Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
“What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?”—Andrew P. Napolitano
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose.
The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
What makes the outlook so much bleaker is the utter ignorance of the American people—and those who represent them—about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate.
As Morris Berman points out in his book Dark Ages America, “70 percent of American adults cannot name their senators or congressmen; more than half don’t know the actual number of senators, and nearly a quarter cannot name a single right guaranteed by the First Amendment. Sixty-three percent cannot name the three branches of government. Other studies reveal that uninformed or undecided voters often vote for the candidate whose name and packaging (e.g., logo) are the most powerful; color is apparently a major factor in their decision.”
More than government corruption and ineptitude, police brutality, terrorism, gun violence, drugs, illegal immigration or any other so-called “danger” that threatens our nation, civic illiteracy may be what finally pushes us over the edge.
As Thomas Jefferson warned, no nation can be both ignorant and free.
Unfortunately, the American people have existed in a technology-laden, entertainment-fueled, perpetual state of cluelessness for so long that civic illiteracy has become the new normal for the citizenry.
It’s telling that Americans were more able to identify Michael Jackson as the composer of a number of songs than to know that the Bill of Rights was the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In fact, most immigrants who aspire to become citizens know more about national civics than native-born Americans. Surveys indicate that a majority in every state but Vermont would fail a test of U.S. citizenship questions.
Not even the government bureaucrats who are supposed to represent us know much about civics, American history and geography, or the Constitution although they take an oath to uphold, support and defend the Constitution against “enemies foreign and domestic.”
For instance, a few year ago, a couple attempting to get a marriage license was forced to prove to a government official that New Mexico is, in fact, one of the 50 states and not a foreign country.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Here’s a classic example of how surreal the landscape has become.
Every year, the White House issues a proclamation affirming the importance of the Bill of Rights.
These proclamations pay lip service to the government’s commitment to upholding the Constitution and guarding against government abuses of power.
Don’t believe it for a second.
The government doesn’t want its abuses checked and its powers restricted.
For that matter, this is not a government that holds the Constitution in high esteem.
Indeed, we wouldn’t be in this sorry state if it weren’t for the damage inflicted in recent years on the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights, which historically served as the bulwark from government abuse.
In the so-called named of national security, the Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago.
The Bill of Rights—462 words that represent the most potent and powerful rights ever guaranteed to a group of people officially—became part of the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791, because early Americans such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson understood the need to guard against the government’s inclination to abuse its power.
Yet the reality we must come to terms with is that in the America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants.
Make no mistake: if our individual freedoms have been restricted, it is only so that the government’s powers could be expanded at our expense.
The USA Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the ten original amendments—the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments—and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well. The Patriot Act also redefined terrorism so broadly that many non-terrorist political activities such as protest marches, demonstrations and civil disobedience were considered potential terrorist acts, thereby rendering anyone desiring to engage in protected First Amendment expressive activities as suspects of the surveillance state.
Since 9/11, we’ve been spied on by surveillance cameras, eavesdropped on by government agents, had our belongings searched, our phones tapped, our mail opened, our email monitored, our opinions questioned, our purchases scrutinized (under the USA Patriot Act, banks are required to analyze your transactions for any patterns that raise suspicion and to see if you are connected to any objectionable people), and our activities watched.
We’ve also been subjected to invasive patdowns and whole-body scans of our persons and seizures of our electronic devices in the nation’s airports and at border crossings.
We can’t even purchase certain cold medicine at the pharmacy anymore without it being reported to the government and our names being placed on a watch list.
Government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches (all sanctioned by Congress, the White House, the courts and the like), etc.: these are merely the weapons of the police state.
The power of the police state is dependent on a populace that meekly obeys without question.
Remember: when it comes to the staggering loss of civil liberties, the Constitution hasn’t changed. Rather, it is the American people who have changed.
Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. The government’s purpose is to protect, defend and even enhance our freedoms, not violate them.
It was no idle happenstance that the Constitution opens with these three powerful words: “We the people.” Those who founded this country knew quite well that every citizen must remain vigilant or freedom would be lost. As Thomas Paine recognized, “It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
You have no rights unless you exercise them.
Still, you can’t exercise your rights unless you know what those rights are.
“If Americans do not understand the Constitution and the institutions and processes through which we are governed, we cannot rationally evaluate important legislation and the efforts of our elected officials, nor can we preserve the national unity necessary to meaningfully confront the multiple problems we face today,” warns the Brennan Center in its Civic Literacy Report Card. “Rather, every act of government will be measured only by its individual value or cost, without concern for its larger impact. More and more we will ‘want what we want, and [will be] convinced that the system that is stopping us is wrong, flawed, broken or outmoded.’”
Education precedes action.
As the Brennan Center concludes “America, unlike most of the world’s nations, is not a country defined by blood or belief. America is an idea, or a set of ideas, about freedom and opportunity. It is these ideas that bind us together as Americans and have kept us free, strong, and prosperous. But these ideas do not perpetuate themselves. They must be taught and learned anew with each generation.”
If there is to be any hope for restoring our freedoms and reclaiming our runaway government, we will have to start by breathing life into those three powerful words that set the tone for everything that follows in the Constitution: “we the people.”
People get the government they deserve.
It’s up to us.
We have the power to make and break the government.
We the American people—the citizenry—are the arbiters and ultimate guardians of America’s welfare, defense, liberty, laws and prosperity.
It’s time to stop waiting patiently for change to happen.
We must act—and act responsibly.
Get outraged, get off your duff and get out of your house, get in the streets, get in people’s faces, get down to your local city council, get over to your local school board, get your thoughts down on paper, get your objections plastered on protest signs, get your neighbors, friends and family to join their voices to yours, get your representatives to pay attention to your grievances, get your kids to know their rights, get your local police to march in lockstep with the Constitution, get your media to act as watchdogs for the people and not lapdogs for the corporate state, get your act together, and get your house in order.
In other words, get moving.
A healthy, representative government is hard work. It takes a citizenry that is informed about the issues, educated about how the government operates, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay involved, whether that means forgoing Monday night football in order to attend a city council meeting or risking arrest by picketing in front of a politician’s office.
Whatever you do, please don’t hinge your freedoms on politics.
The Constitution is neutral when it comes to politics. What the Constitution is not neutral about, however, is the government’s duty to safeguard the rights of the citizenry.
“We the people” also have a duty that goes far beyond the act of voting: as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s our job to keep freedom alive using every nonviolent means available to us.
Know your rights. Exercise your rights. Defend your rights. If not, you will lose them.
Freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now.
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Your rights are destroyed and distorted by the contracts you freely sign… for a “benefit”
One benefit is you are now BOUND BY THE CONTRACT.
You signed away your constitutional ‘freedom’…. for now, until the contract is fulfilled, disolved or abandoned, you are bound by the terms of the ink.
Every license contract you freely enter into is a loss of “freedoms” and an increase in “must perform”
The constitution gaurantees freedom to contract.
If you contract a bad deal for yourself, whose fault is it?
Our Founders would and should beat, hang or shoot us for allowing the perversion of Their Sacrifices.
Thanks to Madison and Mason, a bunch of us can still shoot the fuckers trying to enslave us.
Apparently younger generations (ages 40ish and under) simply don’t care about their family, future or much else as long as they have phones for social media for finding out who is doing what, texting over 200 times a day, and a play station for vid games this is ALL that matters. Younger age groups never learned civics or history or anything about how this country was founded. Most never learned grammar, punctuation or literature. They view (like most do) politicians like they would sports figures or celebrities based on peer pressure and their looks like Gavin Newsom who appeals to women. I view them all as puppets and globalists since they wouldn’t be allowed to run for office of president or US congress.
It doesn’t, anyway:
“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2095916-no-treason-the-constitution-of-no-authority
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“On May 25th, 1787, a group of 55 men gathered for a closed meeting in Philadelphia. Officially, it was being convened to discuss alterations to the then constitution of the United States of the Articles of Confederation. Some state legislatures had authorized their representatives to attend the meeting only on this basis, explicitly prohibiting them from considering a new constitution. To make certain that the general public did not find out about the nature of this conspiracy, the convention members swore an oath not to discuss any proceedings with the public…for the rest of their lives. The only first-hand accounts of the proceedings were published several years later after the death of the last survivor, James Madison, in 1836. The press was forbidden to attend. The meetings were held on the second floor of the building, so that would-be eavesdroppers could not hear anything. The new constitution would become the law of the land whenever nine state conventions ratified it. This was in explicit violation of the Articles, which required a unanimous vote for amendments. Thus did a group of men launch a coup-d’etat. This coup established a new national covenant in 1788, a covenant stripped of the Articles’ invocation of God, “The Great Governor of the World,” with only the old country’s name transferred for public relations’ the United States of America. Today, we would call this a trademark violation. But it worked.”
https://www.garynorth.com/philadelphia.pdf
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2387235-on-liberty
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.”
― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.” ― Larken Rose
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2978257.Larken_Rose?page=1
The US government stopped obeying the Constitution a long, long time ago. Abraham Lincoln wiped his ass with the Constitution and committed treason against the States, and is hailed as a National Hero. This country is a fraud.
Hey Jdog did you watch the video I posted for you yesterday? No, okay here it is again.
Ok, try to understand this shit for brains. Whether the system works or not is completely fucking irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the will of the masses. It does not matter if you live in a dictatorship or a fake democracy, the masses outnumber the so called rulers. Even the most brutal dictatorships have been overthrown by the masses. The only way the rulers know that the masses are pissed off is when the masses stand up and do something. You sitting on your fat useless ass doing nothing using the excuse that the system does not listen to you is only proof you are a coward and worthless to your family and your country. Now post your fucking irrelevant video again…..
I’m sure after the masses overthrow their so called rulers, immediate Nirvana will be achieved!
Life is not Nirvana dumbass, It is a struggle to become a more moral person and to stand up for truth and against the lies and evil.
I can’t find it now, but Judge Napolitano recently had one of his 1/2 hour live stream discussions with a historian (can’t remember his name) who argued that America’s habit of intervening all over the world started soon after Lincoln’s presidency – that Lincoln’s virtual canonization created the American self-image that we are more moral than other countries and therefore can only exert a positive influence on the world. American “exceptionalism” grew out of the hagiography of Lincoln, IOW.
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Further similar selections:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dilorenzo++lincoln+lew+rockwell&sca_esv=584400697&ei=yCNdZfqhEPzzptQPkLCSoAU&ved=0ahUKEwj6pfqZh9aCAxX8uYkEHRCYBFQQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=dilorenzo++lincoln+lew+rockwell&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiH2RpbG9yZW56byAgbGluY29sbiBsZXcgcm9ja3dlbGxI3TVQtAdYrzNwA3gAkAEAmAFYoAHlAaoBATO4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBB4gMFEgExIECIBgE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
Pardon the Google mess, but Rockwell’s search function has ceased working, and emails to the site’s Webmaster have gone unanswered.
Saw it. The Judge puts some really useful information out there, I am surprised they have not shut him down…
They can trample on, soil and mar what was given to me by Almighty God, but the can not take it unless I give it up.
There has been no Constitution since the 17th Amendment passes in 1913.
There is/was only 2 parties to the Document.
1) The “several States” which were independent Countries.
2) the People that were citizens of each of the “several States”.
The Term “several (lower case) States” is found in Article 1 of the Document.
The 17th Amendment (in reality, an Article) eliminated the word “several”.
With the lose of the one word, both the citizens of the “several States” and those “several States” dissolved the Constitution.
The “States” then became nothing more than Vassal states of the U. S. Empire.
The Federal Reserve was created shortly after “WE” dissolved that Founding Document.
The Government is not to blame.
ALL BLAME falls with who we see in the mirror.
The Constitution has been been null and void since the war against the States. The South had every right to secede. That is what our founding document, the Declaration of Independence was all about.
You are correct.
Bullshit. This shit was done TO us, not BY us. Individual people have no input at all concerning the processes by which government acts against us.
No, bullshit on you. You cannot cheat an honest man, and you cannot enslave a brave man. We became a nation of exploited slaves when we became a nation of cowards without ethics and moral values we were brave enough to stand up for….
Ask any high school student what they learned in civics class.
Trans rights?
There’s a Honda class in high school?
Oof.
Oh I see, the Civics class is SPONSORED by Honda.
See what I mean?
In all fairness, it doesn’t matter if people know who their representatives are because there is no representation. They certainly aren’t elected through voting. Regardless. My rights are inalienable and will be defended with deadly force. I don’t need a piece of paper to exercise those rights either.
When your representative lives in fear of a beating or hanging, it makes all the difference in the world.
Is that what you put in your emails?
Threats to beat or hang them?
I certainly do.
I remind them in every correspondence that
150 million Americans have 700 million guns and
uncountable billions of rounds of ammunition.
I’m sure that little fact has a salutary effect on their
designs.
But they have F16s and nerve gas… .
So are you a coward? Are you willing to live as a beaten dog?
They don’t beat me.
Is someone beating you?
There ya go man,
Keep as Cool as You can,
Face miles of Trials with smiles.
It riles them to beleive that You perceive the web they weave…
Keep on thinking Free…
That would mean that the hands of WE the people are not bound anymore by our constitutional contract.. Little things like murder, homicide, arson etc. are not crimes any longer since no constitution, then no laws.. Let the good times begin. Start local, then expand out.
I guess you never read the Constitution…. It is not a contract between the people and the Federal Government, it is a contract between the Federal Government and the Sovereign States. Try educating yourself, because being stupid is a terrible way to go through life….
Aside from the other violations mentioned , a constant non stop state of emergency take care of any pesky rights not already shredded. There are about 40 ish still active ” Declared Emergencies ” including one from 1979 Iran hostage situation.
NOW do you understand why Covid-19 happened ?
The Public Health Emergency framework added a new category of national emergency under which Constitutional and statutory protections for American lives, liberties and property, against government overreach, abuse and mass murder, could be suspended unilaterally by the President in consultation with Cabinet secretaries, without Congressional oversight [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(9)] or judicial review [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(7)], and without respect to Constitutional provisions reserving unenumerated powers to state and local governments and to the People themselves [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(8)].
The basic goal of the architects, which has been achieved, was to set up legal conditions in which all governing power in the United States could be automatically transferred from the citizens and the three Constitutional branches into the two hands of the Health and Human Services Secretary, effective at the moment the HHS Secretary himself declared a public health emergency, legally transforming free citizens into enslaved subjects.
That happened on Jan. 31, 2020, in effect as of Jan. 27, 2020 through the present day.
In other words: Congress and US Presidents legalized and funded the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. government and the American people, through a massive domestic bioterrorism program relabeled as a public health program, conducted by the HHS Secretary and Secretary of Defense on behalf of the World Health Organization and its financial backers.
Katherine Watt
bailiwicknews.substack.com
She is really good.
American Domestic Bioterrorism Program
Building the case to prosecute members of Congress, presidents, HHS and DOD secretaries and federal judges for treason under 18 USC 2381.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/
It is impossible for our criminal servants to “legally” overthrow the Constitution. The very offices they hold were created by We the People and they are bound by it. They have no such authority granted to them. Any and all government servant who violates our highest law must be arrested for high crimes.
Find out how this can, and will happen when we finally take up our responsibility as the collective sovereign at TacticalCivics.com.
Believe it or not, this is what is happening in Argentina. I’m not only watching, but participating.
Been looking for your input. Keep us posted.
Let US know how things work out there once your guy converts … the jews will have their hooks deep into him if they don’t already.
There are no German-Jews [heil hitler] living in Argentina.
Lol
“Get outraged, get off your duff and get , get, get” Get shot. Get real, Monte.
A 247 year old piece of moldy paper don’t mean shit.
It will not save you.
This System will not save you.
No candidate will save you.
Raising hell will not save you.
Tough internet talk will not save you.
Learning how it SUPPOSED to work will not save you.
You are the only one (mortal that is) who can save you.
It is Spiritual Warfare, Bitches!!!
Good VS Evil……………..
The Declaration is 247 years old, not the Constitution.
What will “save” you in the end is your guns.
The only reason we have even this thin veneer of freedom
is because the people in power trying to enslave you still fear your guns.
You got that right. It is funny, back in the day (some time after Waco and before they FFed OKC and run most the militia into hiding like faggots), I was out at a cousin’s for a visit and I told him that the militia was the only thing holding the door of freedom open, and just barely by their fingernails at that.
Not to long after that, went into to see the state commander give a sitrep, and I was shocked at the synchronicity, that he said the EXACT same thing I had told my cousin, word for word and with passion, just as I had.
It was funny to, because at the time I was CCing a big old double stack 45 acp llama, and I really didn’t care if it was printing (I admit I was in a pretty bad mood after Waco, especially all the fubar not getting militia there in time, though we tried), and was getting made all the time carrying it (luckily for all concerned never by any active duty cops, though an ex one, just to tell me I should be more discreet like. As was, I was one of the first to advocate the resurgence of right to carry and the militia AND walk the talk), and I was setting towards the front and some karon must have made the le 45 and tipped off the commander somehow, and he looked right at me and said something to the effect it was 2nd amendment right to bear arms, and nodded his head in solidarity. Pretty cool guy, not sure whatever happened to him, everybody I knew close slinked off after OKC for the most part, so lost all my contact.
Yep, a militia of one, lol (not in fact, we are all militia for the most part), but I never stopped running my mouth about it, most especially online (FIDO back then).
I really don’t know how I survived those early days or didn’t end up a political prisoner, not that there hasn’t been cost, lots at that. Things just never seemed to line up and I certainly have endeavored to be lawful (and persevere).
I suppose there is still time, though I ain’t as edgy as I once was, thanks in part to some progress we have made in RTKBA, especially on the B part.
Sigh, the good ole days of sleeping ready to roll, fully clothed, boots on, pistol in holster, and rifle and kit at hand. And that was just because of the ex.
Now we seem to think we can have war declared on us, fight that war and not expect casualties. Seems like a sure way to end up waking up dead in a ditch with a hole in the back of the head.
Your guns won’t do shit, if you cannot form a large group where every member agrees upon what it’s fighting FOR.
“New Mexico” magazine had (has?) a concluding page named “One Of Our Fifty Is Missing”. Incidents like that are quite common.
They’re only rights if the government doesn’t possess the power to take them away, otherwise they’re just privileges.
That’s all we have now.
My truck, car, closet, pillow and safe are packed solid with 2nd Amendment.
Add Nimirata to the list of threats, please.
I’m going to expose myself as a horrible person, but I find that I do not trust people who conceal their identity while running for public office.
There, I said it.
Cause for optimism?
That’s how he’s framing it.
Of course, the perpetual cynics will vomit that nothing will come of this recent ruling.
But, at least it’s a step in the right direction. Could bode well, in the future, for:
2A.
Guns.
Permits
“70 percent of American adults cannot name their senators or congressmen;
My US senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. Cornyn for sure is a yes man and Cruz’ beard looks like sheet IMO. My US rep, can’t recall the name. There have been some new ones with “redistricting”, I suppose it is called, in recent years. A question however, are any of them worth remembering their names? I say no.
Sixty-three percent cannot name the three branches of government.
I can name the three branches and hope I don’t mess this up, executive, legislative and judicial, evidently all subscribers to the the corrupt way of governance.
Other studies reveal that uninformed or undecided voters often vote for the candidate whose name and packaging (e.g., logo) are the most powerful
I will never forget the lady poster on an old political forum that in 2008 said she was voting Fred Thompson because Fred did such a good job on Law and Order.
70% of peer reviewed science is un replicatable.
Learn how Americans in over 1000 counties in this Republic are educating themselves on the lawful, Constitutional means of enforcing our highest law beginning at the county level.
Act on finding out more about who you are and the power you have as “We the People”.
Take up your duty as a responsible citizen of your state.
Be involved in an action mission that will arrest the crime of our government servants.
Find the only full-spectrum solution at TacticalCivics.com.
No more excuses, Patriot!
What if the constitution no longer applied? Just look at the world today because the constitution quit applying long ago as far as being Law. It does still serve it’s original purpose, which was to give “lawful recognition” of the Crown/Bankers RECAPTURE the colonies through fraud and establish the Beast we know today as UNITED STATES.
Go back to the Whiskey Rebellion under Washington to find where it began being used as toilet paper by the Feds.
Got news for you, sir. It has NEVER applied to those up there for a hundred years or more and you are only complaining now? On the outside it looks like it but on the inside (and only those ON the inside know) are just laffing at US.
LOL LOL LOL the Constitution has been dead for decades now. We are run by laws of Congress and executive orders, we have not had a congressional budget for over 15 years now. The Supreme Court has only ruled on a few periphery issues, but has stayed out of the way as both political parties have made the executive branch more and more powerful with this massive executive bureaucracy that is no longer under control of the executive branch or congress. And Congress itself is a govt of the lobbyist, by the lobbyists and for the lobbyists.
Now congress is becoming unmanageable or workable, leaving whoever is president at the time when congress bogs down to inaction that the president will have no choice but to declare a national emergency and suspend democracy in order to save it.
The constitution would have never been ratified with out the “Bill of Rights”. Those Rights are the ” People’s”, that is what the government is after, not the unamended Constitution! Don’t be fooled the government gets its authority from the Constitution, without out the “Bill of Rights” you have nothing!!!!