Putin Would Prefer Hillary

From: GemStatePatriot.com                 by Rich Loudenback
Let us suppose that Vladimir Putin did successfully ‘hack’ election computers in our Presidential election. So now the question really comes down to who he would have preferred dealing with as our next president. Would he have preferred a guy he doesn’t know, whose successful business career has been built on accountability and credible relationships? Or would he prefer the wheeling dealing ethics-deficient treasonous Clintons he knows he can buy off like he did with their obtaining 20% of our Uranium supplies through a company in Canada while Hillary was Secretary of State? The Clintons reportedly raked in $130 million on the deal. It appears political relationships can be surprisingly rewarding and create downright landslide opportunities. What a country!

THERE’S MUCH MORE HILLARY AND PUTIN ‘STUFF’

Is that not rich? Hillary and Bill take massive bribes from Putin cronies to transfer ownership and control over the fuel for our nation’s nuclear power plants (which provide one-fifth of our national electrical energy) and our nuclear weapons to Putin & Company — and then accuse her opponent of being in bed with Putin! Like the brazen thief who makes his getaway by pointing at a random passerby and yelling “Stop! Thief!” Hillary is hoping to distract the American electorate from her own corruption, criminality, and treason by accusing her opponent of the very thing of which she herself is most guilty. That is hardly surprising considering the crime wave that has followed Team Clinton all the way from the governor’s mansion in Little Rock to the White House, to the Senate, to the Clinton Foundation, and on to Foggy Bottom — and beyond. Remember the Clintons and Whitewatergate, Chinagate, Filegate, Fostergate, Travelgate, Troopergate, Lincoln Bedroomgate, Bimbogate, Pardongate, Wacogate, etc., etc., ad nauseum? The Clintons’ penchant for criminality virtually saturated our political vocabulary with new “gate”-suffixed scandals.

“But wait — the Uranium One deal, as important and stunningly corrupt as it may be, is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. As we have been reporting here for years, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been one of Putin’s biggest enablers, facilitating enormous transfers of advanced technology to the Russian regime she now sees as a threat. It was Secretary Clinton, please recall, who, in May 2009, presented Putin’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red “reset” button, and then mugged with Lavrov in a giggly photo-fest celebrating the U.S.-Russian “convergence” agenda. Clinton and Lavrov then served as joint coordinators of the U.S.-Russian Bilateral Presidential Commission established in July of that year by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The annual reports of the Bilateral Presidential Commission are replete with chummy photos of Clinton-Lavrov, Obama-Medvedev, Biden-Putin, etc., as well as details of the many deals worked out to give technology, know-how, capital, and other resources to Moscow.

“Among the many important projects of this type promoted by the Clinton-Lavrov team is the huge Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, which we warned about repeatedly in The New American as far back as 2010 (see, for instance, “‘Breathing Pixie Dust’ Investing in Russia,” August 5, 2010). Putin’s new Skolkovo research and innovation center on the outskirts of Moscow, heralded as “Russia’s Silicon Valley,” is benefiting from billions of dollars of investment and prime technology from Cisco Systems, Boeing, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and other U.S. tech giants, thanks to support and promotion by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.” Unquote from The New American Senior Editor William F. Jasper in his article Who’s in Putin’s Pocket — Clinton or Trump?

Lest We Forget Chinagate, The Most Serious Scandal in US History! – The Clintons should have been convicted of Treason and sent to prison long ago for life for this outrageous treasonous scandal alone. How corrupt is Hillary? See: The Top 100 Most Damaging Wikileaks (so far) She is truly a person that a guy like Putin can prosper from.

ANOTHER MOTIVE FOR RUSSIA TO FAVOR THE CLINTONS

Quoting from an essay on George Soros from a website named DISCOVERTHENETWORKS.ORG – A Political Guide to the Left: “Around the time that George Soros initially launched his Manhattan-based Open Society Foundations, he established what would prove to be a warm and enduring relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton, the new American President and First Lady. When the Clintons took office in early 1993, they faced the daunting task of helping the collapsed Soviet empire rise from its ruins and cultivate a harmonious relationship with the United States. To lead this endeavor, President Clinton appointed three men: Treasury Department official Lawrence Summers, Vice President Al Gore, and soon-to-be State Department official Strobe Talbott. Talbott, in particular, was given a large degree of authority, prompting some observers to dub him as Clinton’s “Russian policy czar.”150 It so happened that Talbot had an exceptionally high regard for the financial expertise of George Soros—describing him as “a national resource, indeed, a national treasure”—and thus he recruited the billionaire to serve as a key advisor on U.S.-Russian matters.151

Yet when you Google: Putin and Clinton there are almost countless pages from the big media spinning that Putin detests Hillary. He actually might detest her but don’t you understand that he knows he can cut favorable deals for himself with her for a price.

A VERY INTERESTING ELEMENT

Smartmatic, a UK based company, is a George Soros-linked company that has provided voting technology in 16 states including battleground zones like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Also see:

— Just amazing!

Once again I hear those legendary words of Coach Vince Lombardi: What the hell is going on here!!!

Heartland Institute: Deluders or The Deluded?

From: GemStatePatriot.com                                                     by Rich Loudenback

Constitutional Reform via Con-Con Promoted

How can an outfit like the Heartland Institute who is on the correct side of so many issues such as opposing Climate Change be so wrong about promoting Constitutional Reform by way of an Article V Constitutional Convention? The question must be asked, “Are they the deluders or the deluded?”

A friend forwarded me an email he received from them introducing their position:

“Cato and Heritage have both done deep dives into the budget, I’m sure you can find their suggestions on their websites. We have not, since our focus is mainly on state issues.

“We’re late to the constitutional reform/ Article V effort, but now fully committed to it. Fear of a run-away convention is unjustified. Check out our webpage on this effort here. We will continue to win battles and lose the war if we don’t use the tools the founders gave us to address exactly this situation – the national government has slipped the bonds created by the founders and has grown all powerful. We have to change the rules, via a balanced budget amendment, repeal of the 16th amendment, term limits, and more, if we are ever to limit the size and power of the federal government. State constitutions requiring balanced budgets and term limits work, and are one reason we are winning at the state level and losing at the national level.”

So I guess it could be said that things are so bad and hopeless in Congress that we creators (the states) of the federal government must assert ourselves by taking the bull by horns and do something even if it might turn out wrong!

WHY IS OPENING AN ARTICLE V CON-CON WRONG TODAY?

Well in the first place, why should anyone believe new amendments and rules will be followed any more than current law? It’s illogical to think that adding or changing rules will compel chronic rule-breakers to follow new rules. What are they going to say…. “We really mean it this time?”

There are many good reasons why for 229 years America hasn’t had a new national constitutional convention (con-con). Historically, Americans have understood that a con-con will set its own rules, its own agenda and can even change the ratification process just like they did in 1787. This is how we got our current Constitution.

$alivating, originating forces of the many different calls really just want the door to a Con-Con opened, understanding full well once they’ve convened they can change anything and everything. These are very devious people with huge amounts of money and clandestine designs for our future who are being followed by the naïve and over trusting.

The proper solution: When followed, the Constitution provides the mechanism and limitations to stop special interest spending that balloons the budget and attracts special interest electioneering.

No risky Constitutional Convention is necessary!

An Article V Constitutional Convention Would Enable Powerful Special Interests to Revise the Constitution in Their Favor!

Legislators should not fall for poker face promises & hyped un-researched proclamations. They need to do the research, the hard work themselves. They owe it to us, their constituents that hired them and all our grandchildren. They should be curious why there are so many different organizations all calling for single issue Con-Con’s?

Idaho Legislators cannot control what will happen if an Article V Constitutional Convention is called. The Congressional Research Service says a likely scenario is that delegate apportionment would be based on the Electoral College model, which would give Idaho FOUR delegates out of 535!

Black’s Law Dictionary is America’s most trusted law dictionary. Its definition of a constitutional convention: “A duly constituted assembly of delegates or representatives of the people of a state or nation for the purpose of framing, revising, or amending its constitution.” Renaming it a “Convention of States” doesn’t change what it is.

Beware of false Constitutionalist. The Federalist Papers are not government documents. Our Constitution reigns. They’re making many assertions about state legislators being in control of the process that are simply not supported by Article V and are disputed by the Congressional Research Service, numerous law professors, constitutional scholars and judges who have warned about the dangers of a modern convention and the damage it could do to our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, OR by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

WHY ARTICLE V WAS CREATED IN THE CONSTITUTION

Our sage founders who knew tyranny first hand also were realists of their day and knew all 13 states would not ratify the Convention’s fine work, the Constitution. So they created Article V and actually used 9 ratifying conventions for that purpose. Today we do not have near the caliber of Constitutional statesmen who understand the Constitution and the purposes for which it was written and they certainly do not adhere to it which is why we have our problems. Today in Congress, we have ‘baggage handlers’ who are loaded down with way too many $PECIAL INTERE$TS at heart influenced by LOBBYI$T$ and coached by their party’s handlers from the Establishment at the Council on Foreign Relations.

WHAT THE CON-CON CONNERS DON’T WANT YOU TO FULLY UNDERSTAND

All the proponents of the Con-Con emphasize very strongly that you should not worry about things going wrong because three-fourths of our state legislatures must ratify the convention bills before they can be signed by the President. They never(or very rarely) acknowledge the big word OR and the six very important words after it: by conventions in three-fourths thereof, …

In this beyond highly politicized world today, who in their right mind would believe convention delegates would send the results to state legislators for endless debate and legal challenges lasting months or maybe years for such ratification? They would select like-minded delegates for ‘safe’ special ratifying conventions with hand-picked members, all with special interest baggage, who will do the convention’s bidding. Legislatures won’t have a chance. Ratifying conventions are the stacked deck these slick designers are counting on and would be a rubber stamp. [FYI – A case in point: Utah’s legislature would not have repealed Prohibition. The rules for Article V were used to pass it through a ratifying Convention.]

Quoting Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. of The New American magazine:

“The various purportedly unrelated efforts by self-professed conservatives, socialists, and progressives to call for a new constitutional convention are moving forward. Many otherwise well-meaning state legislators are falling for their common line that such a convention is the only way to save the Republic.

“The self-professed conservatives, on one hand, insist that if a new convention isn’t held, the growth of the federal government will go on forever until all power is consolidated in Washington, D.C.

“Their socialist and progressive collaborators, however, are pushing for an Article V convention as a means of finally changing all the things they believe are wrong about our form of government.

“Rhetoric and political leanings aside, the result of either scenario is a new Constitution. Of course, the Convention of States (COS), the Compact for America, and other Article V proponents on the right, argue up and down that they are not calling for a new constitutional convention. Then, as if that weren’t enough, they criticize those of us who oppose their movement for being ‘false constitutionalists,’ and for believing that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a ‘runaway’ convention.”

SOME CLARITY ON A RUN-AWAY CONVENTION

It is really amazing that many state representatives and senators can be so naïve or gullible on the con-job of proposing a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con), et al Convention of the States (COS), Assembly of State Legislators (ASL), Compact for America (CFA), Restoring Freedom.Org, Wolf PAC, Single Subject Amendment PAC, etc. As Joe A. Wolverton II, J.D. of The New American magazine states, “Many otherwise well-meaning state legislators are falling for their common line that such a convention is the only way to save the Republic.” And there is not a single word in Article V that connotes a limited or single issue restrictive ability.

Quoting the late Twin Falls, ID former assistant attorney general for the state of Idaho and practicing attorney, George Detweiler:

“United States Supreme Court Justices and the nation’s leading legal scholars have written privately that these single subject limitations cannot be enforced, that if a convention is called it will be free to propose any kind and number of Amendments to the same effect as if the limitations in the applications did not exist. In other words, although the applications are effective, all such limitations must be ignored.”

The late Gerald Gunther, Professor of Law at Stanford University, wrote:

“The fear that a Constitutional Convention could become a ‘runaway’ convention and propose wholesale changes in our Constitution is by no means unfounded. Rather, this broad view of the authority of a convention reflects the consensus of most constitutional scholars who have commented on the issue.”

Former Chief Justice of the United States, the late Warren Berger wrote:

“I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the convention would obey. After a convention is convened it will be too late to stop the convention if we don’ like its agenda.

“Whatever gain might be hoped for from a new Constitutional Convention could not be worth the risk involved. A new convention could plunge our Nation into constitutional confusion and confrontation at every turn, with no assurance that focus would be on the subject needing attention. I have discouraged the idea of a Constitutional Convention, and I am glad to see states rescinding their previous resolutions requesting a convention. In these Bicentennial years, we should be celebrating its long life, not challenging its very existence.”

THE CORRECT ‘FIX’

We don’t have a constitution problem, we have an adherence problem. The ‘fix’ is following law, law enforcement and nullification. These are the real serious efforts that would surely work and needs being done, especially a lot of nullifying of unconstitutional laws & regulations such as Governor Otters nullifying future federal gun laws in the state of Idaho. See the article “Praise Be to Governor Otter“ at GemStatePatriot.com.

Recently the wise legislators of Montana defeated 3 applications for Con-Cons: SJ7 – Convention of the States and HJ3 – Wolf PAC were both killed in committees and HJ4 – Compact for a Balanced Federal Budget was voted down 77 – 23. Utah defeated HJR 3 – The Countermand Amendment and HJR 14 – Convention of the States. And Wyoming stopped SJR4 Convention of the States, HJR 4 Balanced Federal Budget (BBA) failed in the Senate committee and HB75 Compact for America (CFA), Compact for a Balanced Budget (CFBB) failed in Senate committee.

REVEALING FACTS ON APPLICATIONS AND RESCISSIONS

The simple reason there has been rescissions to states’ calls for conventions is that the states eventually came to their senses and recognized the formidable dangers of a convention.

Since applications have been recorded and tracked, there have been over 400 various applications for an Article V convention. 49 of the 50 states have at one or more times filed for an Article V Convention. Idaho has been listed for calls 6 times all the way back to 1910 and a most recent rescission in 1999.

Since 1988, 17* states have rescinded all of their constitutional convention calls after awakening to how fatal a Con-Con could be and the real root interest ($) behind them. Rescinded Con-Con calls: AL 1988, LA 1990, OR 1999, ID 1999, UT 2001, ND 2001, AZ 2003, VA 2004, SC 2004, GA 2004, MT, 2007, OK 2009, WY 2009, NH 2010, SD 2010, and TN 2010. *Actually FL had rescinded its Con-Con calls in 1988, but passed a new BBA Con-Con call in 2010.

Given the numbers of applications, it’s amazing that we’ve been blessed with forthright rescissions prevailing like they have due to awakenings of the fatal dangers a Con-Con would pose to our Constitution if one were called.

So in summary just two points are all you need to understand:

  1. Why should anyone believe new amendments will be followed any more than current law?

and

  1. Who would really believe that a convention would send their bills to state legislatures for ratification for endless debate, filibustering and legal maneuvering into infinity, when the convention can just send their bills to friendly hand-picked like-minded special interest delegates at a special Ratifying Convention, just like Utah did using Article V rules to repeal prohibition.?

It would be very dangerous to take this unnecessary risk that could rewrite the very Constitution that has enabled a greater amount of freedom and prosperity for a greater number of people than any system ever devised by man.

Wrapping this up is a quote from a patriot from Meridian, ID named Bonnie Carter who commented on a previous article of mine on the Con-Con con:

“So we are petitioning the same Government for grievance redress that caused the grievances in the first place. Nullification is already the State ‘Capital S’ Sovereign authority-to exercise for any Federal abuse of power. Henceforth, no Article V is necessary. The people are not a reflection of the Government, the Government is a reflection of the people.”

Dear Donald, Stop Picking Winners and Losers, Please

From: GemStatePatriot.com                by Rich Loudenback

Cut Taxes, All the Regulations and Energy Costs Possible, Negotiate Good Trade Agreements and Quit the Subsidy Insanity

No one wants to see Pres. Elect DJT succeed more than yours truly. Mr. Trump’s, Carrier Air Conditioning project served as a useful tool to make a statement while saving some jobs, but should not be implemented again going forward because that is what Socialist societies do until they expire after running out of other people’s (taxpayers’) money. Subsidies, including state subsidies, which he was fortunate to have available with convenient help of his partner/Vice President elect Mike Pence’s, as current governor of Indiana, giving $7 million of state taxpayers’ money to prop up Carrier, for a while, was no more than a band-aid fix providing an opportunity to show and glow. The statement was very effective but must not continue as an answer to our competitive problems in the world.

On the Young Conservatives Blog, Sarah Palin actually said Trump is using crony capitalism, “When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent… Republicans oppose this, remember? We support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.”

I want to believe in The Donald and currently fully support his honest intentions but am worried about his comprehension of how to best accomplish his goals in total keeping with our Constitution and free marketplace accountability. Governments cannot give money to certain industries, businesses or people without first taxing citizens to obtain the money. This means that all government subsidies come with the hidden cost of taxation. Ultimately, taxpayers will have to pay higher taxes in order to fund government subsidy programs.

Government, federal or state, it doesn’t matter, should never subsidize any private sector endeavor. There are always ramifications and offsetting effects including the cost like this subsidy being born from taxpayers’ coffers and the fact that it always unsettles competition. Hard contract loans are another thing. They can turn a tidy interest profit. However since many don’t this endeavor of government financing should really be left to the private sector. See: Bailout Recipients (In this report dated Nov. 16th, 2016 notice GM still has not repaid its debt to the U.S. Government. It still owes us over $11 billion dollars.)

CASE IN POINT: THE GM DEBACLE

Back in 2010, it was interesting to see how Fact Check.org reported on GM’s TV ads announcing GM repaid its bailout loan in full with interest, 5 years ahead of schedule, “Many readers have asked us about the White House-touted news that General Motors, and Chrysler, repaid loan money from the Treasury Department, with interest, ahead of schedule. GM launched an ad boasting of the news, and President Obama talked about it in his weekly address on April 24.

“We wrote about this, too, on April 26 in a review of the Sunday political talk shows. Here’s the deal for those who missed that post:

“Yes, it’s true that GM paid back its loan from the Treasury Department, in full, ahead of schedule.

“But the debt was only part of the automaker bailout package. Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Treasury gave GM $49.5 billion, most of which was converted into an ownership stake in the form of stock. Through this equity stake, the government still owns 61 percent of GM.

“Some Republicans, including Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa have pointed out that GM used TARP money to pay back its TARP debt. That’s true, but GM simply handed back TARP money it had been lent and hadn’t used. Those funds had been sitting in an escrow account, should the automaker need them. (The company didn’t borrow new money to pay back an older loan.)” – Unquote Fact Check

Actually the government sold its shares of GM stock in 2013 at a $10.5 billion loss as was reported in Automotive News.com.:“The U.S. Treasury on Monday sold its last shares of General Motors stock, ending more than four years of government ownership in the nation’s largest automaker at a loss of about $10.5 billion to U.S. taxpayers.

“The government said in a statement that it recouped $39 billion of its original $49.5 billion investment into GM. Company executives and dealers say that the stigma of federal ownership, which earned GM the derisive nickname “Government Motors,” has hurt sales.” – MY comment, AMAZING!!! And don’t you know, left to its deserved fate, GM would have eventually been picked up or reconfigured by another company like Chrysler was.

THE SUBSIDIES AND BAILOUTS MUST STOP HERE

We can’t stand any more of this nonsensical picking out companies to save with taxpayer funds, and there are many more of them who need help. It not only doesn’t work but it is killing us. For instance, see: Solyndra alone, lost forever, over $500 million in loans, ‘Obama Clean Energy Loans Leave Taxpayers In $2.2 Billion Hole‘ and ‘Where Did the ‘TRILLIONS’ in TARP, TALC and Federal Reserve Bank Bailout Funds Go?‘

The best way to help Carrier and all other American businesses is through savings in tax reductions, eliminating strangulating regulatory and energy costs, insurance reform, and cleaning up the Department of Labor’s unconstitutional rules implemented by Obama through his minion, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez that ran up costs of manufacturing.

Additional help to our businesses would be to kill the incredibly expensive rip-off to businesses by the ObamaCare mess and re-negotiating trade imbalances that we are getting stiffed on from NAFTA and the extremely deceitful act Mr. Trump has promised to kill known as TPP (in which incidentally, there are no good parts, only controlling tentacles on an agreement that is called a living breathing document meaning it can and would be amended. Count on it!)

MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT AND SO LITTLE TIME

It would truly be wonderful if President Elect Donald Trump could search for ways to eradicate as many as possible of the political rats of Washington DC called lobbyists whose special interests’ purpose in being, usually results in counter-productivity to our most competitive free enterprise market system.

A smart way to ‘rid’ a lot of them and their influential money in Washington (only to have them resurface in our state legislatures) is for the overdue repealing of Amendment 17. That would be wonderful and Mr. Trump would be lauded by statehouses and patriotic citizens across the land for a very long time. Having our Senators voted on by the people as the result of Amendment 17 took away a very important aspect of our system as a Republic. State legislators should have control by voting for them so US Senators are truly representing state legislatures’ interests. Eliminating Amendment 17, alone, would help him with much of that important swamp draining.

AND FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN’S SAKE BE AWARE OF THE CFR

Lastly I wish that someone would get Mr. Trump a clear understanding about what the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) is really all about so he would be ‘heads-up’ aware of them and all their members. His following picks for appointments or as candidates so far are CFR members: Kathleen Troia (KT) McFarland – selected as deputy national security adviser, Elaine Chao(married to Mitch McConnell) – selected as Secretary of Transportation, David Petraeus and John Bolton – candidates for Sec. of State, Stephen Hadley – candidate for Sec. of Defense and Robert E. Grady – candidate for EPA Administrator.

‘Who the Establishment Really Is’ by yours truly, reveals the CFR in their own words about their actual goals to transform us into a one world government. We would become a member state of that Government which would be run by accountable, unelected global elitists who purport to know what’s best for everyone about everything.

We should pray that President Elect Donald J. Trump learns as much as he can about the Constitution, its authentic roles for our three branches of government and all the revealing truth about CFR’s actual objectives for our country.

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

Crave ‘Truth and Reality’

From: GemStatePatriot.com                                                  by Rich Loudenback

 

The majority of Americans today are utterly clueless about ‘truth and reality’ while accepting the skillfully presented poisonous lies being fed us from the propagandists in the education sector, big media news and the entertainment industry that don’t square with actual facts. Also, Americans are entirely too trusting of all elected politicians. Believe nothing they say, but know what they actually do and how they vote. Know truth and live in reality.

Listlessness abounds and ‘tuning out’ on our responsibilities as the stewards of our government has become the norm. It is ourgovernment and we are not running it. The Barbarians are not at the gate, they are in the house! As Americans with ownership responsibilities, too many of our inattentive citizens have become, in a figure of speech, ‘fat, lazy and mindless.’

OUR REPUBLIC AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Americans must rediscover or learn that ‘we are supposed to be the rulers of our Republic.’ We are not serfs in a kingdom yet and we are not a Democracy! I repeat, America is not a Democracy, we are a Republic! In a Democracy the will of the majority rules the country, there is no limit to what that will may be. Even laws that deny certain basic human rights may be enacted as long as it is the will of the majority. The minority must acquiesce to the rule of the majority, there is no protection for the minority in a democracy. If the majority becomes of a particular sect, racial or religious, and they want your house or your community, you are screwed. All democracies in history have failed because of the greed of those majorities. Remember our Pledge of Allegiance: It states “…and to the Republic, for which it stands…” As a Republic, we are a nation of laws.

Although we choose our elected representatives by a majority vote, we are ruled by the Constitution and Constitutional laws those representatives create in our Republic.

Our nation’s founding fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President and Vice President by a vote in Congress and their election by a popular vote of qualified citizens to assure that both a mere majority-rule will not necessarily prevail like it would in a democracy and to assure even the smallest states have representation. It reconciles differing state and federal interests, providing a degree of popular participation in the election, giving the less populous states some additional leverage in the process by providing “senatorial” electors, preserving the presidency as independent of Congress, and generally insulating the election process from political manipulation.

WHERE OUR PROBLEMS BEGIN

Our problems begin with that we are not being represented by true patriots that follow their oaths to our Constitution which they swore to uphold. Most our elected office holders are oblivious to the fact that they are not in office to tax our businesses and we citizens to death and create so many rules for us to live by regulating every aspect of our lives and restraining our businesses’ ability to compete with other nations’ businesses that operate unfettered from such strangulating handicaps.

Legislatures today operate as legislative mills wrongly trying to right every wrong, solve every problem, create new projects, answer every whim, and generally feel good about keeping busy doing ‘work for their constituents,’ while naively being manipulated by professional lobbyists and to the drumbeat of the Establishment. Our legislators are most certainly not there to spend more money than our citizens pay in taxes no matter what their justification which usually has an underlying basis from special interests: Be damned the Constitution, ledger accountability and reality!

The landslide overreach of big government‘s meting out of overwhelming laws, regulations, rules and taxes has reached a high level of insanity and is about to bury us as surely as something really bad is about to befall that proverbial frog that better get out of that pot of water quickly before it comes to a boil.

WHOSE FAULT IS IT?

Again, it is our fault! It is the fault of ‘we citizens’ for not paying attention to these irresponsible elected officials that commit the heinous crime of violating their oaths to the Constitution and ‘our public trust’ and allowing them to remain in office as sure as we would be guilty of allowing known criminals to continue robbing banks. We are ignoring reality. Our tax money should be used for purposes only delegated by federal and state Constitutions, and oaths to those Constitutions must be upheld. Most government programs and government goodies are simply power tools. Socialist Democrats and Neo-con Republicans have never seen anything they didn’t want to run with their ‘better ideas’ and their ‘remember what we did for you’ at the polls mantra. Remember, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

THE SICKNESS IN EDUCATION

“Our progressive educational leaders have learned how to deceive parents and the taxpaying public and get away with it. They know that the children are powerless to resist their abuse. And they know how to blame academic failure on the children and not themselves. Indeed, they revel in the idea that they are, as Obama put it, ‘fundamentally transforming America’ to be more in line with their totalitarian views. Only an enlightened public, will be able to put a stop to this degradation of American education.” — Samuel Blumenfeld & Alex Newman in their book ‘Crimes of the Educators’

THE LIES AND SPIN OF THE MEDIA

“The mainstream media’s economic coverage is routinely muddied, ill-informed and inaccurate. Too often, it seems, those in the news business who report on the economy don’t have a solid grounding in economics. But more disturbing is that with taxes and the economy, as with so many other issues, the media care less about the truth than about the political agenda they are trying to further. Rather than offering Americans balanced, objective reporting, the news media serve as flacks for the Democratic Party.” — Brent Bozell, III in his book ‘Weapons of Mass Distortion’

HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA

“As a nation, we no longer believe that popular culture enriches our lives. Few of us view the show business capital as a magical source of uplifting entertainment, romantic inspiration or even harmless fun. Instead, tens of millions of Americans now see the entertainment industry as an all-powerful enemy, an alien force that assaults our most cherished values and corrupts our children. The dream factory has become the poison factory.” — Michael Medved in his book ‘Hollywood vs. America’

KrisAnne Hall in her book Sovereign Duty states about teaching history, “We must heed the warning of history and make every effort to pass on the gift of Liberty to future generations. We cannot do that if we lose our history. Too often history is revised in ways that demean America’s founders and undermine America’s foundation. By allowing lies to be taught to our sons and daughters, we dishonor those who gave so much, and Liberty is put in peril.

“Every single branch of the United States government, regardless of the party in control, has failed us and has failed its duty to uphold the Constitution. So where do we go? Where does the solution lie? Certainly there is no single magic bullet, but there is a framework within which the most powerful solutions can be found.

“Make no mistakes, the principles that built America were centuries in the making. The framers used hard-won wisdom to lay the foundation of one of the most prosperous and free nations in human history. Yet, some of the most significant blocks of truth have been ripped from the foundation of our understanding and as a result, the great house that is America is being torn down brick by brick. It’s time to rebuild and we must start with the foundation. So, get your boots on. This job is shovel-ready. It’s time to get to work. It’s time to do our sovereign duty.” — Unquote, KrisAnne Hall.

WHY WE MUST BE VIGILANT

The enduring influence of the education, big media and Hollywood sectors are affecting change in America as effectively as that boiling pot of water is on the poor frog. People are too trusting, not paying attention and denying reality staring them in the face. We are going away rapidly as a great nation and our sovereignty is on constant attack by the deceitful Establishment and their U.N. comrades who would take us to the status of a member nation of a world government run by unaccountable, unelected global elitist “who know best for everybody about everything.”

WHAT WE MUST DO

Americans must quit denying reality and seek real vetted truth in their news. I strongly suggest The New American.com for vetted truth that can be counted on. They publish six to twelve new articles a day on the hottest issues confronting America.

So seek verified news and study issues. Then study voting records at the Freedom Index in Washington D.C at The New American.com/freedom-index on how Congress votes with the U.S. Constitution. In Idaho check the Idaho Freedom Index at IdahoFreedomIndex.com, which is an aggregation of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s non-partisan analysis and rating of bills voted on by the Idaho Legislature during each legislative session. After studying these voting indices inform others and cull the vermin at the voting booth.

Two further quotes to wrap this up:

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” — Edmund Burke