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‘Send Her Back!’ – But, do it “Legally”…

18 Thursday Jul 2019

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America, deportation, Lincoln, TPC, Trump

Due to a scheduling conflict at TPC, please find herein the Column of the Week! Updates follow, below.

Good Rhetoric Requires Good Action

 

Just about every time that I write off the Trumpster as a failure, he says (always, always via Twitter…) something that makes me reconsider. The man is a Baby Boomer and a civic nationalist. In other words, he generally falls for the fallacy that America (or the United States) is a proposition nation, wherein anyone, of any stripe, may assimilate and become an American. If that ever happened on a majority scale, then it might be worth debating. But, it does not happen that way. It’s a lie, poems on statutes notwithstanding.

 

HERE! I insert a crowd-pleasing first photograph, which I am led to believe will increase the devotion of the Facebook darlings. You’re welcome. 

No need for pictures here.

 

I’ve covered who and what “Americans” are – a distinct People – before. If you’re having trouble with the concept, please consider the Webster’s Dictionary definition of the noun. B-b-but, that was 1828! Things and words change. If that’s true, then what of the word “dictionary?” Has “a book containing the words” morphed into “a book containing the lies?”

 

Trump set off a firestorm among Not Americans, subversives, Europhobes, and idiots, when he Tweeted that Ilhan Omar (D-Somalia) and several other US Representatives (US, certainly not American) should get the hell back to where they belong. “[Y]ou can’t leave fast enough.”

 

The Trump/Tweeties… (‘cept this one).

 

No, Mr. President, they really can’t. And, they’re not going to leave on their own. That’s where the ACTION comes in. Trump is the one man who can literally force the seditious elements to depart. He should do so immediately.

 

The Post-1965 Era is a demographic disaster of Biblical proportions ( or “Koranic” for Omar, “Taldumic” for Ben Shapiro). America currently endures the largest invasion in recorded history. Someone said something about a wall. (A LOT is said). There’s even a (toothless) state of emergency in effect. Maybe it’s time to DO something about the trauma.

 

The tools are there, most of a military persuasion. Thirty Mike Mike! makes one hell of a tweet. As for Omar, et al, the solution of precedent is expulsion via deportation. Nothing new, here. America’s favorite President of all Union-saving, slave-freeing time set it in 1863 when he forcibly deported a real US Rep. from Ohio, Clement Vallandigham. Vallandigham, considered by Lincoln an agitator, was seized by soldiers and shoved across the border into the Confederacy. Not wanted there either, he was removed to Canada. Mind you that he fit the dictionary definition of “American.” If it was good enough for a native son, then it’s too damned good for someone from The Mog.

 

The past few days, I’ve read with amusement some of the predictable tripe from the likes of Shapiro, David French, Bill Kristol, Bill de Blasio, and Ari Cohen – all of whom should also be deported – about “racism,” “Republicans can do better,” “nation of immigrants,” etc. de Blasio lied something about America being a “nation of immigrants” for “hundreds of years.” He likely read that in a Common Core textbook or an old SDS recruitment comic.

 

To make a point, I now devolve into the use of pictures. These I understand boost something with the social media types. Unfortunately, they’re pictures of charts. Anyway, here’s how many hundreds of years “nation of immigrants” has been in common English parlance: OTHER UNNECESSARY PICs HAD FOLLOWED.

 

Before you go and think about having spotted a trend or something, please note that the foregoing is mere fact. Facts are not poems etched on sacred sculpture. Nineteen-Sixty-Five. No changes at all…

 

For my part, I look forward to Trump’s non-verbal responses to all of this about the same time he arrests the Board of Governors for the Fed, decrees the NFA and GCA Unconstitutional, forcibly sides with Norma McCorvey, and halts the invasion. (Most will occur in the nearer future, if not on 45’s watch). However, only last week, I didn’t even look for his verbose defense. Maybe things do change.

THE UPDATES:

The people who will re-elect Trump, share my idea.

Attendees at a ‘Make America Great Again’ campaign rally Wednesday night in Greenville, N.C. chanted “send her back” after President Trump trashed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), claiming she is not proud of America and that she wouldn’t disavow al Qaeda in an interview.

Not that anything being a good Val is necessary, but it appears Trump has ample evidence to back deportation (we’ve known about all of these issues for some time).

A video released by Minnesota’s Alpha News makes the case for anti-Trump Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s deportation, citing evidence allegedly proving she committed immigration, marriage and tax fraud.

The Gateway Pundit says they were “sent several updates on Ilhan’s story in the past two days. Our sources are hesitant to go public due to concerns of retribution from certain segments in the US Somali community.”

On Wednesday, a reporter asked President Trump about Omar’s alleged marriage to her own brother and POTUS said, “I hear she was married to her brother… I don’t know, but I’m sure somebody will be looking at that.”

Somebody like ICE or the Army, maybe? Probably not…

Look for another exciting and timely piece at TPC next week, focusing on a cool new trend currently sweeping the nation-shaped kind of place.

What Happens if Trump Refuses Arrest?

09 Monday Apr 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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decline, enemy combatants, habeas corpus, ignorance, law, Lincoln, Merryman, MSNBC, Roger Taney, Trump, warrant

Nothing, to Trump. Much, perhaps, to others. Highly speculative answers to highly speculative questions. The shallow, historically uniformed intellectualism of the popular press never ceases to disappoint. In furtherance of the “Russia, Russia, Russia” mania, Joy Reid and the panel of “experts” at MSNBC ponder the ridiculously improbable:

Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC’s Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury. Reid envisioned a scenario of a White House besieged by federal marshals who would wait for Trump to give the Secret Service a stand down order so he could be taken into custody.

“Let’s say that Donald Trump decides he doesn’t want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says ‘Oh, but you will.’ And he’s subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, ‘I don’t recognize that subpoena.’ This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn’t follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?” Reid asked.

“It would be a federal court judge,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.

“How would they enforce it?” she asked.

They wouldn’t. It’s as simple as that. It’s settled “legal” territory. See: Ex parte Merryman (1861) and associated proceedings.

President Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus during the questionable American “civil” war. Said suspension was challenged in federal court. Following a conclusion Lincoln’s suspension was unconstitutional, Lincoln and his army refused to comply with the ruling and with the orders of the judiciary.

A federal marshal informed Chief Justice Roger Taney of the row and requested instruction. Little was decided by the high court other than Taney’s resignment to the fact his marshal and associated posse comitatus were woefully outgunned by Lincoln’s standing army. At the White House it was decided Taney was interfering with the war efforts. Lincoln wrote up an executive warrant for Taney’s arrest. Cooler heads prevailed upon the President and the warrant was never executed.

But, unlike the court’s paper, Lincoln’s could have been, would have been easily affected. Taney narrowly escaped a fate well-known to more a few of his contemporaries. Lincoln arrested plenty of people on similar specious charges, including at least one federal judge and a member of Congress.

Couple this “precedent” with the modern interpretation of “enemy combatant” and one prays cooler heads are still on call around DC.

One could also pray for the grace of knowledge among the popular talking heads. That might be asking a bit much, even from the Almighty.

The Hamiltonian Cult

02 Monday May 2016

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Alexander Hamilton, America, government, Lincoln, statism, Thomas DiLorenzo

Like I said the other day the cult of Hamilton is almost as strong as that of Lincoln. Thomas DiLorenzo, who exposed the evil and fraud of Imperial Abe, gets it:

The establishment adores Hamilton (and hates Jefferson) because Hamilton was a consummate statist and imperialist. He persistently denounced his nemesis Jefferson for his “excessive concern for liberty.” When President Jefferson announced in his first inaugural address that his foreign policy would be “honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none,” and that “A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government . . .”, Hamilton denounced it as “the symptom of a pygmy mind.” Hamilton wanted a more centrally-planned and government-subsidized and supervised economy, and was itching to start a war with France in the name of what he called “imperial glory.”

By coincidence (and good fortune) the statists revere two men who were both shot in the head. Given our obsession with holidays, may I propose “Burr-Booth Day”? A holiday first, canonization second.

Hamilton’s D’oh! moment. Google.

The Satanic Verses: American Political Style

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

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America, Christians, church and state, corruption, faith, First Amendment, freedom, God, government, Jesus Christ, law, Lincoln, Salman Rushdie, Satan, society, The People, Thomas Jefferson, truth, tyranny

Government and religion go together like whiskey and water: they don’t really go together but one finds them paired frequently nonetheless. In 1988-89 Salman Rushdie found out in extreme fashion how the two strange bedfellows behave. His novel The Satanic Verses earned him critical acclaim along with a death sentence from the Ayatollah of Iran. Rushdie resumed normal life after years and years of living as a shadow under heavy police protection.

Iran is and was a theocracy where Shia Islamic law is the basis for the organized state. There are other nations of a similar composition. Rushdie’s England is a mix-up writ large – the Queen is the head of state and head of the state church though Parliament passes most laws in an otherwise secular society. America had, via the First Amendment, and by its history and constituency, a separation of church and state (so said Thomas Jefferson). Of course, 200 years before Rushdie’s troubles began, almost all Americans were Christians. Because the government was so very small it did not really matter who believed what. It was a Christian society with a small and separate governing group. As far as it goes or went, the arrangement worked rather well. Things change.

Gradually the people abandoned God while the government grew in power and influence. Today one finds the polar opposite of that scene of 1789. It is a government society with a small and dwindling Christian group. My hypothesis (still only that because I have not declared it law) is that the people have replaced, or have allowed the replacement of, God with government. This was not a wise decision. The consequences manifest far and wide. God, for the most part, has left the building. With Him He took morality, decency, common sense, curiosity, courage, the family unit, good television, and most of the Blessings of the Holy Spirit. Those who remain faithful are like oases in a bleak, barren and dismal landscape. Many remain also who are positive in their thinking that things can be repaired, that the government (so different today) can still be restored and that decent civilization will then resume. Their struggle is born both of true optimistic faith and of delusional confusion, sometimes blended together.

In no other realm of American life is this struggle more prominently displayed than in politics. Political activity today, be it Republican, Democratic, or of third-party nature, is a study in obsessive self defeat. One may choose to shovel water into the canoe with the big red bucket on the starboard or the big blue bucket on the port side. One may choose the small paper cup of Libertarianism back aft. Whatever the choice, the result is still the same – the boat is sinking. What amazes this author is the zeal with which people these days participate in the flooding even as they know where the vessel is headed.

Recently I wrote several pieces on the sham democracy and fake electoral practices attendant to the Republican presidential nomination process. GOP voters in Colorado, Wyoming, Georgia, New York and elsewhere are discovering the rude truth, that they do not matter – not to their party and not in the grand scheme of politics. I tire of these stories both because they serve little epistemological purpose and because there are just too many of them to track. The Democrats have a similar level of disdain for their voters and of crooked processes.

A few years ago Jimmy Carter (my remembrance grows fonder every time I think of him) proposed that the U.N. or some other neutral outside party step in to monitor American elections as those of third world countries are policed. His suggestion came in response to the staggering fact that, like, just like those “lesser” nations, America and its elections have fallen into a pit of fraud, deception and criminality. I applaud his honesty though I see the point as futile. The government and its gangster parties know they are debased, criminal; they will not accept possible interference with their game (and no one has either the power or the interest to force compliance). And, even if the pleas for help were heard, I do not relish what might come of it. I see it as running to Br’er Bear to complain about Br’er Wolf. Come what may, Br’er Rabbit and friends had still better watch their backs. A safer alternative would be to get rid of the underlying corruption of the state, that is to say, get rid of the state itself. That also will not happen, not yet. It’s not quite time.

And it seems time is relative to the problem. Government has, since its inception, been corrupt. It is eternally dangerous. The American experience does not defy the universal trend. Those in and around the government are generally corrupt themselves. Consider this example: there is and has been for some time a literal cult of Abraham Lincoln worshipers in this county. Lincoln is revered as nearly the second coming of Jesus Christ though, in truth, Lincoln was one of the vilest, most destructive, and tyrannical men to ever occupy the Presidency. It was he who set into motion that transformation which gave us today’s superstate under which we labor daily. Lincoln was a destroyer of freedom and civility like few others in history.

In 1862 he murdered 38 or 39 Sioux Indians in Minnesota. The next year he kicked the entire tribe out of the state, off of their ancestral lands under threat of death. The real story, of total war, fanatical racism, cronyism and kickbacks, and a complete absence of due process, may be read here. The sanitized, Lincoln-as-hero, version may be read here. Evil grows like a cancer, even after 150 years. And, remember, in 1862 America was much more of a “Christian” nation than what passes today.

As we begin the final act of our Platonic (not in the friendly sense) play, enter a new and ultimate character – long hinted at but not seen outright until now – actual in the open Satanism. On their respective islands in the great sea of decadence and pollution the Faithful now face their enemy. The enemy is demanding and getting equal time, more than equal to be honest. There sad and dangerous story is found here: Can a burgeoning satanic movement actually effect political change?, The Conversation, April 19, 2016. The story centers on the efforts of The Satanic Temple to compass the ruin of our people under the guise of “equality”. I do not directly link to the Temple nor to their Sabbat Cycle and I suggest you, dear reader, refrain from clicking those links from my citation story. This group is pure and utter filth, worse than filth.

The Temple and its Cycle are touring America promoting Lucifer alongside some lame horror movie. Garbage and flies, you know. It is little wonder these pathetic beings seek to join the political fray. They are already come too late unless their true purpose is to clearly advertise what has been forging for decades.

America has fallen or is falling now. Our government, state and federal, our financial system, nearly the whole economy, our political parties, our military, and our buraeucracy is under the sway of Satanic control. It is, all of it, firmly under the power of a small oligarchy of very evil people who serve only themselves and the Devil. Larger society is besieged as well. The pop trash one listens to, the violent, thoughtless movies one sees, the mindless television drug one ingests are all in the service of darkness. Our wars are fought and contrived based on lies alone. What passes for education is largely mere systemic propaganda. Families are falling apart. The people are crude, rude, and at each other’s throats for no reason. Civilization teeters on the brink of annihilation, The individual body, a temple of the Lord, is disrespected, desecrated with blubber, tattoos, intoxication and all manner of uncleanliness. The mind is debased with willful idiocy.

I fear there is no reforming this too-far-gone system. The Faithful must free themselves from its Hellish shackles. They must resist until they are either delivered or they outlast the corruption and destruction. As they are faithful, so they should be free. Freedom starts with knowledge. Know that there is no hope within the camp of one’s enemies, only without. Leave the false god and its Dark Master behind. Be free. Be Faithful.

Google.

It’s Your Money, They Want It Now

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

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banking, civil forfeiture, Congress, Constitution, Courts, crime, executive order, government, immigration, IRS, jail, law, Lincoln, money, Obama, robbers, Structuring, Supreme Court, taxes, theft

If you are unfortunate enough to view television these days undoubtedly you have seen a J.G. Wentworth commercial. They feature a variety of folks (opera singers, bus drivers, etc.) singing about the virtues of cashing in on structured settlements.   They’re kind of catchy.

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(Your money’s in the bank – go to jail noooow!  Google Images.)

The federal gubmint has a similar scheme to cash in on your settlements.  They call it “structuring” too!  I wrote about the program several years ago.  It is illegal to split cash deposits (your money mind you) so as to evade the banks’ legally mandated cash reporting process.  Why the government needs to know how much money you deposit or that you deposit it, period, is beyond me.  Something about fighting drugs and terrorists.  Or was it drugged terrorists?  Anyway, it’s all codified in 31 U.S.C. 5324.

Why split up the deposits?  Beats me.  That’s your business – or it should be.  These days everything necessarily has to involve the government.  Here are two examples of otherwise innocent splitting now criminalized by our kind friends in Washington:

“2. Jane needs $18,000 in cash to pay for supplies for her wood-carving business. Jane cashes a $9,000 personal check at a financial institution on a Monday, then cashes another $9,000 personal check at the financial institution the following day. Jane cashed the checks separately and structured the transactions in an attempt to evade the CTR reporting requirement.”  CTR Pamphlet, www.fincen.gov.

“3. A married couple, John and Jane, sell a vehicle for $15,000 in cash. To evade the CTR reporting requirement, John and Jane structure their transactions using different accounts. John deposits $8,000 of that money into his and Jane’s joint account in the morning. Later that day, Jane deposits $1,500 into the joint account, and then $5,500 into her sister’s account, which is later transferred to John and Jane’s joint account.” CTR Pamphlet,www.fincen.gov.

Plain as can be.  Jane and John are hardened criminals and need to spend time in jail. They will.  Or, at least they will get probation and “forfeit” their money to the feds.  So will Janet Malone of Dubuque, Iowa.  Janet’s husband died and left her with the cash rewards of his gambling hobby.  Janet decided the money would be better off in a bank rather than scattered around her house.  She deposited some of it in a fashion which seemed reasonable to her.  The IRS, always knowing better, objected.

With all the courtesy of starving termites they seized her money and have charged her with criminal structuring.  She will probably enter some sort of guilty plea.  Most people do.  The IRS will likely keep her cash under civil forfeiture laws.  There’s really nothing civil about it.  Between 2005 and 2012 the IRS so seized about a quarter of a billion dollars in this fashion.  It gave some of it back.  Some.  This is the same agency that now pays tax refunds to criminal illegal aliens who never paid taxes in the first place. Something smells on the Potomac.

Congress is incensed by this blatant theft from the people.  They could just repeal the law or, better, abolish the IRS completely.  They won’t.  Instead they have convened a committee!  It’s focus will center on stopping IRS abuse of small businesses.  As an aside they may also examine the effects of Rearden Metal exposure on unicorns.

Know this: the government wants what you have.  And, they’ll get it.  They don’t even need a law to justify their thievery.  The White house wants to raise taxes by executive decree.  Abe Lincoln did this during the war between the States.  The Supreme Court belatedly found this unconstitutional.  Don’t hold your breath this time.

Do not look to Congress for any help.   Remember the illegals?  His Excellency, President Obama, has been using his pen to flout immigration laws.  The brave Republican “opposition” collapsed faster than a jellyfish beneath a steam roller.  This is the way it is.

As is, either keep your money to yourself or comply with the ridiculous law whilst banking.  Otherwise, you’ll end up a poor inmate somewhere.  It’s kind of like the old highwayman’s motto: “your money or your life.”  Except these robbers write the law.  Now you know.

Interposition, Nullification, and Secession

25 Monday Feb 2013

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Last year I started this humble blog with a short column on the unGodly ObamaCare decision from the Supreme Court, https://perrinlovett.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/the-shared-responsibility-tax-obamacare-a-hit-with-the-supremes-4/.  ObamaCare is not about healthcare for anyone.  It is merely an Insurance Company welfare scheme with taxes that no-one knew were taxes (not even Obama) and bankruptcy-inducing mandates. 

At the end of that early missive I promised to cover possible solutions to the mounting problem of federal tyranny.  Specifically, I named interposition, nullification, and secession as possibilities.  Let’s talk about those now, briefly.

Well, first let’s see how the Republicans did with reversing the law as they boasted they would.  I recall some GOPer saying they would overturn the nightmarish law before the Supremes even got to rule on it.  Didn’t happen.  After the ruling they said they would eliminate the massive tax act before their chosen man, Mittens Romney, the founder of the ObamaCare School of Medicine, won the election.  None of that happened either.  With the nation staring down the barrel of a potentially economy-wrecking gun, they said they would stop the law before it took effect on January 1st of this year.  Having proven themselves to be lying, delusional idiots, we can write off the buffoons of the Elaphantitis party.

Back to my proposals – I’ll take them in the order I first set forth, as that seems to be the hierarchy from least to most extreme.

Interposition

Interposition is a process whereby a State of the American Union declares an Act of Congress or some other federal action to be UnConstitutional and positions itself as a shield between the feds and the citizens of the State.  Wikipedia says that the federal courts have held this an illegitimate theory and that only they have the power of Constitutional review – “Judicial Review.”  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interposition.  Wiki doesn’t mention it by name, but the theory of Judicial Review originated, federally speaking, in the case of Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).   Maybe you’ve heard of this landmark case, students of “Constitutional Law” are taught to revere it.  I was never impressed. 

First, this was one of a shady series of early Supreme Court cases concerning personal profits unfit for court review at all.  Second, if this case did deserve formal investigation and resolution, then such should have been undertaken by the political branches whom the matter concerned anyway.  Third, and most importantly, judicial review by the federal courts is a legal fiction.  Nowhere in the Constitution is the right granted the courts to rule so authoritatively on our laws.  Had the Framers intended such power, they would have written it in; several State Constitutions do grant this power to State Courts (Georgia, for example).

I do not withhold the ability of any court to say a law is UnConstitutional.  Courts should point such out when discovered.  In fact, any branch may make that determination.  President Bush, the Dimmer, said that the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law was UnConstitutional, then signed it anyway.  Before that, obviously, Congress had deliberated on the law and must have sensed its illegality.  Bush remarked that the Supreme Court would have to make the ultimate determination.  They did.  Ironically, the Court essentially said (and rightly) the law concerned only the political branches and since both had approved the measure, they would too out of deference.  I had an outrageously humorous “discussion” about this fiasco with a political celebrity in 2004; I’ll relate that in a future post.  This was a case of government gone wild.  Of the three branches, law-making is the art of Congress; correcting bad laws is also.

Anyone who can read and think can declare a law within or without the bounds of the Constitution.  I do it all the time.  However, my power of enforcement is rather weak to say the least.  The theory of interposition, and that of nullification, comes from the ability of the States to so declare a law.  Their power is greater than mine and their authority is a bit more grounded than that of the Courts.  “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  U.S. Const., Amendment 10.  UnConstitutional laws are those based in authority which is not among those very few expressly Constitutionally delegated powers of the national government ,and thus, are within the purview of the States to affect.  The Tenth Amendment’s reference to “the people” is as fuzzy a concept as anything else in man’s law.  Ultimately, under our form of republican government, the people have the final say on authority as exercised by their voting.  The people prove time and again to be useless guardians of their own liberties.

Interposition was made famous long ago by the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798), which declared the States’ ability to invalidate federal law.  The practice was used to various effect in the 1800’s.  Times have changed dramatically (for the worse) since that Century, with the States giving away a great deal of their former power.  There was also the matter of the war between the States which decided by force and murder, rather than by law, some of these issues. 

Nullification

Nullification is essentially Interposition but with an added declaration by a State or States they will not enforce a federal law or allow enforcement within their territory.  This theory was set forth also by the afore-noted Resolutions.  It has been erroneously dismissed by the courts.  And, it would seem to reside in a previous time.  The theory has raised its head recently though, as it does from time to time.  A few States have begun to void federal laws in principle at least.  Montana, for example, has decided that certain federal firearms laws do not apply within the Montana state lines.  It remains to be seen whether Montana or other modern States will actually take any action necessary to give life to their declarations.

In the old days, States did just that.  The 19th Century was repeat with State and local agents boldly denying the federal government on certain matters.  When a federal agent or officer appeared to enforce a particular objectionable action, the locals would run the fellow out of town on a rail, literally sometimes.  A great read on the subject is Thomas Woods’s Nullification (2010), http://www.amazon.com/Nullification-Resist-Federal-Tyranny-Century/dp/1596981490. 

Again, with the demise of State power and authority in general (see the 16th and 17th Amendments, etc.) the plausibility of nullification seems a dim prospect. 

Secession

Dimmer still, is the ultimate practice of State dissent.  The original 13 colonies of England, once they had declared their independence from the King, became 13 independent nations.  They joined together to fight the Revolutionary War and then entered into a Federation for mutual benefit.  A federation is a group of sovereign entities which come together for some purpose; they remain sovereign.  The Constitution changed none of this.  No language therein makes the federal union permanent and eternally binding upon the member States.

Should a State find itself at unacceptable odds with the central government, it has the power to dissolve its connections and become a completely separate nation again.  Several State assemblies expressly said so when they ratified the Constitution.  This is in complete keeping with the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, just substitute U.S.A. for King George, III. 

Again, and again and again, the States have not only given up power to Washington over the years, they have also become somewhat dependent on D.C. and tend to exhibit a slavish loyalty thereto.  This all renders the prospect of a State succeeding in the 21st Century remote.  There are secessionist movements in some States, like the Free Vermont Republic.  The FVR even has its own flag, but little chance of success. 

There is also the specter of Mr. Lincoln’s illegal war.  The war decided nothing formally or legally.  Wars are not rational undertaking, just pure contests of military power.  Since 1865 the several States have all but abandoned their military power while Washington has assembled the most awesome and dreaded arsenal in the history of mankind.  While secession remains a perfectly legal option, the odds of success do not favor the States.

Where We Are

In today’s political climate none of these three solutions are likely to receive formal discussion by the several States, let alone action.  Deprived of legal and political solutions, what then are we to do? 

Some people with means are beginning to leave the United States for smaller, freer countries.  I do not begrudge them their decisions.  However, I do not like the idea of being run out of my homeland and into a foreign country where, as history dictates, anything can and will happen.  In a way, I would rather stay and face the devil I know here.

There is always the ability of the States or of Congress to call for a new Constitutional Amendment or even a Convention wherein objectionable laws might be remedied.  Amendments are hard to pass these days.  It’s hard to get Congress or the legislature of any State to act productively or intelligently.  Honestly, the idea of a new Constitutional Convention scares me.  While one could hypothetically end with great advances in Liberty, such as returning to the Articles of Confederation or just eliminating the national government completely, I fear, given the weakness of the people and their representatives, we could end up with something far worse.  Imagine 1984, Farenheit 451, Nazi Germany and the old Soviet Union all rolled into one!

Every two years or so the citizens of the States have the opportunity to turn out at least a third of the federal government’s elected morons.  The power to change the government lies with the people by their dismissing representatives who do not do their bidding.  The people must not be aware of this authority or else, they must approve of their government as is.  Options grow thin.

Time will eventually change everything.  5,000 years from now most people living won’t remember the United States.  Given the self-destructive tendencies of our government, it is likely we need not wait that long.  Either way, awaiting the inevitable collapse of leviathan, like expectations of the end of days, is tedious at best.

I’ll see if I can come up with something else more actionable.  You work on it too.

Slavery In America (Part I of III)

24 Sunday Feb 2013

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This is the first in a series of articles about slavery in the United States; I anticipate three entries overall.  In Posse Comitatus, https://perrinlovett.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/posse-comitatus/ (one of my most popular articles despite its considerable length thank you), I briefly mentioned the evil institution of slavery as one of the major problems haunting the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century. 

These three articles are concerned with slavery in the U.S. in the 21st century. 

If you’ve read Gerry Spence’s From Freedom to Slavery, http://www.amazon.com/From-Freedom-To-Slavery-Rebirth/dp/0312143427, you have an idea where I going with this.

At the very end of 1865 the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution, forbidding the practice.  However, slavery has not gone away, it has only changed forms.  It is still as satanic a practice as ever.

The 13th Amendment reads (entirety): “Section 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.  Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

At the time of its adoption, the Amendment was a God-sent blessing for the former black slaves in the South (and the North).  President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (another act of Congress, without an act of Congress) only freed those slaves in the then rebelling southern States as territory was claimed by the federal army.  Its effect was sporadic and when the war concluded there was tremendous speculation whether the effects would last.  Congress reacted by swiftly presenting the Amendment to the States for ratification.  On December 6, 1865 Georgia’s vote finalized this process and the Amendment was proclaimed officially on December 18, 1865.  Mississippi has the dubious distinction of being the last State to ratify – in 1995, although the vote was not reported to Congress until this year, 2013!

History shows that after 1865, segregation and related laws essentially kept the practice alive against blacks, altered only slightly, for the better part of a century.  My focus here is not on history but on the present.  As I said, despite being forbidden, slavery is alive and is growing in the U.S.  It is no longer limited by race or color.  Modern slavery affects the majority of the American people.

In the future installments on this issue I will cover the growth of this new institution and what it means for the modern-day serfs.  The new and widespread form is more insidious than its predecessor.  Herein I will relate to you the existence of one particular kind of slavery which is more directly in line with the ancient practice. 

First, you may be wondering how I could believe in the existence of vile servitude in this era?  You also may ponder, if what I say is true, why people tolerate it?

This first question I hope will be answered during the series.  Mr. Spence’s book is an excellent resource as well on this point.  The second was answered over 2000 years ago by a Roman named Sallust.  Sallust said, of people in general, “Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.”  People do not merely tolerate oppression, many demand it.

Now, I want to talk about a group of people in our country today who have had their choice in the matter decided for them – by unfair, criminal masters.  These unfortunate few are virtually chained and have little chance for freedom without outside intervention.

I’m talking about the victims of “human trafficking.”  This is the term used for modern, actual slavery where people are bought and sold.  It takes many forms, including forced labor and forced organ “donation,” among others.  The type I will focus on is perhaps the most pervasive and morally offensive.  All forms are offensive but this one touches emotions harder than others and it is one I have seen closer than the others.  It is commonly known as “sex trafficking.”

Because of my profession I see many things others may miss.  For instance, I can usually spot a drug addict or a drug dealer.  I can also spot prostitutes.  Unfortunately, I do not have to look far for any of the three.  My weekly routine takes me through the huge intersection of a major Interstate highway (I-20) and a busy, commercialized secondary road.  The junction is only few miles from my house and is the center of what used to be a decent neighborhood.  I say “used to be” because of the horrible decline I have witnessed over the past few decades.  Again, I see (and hear about) things others normally do not.  To an outside observer the area would appear quite normal, prosperous even.  This is the same area where thousands of golf fans and patrons gather every spring for the Masters Tournament.

At first I began to notice an influx of seedy looking characters who walked the streets with seemingly nothing to do.  I’m not passing judgment, just making an observation.  They even established “camps” behind local businesses.  Last Thanksgiving I found one such man passed out drunk on the sidewalk of the afore-mentioned busy road.  At first I thought he was dead.

Then, at some point, I became aware of the working girls, their pimps, and the growth of the local drug trade.  The girls are the easiest to pick out.  Fairly pretty girls don’t constantly hang out at gas stations at all hours and ride off with random strangers.  The area is replete with motels which offer convenient bases of operations.  One finds the pimps loitering about the parking lots, usually drunk or high. 

I have a great deal of sympathy for the girls.  Most of them look like nice, average, American young women.  It’s obvious they come from extreme difficulty and find it anew every day.  In addition to the threats of disease, violence, and arrest, they also face the prospect of unwittingly joining the deeper ranks of the sex trade.  There was an attractive blonde I saw almost every time I passed through for a year or so.  I never saw her after one Masters’ week; I suspect foul play.  Not all of our golf visitors are upstanding gentlemen.  The girls seem pitiful.  The pimps I tend to think of as rats and I have a difficult time keeping my vehicle from squashing them.

The local drug trade is centered in some of the motels, but more prominently in the various apartment complexes behind the motels.  I know this because I have defended several dealers in court and because of my routine dealings with local law enforcement.  The Sheriff’s Department has done a fairly good job of addressing the problem as far as it goes.  However, every bust seems to only stir the dealers and their clients around rather than eliminate them.

Yes, I am a libertarian (not a party Libertarian with a capital “L”) whose general disdain for government borders on anarchic.  Why then do I condemn drugs and prostitution?  I understand the old phrase, “You can’t legislate morality.”  This is true, as drugs and prostitution are currently illegal but continue nonetheless.  Remember this piece is not about the virtue or lack thereof concerning such laws but about victims of slavery.  I, as a freedom lover, do not support drug and other repressive criminal laws.  As a sane man though, I do not support dangerous practices and cultural degeneracy.  Sometimes one bad thing leads to another, maybe worse.  The solution, if it is to be found, is societal.  It rests with the people, not the government.

At any rate, this emerging hotbed of local vice has given rise to a worse and truly criminal element.  Most local people are oblivious to the fact this particular section of metro Augusta, Georgia is, or was, a major center in the sex slave trade.  I know this also from my work.  Local and state authorities, along with the FBI conducted an operation to eliminate the problem a few years ago.  I am not sure if they were successful; these rings tend to be highly mobile and are used to playing cat and mouse with the police. 

The trade is run by disgusting filth that make the average rodent-pimps seem pious by comparison.  They prey on local girls with problems – drug addicts, prostitutes, run-aways, etc.  They also kidnap and import girls from places like Asia and Eastern Europe.  It is a global problem which even the useless at best, craven at worst U.N. has condemned.  Some of the victims are really sold to “owners” while others are forced to work in exploitative fashion in various ignoble jobs.

My direct knowledge of the matter as it is locally connected comes, again, from my legal work.  One of my previous clients was caught by the FBI (mistakenly) during the crackdown.  He had no part in the targeted operation but was participating in a “non-crime” in the wrong place at the worst possible time.  He was turned over to the Sheriff for misdemeanor prosecution.  Given his pathetic plight and the excellence of his lawyer, the poor fellow was set free with no record of conviction. 

The client may have fared well (if embarrassingly) in court, but he must still live with himself and those around him.  His non-crime would have terrible implications for his family, if discovered, and he was truly demoralized about the entire ordeal.  I really believe he will never be in this situation again; I pray he is at peace now.  If you know someone with such a problem, stand up and help.

That is what I mean about The People taking control and care of their lives.  Drug abuse and other problems can be halted if detected early by friends and family.  Of course, in Amerika today, many of us don’t really know our friends that well and families are becoming dis-jointed relics of a bygone era.  Only through individual actions can we hope to fix these problems, We the People.

The people should also push law enforcement to go after real criminals, like sex traffickers (and murderers, arsonists, bansters, and politicians), and stop harassing everyone else.  Unfortunately, as I fear I will convey in the next few segments, and to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson (ironically, a slave owner himself), the people are often poor guardians of their own freedom.

The next two installments will deal with systematic slavery which has nearly all of in its grip.  Get ready to get angry.

Perrin Lovett

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