lincoln’s usurpation of power, which resulted in the subjugation and forced union of what used to be “Free and Independent States” (the Declaration of Independence). In fact, the philosophical battles being waged today regarding the recent health care debacle (and every other encroachment upon liberty and State power by the central government) have their roots in Lincoln’s tyranny.

July 9, 1868

This is the date when the 14th Amendment was ratified. This amendment codified into law what Lincoln had forced at bayonet point. Until then, people were only deemed citizens of their respective states. The Constitution nowhere referred to people as “US citizens.” It only recognized “the Citizens of each State.” Notice also that citizenship was only recognized among the “several States,” not among people living in non-State territories. Until the 14th Amendment, people were “Citizens of each State.” (Article. IV. Section. 2. Paragraph. 1.) The 14th Amendment created a whole new class of persons: “citizens of the United States.” This false notion of “one nation” overturned the Jeffersonian principle that our nation was a confederated republic, a voluntary union of states.

February 3, 1913

This is the date when the 16th Amendment was ratified, and the direct income tax and IRS were instituted. This was a flagrant repudiation of freedom principles! What began as a temporary measure to support the War of Northern Aggression became a permanent income revenue stream for an unconstitutional–and ever-growing–central government.

April 8, 1913

This is the date when the 17th Amendment was ratified. This amendment overturned the power of the State legislatures to elect their own senators and replaced it with a direct, popular vote. This was another serious blow against State sovereignty. The framers of the Constitution desired that the influence and power in Washington, D.C., be kept as close to the people and states as possible. For example, the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was to be decided by a limited number of voters. In the original Constitution, the ratio of “people of the several States” deciding their House member could not exceed “one for every thirty thousand.” (Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3.) And when it came to the US Senate, the framers also recognized the authority of each State legislature to select its own senators, thereby keeping power and influence from aggregating in Washington, D.C. The 17th Amendment seriously damaged the influence and power of the states by forcing them to elect their US senators by popular vote. The bigger the State, the less influence the State legislature has in determining its US senator. Senators who answered to State legislators, each answering to a limited number of voters, are much more accountable to the “citizens of the several States” than those who are elected by a large number (many times numbering into the millions) of people. For all intents and purposes (at least in the larger states), US Senators are more like “mini-Presidents” than they are representatives of sovereign states.

December 23, 1913

This is the date when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. This Act placed oversight of America’s financial matters into the hands of a cabal of private international bankers, who have completely destroyed the constitutional principles of sound money and (for the most part) free enterprise. No longer would the marketplace (private consumption, thrift, growth, etc.) be the determinant of the US economy (which is what freedom is all about), but now a private, unaccountable international banking cartel would have total power and authority to micromanage (for their own private, parochial purposes) America’s financial sector. Virtually every recession, depression, and downturn (including the one we are now experiencing) has been the direct result of the Fed’s manipulation (again, for its own purposes and with Washington’s cooperation) of the market.

June 26, 1945

This is the date when the United Nations Charter was signed and America joined the push for global government. Ever since, US forces have spilled untold amounts of blood and sacrificed thousands of lives promoting the UN’s agenda. Since the end of World War II, in virtually every war in which US military forces have been engaged, it has been at the behest of the UN. And it is also no accident that America has not fought a constitutionally declared war since we entered the UN–and neither have we won one.

Furthermore, it is America’s involvement in the United Nations that has spearheaded this draconian push for a New World Order that George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite, et al., have talked so much about. The United Nations is an evil institution that has completely co-opted our US State Department and much of our Defense Department. It is an anti-American institution that works aggressively and constantly against the interests and principles of the United States. But it is an institution that is ensconced in the American political infrastructure. Like a cancer, the UN eats away at our liberties and values, and both major political parties in Washington, D.C., are culpable in allowing it to exert so much influence upon our country.

June 25, 1962, and June 17, 1963

These are the dates when the US Supreme Court removed prayer (‘62) and Bible reading (‘63) from public schools. At this point, these two Supreme Court decisions were the most serious affront to the First Amendment in US history. Think of it: from before a union of states was established in 1787, children had been free to pray and read the Scriptures in school. We’re talking about a period of more than 200 years! Of course, the various State legislatures–and myriad city and county governmental meetings–still open their sessions in prayer, as do the US House and Senate, and even the US Supreme Court. But this same liberty is denied the children of America. There is no question that America has not recovered from these two horrific Supreme Court decisions. In effect, the federal government has expelled God not only from our public schools, but also from our public life! And America has not been the same since.

October 22, 1968

This is the date when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968. Before this Act, the 2nd Amendment was alive and well in the United States. The Gun Control Act of 1968 turned a right into a privilege and forever forced the American people to bow to the altar of government when seeking to arm themselves. Interestingly enough, this Gun Control Act mirrored Nazi Germany’s Gun Control Act of 1938. In fact, the Gun Control Act of 1968 is almost a verbatim copy of Hitler’s Gun Control Act of 1938.

Our Founding Fathers could never have imagined that governments within the “several States” would ever be allowed to deny the people’s right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it was the attempted confiscation of the firearms stored at Concord, Massachusetts, that triggered the War of Independence in 1775. That the people of Massachusetts would be denied their right to keep and bear arms, as they are today, could not have been foreseen–and would never have been tolerated–by America’s founders.

Yet, most of the hundreds of draconian gun control laws that have been inflicted upon the American people have all come about as a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

January 22, 1973

This is the date when the US Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, which, in effect, legalized abortion-on-demand. These two decisions expunged the Jeffersonian principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life (Declaration). Since then, more than 50 million unborn babies have been legally murdered in their mothers’ wombs. Abortion is, without a doubt, America’s national holocaust. It has opened the door to a host of Big Government programs and policies that have resulted in the wanton destruction of human life both in the United States and overseas. It has created an entire industry whose express purpose for existing is the destruction of human life. It has desensitized the conscience and soul of America. Furthermore, it has forced men of decency and good will to finance–with their tax dollars–the unconscionable act of killing unborn children.

And once again, another Jeffersonian principle was eviscerated. He said, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” The Roe and Doe decisions violate this principle in the most egregious manner possible.

October 26, 2001

This is the date when President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, and the federal government’s war against individual liberty began in earnest. Most of the unconstitutional eavesdropping, snooping, wiretapping, phone call intercepting, email reading, prying, financial records tracking, travel watching, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, by federal police agencies began with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The Department of Homeland Security and the “war on terrorism,” which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people worldwide, and the usurpation of federal power at home, have all come about as an outgrowth of the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act has forever shifted the focus of American law and jurisprudence against constitutional government and individual liberty, toward a police-state mentality. The Patriot Act is even turning our local and State law enforcement agencies into military-style “Jackboots,” where police officers see themselves not necessarily as guardians of the citizenry, but, as often as not, as adversaries, where citizens are deemed to be the “enemy.”

October 17, 2006, and October 9, 2009

These are the dates when President G.W. Bush signed and President Barack Obama re-signed the Military Commissions Act. This Act is the outgrowth of the Patriot Act but has, in effect, terminated the fundamental protections of individual liberty, which are found in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For all intents and purposes, the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act eviscerated the 4th and 5th Amendments, and do serious injury to several others. The Military Commissions Act also expunges the constitutional right of Habeas Corpus.

March 21 and 23, 2010

These are the dates when Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the so-called “health care reform” bill that we spoke about at the beginning of this column. While Social Security and various Welfare programs have toyed with socialism in the United States, this bill is the largest and most expansive endorsement of socialism in American history. This bill socializes some 18% of the US economy by socializing the health care industry in America. The fallout and ramifications of this bill are going to be horrific.