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An Incorrect Analysis (of the High and Most Holy Constitution)

14 Monday Feb 2022

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Jon Rappoport is a good guy and a smart guy. He rightly sounds the alarm in THIS PIECE about post-modern intrusions by the imperial government into and against civil liberty in seeming defiance of the old, faded parchment. However, he gets his core points backward.

THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE CONSTITUTION WAS TO UNDERMINE TRUST IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.

That’s why separation of powers and checks and balances were created.

That’s why the new central government was limited.

That’s why the Bill of Rights was explicitly stated. Read the Rights; they all involve freedom from criminal impositions by government.

The Founders held a massive suspicion of top-down power. They knew the history of Europe.

The Constitution had nothing to do with unexamined trust in government institutions.

That’s simply incorrect. The whole purpose of the constitution was to CREATE the very same central government that conservatives, libertarians, and many liberals complain about today. Without the constitution, there would be no need to check or balance powers, and no institutions to trust, fear, benefit from, or die because of. While the founders certainly knew more history than the average Amerikant today, they were possessed of (or by) a massive desire for top-down power – so long as that power flowed from them.

Recall that those men were sent to the “Constitutional Convention” in order to only tweak a few issues with the vastly superior Articles of Confederation. The Articles created not so much of a government as an alliance of governments, and it was so happily weak that it was difficult for its officers to perform their ultra-limited duties under said weakness. The imposition of a completely new, centralized, and strong system was tantamount to treason; that the monster was approved by the several states, who were to be, in time, stripped of their powers under the thing, remains a dark mystery.

And, those rights enshrined in the great (worthless) Bill? Remember that they were added, years later, as an afterthought so as to appease the lingering fears of some anti-federalists. Jon’s article wouldn’t be necessary had those additions been in any way effective. The federal cult is not out of control in defiance of the amendments, but rather, because of the base document they weakly amended.

I realize this is difficult to accept, even as the proofs are, as they once wrote, “self-evident.” I too long labored under the wizard’s spell of a dead, useless, yellowed scrap of paper. (When one puts it that way, it makes the realization seem all the worse).

Something else that nobody wants to discuss is that whatever original authority we’re thinking of, it was all designed by and for a people who were White European Christians living in a predominantly English culture. It’s not 1787 anymore and a few things have changed. As such, as the identity of the nation has been lost, fretting over the laws of the lost nation is moot.

After the war and the general calamity, this now ancient episode of deception should be recalled. And condemned. And avoided when new governments are formed by the reformed American People.

So Minor…

04 Friday Sep 2020

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NSA spying is illegal and might violate something called the … constitution(???). So says the Ninth Circus:

The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans’ phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

However, the unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the role the so-called telephone metadata program played in a criminal terror-fundraising case against four Somali immigrants was so minor that it did not undermine their convictions.

Well, thank God. How’s that for governance? A criminal government imports incompatible third world terrorists, and then spies on them (and you!), but not in a way that would undermine convictions. If you’re scratching your head on this one, relax, you’re sane. And, yes, it would have been much easier and morally sound to not spy on us and not gather unto these shores the garbage of the world that hates us. Remember that should you be lucky enough to participate in the rebuilding.

Behold Ye Olde Constitution! – from TPC

04 Tuesday Feb 2020

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An Ode to the Most Holy, Revered, August, and Eternal

CORNSTERNATION 

of The United States Empire

 

***That which immediately follows is sung to the tune of “Old 100th / Praise God”***

Praise Constitution to which all taxes flow.

Praise It all ye serfs down below.

Praise It as ye lose the most.

Praise Fiat Usury and Lincoln’s Ghost!

Aaaaaaaaaaaah-Meeeeeeeen!!!*

*Deepest, most sincere apologies to Louis Bourgeois and Ken Thomas for gross doxological, melodious appropriation. 

It did not come from God Almighty, the US Constitution, that is. Old 100th certainly did. But, much has been made of the Constitution, here and lately. Our esteemed editor, MB, ran a post with the text of the original version with the Bill of Rights attached. Yes, his dedicated page does contain the whole thing, complete with the other seventeen Amendments. Regardless of which version one goes with, there are some rather inconvenient facts, a few of which I will address shortly.

For this is my take on the Old Parchment. Heck, my TPC byline says I’m “into … the Constitution.” And, I am. In keeping therewith, let’s examine that document about which so much fuss is made, generally at times convenient and generally without much understanding or reflection. First, as you may have gathered, I mockingly refer to it by such nicknames as “The Cornsternation” and “The Old Parchment.” “Cornsternation,” of course, naturally proceeds from the combining of “corn” and “consternation.” The former part is nonsensical; the latter is self-explanatory. And, it is old and it’s written on some form of parchment. Second, at least I’ve seen the thing, the original straight from Madison’s quill! It resides in a museum in Washington, DC. Here it is:

[PIC AT TPC]

Oops. Sorry, that’s a different dinosaur from across the Mall at the Smithsonian. Here it is:

[PIC AT TPC]

Reposed in its armored sarcophagus in the rotunda of the National Archives; it’s the faded yellow thing that the wizard is pointing at while he’s lying.

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MORE AT TPC

Perspective on the Cornsternation and War

13 Monday Jan 2020

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It’s been said before, but Gary Barnett says it again very well:

Any conversation about American liberty should begin and end with the false notion that the United States Constitution was written for the purpose of protecting that liberty. The opposite of course is true. This was a document in the form of a contract written by powerful men in secret, in the dark of night, and behind closed and locked doors. It was never signed by any others than those drafting this tyrannical set of rules, and was never agreed to by anyone. It was politically motivated, and used to set up a federal system with extreme centralized power, which had little restriction by any state or individual. This is a worthless document that is revered by many due to what seems to be a brainwashing technique that causes a limitation of intellect.

He even gets the war angle right: “In fact, no war in the history of the U.S. has been warranted, with the possible exception of the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and the South’s defense of its independence.”

Crap! Should I have entitled this one with “Holy” Cornsternation?? Don’t drone me, bro.

 

 

 

Grabblers Discover Consitution Convenient for Once

03 Tuesday Dec 2019

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Odd that they neglect it at all other times. At any rate, the House “Intelligence” Committee projection report is out.

Constitutional Authority for Congressional Oversight and Impeachment

The House’s Constitutional and legal authority to conduct an impeachment inquiry is clear, as is the duty of the President to cooperate with the House’s exercise of this authority.

Article I of the U.S. Constitution gives the House of Representatives the “sole Power of Impeachment.” The Framers intended the impeachment power to be an essential check on a President who might engage in corruption or abuse of power. Congress is empowered to conduct oversight and investigations to carry out its authorities under Article I. Because the impeachment power is a core component of the nation’s Constitutional system of checks and balances, Congress’ investigative authority is at its zenith during an impeachment inquiry.

So, investigate first, open the impeachment proceedings when? Not that any of this will help the enemy combatants in the slightest in 2020. Ball’s in Nancy’s court now, the voter’s next fall.

Not All It Was Cracked Up to be

16 Saturday Nov 2019

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Thomas Dilorenzo states the manifest problems with Muh Constitution and the resulting subverted state.

All governmental power is propped up by an avalanche of myths and superstitions about the alleged benevolence, omniscience, honesty, selflessness, and magnanimity of the state, coupled with critiques if not outright demonization of private property, free market voluntarism, private enterprise, limited government, the rule of law, the free society, and all those who educate about and advance such concepts. Your author once co-authored a book entitled Official Lies: How Washington Misleads Us, about mountains of such myths and superstitions. A case can be made that at the top of the list of statist myths and superstitions is the myth of American nationalism — about the supposed “superiority” of a virtually unlimited, centralized and consolidated government, coupled with the never-ending hatred and demonization of federalism, states’ rights, nullification and secession, and anything else that challenges the notion of the “supremacy” of the central government.

In this regard American “nationalism” has nothing to do with the older concept of a people with a common language and culture, living within the borders of their own nation state. The unique American version of “nationalism” was invented at the time of the founding by a group of conniving, Machiavellian politicians who sought to overthrow the results of the American Revolution – the casting off of the centralized, oppressive, mercantilist/crony capitalist British empire – and adopt the very same system in America – the British empire without the British. There is nothing wrong with a corrupt, tyrannical, mercantilist empire that uses the coercive powers of the state to enrich the ruling class at the expense of the working class, these men said, confident that they would naturally assume the position of the ruling class.

These men were led by the likes of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Sam Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, and other “Federalists,” many of who were “defectors” to the cause of liberty – the cause of the American Revolution – as Murray Rothbard wrote in Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic: 1784-1791.

The Americans were a real and distinct People, scattered amongst several coherent Nations. No more. Both have faded away, their legacies perverted into the worship of a nonexistent, but all too real (too powerful) Empire. Thank God it is at its end.

BTW, Rothbard made some good points but he was not one of Us.

Scrapping the Constitution

24 Thursday Oct 2019

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A slight majority are in favor – at least as to the First Amendment.

A majority of Americans believe the First Amendment should be rewritten and are willing to crack down on free speech, as well as the press, according to a new poll.

More than 60 percent of Americans agree on restricting speech in some way, while a slim majority, 51 percent, want to see the First Amendment rewritten to “reflect the cultural norms of today.” The Campaign for Free Speech, which conducted the survey, said the results “indicate free speech is under more threat than previously believed.”

“The findings are frankly extraordinary,” executive director Bob Lystad told the Washington Free Beacon. “Our free speech rights and our free press rights have evolved well over 200 years, and people now seem to be rethinking them.”

Of the 1,004 respondents, young people were the most likely to support curbing free expression and punishing those who engage in “hate speech.” Nearly 60 percent of Millennials—respondents between the ages of 21 and 38—agreed that the Constitution “goes too far in allowing hate speech in modern America” and should be rewritten, compared to 48 percent of Gen Xers and 47 percent of Baby Boomers. A majority of Millennials also supported laws that would make “hate speech” a crime—of those supporters, 54 percent said violators should face jail time.

This isn’t at all surprising, considering that the average Amerikan is retarded and trending towards being wicked. But, the joke is on these fools (and those “conservatives” who babble about an Article 5 Con-Con): that Constitution thing was shredded in 1861. All this poll indicates is that the majority who leave an embarrassing epitaph.

Not Sure How This is a Setback

27 Thursday Jun 2019

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But the Nine (five of them) ruled that the administration cannot ask certain Census questions about citizenship.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant defeat on Thursday, ruling that his administration did not give an adequate explanation for its plan to include a contentious citizenship question on the 2020 census and preventing its addition to the decennial survey for now.

The justices – in a 5-4 decision with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court’s four liberals in the majority and writing the ruling – upheld part of a federal judge’s ruling barring the question in a victory for a group of states including New York and immigrant rights organizations that had challenged the plan.

Opponents of the question have called it a Republican ploy to scare immigrants into not taking part in the population count.

As part of the ruling issued on the last day of the court’s current term, the justices sent the issue back to the Commerce Department for it to decide how to proceed. But the clock is ticking, as census forms have to be printed in the coming months.

On the issue of the Census: as if it still matters, and the Supremes did pay it some lip service, the Old Parchment authorizes a headcount ONLY. No other questions beyond, “How many of y’all live here?’ And, as to Trump, what difference does it make? He’s not building a wall, deporting anyone, or even defending the border. Moot.