January, 2010
                              
Dear friends of liberty,

Reflecting upon the past year in American politics I am weary of the “talking points” that are being provided to us out of Washington, DC and recounted by “the auxiliary press of the left,” as Pat Buchanan describes our Fourth Estate (the liberal media).  Why are we discussing universal health care, saving the environment based on pseudo-science, bailing out GSEs, the private sector (Wall Street), and proposing endless programs and entitlements (www.whitehouse.gov) when we are broke and facing national bankruptcy?  Even more importantly, why do we engage in these national debates at all since a gargantuan Welfare State and an all-powerful central government in Washington with the largest military in the world cannot be squared with the ideals of “limited government” enshrined in our US Constitution?  Exactly how has all of this come to pass?  The answer can be found in the enumerated powers of the Constitution and how a new and expanded version of the “general welfare clause” became law in the US.  In Article I, Section 8.1 of the US Constitution we read the following:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

This term “general welfare” found here, and in the Preamble of the Constitution, was seized upon by social engineers in the FDR administration to help expand the role of government (1933-1945).  The term “general welfare” was redefined to mean that the government should use taxes to fund social welfare programs in the US, including passage of the Social Security Act in 1935.  The original meaning of this clause was intended to state that the seventeen enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 should be used for the “general welfare” of America as opposed to any “particular welfare.”  In Federalist Paper #41, James Madison made it very clear that this term "general welfare" was restricted to the limitations of the federal government in Article I, Section 8.1-18.  If this clause was meant to mean that the federal government could tax and spend for virtually any cause whatsoever then the following seventeen enumerated powers would have been included for no specific purpose at all.  This is the only logical conclusion.

Despite legal challenges levied against FDR’s New Deal legislation historians note that FDR packed the Supreme Court and the 73rd Congress was docile and sympathetic to pass almost anything during the Great Depression (sound familiar?).  In 1936, the Supreme Court upheld the notion that providing for the “general welfare” of the US was in itself an “enumerated power” in the US Constitution (United States v. Butler).  Furthermore, in 1937 the high court went even further and stated that the distinction between general and particular welfare should be maintained, but the Supreme Court would not police that distinction (Helvering v. Davis, 301 USC 619).  This is the same court case that has been used to collect Social Security taxes (FICA) and then use these funds for the general revenue of the Treasury.  Instead of using FICA taxes to fund the Social Security Trust Fund, the Medicare Trust Fund and Civil Service Trust Fund the federal government has spent this revenue and issued non-negotiable Special Obligation Bonds (IOUs) into these Trust Funds (our intra-government debt).  This means that these Trust Funds consist of nothing but government promises to pay, or unfunded liabilities in the trillions!  This is how America has now become the largest indebted nation in the world.         

This perversion of the “general welfare clause” by collectivist politicians and activist judges has eviscerated the doctrine of enumerated powers and has allowed for the steady growth of our modern welfare/warfare state.  Our Founding Fathers were extremely careful to limit the federal government as an “agent” of the states in 1787.  On June 21, 1788, the US Constitution was ratified, and for clarity our Founding Fathers drafted the first Ten Amendments in 1789 that were unanimously ratified in 1791.  These Ten Amendments have become known as “the Bill of Rights,” and the 10th Amendment makes it crystal clear that the federal government had limited powers, but the states were sovereign to make their own laws as follows:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Supreme Court has upheld that the Bill of Rights were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people in the several states and to prevent the invasion of these rights by the chartered federal government (Bell v. Hood, 1947).  However, since the court rulings that were adopted during the New Deal era, federal power has been expanded and this has led to a steady contraction of state powers and a growing hostility between the states that are now treated as mere “agents” of the federal government.  This, of course, is a complete perversion of the US Constitution and has resulted in a very dangerous concentration of power in Washington with virtually no checks and balances.  In other words, instead of the US Constitution serving as “the supreme law of the land” (Art. VI, Sec. 2), and protecting state’s rights and individual rights, we have now become subject to the arbitrary rule of men.  In a letter to Charles Hammond in 1821, former President Thomas Jefferson wrote about these dangers:   

When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated [under King George III in 1776].

Can we doubt for a single minute that this is precisely where we are as a nation today – a “venal and oppressive” government passing pork-barrel legislation, executive orders, presidential directives, signing statements and so on ad nauseam?  As James Madison warned, “there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”  What has happened to America has been done gradually and deliberately over time.  As one writer put it, America is caught in a literal Catch-22 scenario.  Our elected officials are put into office and swear an oath to uphold the US Constitution, but in order to win their elections they must promise to “out spend” and deliver benefits and entitlements to provide for the “general welfare” of the electorate.  Social critic H. L. Mencken was right when he said, “government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of an advance auction on the sale of stolen goods.”  Voltaire also observed that “the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”  This kind of political demagoguery consists of nothing more than inciting class warfare or the progressive ideas of Karl Marx and the redistribution of wealth. 

And this brings me back to my original question above.  The reason we are drawn to Washington as the center of all power and to deliberate on every trivial subject under the sun is because the “general welfare” clause of the US Constitution has been redefined, perverted and exploited by those in power, or those who would love to be in power.  And who is really to blame for this sorry state of affairs?  It is “we the people” and no one else.  We read in The Declaration of Independence (1776) that all people are born “with certain unalienable rights” from their Creator and to “secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”  Our Founding Fathers rejected the “divine right” of kings, so common in the Old World, and asserted that political power comes from the consent of the people (9th Amendment). This revolutionary idea was linked to the fact that all human beings are born with inalienable rights from their Creator (Gen. 1:1).  According to Webster’s Dictionary the term “inalienable” means to be “incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred.”  It is we the people, the electorate, who have been bribed by our own politicians and consented to give them power for something in return.  In doing this we have rejected “a republican form of government” (Art. IV, Sec. 4), or the rule of law, and we have voluntarily surrendered our “divine rights” and embraced a pure democracy, or the “rule of the majority” (Webster’s).  The word “democracy” is never found in the US Constitution.  Our Founding Father’s hated the idea of a democracy and often referred to it as nothing more than “mob rule.”  It was the learned historian Alexander F. Tytler, Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh (1743-1813), who made the famous statement:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship.

And this, of course, brings us to our present distress in America.  Constitutional scholars and historians are quick to point out the fact that the US Constitution cannot enforce itself – it must be enforced by the people themselves. Let this essential fact sink into your brain for a minute.  The US Constitution is a timeless document because it deals with man’s (fallen) human nature and the propensity for men to rule over other men (Mt. 20:25).  This empirical fact is as old as recorded history.   This extraordinary idea that men ought to be free because their rights come from God is unique in all of history!  It is this idea and the principles of limited government that has always distinguished America from all the nations of the world.  But these principles and ideas must be enforced by an informed electorate, or to be more exact, a people that believe in the God of the Bible.  “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” said John Adams in 1798.  “It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”  William Pitt declared, “If men will not be ruled by God, then they will be ruled by tyrants.”  And doesn’t this ring true?  To the extent that we have become a godless secular nation and ignorant of our basic rights and responsibilities outlined in the US Constitution we are being enslaved by a tyrannical federal government in Washington, DC.  Benjamin Franklin summed it up well when he said, “It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” 

On a recent show on FOX TV with Glenn Beck he demonstrated how ignorant the American people are according to national surveys. More than 80% of those polled believed that the phrase “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” was found in the US Constitution. This, of course, is a quote from Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto.  This and many more heresies, misquotes and outright lies were aired on the program.  Although some people may find this as entertaining as Jay Leno and his “Jay Walking” interviews with ignorant people on the street, it is a deadly serious matter.  “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”  It is in this general environment that we have allowed the gradual abridgement of our liberty and freedoms and followed a loose fiscal policy that is setting us up for a dictatorship. America is no longer a limited Constitutional Republic.  We are a liberal Fascist Democracy.  The average American cannot recite the Ten Commandments or the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution.  Because of this wholesale ignorance on the part of the electorate, the majority is always voting for the candidate who promises the most benefits from the US Treasury, even if it means the destruction of their own nation, their personal freedoms and their children’s future. 

And this brings me to my final observations that perfectly illustrate what I have just written.   On November 4, 2008 the American people elected Barack Hussein Obama II to be the President of the United States of America after serving a mere 143 days in the U.S. Senate.  As senator he was rated “the most liberal senator in 2007” by the National Journal and also received a 90% rating by the ADA for his progressive politics.  Despite his radical affiliations, Marxist leanings and hatred for America (“my wife and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies” – Meet the Press, 10/26/08 – stated two weeks before he was elected!), 69 million delirious and dumbed-down Americans voted for a candidate who is not even a “natural born citizen” as the US Constitution requires (Art. II, Sec. 5).  Barack Obama’s father was a British citizen of Zanzibar thus making Barack  (aka, Barry Soetoro) a dual citizen.  Further, young Barry was registered as a “citizen” of Indonesia when he entered pre-school in Jakarta.  This same citizenship was used to get a Barry a college grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to attend Occidental College in 1979 enrolled as a foreign student.  I mean seriously, is it this difficult to connect the dots and see that we are no longer a Constitutional Republic and adhere to the rule of law?  Every US President is required to take an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the US” (Art. II, Sec. 7).  In a radio interview in 2001, Mr. Obama noted many “flaws” in the Constitution and said “that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, it says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you; but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf…to bring about redistributive change.”  Mr. Obama might as well have been sworn in with his hand on The Communist Manifesto instead of the Holy Bible! 

To further illustrate that we have become a liberal Fascist Democracy this usurper in the White House has appointed an odd assortment of leftist college professors, progressives, anarchists, Marxist demagogues, agitators, activists, lesbians, feminists, homosexuals, transsexuals, village idiots and a truckload of fellow travelers on the radical Left to be so-called “Czars” in these United States.  How appropriate that this is a Russian term for “Caesar” meaning king, emperor or despot.  And all such “titles of nobility [are] prohibited” in the US Constitution for any person holding “any office” (Art. I, Sec. 9.8).  So far there are more than 40 of these noble individuals, but one in particular really stands out. Cass R. Sunstein is a Harvard buddy of Mr. Obama’s who has been trained in the eclectic discipline of environmental law, behavioral economics and the US Constitution.  Mr. Sunstein has been appointed to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as our new Information Czar.  He has written several interesting tomes like Feminism and Political Theory (1990), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (1998), Free Markets and Social Justice (2002), Animal Rights (2004), The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever (2006), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008) and his latest On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done (2009). Sunstein believes that animals have “rights” in US courts against their owners, conspiracy theories like “the Trilateral Commission is responsible for important movements of the international economy” should be banned (and conspiracy theories against global warming), and that we need to perpetuate FDR’s socialist revolution by adopting all his Second Bill of Rights (1944) that includes the government’s responsibility to provide for full employment, your own home, universal health care/retirement benefits, education, happiness and so on.  This specious idea that government can guarantee anything except death and taxes is laughable!  And all of this flies in the face of the 1st Amendment that protects our freedom of speech and the free market of ideas.  I think our new “Information Czar” needs to convert to Islam and move to Iran. 

Before I move on I want you to view a video clip from Mr. Obama’s latest choice to be the new administrator for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).  Errol Southers looks and sounds like an Obama clone and he wants all of America to know that the gravest threat to our national security is white Christians who are “anti-government” and “survivalist types.” 

Click here: Obama’s TSA Nominee Targets Anti-Government Christians

 
That’s right.  If you are a white Christian that is suspicious that we are drifting into a totalitarian state and feel the need contribute to record sales in gold, silver, ammo, food storage and basic survival needs…then you are a dangerous threat to the new liberal Fascist Democracy!  This kind of “profiling” by our federal government has been exposed in the past year and is a clear violation of our US Constitution that prohibits the federal government from engaging in smear campaigns against citizens known as a “bill of attainder” (Art. I, Sec. 9.3 and 10.1).  This is an old English common law term meaning “taintedness” or declaring people to be “guilty” of some crime without actual evidence or benefit of trial by a jury of their peers. 

Our Founding Fathers were very much concerned about this kind of perfidy being launched against them by the British Crown in the period leading up to 1776.  I guess you could say that our Founding Fathers were a bit “anti-government” and even of the survivalist persuasion.  And history will record that all of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were white Christians.  In particular our Founding Fathers hated the idea of private bankers controlling the issuance of a nation’s currency (like the Bank of England founded in 1694).  Jefferson wrote: 
 
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered….I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.

Our Founding Fathers were well acquainted with the money powers of Europe and how they sought to control kings and nations.  This historical narrative and insight into how these same money powers plotted to create a central bank in America is available in a three-hour documentary at www.themoneymasters.com.  From 1908 to 1913, the Wall Street bankers controlled by J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller interests (the money trust) successfully conspired to create the Federal Reserve System (which is neither federal nor has any reserves).  With the cooperation of corrupt politicians bribed by the money trust the Fed was created in 1913 by using the enumerated powers provisions of the US Constitution to “borrow money on the credit of the US” (Art. I, Sec. 8.2).  This scheme involved emitting federal “bills of credit” (federal reserve notes) against US “securities” (Art. I, Sec. 8.6).  This was made possible by exploiting the provisions in Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution that outlined “absolute prohibitions on the states” – in particular the prohibition for states to “emit bills of credit” (Art. I, Sec. 10.1).  It was this loophole (preventing states not the federal government from emitting bills of credit) that allowed the money trust to create the Federal Reserve System in 1913.  And it is this privately controlled banking cartel that issues our currency today, thus fulfilling Thomas Jefferson’s words and worst nightmare (see p.16 in my book, America’s Financial Reckoning Day). 

As if this breach of our Constitutional law, and warnings from our Founding Fathers, was not enough the US Congress passed the 16th Amendment in the same year of 1913.  This, of course, is the amendment that gave Congress the “power to lay and collect taxes on [personal] incomes, from whatsoever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”  Why all of this precise wording you ask?  As you might have guessed by now, it was yet another deliberate attempt to circumvent the US Constitution to better serve the politicians and the money powers. Our Founding Fathers, after just fighting the British over the Stamp Act of 1765 and direct taxes on the colonies, were careful to enumerate the taxing power of the federal government.  At the Constitutional Convention of 1787 it was decided that the federal government should be financed through “indirect” and uniform taxation among the several states (i.e., duties, imposts and excises – Art. I, Sec. 8.1).   The only provision for uniform and “direct taxes” was reserved for special needs of the federal government.  In this case direct taxes would be “apportioned among the several states” (Art. I, Sec. 2.3) and be based on the “census” or “enumeration” of each state (Art. I, Sec. 9.4).  As James Madison stated, “direct taxes will only be recurred to for great purpose….[or] for extraordinary exigencies.”  This temporary power was only used on four occasions prior to 1913 in order to pay off war debts in 1798, 1813, 1815 and the Civil War from 1861 to 1872. 

It is historically and morally inconceivable that our Founding Fathers would have ever allowed for any provision in the US Constitution to place a punitive and heavy progressive tax upon the direct income of the colonist in America.  So how did we adopt the 16th Amendment?  As noted above this amendment was ratified in the same year as the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.  Was this a coincidence?   Hardly.  The money trust on Wall Street knew that once the new central bank was in place they would be able to expand the money supply like magic and they needed a means to contract the money supply.  The means to do this was through a direct federal tax on personal income and this new taxing authority would not be based on any apportionment, census or enumeration.  Now do you see the connection and why this amendment contained such careful wording?  The 16th Amendment was allegedly ratified on February 3, 1913.  There is ample evidence that this amendment did not meet the Constitutional requirement of ¾ of the states needed to ratify an amendment (Art. V, Sec. 1).  Researchers have determined that only 27 states actually ratified this amendment out of the required 36 in 1913 (www.thelawthatneverwas.com).  I write more about this in my book (pp. 67-75), but regardless of this amendment’s legality the violence it does to the US Constitution and personal liberties is irreconcilable with the letter and spirit of our written Constitution.  The IRS today violates our fundamental right to privacy and “unreasonable searches and seizures” (4th Amendment).  Additionally, taxpayers are required to sign their tax returns “under penalty of perjury” which counters the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination.  The 5th Amendment is also violated when the IRS issues summary judgments prior to judicial review, which is a denial of due process of law.  Also, because the US Tax Court is an administrative court a jury is not required, and this sidesteps the 6th and 7th Amendments.  And finally, as Constitutional scholars are quick to point out, a direct tax upon personal income is a form of bondage and a direct violation of the 13th Amendment which states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States.” 

Both the Federal Reserve and the dubious authority to tax the American people on their hard-earned income should be enough to convince anyone that we have veered completely off course from our Founding Fathers original vision for a Constitutional Republic.  And it’s not surprising that the 17th Amendment was also passed in April of 1913.  What did this amendment do?  This amendment overturned the requirement for senators to be “chosen by the [state] legislature” (in order to represent and protect state’s rights) and was turned over to a popular election (Art. I, Sec. 3.1).  Historical accounts tell us that state legislatures were being corrupted by Rockefeller and Morgan agents (particularly New York and Ohio) and this was thought to eliminate the problem, but now senators can be directly bribed and corrupted by lobbyist and special interests.  Even worse, US senators are elected by popular vote and this violates the purpose for having a bi-cameral body of senators in the first place!  With the Fed in place and a new source for tax revenue our redistributive Welfare State was free to start growing as states looked increasingly to Washington for aid, with senators simply being elected as “glorified” representatives.  Every elected official in the US (state and national) are required to take an oath “to support the Constitution” (Art. VI, Sec.3).  It should be clear to every concerned citizen that our Congress acts indifferently towards the supreme law, or their oath that they took to uphold the same.  There are notable exceptions like Dr. Ron Paul, Senator James DeMint and others, but basically we are being subjected to the autocratic rule of men who are spending us into bankruptcy.

So where do we go from here?  Unfortunately, we are merely postponing a financial reckoning day at the hands of our elected social engineers in Washington.  According to a new report by Rudolph Penner, former head of the Congressional Budget Office and now current chairman of the Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States, the US is risking a complete and catastrophic default on our sovereign debt.  In other words, as I said at the outset, our nation is broke and the US Treasury bond complex is courting an institutional downgrade as pressure is being brought to bear on our loose fiscal policies and foreign creditors (like China) are forced to dump US assets.  As Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) has been warning for years, the US is heading for a collapse of the US dollar and plunging our nation into a hyperinflationary depression.  All of this calamity can be traced back to the creation of the Federal Reserve System (our New York central bank) and the Supreme Court rulings during the FDR administration that has allowed for the persistent and intentional concentration of power in our nation’s capitol.  It is this collusion between the corrupt money powers and politicians that caused Thomas Jefferson to say that he feared a private banking cartel involved in mischief more than standing armies.  This is also why our US Constitution authorized Congress to “coin money” (Art. I, Sec. 8.5) and that the former colonies, and now states, should not “make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts” (Art. I, Sec. 10.1).  To the extent that we have departed from these sound money policies laid down by the wisdom of our Founding Fathers we are facing a very severe and menacing monetary crisis that will affect each and every one of us.

Sensing this imminent danger in late 2008, the US War College’s Strategic Studies Institute ran an article in Parameters magazine by Professor Nathan Freier in which he stated that the US military must make preparations for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the US” which could be provoked by an “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”   This report goes on to say that “the Department of Defense would be an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority” to control “widespread civil violence inside the US.”  What does this mean?  This means that our federal government, the former “agent” of the united sovereign states of America, is drawing up plans for martial law and the imposition of a police state within the borders of the US.  Shortly after the terrorist events of 9/11/2001, the US government quickly dispatched troops to Afghanistan (why?), and Congress passed the USA Patriot Act with no debate.  This action was followed with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in October, 2002 along with the DoD initiative to convert CONUS (Continental US troops) into a permanent US Northern Military Command (USNORTHCOM).  According to their website at www.northcom.mil this new command structure was specifically established “to coordinate defense support of civil authorities [within the fifty sovereign states]” and to protect “national power” within the continental US, Canada and Mexico. 

This new role for our US military was augmented in October 2006 when the Bush administration signed the National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 109-364) to use military forces as domestic police and federalizing local police (to fight terrorism, of course).  This Act was further expanded by the Bush Administration with passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-181).  On January 11, 2010, as our nation drifts even closer to a so-called “unforeseen economic collapse,” the White House signed Executive Order #13528 based on Section 1822 of the above Act (p. 489) to create a new Council of Governors from ten different states.  What is the purpose of this elite group coordinated with the DHS and USNORTHCOM?  According to this EO (Section 2.d) it is the “synchronization and integration of state and federal military activities in the US” in order “to protect our nation and its people and property.” In other words, our collectivist leaders are anticipating a national emergency and the need to “integrate” the military and National Guard to assist local law enforcement for a violent “dislocation inside the US.”  These onerous public laws and executive orders violate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 that prohibits the US military from being employed for law enforcement purposes.  These actions also raise additional concerns about our federal government’s willingness to restrict our 2nd Amendment right to bear firearms and other basic Constitutional rights.

In a demonstration of how far we have veered from a limited Constitutional Republic, and the rule of law, the “war on terror” has proved to be a “useful abstraction” to frighten the American people and consolidate power using the DoD (USNORTHCOM) “as an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority” within the US.   In 2002, the US Justice Department also employed the “war on terror” to establish the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba on the grounds of the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.  Known as GITMO, this detention center was established outside US legal jurisdiction to detain “enemy combatants,” and this has also included US citizens.  Why does this matter?  It matters because for the first time in US history our rouge government is using police state tactics against US citizens.  In 2006, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act (Public Law 109-366) that allows the government to designate US citizens as “enemy combatants” and to subject them to military commissions (courts) instead of civilian courts.  The term “enemy combatants” is yet another useful abstraction to target people who are “anti-government” and so on. As George Bush said in 2002, “you are either with us or you are with the terrorist.”  All of this violates our 5th and 6th Amendment rights for due process of law in civilian courts and perverts the “writ of habeas corpus” (Art. I, Sec. 9.2), which simply means that individuals cannot be detained for an unreasonable amount of time without trial. And it goes without saying that forms of “cruel and unusual punishments” also transgresses the 8th Amendment and the UN Convention Against Torture and so on.

My friends, our once limited Constitutional Republic is in grave danger. We’re facing a financial storm and our leaders know it.  The threat of terror is a convenient topic to keep us distracted from the greater threat that our own nation poses to individual liberty and freedom. As Rahm Emanuel said over a year ago, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”  Our greatest fear we should have is the willingness of those in power to exploit a crisis to advance a hidden agenda to restructure our beloved nation.  It is hardly a secret (except to Cass Sunstein) that there is plot to create a North American Union that includes the NAFTA and USNORTHCOM defense perimeter of the US, Canada and Mexico.  Senior architects for the NAU include Paul Volker, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezezinski who have stressed the need for “progressive regionalization” to create a New World Order.  In 2002, Dr. Robert Pastor (CFR) wrote a paper for the Trilateral Commission suggesting the need for a crisis to advance the NAU:

What I am saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will be required to create a North American Community…When there’s a crisis, people accept proposals they wouldn’t have otherwise accepted.

The NAU is part of a government-sponsored conspiracy to create a regional trading bloc (to compete with the EU – www.spp.gov) and you can read more in my book (pp. 123-141) or go to www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com.  This Establishment goal also helps explain why the US is not fighting legal or illegal immigration to “protect each [state] from invasion” (Art. IV, Sec. 4).  “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious,” wrote Cicero, “But it cannot survive treason from within.”  And let us be clear – this is nothing less than treason! (Art. III, Sec.3).  All elected traitors, including the president, who have sworn “to support the Constitution of the US [and] have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same” are to be removed from office immediately (14th Amendment, Sec. 3).  Mr. Obama is a foreign interloper who wants to be a fascist dictator, and the US Constitution makes provision for impeachment of the same for “conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” (Art. II, Sec. 4).

The Bible says, “When the righteous triumph there is great glory, but when the wicked rise men hide themselves” (Pro. 28:12).  As we think of our nation’s glorious past and the genius of our God-fearing Founding Fathers, it is truly sad to see what we have become in 232 years.  Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”  As I indicated earlier, the Constitution cannot enforce itself, it must be enforced by the people themselves. And this means you and me and the need to support good men in office!  We are in a battle between the forces of collectivism verses individualism – the rule of law verses the rule of men.  As Jefferson wrote in 1782, “the concentration [of power] in the same hands is precisely the definition of a despotic government.”  What is needed, said Jefferson, is enforcement:

In questions of power, the, let no more be said of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

The classic Webster’s definition of ‘liberalism’ is “...a political philosophy based on the belief in progress [and] the essential goodness of man.”  Our Founding Fathers would hear none of this.  As I said, the US Constitution is a timeless document because it deals with man’s “essential badness” and the propensity for selfishly ambitious men to become despots.  Our national charter embodies the Biblical principle that our basic and fundamental human rights come from God.  As Benjamin Franklin affirmed, “A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved.”  It is our responsibility to be well-informed and know what the US Constitution says.  Free men cannot be enslaved unless they are completely ignorant of their heritage, responsibilities and inherent rights.

In a letter to Wilson Nicholas in 1803, Jefferson said, “Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution.  Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.”  Our Constitution is a blank piece of paper only if we allow it to be through revisionist history, treachery and court-made law.  As a 1905 court case stated,  “The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now” (S. Carolina v. United States).  The courts have further stated, “When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the Constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it” (State v. Sutton).  This court decision is right and many Americans are waking up and joining tea parties to confront our nation’s move towards a liberal Fascist Democracy in the 21st Century.  “When the people fear their government there is tyranny,” said Jefferson, “when the government fears the people there is liberty.” Let us pray that this defiant spirit will send an unambiguous message to those who would rule over us that we will not allow them to reduce us to their absolute despotism!!  Speaking to an oppressed people in 1776, our Declaration of Independence penned these words:

When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

May we have the wisdom, courage and bravery to resist despotism in our own time!  As the late Aaron Russo said, “We need to stop being good Democrats and good Republicans, and start becoming good Americans.”  This is not a partisan issue.  It is a freedom issue – and I hope you have found this essay helpful.  Sometimes I get discouraged about my own earthly citizenship, but let us to be reminded that, “Our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20).  And this is the only despotism that I will submit to!  Amen.