They were betrayed by several US Presidents, so I don't hold it against them that they gave some back.
Much of that is actually American funds since Barry illegally gave Iran billions of American tax dollars. Likely through Biden, as well.
Seems like the plot of "Quantum of Solace" is a real life scenario.
What I find funny is that there is direct evidence that the very things we need to live, I mean to sustain our lives, are being systematically attacked and no one is ready to step up to stop it. It is more wringing of hands, lamenting, and calling for government to fix government.
How has that been working out so far? We have been seeing the pattern since Carters administration. It has been a long train of abuses that, by themselves, don't seem noteworthy or alarming. However, taken as a whole, they show a pattern of government behavior and action designed to put us right where we are today.
POTUS was elected, but what has really changed? Certainly not the attacks on our food, water, farmlands, health, nor are our elections secured. That tells me that he either cannot do it alone, or is not intending to do it at all. Wouldn't that be a real kick in the balls? If he was held up as a savior, but is really a means to an end? I hope and pray that he is legit, and I believe he is, but it would be foolish to put all your eggs in one basket. If he needs our help, it cannot simply be by casting a vote. Freedom and liberty are paid for through sacrifice. Unfortunately, the masses today all feel it needs to be sacrifices by others. No one has time to organize or join a local grassroots movement to restore our republic, or help POTUS. We see example of others that do it, and we praise them, but remain sitting on the fence or the sidelines while doing it.
We stand at a crossroads today. One where the decisions we make, as Americans, will determine the fate not only of our Republic, but of our children, our descendant's, our posterity.....
We will all be judged by our actions, or inactions, when we sit in front of our Creator. What we do in life, echo's in eternity.
The residents of a community get the government they allow. Fence sitting only results in splinters and tyrannical government. Relying on government to fix government is a fools errand.
If you are a resident of California, you have a few options:
- Do nothing. Hope government fixes government. Hint: Historically, that has never worked out as a strategy. The proof is staring you in the face.
- Move away. It doesn't stop the corruption, but it gets you away from it, for now.
- Start a local grassroots group to fight the corruption and to stop the invasion and takeover. Hook up and coordinate with other like-mined organizations so you can build a statewide coalition to restore the Republic of California.
Depending on government to fix itself is like posting a fox to guard the henhouse. The current state of things in California is 100% proof that hope is not a viable strategy.
The Declaration of Independence is the blueprint and guide. The example set by the founders of our Constitutional Republic is what needs to happen. If your elections are rigged, then gather in large numbers and stop it. If people are not loyal to the Constitution who have been illegally placed in office, go remove them. In the end, the responsibility is with the people, not the government. Which people? If we are talking about California, and you live there, just look at the person staring back at you when you look in a mirror. The same applies to people in any other State or within our Republic. If you are an American, it is you.
You have avenues to redress grievances: Quo Warranto, Grand Jury, Jury, petitions, etc.
If every avenue is exhausted and tyranny still prevails? Well, read the Declaration of Independence and then organize and gather to restore or replace what is not operating within its original charter.
A gathering of hundreds of thousand, or millions, is enough show of force to effect real change, and no shot ever need to be fired.
Its funny, the communist's, the evil ones, they use numbers and violence to get their way. What is not being factored in is that the number of patriots far exceed anything the evil ones can assemble. That is exactly why they started importing the illegals and the Muslims. To overwhelm before the sleeping giant wakes up.
Well, sitting on the fence has done nothing but hand the enemy victory after victory, and eroded more and more liberty and freedom. Trump is trying, but the fact is he is fighting saboteurs within both the Federal and State governments every step of the way. He has not made the progress he intended so far, and is not likely to, unless the people start actively helping, and not continue to sit passively by while our country, republic, and constitution are destroyed.
Jan 6th was a planned op to scare Americans from gathering ever again. They are scared to death of a real gathering on a massive scale because they cannot stop it, expect through fear.
Well, the Communists, the Muslims, the evil horde are all gathering in numbers and have proven to be successful in many places. They have taken over NYC, MN, MI, CA, VA, etc., but their numbers are far fewer than a true gathering of patriotic Americans would be, if they would just get off their asses and organize. Not with an intent of violence, just to regain control of the Republic that belongs to us to begin with. Imagine what would be possible if that happened and freed POTUS up to clean house within the federal government without worry of being sabotaged every step of the way.
One fact, proven by history, that is forgotten today is that freedom and liberty have a price. You have been duped into believing it is others who need to pay it (military, fringe groups, etc.,) anyone else, other than yourselves. That is false. If you are not willing to sacrifice, then you are not worthy of the liberty and freedom purchased by the sacrifice of others. History proves this over and over again.
Liberty and freedom are gifts from our Creator, but keeping them is 100% our responsibility.
Prison? More like Gallows or Firing squad. Unless the penalty is severe and equal to the scale of the crime, it doesn't serve as a deterrent or warning to others that might get the same idea.
“The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.” ~ John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
“Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.” ~ Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848 Essays, 61
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” ~ Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848 "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)
“It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
“A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” ~ John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Thoughts on Government, 1776
“A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Our guidance? We have a Constitution and a Declaration of Independence, both inspired by our Creator based upon the laws of our Creator. What more do we need?
As for how? Our founder set us up with the how. It was called the prohibition on government to infringe on any of our rights. We allowed the tyrants to eliminate our militia's, etc, but we have the ability to form them again. We have the power of being juror's, but we have allowed ignorance to erode that to almost nothing today. But we can get it back. We have the power of the Grand Jury, we have Quo Warranto's, etc.
“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.” ~ John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist
I understand the enemy just fine. However, I also understand that the Constitution is not optional, and even Trump is bound to it. What you seem to be missing is that the enemy can be fought, and defeated, through the Constitution. If anyone violates it, they can be held accountable for that violation. If the courts are corrupted and not enforcing it, then there are other remedies. In the end, if government is operating outside of its charter, the Constitution, then it can be replaced by one that will. That is our natural right, as the founders affirmed in the Declaration of Independence.
Like I said before, I voted for Trump 3 times, but he is not God, not infallible, and is just as subject to the Constitution as any other elected or appointed representative. A President who is doing the work does not need a rubber stamp Congress. He needs members who back him when he is right and tell him the truth when he is not, and the man who is actually correct welcomes that, he does not fear it.
In the end, government answers to us. It is not government's job to police itself and hold itself accountable. That responsibility and power resides with the People. Electing Trump is a good start, but putting it all on him is foolish. Any American who wants to know who is responsible for restoring our Constitutional Republic simply needs to look into a mirror to see who is responsible.
I am not sure why you are acting hostile towards me. We are on the same side, but I also acknowledge the Constitution as inviolable and binding on government in what can or cannot be done.
Since the FCC is technically part of the executive branch, it should be really easy to have the broadcasting licenses revoked for every dingle network with corrupt newscasts.
This is good news, and needs to end up in repealing the program completely. Repealing H-1B is only part of the fix. These abusers have already infiltrated deeply into many of our tech companies, and effectively run them now. Unless that is fixed, we have not only lost control of these companies, but also the security of the data these companies control or have access to.
Energy independence would infer that we are using our own oil, or buying from sources in our regions that are not impacted by actions in the Middle East. That would eliminate the "future supply" argument. That should also open up domestic oil companies to investigation on suspicion of price gouging.
You led with "you're weak" and "fact check yourself," so let me put an actual standard on the table instead of trading insults.
My claim was never that Massie voted the way I wanted on every bill. No member does. My claim is that he is among the most consistent constitutional voters in the House, and that is metric that is actually measurable.
The groups built to measure fidelity to limited and enumerated government put him at the top. The Republican Liberty Caucus's most recent Liberty Score ranked Massie as the only Republican in the entire House to score 100 or higher. The Club for Growth and Conservative Review run their own scorecards on the same kind of standard, and he rates at or near the top of those as well. That is his recorded voting record measured against constitutional principle, not my opinion.
So here is the fact check, returned. The claim is measurable and the metrics back it. If you have a standard that shows otherwise, name it and post the score. "He wasn't" is not a measure.
And to keep us honest on terms, when I say constitutional I mean voting to keep government inside its delegated powers. If you grade by a broader view of federal authority, you'll score those same votes differently, and then we are arguing definitions, not Massie.
Agreed. Honestly your framing is the sharper one. Of the people, and distinct from the militia. That is exactly how the SCOTUS kept the right alive in Heller.
The Amendment protects the right of the people. The Court said the people means every member of the political community, the same people named in the First and Fourth Amendments. The militia clause gives the reason for the right. It does not hand the right only to whoever is enrolled. That's the whole point. If the right belonged to the militia as a body, then the other side gets to claim only the National Guard has it. That is the reading that lost in Heller, because the Court kept the people who hold the right separate from the militia that's the stated purpose.
So, the militia is drawn from the whole body of the people. That's why an armed citizenry is the check on tyranny the founders trusted over a standing army. The right itself belongs to the people as individuals, not rationed out to the ones currently enrolled.
Sure we did. Government is subject to us, not the other way around. Government usurped power it was never delegated, and the people sat by and allowed it to happen.
Those of us that were sent to their lands to fight them away from OUR lands warned America NOT to let them in. Now they are here, and what we knew would happen, is happening.
There is only one solution. Anyone that doesn't 100% fully support the Constitution, and the principles upon which our Republic was established, need to be deported.
Anyone who still holds allegiance to a foreign government should have their citizenship stripped away for gaining it through fraud and false pretenses.
This, and also stop all immigration until the entire system is overhauled and fully under control.
Repealing H-1B is only part of the fix. These abusers have already infiltrated deeply into many of our tech companies, and effectively run them now. Unless that is fixed, we have not only lost control of these companies, but also the security of the data these companies control or have access to.
The militia isn’t a separate force; it is the people, armed and trained. The Founders meant this literally, not figuratively. As George Mason plainly stated at the Virginia convention, the militia comprises “the whole people, except a few public officers.” The right to keep and bear arms belongs to the people as individuals, not just to those formally enrolled.
“It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.” ~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution." 3 Samuel Adams, Writings 251 (Henry A. Cushing Ed., 1906).
“The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers delegated directly to the citizen, and is excepted out of the general powers of government. A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.” ~ Cockrum v. State 24 Tex.394, at 401-402 (1859)
“While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.” ~ Rev. Nicholas Collin (1746-1831) Episcopal pastor, friend of Benjamin Franklin Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
“Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” ~ Tench Coxe (1755-1824) American political economist
“The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them” ~ Tench Coxe (1755-1824) American political economist An American Citizen IV, October 21, 1787
“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ...Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” ~ Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789
“In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.” ~ Steven P. Halbrook Attorney, author That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution Of A Constitutional Right, P. 83 (The Independence Institute 1984.).
“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ... The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” ~ Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury Federalist No. 34, January 4, 1788
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense...” ~ Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury The Federalist Papers, No. 28
“Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?” ~ Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808
“What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939
“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.” ~ Zachariah Johnson June 25, 1788, Virginia Constitutional Ratification Convention. Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.646 (Philadelphia, 1836)
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.” ~ Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) Founding Father Additional Letters from the Federal Framer (1788) at p. 169
“The highest number to which a standing army can be carried in any country does not exceed one hundredth part of the souls, or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This portion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. ... Besides the advantage of being armed, ... the existence of subordinate governments ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. ... [The governments of Europe] are afraid to trust the people with arms. ... Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President The Federalist Papers, No. 46
“That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State...” ~ George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington Within Mason's declaration of "the essential and unalienable Rights of the People," -- drafted by Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others, and later adopted by the Virginia ratification convention, 1788
“Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” ~ George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, June 16, 1788, in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_ Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.425 (Philadelphia, 1836)
Ever notice how the ignorant immediately attack anyone that doesn't agree with their opinions? I do not recall saying anything about being a Massie acolyte. I simply stated he was consistently for the Constitution. You know, that document that grants the limited power to government? The document that prohibits government from taking any action not specifically delegated. By your screen name, you took the same oath I did. Perhaps you just never understood the significance of what you took that oath for.
You use "Constitutionalist" as though it were an insult. That is typical of those who are ignorant in regards to the purpose and importance of the Constitution.
Yes, I AM a Constitutionalist. 100% so.
You packed a lot in, so in order.
The loyalty charge first. A constitutionalist's oath is to the Constitution, not to any man, including a President I voted for thrice. When he acts inside his constitutional authority, he has my support. When he steps outside it, saying so is not siding with the enemy. It is the oath doing exactly what it was built to do. The Founders bound good leaders too, because bend the rules for our cause is how every bad leader later justifies himself.
The debt vote. You are right that Massie cast the deciding Rules Committee vote and voted for passage, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The Constitution does not tell a member how to vote on a debt ceiling bill. That is a policy judgment. You are free to call it a bad one. It is not a constitutional violation. So it tells me you disliked his vote. It tells me nothing about his fidelity to the Constitution, which is what I actually claimed. And on Chip Roy, you make my point. He and Massie split on that bill. That is two independent men voting their own judgment.
Last, the one way principle. Look at who actually bends. Putting MAGA above the Constitution means cheering its limits when they restrain the other side, then calling those same limits a betrayal the moment they bind ours. That works one way. Mine binds whoever holds power. That is the whole point of having a Constitution.
Never said he was perfect, but compared to the vast majority in office, he was one of the good ones.
I want reparations for all taxes taken from me that went to unconstitutional government programs, departments, wars, etc. Welfare, foreign aid, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.
Trump has not given them any reason to trust him. They have experienced genocide by betrayal, rendering Trumps words as meaningless to Kurdish ears.