Whatever Happens Hang Onto The US Constitution
US Constitution Or Bust
Don't trust the jerks that broke it to fix it. Hot spots to watch and other details here as the situation develops. (If you linked a reminded copy of this, see the original comments here.)
* Sept 5. Booting up this thread.
See the Preamble. It's our agreement with our government.
See the Oath of Office (this is virtually identical to the oaths taken by anyone in government, from the President to the school librarian.). It's the promise they ALL have broken.
* Sept 6. Executive v. Legislative
See Article 1, Section 1. How much law making power does the Executive branch legitimately have? (Ans: None.) The Executive branch has a built-in conflict of interest in that in times of peace there could be no excuse for their constant abuse of poorly defined authorities or usurpation of clearly defined ones in violation of the Constitution.
* Sept 7. Executive Dyslexia
General Mattis, when questioned by Tulsi Gabbard about authority to launch cruise missiles into Syria without involving Congress, said that he believed that Article 2 Section 2 gave the President that authority. Is there any way one can read that to come to the same conclusion? (War making powers are given to Congress by the Constitution. See Article 1, Section 8.)
Why The American Public Needs To Remove All Members Of Congress That Are Unaware Of Their Job Descriptions Or Unwilling To Perform Them.
See Article 1, Section 8. (Half of these duties are not being done by Congress so public is being denied proper representation in the implementation.)
* Sept 8. Congress' Folly: Privatizing The Central Bank
See Article 1, Section 8 (linked above) and find "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof..." Compare what should be to what is.
* Sept 9. Stateless Terrorists
Are stateless terrorists really something new? Is "terrorism" really an enemy that can be declared? How does the Constitution deal with piracy? Is there some place these villains can be captured other than on land or water?
Again, the answers are in Congress' job description: Article 1, Section 8 (linked above) This is their duty, not wooing campaign donors or soliciting bribes.
* Sept 10. Well Regulated
Are the self-described "militias" in any way legitimate? If they do indeed have, as we all do, the right to keep and bear arms, can we trust them to do the right thing if they misread or skip important parts of the Constitution that they say empowers them? There are more references to "militia" but find the three occurrences in Article 1, Section 8 (linked above).
* Sept 11. War
Under the US Constitution, who has power to authorize military force? See Article 1, Section 8 (linked above)
* Sept 12. Oaths of Office
Every person holding an "office of public trust" (that's what it's actually called) has taken or signed an oath (or affirmation) to preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution, not the people. It turns out they haven't protected or defended either one. Instead they built FEMA prison camps for the time when the people literally become their enemy. But we aren't.
Some of the powers Congress has let the Executive branch (and/or the deep establishment state) usurp or which they decided to conveniently abandon because they didn't want the blame for actually doing something, are listed in Article 1, Section 8 and also listed above. But the blame is not so easily ignored or displaced. Congress has no excuse for not reading and understanding Article 1, Section 1 either.
Article 6 Clause 3 says: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
And this is what everyone, from the President to the school librarian has made the most solemn promise to do. It's based on the President's oath, which is the only one that is explicitly written but the reason is it explicit in the President's case is becoming more and more obvious as time goes on:
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.
I'm sorry, America, but if this is the best our Presidents can do, and Congress is unwilling or unable to correct what previous generations have allowed to get out of control, we have been making some very bad choices based on the same kinds of wrong thinking as those we elect to represent us.
* Sept 18. Tariffs and Sanctions
Sanctions are used as a weapon of war and we might therefor conclude that sanctioning foreign countries should be one of the Congress' powers.
Luckily the founders made figuring this out easy because not only are sanctions a weapon of war, but even tariffs are under the Congress' authority. (See Article 1, Section 8, above.)
* Sept 19. The Right To A Defense
The Mueller investigation into possible collusion between Trump and the Russians has gone on for almost two years and still nothing conclusive. What if he did collude? What if he didn't? You will find the term "due process" in the Constitution and when people are denied that, it is the judicial process itself that should be on trial. When does our President who has even been accused of treason without any evidence get his chance to defend himself?
See Amendment 6 of the US Constitution. This is not only common sense but it's the supreme law of the land. The accused must be able to defend himself and afforded compulsory process to obtain witnesses in his defense.
This right is not reserved for the President, it is guaranteed to all the people, including the President; even Presidents that violate their oaths of office and kill people that don't oppose us.
Please look up that Amendment and you will see that the President is being denied many of the provisions of this Amendment -- almost as though he was just an ordinary citizen like us.
Sept 26, Unitary Executive Theory v. The US Constitution
The Unitary Executive Theory is literally insurrection against the United States.
Article 1, Section 1, does not give Executive branch any legislative powers whatsoever.
Article 2, Section 2, requires the President to seek advice and consent before making (and thus by logical extension breaking) treaties.
Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress (the House and Senate) sole war making powers (unless an emergency does not admit of delay (which is also a logicial extension because that is allowed even to individual states).
* Oct 1, Slavery
Slavery is technically allowed under the US Constitution when it's a punishment for a crime (like "community service"), but cruel and unusual punishment is not allowed. However debatable the cruelty and unusualness of a prisoner being enslaved may be, there are cases where the situation is not debatable at all.
Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Yet many hapless immigrants find themselves in a slave market hell thinking they were coming to the land of the free for a chance to improve their lives; lives that is some cases America is responsible for making so difficult that people leave their families and their homes for a chance of getting lucky.
See comments for Oct 1.
* Nov 4. Who In Their Right Mind Would Repeal Amendment 14?
Is someone trying to trick us into a trap? Who is wise enough to actually override the work of the founders and those whose contributions to the Constitution were direct effects of seeing why these things are needed? Our forebears left an indelible paper trail that many wish they could erase.
Let's take a look at the 4th clause of the 14th Amendment in light of what we are seeing take place with Citizens United as an example of how the Supreme Court thinks corporations have more rights than individuals and bailouts for everyone except the American people, which drives home the point that we are under an intensified corporate insurrection ever since 9/11.
First, this is the whole of the 4th clause of Amendment 14.
4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
And here's how it reads when we focus on one of the biggest threats to our national sovereignty.
The validity of the public debt of the United States... shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Now take a look at this (21 Trillion missing). And this (another 9 Trillion missing), and watch one of these (index of videos about the Fed losing track of money).
Whatever Happens HANG ONTO THE US CONSTITUTION
See what I mean?
* Nov 22 The right of the accused to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.
Motion for Assange to have the prosecution unseal the Grand Jury indictment is scheduled for hearing at 10AM, 11/27/2018, Courtroom 700, Eastern Virginia District Court.
From the fact that there is a Grand Jury indictment we also know that the accusation is for a "capital or otherwise infamous crime".
Assuming there is some justification for this accusation, and that the charges must be tantamount to treason, note that Amendment 6 doesn't specify citizens. See full text below.
Amendment 6 - Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Let's keep an eye on this one.