Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

Democrats Have Launched Stage One of Their Massive Insurrection

It’s here.  It’s happening right now.  The highest levels of the Democrat Party have unofficially rolled out the next-level of their “resistance” campaign.  It broke out in Los Angeles over the weekend of June 6^th.  This is their version of the J6 insurrection, except this one is real.  

Unless you just got back from Uranus, you’ve been seeing reports of the massive “mostly peaceful protest” in Los Angeles, California, where thousands of protesters have been blocking roads and freeways, many of them committing increasingly dangerous acts of violence, such as throwing projectiles at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, shattering windows of police vehicles from overpasses, and setting vehicles on fire, all in objection to ICE efforts to remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the streets of Los Angeles and make the communities in which many of these protesters reside safer.  The very notion of enforcing existing immigration laws to make America safe again rubs radical leftist Marxist communists the wrong way.  They don’t want to deport the illegal immigrants they spent four years encouraging to come here illegally.  They need as many Democrat voters as they can import.  It’s common knowledge that if you offer free benefits to third world nationals, and fight for their right to vote, they will support you when they get the chance.  Their immigration policy is no secret.  It’s the best way they know to regain power and retain it permanently.  And permanent power assures the success of Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America into a communist nation.  This little Los Angeles insurrection is just the beginning of a nation-wide campaign to create chaos and anarchy.  It could be a long summer of violence in many major U.S. cities, and perhaps elsewhere.  There are plausible expectations that Saturday the 14^th of June, will be a day of widespread violence, sponsored by funding from  various organizations and perpetrated by paid agitators/insurrectionists. 

Left-wing groups involved in organizing the L.A. riots include; CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights for Los Angeles), the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), and the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), a Marxist organization funded by expat businessman Neville Roy Singham who now lives in Shanghai and has ties to the CCP.

CHIRLA, a 501(c) (3), received nearly $34 million in government grants in fiscal 2023, mainly from California , with several hundred thousand in U.S. taxpayer dollars sprinkled in, and over $500,000 from the Tides Foundation.  The Tides Foundation is a key pass-through organization for the Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded and funded by George Soros.  From 2016 through 2023, OSF awarded the Tides network of organizations more than $72 million. [1]

There may be no direct proof that Soros is funding these “protests”, but It’s not a complicated web.  I found out about the CHIRLA, Tides Foundation, OSF link in about 5 minutes.  CHIRLA also provides legal services to help illegal immigrants, including convicted criminals, avoid deportation, and OSF contributes directly with organizations known as the Immigrant Defense Project and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. [2]  There seems to be a cry for a forensic audit of the Open Society Foundations, and a wiretap on the phone communications of George Soros and his son, Alex, who supposedly has taken over the helm.

SEIU receives most of its revenue from the dues of its 2 million members but they spend a lot of it backing radical causes.  Their California President, David Huerta, was arrested “for obstructing ICE agents in a brazen act of deviance that fueled the chaos”, according to CBS News. [3]

The PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), through Neville Singham, the 71 year old social activist, who promotes pro-Chinese government propaganda [4], and apparently injects an element of potential foreign influence into the destabilization of the United States government.

At this point, the Los Angeles Police Commissioner has publicly stated his department was overwhelmed by the crowds but they were not going to assist ICE in their deportation operations.  Trump has deployed 2,000 California National Guard to help and there are 700 urban-warfare trained Marines from Camp Pendleton on ready alert.  Trump has not officially invoked the Insurrection Act, but he is on record as saying it is possible.  California Governor, Gavin Newsome, has publicly stated that these riots are Trump’s fault because he “commandeered our National Guard illegally and for no reason”, and has dared Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations ICE, Tom Homan, to arrest him.

News Flash: The President of the United States has every right to call up the National Guard under the Insurrection Act, and he has a constitutional duty under Article II, to “see that the laws are faithfully executed”.  Newsome is either a total idiot, or he is grandstanding on thin ice to curry political favor.  All the prominent Democrat politicians are supporting the violent criminal illegal aliens that ICE is attempting to deport.  For some reason, these morons think they can provide safe haven for their beloved illegal aliens by declaring their cities as sanctuaries.  The truth is, there is no such thing as safety zones for criminals.  Not only are they delusional, but they expect their useful idiot voters to believe them and their Propaganda Media Complex. 

I’ll remind Newsome and CHIRLA, that it is a federal felony, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, per 8 U.S. Code § 1324 for,

• Any person who –

(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

Shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

• A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs –

(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A) (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

That’s a 5 year prison term for EACH alien concealed, harbored, or shielded from detection.  Wouldn’t it be nice if the DOJ actually indicted some of these Democrats?  I’m under the assumption that We the People demand justice !

An image of the “mostly peaceful protest” in Los Angeles

The Blueprint

On 28 October 2024, Lee Smith published an essay titled, Is the Left Preparing  for War if Trump Wins?.  It can be read in its entirety HERE and I would strongly suggest everyone do so, then return to finish this article.

Essentially, Smith dug into the game plan that was formulated by the Democrat Party that actually appeared in four separate publications.  His exposė revealed that a woman named Rosa Brooks, an Obama high level appointee (keep that in mind ) to the Pentagon, drafted various scenarios in 2020 that were war-gamed in cooperation with the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), anticipating a potential  Trump victory in the 2020 election.  The probability of a Trump victory at that time, was considered remote, but they weren’t concerned about wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars any more then, than they are now, so according to The Guardian, they played out a scenario whereby Trump would refuse to concede defeat to Joe Biden, claim widespread election fraud, and unleash his “army” of supporters.  Coincidently, some of that happened and enabled the Democrats to portray the J6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as an insurrection, whether staged by Democrat operatives, or not.  How convenient.  The viable suspicion is that the instigated “insurrection” could be utilized as a counteroffensive to ward off accusations of mail-in vote fraud, which was summarily dismissed by courts across the land, as if they colluded to do so, all while being derided and protected by the Propaganda Media Complex.  No one has ever proven that massive ballot fraud did not generate 81 million votes for Biden.  It seems virtually impossible for a candidate who hunkered down in his basement during the entire campaign season.

Brooks had established her credentials with the highest-level Democrats and they sought her insight for the 2024 election cycle, so she teamed up with “journalist” (I use the term lightly) Barton Gellman “to run a series of wargames under the auspices of the Democracy Futures Project (DFP)”.  They released a media presentation of their results and published four articles that same day, 30 July 2024 [5], in which all of the scenarios assumed a Trump victory.  That’s when the “blueprint” was formulated.

More than three months before the election, the Democrat Party had developed their plan to “resist” Trump in every conceivable way.  They would disrupt his  agenda by any means necessary, including blocking all legislation, violent “protests”, refusal to comply with federal laws by state and local officials, and narratives that counter everything Trump says or attempts to do.  They all got the memo to stand in solidarity against the evil, authoritarian as self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy”.  Right on queue, many of the top Democrats labeled Trump as Hitler.  The campaign to frame Trump was well under way.  The New York Times published an interview that declared Trump is a fascist.  Democratic Presidential substitute candidate, Kamala Harris, called him a fascist.  Legacy media outlets echoed the warnings of impending dictatorship under Trump.  They even went so far as to claim Trump would use the military to assassinate his political rivals, an allegation that Democrat operatives may have employed themselves at Butler.  The key takeaway from all these political schemes is that there is absolutely nothing Democrats wouldn’t do, to gain and retain power.  I’m almost shocked they didn’t recruit some useful idiot to bomb the Republican National Convention.

Many top Democrats continued to encourage mass protest, ramping up the rhetoric with violent innuendo, as if they were well coached into eliciting the wargame scenario outlined by Brooks and Gellman.  Somebody in a high-level leadership position within the Democrat Party has to be calling the shots.  Somebody with direct knowledge of the wargame findings, a lot of experience in community organizing and the sources necessary to fund multiple operations that would follow the “blueprint”.  All these co-conspirators were anticipating that Trump would likely react to massive violence by deploying the military to quell any social unrest and invoke the Insurrection Act, whereby some top military officers would be faced with a dilemma; obey the Commander-in-Chief, or stick to their oath of defending the Constitution in order to fight “Hitler’s” dictatorship.  The entire purpose of the incessant Hitler references all along, was to split the military and cause internal strife.  That reeks of the old “divide and conquer” strategy Obama employed in his race war and class warfare campaigns.  Coincidently, it was Obama who appointed Brooks in the first place. 

UPDATE: 12 Jun 2025, 2:20 PM

Things are moving quickly.  I started drafting this essay on Tuesday the 10^th of June.  By Wednesday morning riots had erupted in Chicago and New York City.  Reportedly, New York Mayor Eric Adams is supporting ICE efforts and dealing with all violence immediately.

Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating any, and all, financial transactions among the several activist groups mentioned above.  Having discovered the funding link between Soros’ OSF and CHIRLA, through the Tides Foundation, there seems to be concrete evidence that George and Alex Soros are directly involved in a highly organized, well-funded insurrection, and should be indicted for violating,

18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or Insurrection, to wit:

   Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

I’ll be damned.  That looks exactly like what the professional agitators/anarchists are doing, re, rebelling against the authority of the United States.  And if they are being paid by George and Alex Soros, they are assisting  and planning the Los Angeles insurrection, which is a rebellion against the authority of federal officials attempting to carry out their duty to uphold the laws of the United States.  To quell the insurrection is not enough.  There must be consequences for those who have planned it and funded it. 

I might suggest a raid on Alex Soros’ wedding this Saturday.

Pro Tip: wait until after the nuptials are exchanged before raiding the wedding.  That way Huma can wait ten years for Alex to take her on the honeymoon.

By Wednesday afternoon, it had been reported that demonstrations had popped up in 15 major U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Seatttle, Dallas, Austin, and others.  It didn’t take long for the operation to spread and is obviously highly organized.  These coordinated rebellions/insurrections cannot be tolerated. 

Fast forward to Thursday morning, and I see this feed in my Instagram account that follows the war-gamed scenario right on queue.

Less than a week after the first protesters hit the streets of L.A., the planners release an old video of a U.S. Army soldier who was interviewed complaining about Trump’s agenda.  They want you to believe this was recorded earlier this week and she is speaking out against Trump deploying Marines to L.A.  Problem is, she was discharged from the Army in 2020 but never let the truth get in the way of a good narrative.  It’s almost like Obama wants to legitimize the whole Rosa Brooks war-gamed scenario, right down to the last detail.  A truly pathetic, orchestrated self-fulfilling prophecy. Remember that time Lee Smith warned us that she predicted they could split the loyalties of the military? 

I originally warned against Trump invoking the Insurrection Act due to the Smith essay , figuring that was what the war-gamers were baiting him into for future political “ammunition”, but now I’m advocating for him to deal with these insurrectionists in the harshest manner necessary, prosecute every violent agitator, and indict/prosecute the planners and funders to the fullest extent of the law.  They’ll label him a dictator, but who cares?  There is nothing they say that deserves any respect whatsoever and they certainly can’t hate him any more than they already do.  If they have chosen this hill to die on, We the People will be more than happy to oblige.

Comments welcomed.

FOOTNOTES

[1]  LifeZette News Staff ; ‘Organized. Funded. Coordinated’: Soros Network, Others Behind LA Riots ; June 12, 2025

‘Organized. Funded. Coordinated’: Soros Network, Others Behind LA Riots [WATCH]

[2]  KeyWiki ; Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and His Open Society Institute ; Last Updated March 25, 2023

Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute – KeyWiki

[3]  Dr. Sean ; Jester Politics ; Private Funding Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles

Private Funding Behind the Anti-ICE Riots in Los Angeles – Jester Politics

[4]  Wikipedia ; Neville Roy Singham

Neville Roy Singham – Wikipedia

[5]  Rosa Brooks, a former Obama Pentagon appointee, teamed up with journalist Barton Gellman to run a series of wargames in May and June of 2024.  At the end of July 2024, they released their results and published them in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The Bullwark in an effort to “ready” officials and operatives for likely post-election operations.  That is exactly what we are witnessing in Los Angeles and other major cities right now.

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

Supreme Court Rules Against the Alien Enemies Act of 1798

On Friday, 16 May 2025, the Supreme Court issued a ruling by 7-2 majority (Justices Thomas and Alito dissented) that has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan illegal immigrants, most of whom have been identified as violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members, being held at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, a small town about 3 hours west of Fort Worth.  The court had previously ordered a stop to the deportations back in April, “until further order of this court” in response to an ACLU lawsuit that challenged Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

The ACLU lawsuit is based on the argument that the first deportees sent to El Salvador were denied “due process” and not given sufficient time to challenge their cases.  SCOTUS, essentially in agreement, expressed their concerns for the right to “due process” and “only 24-hour notice”.

I wrote about the justifications the administration had for invoking the Act back in March.  You can read about it HERE.  The language in the Act clearly does not require any rights to “due process” for “alien enemies”, stating only that they “shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”  I’m not a Lawyer, but I stayed up all night watching Pery Mason reruns.  Typically, legal statutes list every conceivable situation to which the subject law may be applied.  If the intent was to grant court hearings, or some other form of legal proceeding, the law would have included language to state such.  Apparently SCOTUS is suddenly of the mindset that violent criminal illegal aliens who have entered the country with ties to a foreign regime that openly despises the United States, have the same legal protections as the American citizens they have ruthlessly been victimizing.  To me, it sure looks like the Supreme Court is completely rejecting the validity of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a duly enacted law passed by Congress and signed by President John Adams, a founding father of this nation, based on a misinterpretation.

This case is not over, however.  The Supreme Court has returned it to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, for further proceedings.  The Fifth Circuit had previously ruled that the detainees lacked jurisdiction for their appeals, and this SCOTUS ruling vacates that judgment. 

It is important to distinguish the difference between legal jurisdiction and complete jurisdiction.  Jurisdiction is the term usually associated with legal jurisdiction, in that persons are expected to follow all federal, state, and local laws and regulations, whether they are citizens, or not.  That’s the common perception, but it’s not the whole truth.  Complete jurisdiction infers that a subject individual owes his allegiance to his/her sovereignty, wherever he/she may be physically located.  In other words, a foreign national, present within the United States, legally or illegally, is not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, as written in the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution.  That language refers to complete jurisdiction.  Some sources have “muddied the waters”, claiming only three groups of people are exceptions to automatic citizenship by birthright; children of diplomats here on diplomatic business and have diplomatic immunity to U.S. law; children of an invading army occupying U.S. territory, who obviously are not subject to U.S. law; and members of Native American tribes, subject to their own jurisdiction who do not pay U.S. taxes (since eliminated),  However, the intent of the 14^th Amendment was to exclude those children born of foreign nationals who have never been naturalized and remain citizen subjects of their home countries, owing their allegiance to their home sovereignty.  The argument that two parents from Ireland, or Germany, or Venezuela, or China, or any other country to which they owe their allegiance, happened to give birth to a child while within the territory of the United States, automatically confers citizenship upon that child, is ludicrous.  At some point between 1868 and 2025, that distinction has been ignored.     

The Fifth Circuit ruling that determined those illegal immigrant Venezuelans did not have jurisdiction clearly references complete jurisdiction, not legal jurisdiction.  They are obviously subject to legal jurisdiction while present within U.S. territory. 

In a seemingly contradictory ruling, issued Monday, 19 May 2025, the Supreme Court by an 8-1 majority (Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, was the only voice of dissent), revoked the “protected status” on nearly 350,000 Venezuelans granted in the first weeks of the Biden administration.  The media spins it as paving the way for Trump to process deportations, phony appeasement.  However, they have other ways to fight the ruling, such as claiming asylum and filing appeals.    This just looks like SCOTUS threw a bone to Trump, as some type of “damage control”, but the reality is that before ANY of them actually get deported, more litigation is to come.  That horde is getting plenty “due process”.

One thing is clear as a bell.  Not a single Democrat, their Propaganda Media Complex, or any activist federal judges, who are fighting for the rights of violent criminal illegal aliens, give a damn about the safety and security of actual American citizens.

“The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

  ­­­ James Madison

SCOTUS is Inconsistent on Immigration

Without diving into every Supreme Court decision regarding immigration laws, which would take an entire semester, I’ll just highlight a few pertinent facts about existing law.

In 1996, as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA), Congress established streamlined deportation procedures that allow the government to deport (or “remove”) certain non-citizens from the United States without a hearing before an immigration judge.

Despite the government’s broad power over immigration, the Supreme Court has recognized that aliens who have physically entered the United States generally come under the protective scope of the Due Process clause, which applies “to all ‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.”

HOWEVER, in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, the Supreme Court in 2020 held that an alien detained shortly after entering the United States could not constitutionally challenge a federal statute limiting judicial review of his “expedited removal” proceedings (a streamlined removal process applicable to aliens apprehended at or near the border).  Although the alien had physically entered the United States, the Court determined that he could be “treated for due process purposes as if stopped at the border” because he was encountered only twenty-five yards inside the United States and essentially remained “on the threshold” of entry.  According to the Court, the “century-old” rule that aliens seeking entry into the United States lack due process rights “would be meaningless if it became inoperative as soon as an arriving alien set foot on U.S. soil.”  The Court observed, moreover, that only aliens “who have established connections in this country” have due process protections in their removal proceedings.

The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence indicates that, although aliens present within the United States generally have due process protections, the extent of those constitutional protections may depend on certain factors, including whether the alien has been lawfully admitted or developed ties to the United States, and whether the alien has engaged in specified criminal activity.  Therefore, even with regard to aliens present within the United States, the Court has sometimes deferred to Congress’s policy judgments that limit the ability of some classes of aliens to contest their detention or removal.

Expedited Removal

IIRAIRA established “expedited removal”, in which immigration officials gained the authority to summarily remove certain aliens.  This is different from the expedited removal proceedings for aliens convicted of aggravated felonies.  Aliens subject to expedited removal include aliens “who are inadmissible because they lack valid entry documents or have sought admission through fraud (may also include aliens inadmissible on same grounds if they are present in the United States without being admitted or paroled and have been in the country less than two years)”.

Expedited removals can be considered removals without hearings: these removals do not require judicial review by immigration judges within the Executive Office of Immigration Review unless the individual plans to apply for asylum or indicates fear of persecution.  Therefore, aliens subject to expedited removal do not have the right to administrative review or the right to administrative appeal and judicial review.  Because expedited removals do not require judicial or administrative review, aliens who are subject to expedited removals are not afforded the right to an attorney during their interviews with immigration officials.

Although the Supreme Court has weighed in with differing opinions on the issue of immigration, it seems as though the Trump administration has more than one way to “skin the cat”, by invoking the “Expedited Removal” status to millions of illegal immigrants who could be classified as those engaged in “specified criminal activities”.  For those so classified, deportations could resume without hearings or judicial review.  Let the games begin.

Comments welcomed.

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

Liberalism Could be Tolerated, Marxist Leftism Cannot

The arena of political “debate” in the country these days, most of it rather nasty, has drawn clear lines in the sand, as heated rhetoric is thrown about like virtual ammunition between well-entrenched keyboards across the battlefield of social media.  As opposing viewpoints, it is widely accepted that one side is commonly referred to as “liberals” and the other side as “conservatives’.  I submit there are distinctions among the liberals relative to different eras of the Democrat Party that I explain below.

If we step back for a moment to look at the big picture, we must recognize that we are in the midst of an ideological war that We the People, as Patriots, must win.  The stakes are extremely high as America itself, a shining example of freedom and individualism, is on the brink of being “fundamentally transformed” into a communist nation by Obama’s army of Marxist activists. 

Dr. Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, says that the definition of totalitarianism is to “seek to fundamentally transform – specifically, to fundamentally transform human nature via some form of political-ideological-cultural upheaval.” [1]

I’ve written about this before in The Socialist Agenda of Alinsky and Obama, published in two parts, December 2021.  You can read about it in detail HERE.

To lose this war is to subject our descendants into a life of misery under the iron fist of tyranny.  The good news is that our enemy is not a superior force in terms of numbers.  In fact, it’s probably much smaller than what the media has been making it out to be.  The reason I say this is because the media, collectively referred to as the Propaganda Media Complex (PMC), otherwise often called the Mainstream Media (MSM), is actively colluding to deceive the American people into thinking the Democrat Party is a formidable foe.  It certainly seems that way because that’s all you hear.  The PMC/MSM is the official mouthpiece of the Democrat Party and they control a huge percentage of all the information that we are being fed.  They thereby control the social consciousness and the populace is blindly influenced by what they are told.

The Democrat Party has been hijacked by Obama and his 30,000+ member activist army, Organizing for Action.  I would argue that they are relatively a minor faction of the Democrat Party but they are in total control of the party, the media, academia, Hollywood, and have infiltrated nearly every major institution in the country.  HOWEVER, this faction of Marxist, communist ideologues does not represent the entire Democrat mindset.  Democrats are marching in lock-step, as they always do, but many of them are what I call “traditional” liberals, whose core values remain as compassionate, caring people who still embrace the plights of the unfortunate, and have been caught up in the hysteria created by the media that they must resist everything Republicans say and do, simply because they are Republicans.  Given the time and opportunity to allow the MAGA movement to show them that their lives will be drastically improved under Trump’s policies, many of them could defect.  And if the Democrats are reduced to a faction of pure communists, it’s quite possible they will disintegrate as a viable political force.  Our focus, as Patriots, should perhaps be to facilitate a fracture among Democrats.  Coerce them to reject their communist leadership and revert to their more traditional sensibilities.  They must be convinced that leftism is not the next progression from liberalism, but a perversion of it.  They must be convinced that the leadership of today’s Democrat Party doesn’t have the slightest concern for underprivileged citizens.  Their only concern is permanent power, achieved by any means necessary, the primary stratagem encouraged by Obama himself.

He has embraced the concept published by Saul Alinsky, in Rules for Radicals, that to achieve any measure of political influence, it is necessary to effect change by dividing the country along socioeconomic lines, pitting the “Have-Nots” against the “Haves”, and playing the core instincts of “traditional” liberals to go along with his “hope and change” campaign slogan.  They fell for it, hook, line  and sinker.  And now, 16 years later, how much better off are they?

The point of all this, is that the Democrat Party has morphed a couple times since its founding in 1828.  The party formed by Martin Van Buren in the leadup to the election of Andrew Jackson, that basically held modern-day Republican values, was what could be called the “modern” Democrats, or what I’ve termed “classical” liberals.  I don’t believe those Democrats had much to do with what I call “traditional” liberalism, which started to appear in the late 19^th century, under Grover Cleveland (POTUS 22, 1885-1889, and POTUS 24, 1893-1897).  Cleveland was a fiscal conservative, committed to the principles of “classical” liberalism, who fought against corruption, patronage, and political “bossism”, in other words, a virtual Republican who would be a pariah in today’s Democrat Party regarding his ideals. [2]  But he also strongly opposed tariffs working to reverse the effects of the McKinley Tariff bill and was able to relieve some tariffs on raw materials but the revenue shortfall had to be countered by passing an income tax of two percent on income above $4,000, equivalent to about $131,281 in 2022 dollars.  We all know how Democrats love taxes, as a means to fund their ever-burgeoning bureaucracy.

During Cleveland’s second term, the Progressive Era arose, often recognized as beginning in 1896 and lasting until 1917.  In that period the Progressives were a collective group of social activists focused on defeating corruption, arguing against government waste and inefficiencies, and fighting monopolies.  That initial Progressive Era is acknowledged as ending when The United States got involved in World War I.  By the time Woodrow Wilson entered the White House (POTUS 28, 1913-1921), the Democrat Party had fully morphed into progressivism and was completely behind his “New Freedom” platform that focused on lower tariffs and breaking up large corporations in favor of the “little man” to create a level playing field. [3]  After teaching at several colleges, Wilson was appointed as President of Princeton University in 1902, “where he emerged as a prominent spokesman for progressivism in higher education,” though, as President, he worked to keep African Americans out of the school [4], a policy that wouldn’t pass as progressive today and would, in fact, be deemed racist.

These so-called “traditional” liberals formed the backbone of support for the Democrat Party for over 100 years, and are to this day, arguably the majority of the party.  And then Obama came along and everything changed.  Traditional liberalism morphed into “radical” liberalism, or extreme leftism, and all those “traditional” liberals were caught up in the media adulation.  He is practiced in the art of deception by his Islamic upbringing and he played the Democrat Party like a fiddle, transforming the party as they went about their lives.  Trump and the MAGA movement is the only thing standing in his way.

With that in mind, I’ll take this opportunity to allow “traditional” liberals the chance to save face and denounce the Democrat Party, for many of them aren’t even aware that their beloved party has been hijacked.  Life can be busy.  There are millions of voters who haven’t been paying attention.  They simply go out every four years and perform their civic duty, feeling good about themselves for having voted, but they’ve been disengaged and manipulated by the PMC/MSM in the final weeks, casting crucial votes in swing states that have serious consequences for all of us.  We the People cannot afford to continue down that path.  We must facilitate a conflict between the “traditional” liberals and those “radical” liberals, also known as the Marxist leftists.  It should not be that difficult because the stance they have chosen on every issue is virtually insane.  As an example of one of the “hills they chose to die on”, they are publicly advocating for the non-existent rights of violent criminal aliens over all concerns for American citizens.  We can split the Democrat Party, effectively driving a wedge that could dissolve the party and force them to rebrand, as the Democrat-Republicans morphed into the “modern” Democrat Party.  They could stick with the name, but in my (almost never) humble opinion, they’d be better off rebranding under a new banner because Obama has put such a stain on them, they’d never recover.

Speak out at every opportunity.  Stay firm in your convictions.  Remind them that this is not their father’s Democrat Party, but a political hijacking.  Stay the course.  Victory is on the horizon.   

Comments welcomed.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Kengor, Dr. Paul ; CNS News, 16 January 2017

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/dr-paul-kengor/how-obama-made-good-his-promise-fundamentally-transform-united-states

[2] Grover Cleveland ; Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland

[3] Woodrow Wilson ; Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

[4] ibed.

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

The Constitution, the Law, and the Case

Article II of the Constitution, Section 1, Clause 8 concerns the oath the President must affirm to before taking office.  It reads, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States , and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 reads in part, “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

One of those laws that the President is faithfully executing is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.  Interestingly, when you Google that term, the entire first page of results is populated with left-wing propaganda.  For example, the Brennan Center is one of the first results, and the very first paragraph claims that, “Although the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, it can be — and has been — wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong, have evinced no signs of disloyalty, and are lawfully present in the United States.” [1]

only “in wartime”?  

done nothing wrong ?

lawfully present in the United States ?

Wow!  Talk about misinformation, disinformation, and deception.  In one sentence, this “journalist” misrepresents the facts three times.

Worse than the outright lies, the useful idiots who consume this type of “journalism” actually believe the crap they are spewing, and are rising up in open rebellion against the best interests of the country.  When you have Democrat politicians standing in front of rolling cameras calling for “resistance”, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Let’s go straight to the actual law itself.

Title 50, U. S. Code, Chapter 3 – Alien Enemies § 21

“Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually nationalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.” [2]

There it is in black and white.  Pay particular attention to the italicized portion that does not require a declared war.  That portion does refer to an incursion perpetrated by a “nation or government” and the ensuing portion requires the President to issue a proclamation, but Trump has covered that base also, to wit:

The President has publicly proclaimed Tren de Aragua as a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization operating in conjunction with and sponsored by the Nicolas Maduro regime.  The Proclamation further provides detailed information on its leaders and its activities.  In other words, TdA is a state-sponsored terrorist organization that has been furthering its “objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States.” [3]

That meets the requirements of a deliberate invasion and predatory incursion into the United States.  The Defense rests!

So what does the destructive left roll out from their never-ending insane resistance arsenal?

Activist District Judges.  Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, an Obama appointee with strong Democrat ties (more on that in a moment), issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to stop the flight containing 261 known terrorists bound for El Salvadore.  But despite a claimed verbal order, the TRO was not issued in writing until after the plane was outside U.S. airspace and it landed safely in El Salvadore, where the terrorists were sent to a secure prison under terms agreed upon by the Trump administration.  I heard that agreement is to cost the U.S. $6 million annually (unconfirmed), however that is a bargain compared to the damage that was being inflicted on our homeland.

The Plaintiff’s argument is that the terrorists were not afforded the right to “due process” under the 5^th Amendment.  I could remind everyone of the Biden administration’s denial of due process for J6 Defendants who languished in prison for 2 or 3 years, but that’s another story that favors conservatives by comparison.  The central question is; do “Alien Enemies” have the constitutional right to due process, i.e., a hearing and/or trial?  The answer has already been given above, in the last segment of the Act herein quoted, as such, “shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”  There is no prerequisite for any hearing or trial.  As the late great Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, once said about the Constitution, “It says what it says, and doesn’t say what it doesn’t say.”  

The case has been tied up ever since its filing and the current status is that the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused to lift Boasberg’s March 15^th order barring Trump’s administration from deporting known terrorist immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. [4] 

The split decision will undoubtedly go to the Supreme Court.

The Judicial Branch and Early Congressional Acts

Article III of the Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the government wherein it is stated in Section 1, “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”

Section 2, Clause 2 states, “In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.  In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”

The Supreme Court is the only court mentioned in the Constitution and all “inferior” courts are subject to congressional approval.  Congress first created the District and Circuit court system by the Judiciary Act of 1789.

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote a defense of the Constitution in The Federalist, wherein “they explained their judgment that a strong national government must have built-in restraints: ‘You must first enable government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.’ The writers of the Constitution had given the executive and legislative branches powers that would limit each other as well as the judiciary branch.”

In Federalist No. 78, published May 28, 1788, under the title, The Judicial Department, Hamilton wrote that  the judiciary branch was the weakest of the three, calling it the “least dangerous” branch, and argued that federal judges should have the power to examine the constitutionality of the actions and laws of the executive and legislative branches.  He sought to bring the judiciary into a more balanced status as an equal branch.

Some would say the judiciary branch is now too powerful.  It was never intended by Hamilton for administrative actions of the President of the United States to be subject to the approval of unelected District Judges, nor do they have the constitutional authority to conduct the affairs of state or foreign policy.  We have elections whereby the government is chosen by consent of the people.  Constitutional Republics are not controlled by individual unelected bureaucrats from any branch.   

The Judiciary Act of 1789, approved September 24, 1789, just two years after the ratification of the Constitution, was enacted to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States. 

It was enacted by the Senate and the Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that:

• The Supreme Court consist of a Chief Justice and five Associate Justices, any four of whom would be a quorum.
• The United States shall be divided into thirteen Districts, defined geographically.
• There shall be a District Court in each of those Districts that consists of one Judge, called a District Judge, who shall be appointed (not elected).
• There shall be three Circuit Courts, dividing the thirteen Districts geographically into the “eastern”, “middle”, and “southern” circuits, and that there shall be held annually, two courts, which shall be called Circuit Courts, and consist of any two justices of the Supreme Court, and the District Judge of such districts, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum, further defining when such courts should meet.
• That the Justices of the Supreme Court and all the District Judges shall take the following oath, to wit: “I, (name), do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution, and the laws of the United States.  So help me God.”

There are many other provisions that define the authority of the courts and how they are mandated to administer justice.  The full transcript of the Act can be reviewed HERE. [5]

I just wanted to cover the bare basics here and highlight the oath that specifically requires all judges to act impartially, because that is precisely the problem we are witnessing today, i.e., the coordinated obstruction of administrative acts designed to undermine the constitutional authority of the President of the United States.

The Judicial Act of 1789 has stood the test of time, as much of it still defines how jurisprudence is administered today, but the Supreme Court justices are no longer required to “sit in” on Circuit Court proceedings, a practice known as “riding circuit”, or “circuit riding.”  It was a concern that they would be inclined to go along with decisions made in the appellate courts.

That concern, and the attempt by lame duck President John Adams, to expand the federal court system favorable to his Federalist Party, led to the Judicial Act of 1801.

The Judiciary Act of 1801

The Judiciary Act of 1801, often referred to as the “Midnight Judges Act”, became law on February 13, 1801, and reduced the number of seats on the Supreme Court from six to five, effective upon the next vacancy, and created 16 new judges that were rapidly appointed by Adams, before he left office.

The bill expanded the circuit courts, creating three additional circuits with three more circuit judges in each circuit, except for the sixth circuit, which received only one.  He passed it under the guise of relieving the Supreme Court justices of the burden of “riding circuit.”

The Act also reduced the number of District Courts from 13 to 10, reorganizing some of the districts, and gave the circuit courts jurisdiction to hear “all cases in law or equity, arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, and treaties made , or which shall be made, under their authority”, a form of jurisdiction not previously granted to federal courts.

Thomas Jefferson was declared 3^rd President of the United States, after being so decided by the House of Representatives, due to an electoral tie with his Vice President, Aaron Burr, and was inaugurated on March 4, 1801, just 19 days later.

Jefferson was determined to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801 and rescind the Federalist “midnight” judgeships.

Jefferson viewed the 1801 Act as an egregious attempt by Adams to stack the federal court system with partisan Federalist appointees that threatened the balance of power.   

The Judiciary Act of 1802

Jefferson’s Democrat-Republican party majority in both houses of Congress led to easy passage of The Judiciary Act of 1802, adopted April 29, 1802, and reinstated the makeup of the Supreme Court to six justices, although no seat was ever vacated under the 1801 Act.  It also restructured the six circuit courts and assigned one Supreme Court justice to each circuit, reinstating the requirement of “circuit riding”.  Each circuit court consisted of only two judges and they would refer to the Supreme Court and question of law upon the two would disagree.  No District Judge could hear appeals of his own decisions, so appeals from the district courts were to be decided by the circuit justice alone.  More importantly, only one judge was required to constitute a quorum, and Supreme Court justices were eventually relieved of their “circuit riding” obligations by 1840.

Jeffersonian Republicans asserted that Congress’s right to establish inferior courts implicitly allowed it to abolish such courts.  In other words, if Adams was able to convince Congress to adopt the Judicial Act of 1801, then Jefferson was entitled to lobby Congress to repeal it, which means any Congress has the authority to define the federal court system as they deem appropriate for the times.  Jefferson was leery of the federal court system gaining too much power over the administration of his executive decisions, particularly when all these new Federalist judges could bog down his efforts to limit the government’s size and cut taxes.  Sound familiar ?

Despite outcry from the Federalists, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of Congress to alter the structure of lower federal courts in Stuart v. Laird (1803), a case that would support Trump’s effort to do the same today.

Marbury v. Madison – Decided February 24, 1803    

Perhaps the most important decision in American constitutional law ever ruled by the Supreme Court was the case brought by William Marbury of Maryland, appointed as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia.  Marbury was among more than two dozen District Judges and Justices of the Peace appointed by outgoing President John Adams just two days before he left office in March 1801, in an effort to pack the courts with Federalists and stymie President-Elect Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican majority.  Outgoing Secretary of State, John Marshall, was not able to deliver all of the commissions, including Marbury’s, before Jefferson’s inauguration, and the new Secretary of State, James Madison, refused to deliver them at the direction of Jefferson, who viewed them as invalid.   

Marbury filed suit with the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus forcing Madison to deliver his commission. [6] 

In the interim, John Marshall had been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and he wrote an opinion that held Madison’s refusal to deliver the commission illegal, however, the Court did not order Madison to comply, based on the finding that Congressional adoption of the Judiciary Act of 1789 expanded the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction beyond what was originally set forth in the Constitution.  Marbury’s case did not fall into either category regarding foreign dignitaries or state parties, as per Section 2, clause 2, and was therefore outside of the Supreme Court’s “original jurisdiction”.

The Supreme Court struck down the pertinent section of the 1789 Act and announced that the courts have the power to invalidate laws they find to be in violation of the Constitution, now commonly referred to as “judicial review”.

In essence, “any law repugnant to the Constitution is null and void”, a clause I cite regularly in my posts and comments.  Perhaps Marshall was reminded of Hamilton’s concern for “judicial review”.

Activist Federal District Judges Undermining the Presidency

Less than two months into Trump’s second term it became clear that the Democrat Party, their leadership, and their propaganda machine in the mainstream media were conducting a coordinated attack on literally everything he was attempting to accomplish for the American people.

Trump’s efforts to deport violent criminal gangs like TdA and MS-13:-

Democrats: Wait.  We care more about illegal immigrant criminals than the safety of U.S. citizens.  Call Judge Boasberg, a 2011 Obama appointee.

Boasberg’s wife, Elizabeth (nee Manson), contributed $10,000 to Democrats and is the founder/board member of an Abortion Clinic in McLean, VA.  She is also an 18-year board member of Verite, an NGO ensuring global supply chains of US corporations comply with fair labor standards.  There might be a connection between NGO and money laundering.

Boasberg’s daughter, Katherine, works for another NGO by the name of Partners for Justice as a “capacity building associate”, funded by, you guessed it, USAID.  The far-left group provides legal advice to criminal aliens and gang members. [7]

Seems like Judge Boasberg should have recused himself from this case.

Trump’s efforts to expose the fraud, waste and abuse of federal taxpayer dollars through DOGE examinations –

Democrats: Wait.  We don’t care about saving taxes.  In fact, we need more taxes.  You can’t stop our gravy train.  We need that money kicked back to our re-election campaigns. Call Judge Paul Englemayer, a 2011 Obama appointee, who blocked Elon Musk’s access to Treasury records. [8]

Trump’s agenda to close the border, reduce the dangers of dangerous illegal immigration like gang members and terrorists, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and the burdens on our infrastructure by concerted efforts to apprehend criminal illegals –

Democrats: Wait.  Again, we don’t give a rat’s ass about the safety of American citizens.  We need to maintain our virtue signaling compassion for the less fortunate.  Call Judge Theodore Chuang, a 2014 Obama appointee, blocked DHS and ICE agents from conducting deportation operations in houses of worship, as a freedom of religion violation.  OK, wait outside until they come out, duhh.  And by the way, there is NO SUCH THING as “sanctuary” from federal law.  If you believe there are Safety Zones for criminals, you’ve been watching too much propaganda.

Trump’s efforts to slim down the bloated federal government, an initiative first undertaken by Thomas Jefferson –

Democrats: Wait:  You can’t just eliminate the jobs of all those “non-essential” government employees, you know, the ones who aren’t critical and the ones who don’t even show up to the office.  We need them to keep voting for us.  Call Judge Amy Berman Jackson, another 2011 Obama appointee, who ordered the Head of the Office of Special Counsel to be reinstated to block Trump from reducing the size of the federal workforce.   

You get the picture.  It’s resistance on every front.

At this point, it seems like they are projecting the desire for unsuspecting conservatives, Patriots, and all Trump supporters, to believe the party is rudderless, in disarray, and searching for leadership.  I’m not buying the ruse.  If you look at the efficiency with which they roll out little protests all over the country, and the sheer volume of fronts on which they engage resistance to everything Trump is doing, it almost screams COORDINATION to me. 

We know for a fact that the entire Democrat Party “marches” in lock-step, on every issue.  They have no defectors.  They are united to a fault.  That is simply not possible without clear leadership.  Schumer is being challenged.  Pelosi is a “has-been”.  Her replacement, Hakeem Jeffries is a “wannabe”.  Bernie and AOC are the latest “cool candidates”.  But one person stands out as their Supreme Leader, and he is the only one commanding the total respect of the party.  He has a track record of undermining everything Trump wants to do, and he is doing it again.  It might sound like a wild conspiracy theory, but it’s as simple as this;

Barack Obama calls George Soros (think, speed dial) and directs the latest “protest” with details, Soros calls his stand-by activist groups to order deployments, and sends those leaders money to fund the operations.  But the money isn’t Soros money.  It’s YOUR money.  It’s taxpayer money laundered through a couple “wash cycles” that was fraudulently earmarked for “worthy” USAID programs like $29 million to “strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh”.  

I’ve said it thousands of times and I’ll keep saying it until he is indicted for treason.  Barack Obama is orchestrating everything we see going on in the political arena today.  His agenda is to “fundamentally transform” America into a communist nation, and frankly, We the People, for the most part, aren’t even aware of the threat.  We are in the midst of an ideological war that we must win.

The Democrat Party is not going away anytime soon.  They may be hoping we are celebrating a little too much and getting complacent, but Obama is practiced in the art of deception and as long as he is in command, We the People must be vigilant. 

The Democrat Party, which is essentially the Communist Party of America, controls the social consciousness through their Propaganda Media Complex.  With alarming regularity, they disseminate misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies designed to fool disengaged voters.  They don’t even care about backlash from conservatives bold enough to challenge them, because they turn immediately to ridicule, a strategy recommended by Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals.  Then they assume the moral high ground as if their self-righteous egos were somehow superior.  We the People must expose them as the far-left Marxists that they are.  Boycotts, social media campaigns targeting their advertisers.  Total assault on their credibility.  The Democrat Party may turn a new leaf under new leadership, but if it continues to stand on the platform they have been pushing since Obama rose to power, they must be totally destroyed.  We must go on offense.  We must strike while the iron is hot.  We must do everything we can possibly think of to discredit the Democrat Party on every front.  America is no longer governed by two legitimate political parties with different ideas on how to improve the lives of our citizenry.  There are only Patriots and Communists now and Patriots cannot allow Marxists to rule our descendants.    

Comments welcomed.

Return to SCOTUS Halts Alien Enemies Act Deportations

FOOTNOTES

[1]  Yon Ebright, K. ; The Alien Enemies Act, Explained ; Brennan Center ; October 9, 2024

The Alien Enemies Act, Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

[2]  United States Code: Alien Enemies, 50 U.S.C. §§ 21-24 ; p. 4410 ;

Library of Congress

United States Code: Alien Enemies, 50 U.S.C. §§ 21-24 (1940)

[3]  Proclamation by the President of the United States of America ; Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua ; March 15, 2025

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua – The White House

[4]  Kunzelman, M. ; Appeals Court Won’t Lift Order That Barred Trump Administration From Deportations Under Wartime Law ; AP ; Updated March 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM EDT

Appeals court won’t halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law | AP News

[5]  Federal Judiciary Act (1789) ; National Archives

Federal Judiciary Act (1789) | National Archives

[6]  Marbury v. Madison ; Wikipedia

Marbury v. Madison – Wikipedia

[7]  Dowling, M. ; Judge Boasberg’s Daughter Provides Legal Advice to Criminal Aliens ; Independent Sentinel ; March 18, 2025

Judge Boasberg’s Daughter Provides Legal Advice to Criminal Aliens

[8]  Rahman, K. ;Full List of Judges Who Have Thwarted the Trump Administration So Far ; Newsweek ; Updated February 11, 2025 12:40 PM EST

The Headline seems to be bragging as a badge of honor

This piece predates the Boasberg injunctionFull List of Judges Who Have Thwarted the Trump Administration So Far – Newsweek

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

Biden Pardons His Family 22 Minutes Before Trump is Sworn In

I suppose it’s not surprising that former President Biden pardoned five members of his own family as his last act in office.  He lied to the American people repeatedly that he would not pardon his son and then he did.  Hunter Biden was indicted for tax evasion and weapons charges.

In September of 2024, Hunter was convicted in Los Angeles of three felony tax evasion counts and six misdemeanor counts after pleading guilty with no plea bargain.  His plea was accepted by the Judge who scheduled sentencing for December 16, 2024, whereby he faced a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. [1]   

Would any sane person plead guilty without seeking a deal unless he had been assured by his father that he would be pardoned from all his crimes?  

In a separate case, brought in Delaware, Hunter was convicted of three felonies related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when he lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.  At the time, the President said he would accept the outcome and “continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal”. [2]

Now we know that Hunter never had anything to worry about.  Hunter was granted a “full and unconditional pardon” for all crimes he “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024,” by his father on December 1, 2024, just 11 days before he was scheduled to be sentenced in his gun conviction case. [3]

The pardon just happens to cover the period of time when Hunter first conducted business deals with the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

As you may recall, Joe Biden bragged in a 2018 video taken during a Council on Foreign Relations interview, about withholding a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine unless they fired the Prosecutor who was investigating his son’s business arrangements with Burisma.  Low and behold, they fired the Prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, and Biden, then President Obama’s V.P. and liaison for the Ukraine, authorized the aid.  This interview was clear evidence that Joe Biden was corrupt, and a window into the money laundering operations his son was conducting for the personal benefit of the Biden family.  Hunter Biden had no experience whatsoever in the energy sector and no legitimate reason to be engaged in business deals in the Ukraine.  Since then, all kinds of evidence has surfaced regarding Hunter’s business deals in China, Kazakhstan, and other foreign countries, with over 100 offshore shell companies and secret accounts popping up.  Somehow investigations were stonewalled and the Propaganda Media Complex covered for them until Biden got into the White House in January 2021, at which point we were all supposed to forget about it.

Fast forward to January 20, 2025, Joe Biden’s final day in office, and loose ends need to be wrapped up, so Biden calculates the timing of his last act as President to be announced just minutes before President-Elect Trump is sworn in as the 47^th President.  In fact, the announcement that Biden was granting a “full and unconditional pardon” to five members of his own family, wasn’t made until Trump and the entire Inauguration Party were in position in the Capitol Rotunda.

There was no way for Trump to be informed of the pardon before he finished his speech.  Judging by the remarks Trump made that essentially blasted the previous administration for a horrendous performance, you can assume he would have criticized Biden’s pardon in the harshest terms.  Later that night, as Trump was signing Executive Orders and fielding questions from the White House Press Corps, he was asked by Peter Doocy of Fox News whether Biden had left the traditional letter in the drawer of the Resolute Desk, to which Trump reacted and pulled out an envelope addressed to “47”.  I have to wonder whether we will ever hear about the complete content of that letter, but I’d surmise there is some “juicy” thumb-nosing language that basically boasts that the Bidens are untouchable.

As Quid Pro Joe, the experienced criminal, once said, “Nobody fucks with the Bidens.”

The Senate Confirmation Hearing of Pam Bondi

On Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the Honorable Pamela Jo Bondi, former defense lawyer during President Trump’s first impeachment trial, and Attorney General for the state of Florida from 2011 to 2019, appeared before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for confirmation hearings on her nomination for Attorney General of the United States.

Ms. Bondi has the support of numerous legal and law enforcement organizations and is expected to be confirmed, but Democrats never pass on an opportunity to degrade the character of their political opposition with personal attacks and attempts to cast doubt on the worthiness of a nominee.  The hearing for Attorney General was more of the same.

Every Democrat on the committee had certainly seen the memo, from Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-IL), or perhaps a higher authority, that Ms. Bondi should be repeatedly questioned on their “concerns” that she might use her position to weaponize the Justice Department against political opponents of the Trump administration.  Imagine “lieutenants” of the Biden regime acting all high and mighty and offended that the Attorney General would even think of such an abuse of power.  Apparently, they are tone deaf and totally blind to that exact strategy perpetrated against then former President Trump for four long years in all-out lawfare designed to prevent him from retaking the White House.  Mindboggling hypocrisy.

She consistently stated that she would follow the law, which is the proper response.

During the hearing, Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT) asked the nominee, “Can you say ‘no’ to the President of the United States when he asks you to do something unethical or illegal?”  Notice Blumenthal presumes Trump will ask her to do something, not whether she would say no if he asks.

Next up for the Democrats was Sen. Hirono (D-HI), the 77 year-old disgrace representing Hawaii.  Her first question was, “Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”  Does she have some evidence to present that would embarrass Ms. Bondi, or is that just an attempt to degrade the nominee’s character?

Later, Hirono states that “in fact, President Elect Trump considers the DOJ to be his law firm” and follows that up with, “If President Elect Trump asks, suggests, or hints that you, as Attorney General, should investigate one of his perceived enemies, would you do so?”

Ms. Bondi reiterated that the DOJ would make charging decisions, saying, “It is the Department of Justice’s decision to determine what cases will be prosecuted.”

I have a simple solution that could allay the Democrat fears, and would keep President Trump’s hands clean.

Open letter to the President of the United States

We the People respectfully suggest to Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, that you, sir, refrain from making any directives, requests, or suggestions, to the Attorney General regarding prosecutorial discretion of any American citizens.

It will not be necessary for you to communicate directly, or indirectly, with the Attorney General in regards to any perceived political targeting you may have been subject to from the previous administration.  Further, we recommend that you record every conversation you have with the Attorney General in an effort to defend yourself against any future lawfare.

We the People have your back.  We know who the corrupt politicians are and we will urge the Attorney General to investigate, indict and prosecute all of them to the letter of the law.

We the People simply ask that you remain “on the sideline”.  We’ve got this one.

This is not a revenge campaign.  This is a justice campaign, and We the People demand justice.

Signed, We the People

The Attorney General Must Enforce the Law

Open letter to the Attorney General of the United States

We the People hereby request that the Attorney General of the United States conducts thorough investigations into the actions taken by all corrupt politicians that violate existing federal statutes, specifically for violations of federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 595 – Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments, and other crimes that may be discovered, including but not limited to:

18 U.S. Code § 594 – Intimidation of Voters

18 U.S. Code § 610 – Coercion of Political Activity

18 U.S. Code § 1505 – Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees

We hereby refer for prosecution, the following:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., former President of the United States

Merrick B. Garland. former Attorney General of the United States

Christopher A. Wray, former Director of the FBI

John L. Smith, former Special Counsel for the U.S. Dept. of Justice

Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney

Letitia A. James, Attorney General for the State of New York

Fani T. Willis, District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia

Jared S. Polis, Governor of Colorado

 . . . and others as may be determined during the course of investigations.

It is of utmost importance that full investigations be undertaken to assure the American people that the unprecedented “lawfare” conducted against political opponents shall be prevented in the future by holding those who perpetrated these acts accountable for their corrupt behavior.

This is not a campaign of revenge or retribution.  This is the proper course for exacting justice, deterring abuse of power, and restoring faith in the Department of Justice.

Signed, We the People

Comments welcomed.

FOOTNOTES

[1]  Robert Hunter Biden Convicted on Three Felony Tax Offenses and Six Misdemeanor Tax Offenses ; U.S. Department of Justice Press Release ; September 5, 2024

Special Counsel David C. Weiss’s Office | Robert Hunter Biden Convicted on Three Felony Tax Offenses and Six Misdemeanor Tax Offenses | United States Department of Justice

[2]  Chase, R., Lauer, C., Kunzelman, M., Durkin Richer, A., Long, C. ; President Joe Biden’s Son, Hunter Biden, is Convicted of all 3 Felonies in Federal Gun Trial ; AP News ; June 11, 2024

Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial | AP News

[3]  Lee, C., Fitzpatrick, S. ; President Biden Pardons His Son Hunter Biden ; NBC News ; December 1, 2024

President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

The 2024 Election

I had planned to save this essay until the final votes had been tabulated but it has now been 2-1/2 weeks since Election Day and some states are still counting.  We knew going in that “election officials” were not to be trusted, particularly in the seven “battleground” states (AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, and WI) where the presidential election would be decided.  I suspect that Obama’s 30,000+ member army of activists, a.k.a. “Organizing for Action”, are not only thoroughly entrenched in the federal bureaucracy, but also have infiltrated the key states by obtaining certification as “election officials”.  They are they operatives who clandestinely rig vote tabulations by programming the machines to switch votes, re-scanning selected ballots, stealing mail-in ballots, harvesting pre-fabricated phony ballots, and other methods.  Obama’s army certainly isn’t limited to a “ready-to-march” bunch of college kids and angry suburban women waiting for the next “mostly peaceful protest” to be announced.  They are working to advance Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America communist agenda with utmost determination.

As it turned out, and I still can’t believe it, Trump’s MAGA movement was perhaps “too big to rig”.  Patriots, many of whom have been quietly waiting to come out of the woodwork, voted in great numbers in a total rejection of the Democrats record of failure on many fronts.  All the polls in the last few months, particularly after Kamala was inserted by coup, projected a razor-thin race that could be determined by a few thousand votes here and there.  Many pundits believe the polls were as phony as the Democrat ballots.  They were skewed and biased by “news organizations” (I use that term lightly) who had the incentives to discourage voter turn-out and make it seem like Harris had an excellent chance to win so that the Democrat rigging would go unnoticed and election denials would be unacceptable.  They had successfully stolen the 2020 election and they had every reason to believe they could do it again.

Here are some results of the presidential race per the latest available data

Image depicts the Electoral College vote and the popular vote totals of the presidential election as of 22 Nov 2024.  It is noteworthy that Trump’s popular vote margin was much higher on the morning of 6 Nov 2024.  Apparently, late counting of votes is almost exclusively Democrat votes. [1]

Speaking of Cheating

It’s amazing how vehemently the full spectrum of liberalism denies there is any “widespread” cheating In our elections, yet every time you turn around, you hear of another story, typically from a state that just happens to be one of the so-called “battleground” states. 

Here is one right here in Pennsylvania, close to where I live, that was in the news this week.  It has been featured on Fox News (where would we be without them?) and has been summarized by Breitbart in an article titled, “Bucks County Pennsylvania, Election Official Apologizes for Saying Court Precedent ‘Doesn’t Matter Anymore’”.

Essentially, the Bucks County Board of Commissioners Vice-Chair, Robert Harvie, Jr. and Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, in a November 12 meeting, moved in a 2-1 vote to count 405 mis-dated, or undated, mail-in ballots, in bold defiance of the state Supreme Court.  Two days later, in a November 14 meeting, the day after the state announced a mandatory recount in the Senate race between incumbent Bob Casey (D) and Senator-Elect Dave McCormick (R) who held a lead of over 17,000 votes and had been declared the winner by the AP, the same two Commissioners moved to count provisional ballots missing required signatures, despite the State Supreme Court ruling that ballots missing signatures were not legitimate, Ellis-Marseglia openly stating that, “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws any time they want.”  The two Commissioners then voted to count the ballots over objections from the County legal counsel.

On Wednesday, November 20, the day the recount began, in front of an angry crowd, Ellis-Marseglia apologized for her previous comments, probably under advice that she could be prosecuted for several federal election crimes.

The point is, this is not an isolated incident.  Stories like this pop up all the time and it just shows how Democrats see themselves as immune from legal jeopardy.  They truly believe they are above the law because they get away with virtually anything they want.  We the Patriots need to stand up and be heard.  We the Patriots urge the Attorney General of the United States to hold these people accountable for every statute they violate.  The Trump administration has a clear mandate to clean up corruption everywhere it is found. [2]  

Gratitude to All Who Helped Preserve Our Republic

We the Patriots have good reason to celebrate Trump’s great victory as he was the last hope to save America from the destruction wreaked by Obama and his radical Marxist Democrat Party.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for seeing the light and getting out there to cast your ballot.  Every ballot counted (at least we hope so) towards preserving our republic, our American values, our culture, our institutions, and our freedoms.

We Have Won a Major Battle But The War is Not Over

The 2024 election was our Saratoga, our Trenton, a tremendous victory that may have turned the tide against seemingly insurmountable odds, but the war is not over.  The enemy is regrouping every day.  Obama is not going to disband his army and ride off into retirement.  His life-long hatred of America and everything she stands for has not been extinguished.  We have dealt him a serious blow but our resolve must be sustained.  This war against his communist agenda is in the early stages.  We must completely destroy the leadership and the direction of the Democrat Party.  Their Marxist ideology must be eradicated from American politics.

We must fight them at the ballot box at every opportunity, and in the meantime, we must ensure that the Department of Justice under the presumed direction of newly nominated Pam Bondi, former Attorney General for the state of Florida, is doing everything they can to prosecute the criminal elements of the Democrat Party.  No quarter.  No immunity.  No dead-end investigations that take years to recognize what we already know.

Obama’s army will be difficult to root out completely, but that is the task at hand.

It cannot be forgotten that radical Marxists adhere to the mantra “by any means necessary”.  There is nothing they wouldn’t do to gain, and retain power, because their ultimate goal is permanent one-party rule.

May the ghosts of our forefathers guide us in defeating the leviathan that has hijacked the federal bureaucracy.  Do not get complacent.  Stay committed to the cause.  Stay the course.  Yorktown is on the horizon.    

Comments welcomed.

FOOTNOTES

[1]  2024 Election Results ; Google ; as of 22 Nov 2024

2024 election results popular vote – Google Search

[2]  Breitbart News ; “Bucks County Pennsylvania, Election Official Apologizes for Saying Court Precedent ‘Doesn’t Matter Anymore’”.

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Where Are We Now ?

For the past seemingly endless months, we have witnessed the public political mud-slinging from both sides ad nauseum and are probably looking forward to Election Day 2024.  The good news is, we are in the final week.  The bad news is, one side is going to lose their collective minds over the results, whether the vote count is legitimate, or fraudulent.  With just days to go, we are being led to believe the race for President is a “toss up” and tension is building.

On one hand, we have polls compiled by numerous organizations that emphasize how close the race is in the seven battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) showing a trend towards Trump whereby not long ago, he was trailing by a couple points. 

Current polling as of 29 October 2024: Real Clear Politics Average in the seven battleground states show Trump leading by narrow margins in six, and Harris with a slim margin in Michigan. [1]

On the other hand, none of those polls can be trusted.  In 2016 Hillary thought she was going to win comfortably.  I’m not sure the polls aren’t part of the propaganda being thrust on us with the full intention of deceiving the voting populace.  The point is, DON’T TRUST ANY POLL.  We the People cannot afford to get comfortable like Hillary did.  We MUST vote and we MUST vote AGAINST the Democrats and their Propaganda Media Complex.

On the Brink of History

We are now on the brink of history in American politics.  Either Trump will win despite tremendous headwinds generated by the Democrat machine with their well-entrenched weaponized federal bureaucracy, and their propaganda arm comprised of all the mainstream media outlets, or Harris will somehow prevail despite the overwhelming sentiment felt across the country in opposition to her failed co-administration with Joe Biden.

There is no denying the Biden-Harris record of complete failure, falling on the wrong side of virtually every issue, from the economy and inflation, to the border crisis, to the resulting soaring crime rate, to their disastrous foreign policy, to their unchecked corruption, and their relentless attacks on the Constitution in an effort to implement Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America into a communist nation.  Democrats and their radical left-wing Marxist minions are literally destroying America, by design.  The only issue they poll favorably on is abortion, by appealing to women on their health care.  So, the Harris campaign has produced a slew of ads that blatantly lie about Trump’s position on abortion, expecting them to believe the ads, because they know that their voting base is too stupid to be aware of the facts.  The ads I’m referring to claim Trump will enact a nation-wide abortion ban.  That of course, is totally false as the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, essentially returning the abortion issue back to the states.  It is now in the hands of the people of each state to decide what types of abortion, if any, are acceptable.  The federal government has nothing to do with it.  Trump has nothing to do with it beyond his appointment of three SCOTUS judges who were part of the decision rendered during Biden’s administration.  Trump has even stated that he supports abortion on the three so-called “exceptions” of rape, incest, and the health of the mother. The voters that lose their minds on this issue should realize their fight is at the state level.

Every other issue is clearly in Trump’s wheelhouse.  So the Harris campaign has resorted to name-calling and pandering with false promises. 

When you witness the rallies each candidate holds, it’s pretty obvious the Trump campaign has generated a lot more enthusiasm just by the sheer numbers of attendees.  This past Sunday, he drew over 20,000 to his rally at Madison Square Garden in the heavily Democratic stronghold of New York City, with an estimated 50,000 more outside.  In contrast, Harris recently held a rally in Arizona attended by about 3,000 people and over 2,000 of them were bussed in from California.

Of course, I and most of you, are viewing this through a “red” lens, and feel the groundswell is in our favor, but it’s hard to ignore the simple logic and common sense that guides us in recognizing the much better choice.

If Harris comes out the other side of Election Day, or perhaps I should say Election Week, as the “winner”, there is going to be intense scrutiny of the vote totals, similar to 2020.  The left and the Propaganda Media Complex will vilify and ridicule all inquisitions as “election denial” just like last time, but we will have good reason to be skeptical.  After all, Harris was the most unpopular Vice President in history until four days after Biden’s disastrous debate with Trump on 27 June 2024.  That’s when the Democrat Party shifted into Plan B and ousted Biden in a coup to install Harris, who never earned a single vote, and was all of a sudden the media darling of the left.  By the time the smoke had cleared, she was the DNC nominee and the Democrats were calling Trump a “threat to our democracy”.  Hypocrisy on steroids.

President-Elect Harris would be an almost certain stolen election.  I still believe they stole the 2020 election for “basement” Joe, and I believe they stole several races in the 2022 mid-terms, so it’s not like they haven’t perfected it yet.  Trump may get 100,000,000 votes, but they will fabricate 105,000,000 phony ballots.  And that, my fellow Patriots, is my biggest fear.  I truly believe the only way Trump can win is by getting over 50% of all registered voters, AND making sure those votes are certified.  It would be nearly impossible to deny a majority of all registered voters.  But even then, you can be sure the Democrats would devise a scheme to delegitimize the vote.

The Last Chance to Save America

They always say “this is the most important election ever”, but in this case it’s true.  This is literally the last chance to save America from the throes of communism.  This is not a drill.

If you have been paying attention, you may have come to understand that our American values have been threatened by the emergence of Barack Hussein Obama.  In a campaign speech at Columbia, Missouri on the 30^th of October 2008, Obama said, “we are five days away from the fundamental transformation of the United States”.  No one dared to ask what he meant by that.  As it turned out, he has been relentlessly chipping away at our freedoms, attacking the Constitution, and overwhelming our institutional systems using Saul Alinsky’s blueprint for creating a socialist state.  Obama was heavily influenced by Frank Marshall Davis, identified as an activist member of the Communist Party USA and tracked by the FBI in the 30’s and 40’s.  He was schooled under Islamic doctrines in Indonesia, worked as a community organizer under the Marxist playbook of Saul Alinsky.  He even branded his 30,000 member activist army “Organizing for Action”, a thinly veiled reference to Alinsky’s “Organization for Action”.  He is a master of deception, a highly-regarded stratagem of jihad.  You can read more about Obama in depth in my earlier blog posts, but suffice it to say here, he is the head of the snake, the mastermind behind everything that has transpired and everything happening today.  When the Democrat Party was in the planning stages of “how to steal elections”, you can be sure it was Obama who encouraged them and convinced them they could get away with it simply by running out the clock while being protected by the media.  He did it in 2012 with the Benghazi scandal just seven weeks before the election of 2012.  They pulled it off in 2020 and they are doing it again right now.  Democrats, as of this writing, are above the law.  If Trump can pull off the miracle, We the People should demand the end of their impunity.

Just yesterday in a virtual event Biden in referencing a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally who joked that Puerto Rico was a floating island of garbage, said, “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters”, essentially calling Trump’s supporters “garbage”.  They tried to spin the comment by claiming he meant the comedians’ fans, but that excuse doesn’t make sense.

In the lead up to the 2008 election, when Obama was a Senator running for his first term, he referred to Republicans as “clingers”, meaning they had been clinging to their guns, religion, and resentments against politicians who offered hollow promises.  He was the first to alienate half the country and it doesn’t appear to be a situation where he misspoke.  It was a deliberate attempt to divide the country that has continued to this day, following Alinsky’s blueprint outlined in his book Rules for Radicals.

Under The Ideology of Change, Alinsky wrote,

“The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth. For example, a Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order or the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage—the political paradise of communism.” [2]

Obama is so heavily invested in his agenda to convert America into a communist nation, it is impossible to overlook all the evidence.

We the People have suffered the consequences of America’s biggest mistake for far too long.  The choice is clear.  This is your last chance to save America.  Give him one more term and the “transformation” will be complete.  Failure is not an option.

It is literally Patriots vs. Marxists.

It is literally America vs. Communism.

“Fight fight fight”

  —  Donald J. Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024

Vote TRUMP for President 

IT IS TIME FOR THE GARBAGE TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH !

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FOOTNOTES

[1]  Top Battlegrounds – RCP Average

[2]  Alinsky, Saul D. ; Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ;  Random House, New York, Vintage Books Edition, 1989 ; p. 25