My current understanding, subject to more research, is that police and sheriffs and National Guard are deputized federal military agents of the President as Commander in Chief, operating through FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security, during the current emergency/state of war (from whenever it began, whether Civil War, 1933, 1972 or some other date).
They have no obligations to protect and defend ordinary people and our lives, liberties and property. Many of them do not know this.
By way of Melvin Stamper, 2008, Fruit from a Poisonous Tree, at p. 236.
First, under emergency powers, there must be an active and visible occupation of the land by armed troops of the entity that declares emergency powers. This is called “open and notorious, armed and hostile, occupation of the land.” Is there an armed occupation of America? The answer, of course, is, Yes!
Under the guise of national emergencies (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc.), all National Guard units were federalized, and all policemen, firemen, highway patrol, state marshals and county sheriffs have been placed under control of the Guard since 1972.
They are all under the control of Federal Emergency Management Agency, called the Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force, which centralizes military and law enforcement power under the Federal government and the Commander-in-Chief, the President.
Though law enforcement officers may not know it, they are in fact a force occupying the land for the Federal government. Our own neighbors hold us the people hostage.
The reason why active duty Federal forces are stationed in all National Guard Armories is obvious – to sustain the emergency powers control of the states and counties by the Federal government and to maintain martial rule in the hands of the President as Commander in Chief. By these means the Federal martial rule government maintains “open, notorious, and hostile, armed occupation of the land.”
Military law recognizes only municipal law. So, states had to create municipal courts to punish “infractions” of Motor Vehicle Codes. Such courts fly the flag of the Commander-in-Chief (solid fringed flag), as they are really an arm or an extension of the power of the President.
Their primary function is to collect war reparations through fines, penalties, etc. They all operate as quasi-military courts using summary court martial proceedings. This is why such courts try only matters of fact and why judges make and declare law on a case-by-case basis, without the controls of precedent or constitutional restrictions.
Municipal Court judges do this because they act for the Commander-in- Chief in the field under emergency conditions. Judges make any decision to resolve the case under Doctrines of Necessity. In such courts, the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, and civil stare decisis are not permitted.
Under emergency powers the final authority is always the chief military commander, who in this nation is the Commander-in-Chief, i.e., the military office of the President of the United States. This accounts for Executive Order landslides since F.D.R., who first declared – openly – his seizure of Emergency Powers in March 1933, again, by Executive Orders. Executive Orders have the force and effect of law when published in the Federal Register, and by this means they become “Public Policy.” "
Wow, this explains so much of how a lot of this tyranny is happening. Thank you so much for the informative reply! I'm going to have to read this a couple more times to digest it all. So then the next obvious question is, how can we change any of this? Was it a legal action when they put all law enforcement, etc under the control of the Nat. Guard? I was under the impression that the county sheriffs are elected by the citizens, and thought they were somewhat accountable to the people.
Yep - and NOTHING would make AS much MORE clear, than a GLOBAL effort to VASTLY raise awareness of the PATRIA's sinking - ATTEMPTED of U.S.S. Liberty, TOO.....
Medical Tyranny is Fascism...and America is a Republic. It has no place in our country. At the end of WW11 The Nuremberg Code spelled it out...no medical treatments to ever be forced on anyone. Those who had done medical experiments were executed.
Most of the men and women who conducted the WWII atrocities were never punished.
And many of them were brought to the US by the US Government, through Operation Paperclip, and installed in academic and government positions to continue their genocide and enslavement research and programs.
Yep. And here in Japan, I'd just as soon forget Unit 731 ... but at my own peril. The same sociopathic mindset has always been a small, but salient part of human nature. God save us from ourselves.
.....we MUST keep REMINDING ourselves: it NEED not NECESSARILY be SO, Steven - again, ENTIRELY removed of RELIGIOUS conditions - HAVE to KEEP faith, IN same.....there is NO actual SEPARATION between us as humans (AND other life); it's ALL illusory.....
Agreed Hamish. We are but a part of 'nature in its entirety' ... a definition of god that was espoused by the likes of Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Einstein ... and here in a secular land of a thousand gods, most Japanese who are educated enough to articulate their take on human nature.
That being said, we will not be the first, or last, 'apex' species to go the way of the dinosaurs. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr put it more bluntly in his debate with Carl Sagan regarding the Fermi paradox. The first 3 paragraphs are enough to get the gist of his argument ... https://chomsky.info/20100930/
Yeah. Stephen Hawkins had a similar mind-set https://apnews.com/article/be53fc24c4ff476f929237d042125621 While I agree that we have degraded the environment, and can't expect unlimited growth with limited natural resources ... I question the degree to which we can effect climate (though those black-ops planes are trying awfully hard with their chem-trails). And a maltusian solution is morally repugnant, playing right into the hands of the sociopaths among us.
I really don't know the way out. But the unnaccounable who strike the pose of knowing, just for the sake of personal power ... have got to go. If not soon, future generations will find homo sapiens, only another layer of fossils upon the dinosaurs.
You are so right. Our government brought criminals here! "When shall all men's good, be each man's rule..." Tennyson. It is unthinkable that so many in our government use our assets to destroy humanity. The vaccine industry using mercury and aluminum in their vile products have lowered the mentality of many over the last seven decades. Was this part of the "Solution?" Turn people into robots following the commands of the leaders?
Yup. Communists, Corporatists, Fascits, Authoritarians. Kind of hard to put them into one ideology. Although there is some risk of the fundamental attribution fallacy, I am leaning towards believing some people are just genetically predisposed towards Cluster B / dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and born to the bone psychopaths among us. We see them in the family closet, on the Boards of Directors, and gravitating towards any zero-sum game — concentration of power they think they can win. They were born playing 'king of the mountain', and have neither the willingness nor capacity to see the world in any other way. If they did not cause so much harm to the innocent, I'd almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Hi Steven: Thanks for the facts and information. My husband and his Mother came from a Communist Country to US and became US Citizens. She was a Medical Doctor (Surgeon) in
Hungary. She refused to become Communist and saw what the ultimate end would be, if they stayed. His Father was a Contractor and had his business Nationalized 4 times. The last time was too stressful and he died of a heart attack at age 50. The Communist came one day to his
grandparents' farm and gave them 24 hours to get out. I couldn't even imagine that in my mind. That's why he will never give up his guns.
They had to leave his grandparents behind and all their belongings. They came to the US with
$20 and 2 suitcases. With a lot of work and determination his Mother became a Doctor in the
US and eventually opened a small practice of her own. Thanks for sharing :-) Take Care
Died at 50? State sponsored murder. And it is happening now. I am sorry to hear how hard a time your family had, but on the other hand, maybe only those who've experienced it, or had immediate friends or family experience it, can understand what is happening world-wide now. Otherwise 'intelligent' people are still buying into the state propaganda ... and without knowing they are signing their own death warrant.
My own story is not quite as harsh ... born to a German warbride and American military dad, I grew up in the relative comfort of rural North Carolina before moving to Japan 40 years ago. I was once a tenured Associate Prof. at a Japanese College, and ran the biology labs at Temple University Japan for close to 20 years. Now, I am supplementing a dwindling pension with minimum-wage contract work for public schools in West Tokyo.
Naive in thinking that simply doing my duty as a good teacher would be recognized and rewarded ... I am still single, living from month to month, and not able to even afford the considerable cost it takes to move to a cheaper apartment. If not for a couple of very close Japanese friends, I would have emulated a former colleague and committed suicide a long time ago. Now, even though it is just a job to most of my colleagues, it is the school kids that keep me going.
One. Day. At. A. Time.
The kids, a number of friends I can count on one hand, and a few like-minded writers on substack and Facebook.
America WAS a Republic. Long ago... It has devolved into the corporatist fascist state that is the world's premier terrorist nation since the mid-1800s. Things are now accelerating toward the Abysss and nothing can change the course... Hopefully, the far side of collapse will witness something better emerging from the ashes.
But, with COVID, medical treatments were forced on people. When and how will these people who committed these crimes (mainly in the healthcare field for the money) be held accountable?
When the Republicans take back the House in January is it just going to be hearings that go nowhere. Will it end up being just another time waster?
Lynn, people must put pressure on their representatives. These people are paid to represent us and should vote according to what we want...not lobbyists. President Trump wanted to get rid of lobbyists who are financially influencing our representative's votes. This is corruption! Everyone needs to keep calling and writing their representatives and tell them either vote as we wish or get out! I just wrote Romney and told him what i thought for voting for the Dis-Respect for Marriage Act.
I hear you. That's what I've been doing. It doesn't matter. We can contact our Representatives and Senators to no avail. They want us to believe we are doing something. By the stolen
2020 and 2022 Elections, We The People, really have Voting Power, REALLY.. (NOT)
What a joke, Dr. Oz immediately calls Lurch Fetterman and says it's yours. What an oxymoron.
Dr. Oz bows to a physically unable candidate who can't function verbally or mentally. Is Dr. Oz
really a serious physician or just a TV Show Personality :-( Bet, he gets his show back on TV.
He and Oprah had a BIG laugh. I knew Dr. Oz was a plant from the start.
The single, most distressing question no one wants to contemplate: Has the U.S. Constitution already been terminated?
We have a guest post today from the great constitutional attorney John Whitehead, who strikes at the core of the situation facing America and by extension the entirety of the formerly Free World. He poses the question no one wants to ask, let alone try to answer. Article continues
Wow Katherine ... I see the cross-disciplinary philosophy major in you.
If quoting from Frank Zappa weren't enough to put a wry smile on my face,, finding something straight out of the pathological narcissist's playbook ("when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.") ... did the trick. Bullseye.
Now making more of a long overdue habit of reading you, and sharing what I can in private Facebook groups.
Cheers from Japan Katherine.
p.s. Just got back from a walk to the local convenience store for lunch, and couldn't help but to think of what Howard Zinn would have said, or those whom he gave voice. Maybe a horse of another color would have heard 'Constitutional Republic' and given a horse laugh to echo through long forgotten canyons.
My jaw dropped so hard I think it shattered. The simplicity of the principle, as stated, clarifies a lot. And the “mirroring effect” completes the circle.
DoctorRamani's YouTube podcasts (and to some degree A. Lobaczewski's book, 'Political Ponerology') also confirm Katherine was right on the money. One of her better podcasts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpjYtAB9i2w&t=189s
It is indeed DD. We are 'gifted' to have enough of the right information to make sense of it all, cursed with an even greater amount of information running the gamut from the merely mistaken to unimaginably malicious evil.
Despite it all ... cheers, and keep up the good fight!
I appreciate the art. I remember walking into Sta Maria del Populo and putting a lira in the box, June 2001, to have the Carravagios light up. It was a moment of illumination of a moment of illumination!!!
I am so overwhelmed by information that I had no idea of before today--to know that by 1973, at least a few US Senators understood that this country had been run under a continuous “state of emergency” for 40 years, and were actively looking for pathways out from under the resulting executive branch dictatorship, to know that our government signed on to a UN Genocide agreement that would allow outside governments to reduce our population... I've probably got this only partially right but close enough to be really disturbing. I thank you for so intelligently tracking this information down across the many years that these plans have been being laid. Few would have the tenacity. It is highly disturbing--most especially because it looks like the other branches of our government appear to have no power to stop this march forward to lay our country at the feet of the WEF. What appears to have stopped them so far is our legal system and guns. What do you say about that?
And you highlight the exact right point. The assumption of power in the people's hands (and I would say not actually an assumption, it's a right and claim) for the good of the people and the country, that's when it's game over and the work of rebuilding starts. Thank you.
Aloha. I'm reminded of my friend Pastor Jim Kimmell of Maui who told me that 1 - infinity. That each of us are holograms of the whole thing and that I / you / we have enormous power in reserve.
Thinking of Pastor Jim I testified to the Hawai'i County Police Commission yesterday with some ideas about choosing a new Chief of Police for the island, a rare and important opportunity we're going through right now. My thought is that an enlightened Chief of Police, a really terrific, constitutionally minded, sincere and strong-centered person could, would and should help to make things right here. How could they help us to defend, neutralize and overcome against the giant wave of globalist tyranny sweeping the world?
The Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates is one idea. It teaches that when a superior or higher ranking authority makes an unjust or immoral law, policy or court ruling - the lower or lesser ranking civil authority has both the (God-given?) right and the duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority; and, if necessary, to actively resist the superior authority.
Hope springs eternal.
May unexpected blessings and love keep coming to you and from you.
History is a dark mandelbrot of emerging fractals. Or maybe 'submerging' is a more appropriate term for the fall of yet another 'Tower of Babel' ... or is that 'babble'?
When I was still in a tenured position at Jissen Women's College, I would begin the academic year in some classes (e.g. Comparative Culture) with a 1 minute sketch of Plato's Allegory of the Cave on the white board (being careful not to give out who made it or when) have the students form groups, and discuss and present their judgement of whether it applies to contemporary Japan.
After their presentations, I give the big reveal of who, when, and why ... and most were generally shocked. For the last class of the academic year, I would draw the same sketch on the board, have them group up, and discuss its relevance today. But I ended the class with my message that allegory is a form of art. And 'good' art is a mirror.
I gave them a moment of silence to look in the mirror, and consider how much they had changed, if at all, by comparing a memory of their first contact with Plato's Myth of Cave, and what will probably be their final contact.
If nothing else, it helped complete a circle for me, as a reminder as to why I became an educator to begin.
......it TOO, every BIT as much a dualistic (or should I say, 'duElistic') CONTRIVANCE of his HANDLERS, theirs as WELL.....the late Antony Sutton was SWIFTLY whistled DOWN at a HOOVER Institute interview for asking WHY military aid was being PROVIDED them even one half-CENTURY later.....
I've seen persuasive arguments that people who are attempting to reveal true information to the public pretend to be crackpots and fiction writers to protect themselves from being arrested, tortured and/or killed by those they expose. David Icke and Malachi Martin spring to mind.
What's more interesting to me is the plausibility of the content of the document, when reviewed alongside the government acts directly observable in the last three years.
Brilliant analysis, Katherine! We need substackers and others to spread the succinct phrasing you used. Everyone must come together and spread the same message. The divisive infighting I am seeing must stop.
They could not have done any of this without the enforcement arm of the law. Has anyone looked into the legal structure of the police? Who pays them?
My current understanding, subject to more research, is that police and sheriffs and National Guard are deputized federal military agents of the President as Commander in Chief, operating through FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security, during the current emergency/state of war (from whenever it began, whether Civil War, 1933, 1972 or some other date).
They have no obligations to protect and defend ordinary people and our lives, liberties and property. Many of them do not know this.
By way of Melvin Stamper, 2008, Fruit from a Poisonous Tree, at p. 236.
https://www.scribd.com/document/452815986/Fruit-from-a-poisonous-tree-pdf
"Evidences of Emergency Powers
First, under emergency powers, there must be an active and visible occupation of the land by armed troops of the entity that declares emergency powers. This is called “open and notorious, armed and hostile, occupation of the land.” Is there an armed occupation of America? The answer, of course, is, Yes!
Under the guise of national emergencies (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc.), all National Guard units were federalized, and all policemen, firemen, highway patrol, state marshals and county sheriffs have been placed under control of the Guard since 1972.
They are all under the control of Federal Emergency Management Agency, called the Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force, which centralizes military and law enforcement power under the Federal government and the Commander-in-Chief, the President.
Though law enforcement officers may not know it, they are in fact a force occupying the land for the Federal government. Our own neighbors hold us the people hostage.
The reason why active duty Federal forces are stationed in all National Guard Armories is obvious – to sustain the emergency powers control of the states and counties by the Federal government and to maintain martial rule in the hands of the President as Commander in Chief. By these means the Federal martial rule government maintains “open, notorious, and hostile, armed occupation of the land.”
Military law recognizes only municipal law. So, states had to create municipal courts to punish “infractions” of Motor Vehicle Codes. Such courts fly the flag of the Commander-in-Chief (solid fringed flag), as they are really an arm or an extension of the power of the President.
Their primary function is to collect war reparations through fines, penalties, etc. They all operate as quasi-military courts using summary court martial proceedings. This is why such courts try only matters of fact and why judges make and declare law on a case-by-case basis, without the controls of precedent or constitutional restrictions.
Municipal Court judges do this because they act for the Commander-in- Chief in the field under emergency conditions. Judges make any decision to resolve the case under Doctrines of Necessity. In such courts, the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, and civil stare decisis are not permitted.
Under emergency powers the final authority is always the chief military commander, who in this nation is the Commander-in-Chief, i.e., the military office of the President of the United States. This accounts for Executive Order landslides since F.D.R., who first declared – openly – his seizure of Emergency Powers in March 1933, again, by Executive Orders. Executive Orders have the force and effect of law when published in the Federal Register, and by this means they become “Public Policy.” "
Wow, this explains so much of how a lot of this tyranny is happening. Thank you so much for the informative reply! I'm going to have to read this a couple more times to digest it all. So then the next obvious question is, how can we change any of this? Was it a legal action when they put all law enforcement, etc under the control of the Nat. Guard? I was under the impression that the county sheriffs are elected by the citizens, and thought they were somewhat accountable to the people.
Both sides of WWII, like two wings of the one bird, were funded by the same globalist elites and corrupt banksters.
Yep - and NOTHING would make AS much MORE clear, than a GLOBAL effort to VASTLY raise awareness of the PATRIA's sinking - ATTEMPTED of U.S.S. Liberty, TOO.....
Medical Tyranny is Fascism...and America is a Republic. It has no place in our country. At the end of WW11 The Nuremberg Code spelled it out...no medical treatments to ever be forced on anyone. Those who had done medical experiments were executed.
Most of the men and women who conducted the WWII atrocities were never punished.
And many of them were brought to the US by the US Government, through Operation Paperclip, and installed in academic and government positions to continue their genocide and enslavement research and programs.
Dr. Josef Mengele fled to South America.
Yep. And here in Japan, I'd just as soon forget Unit 731 ... but at my own peril. The same sociopathic mindset has always been a small, but salient part of human nature. God save us from ourselves.
.....we MUST keep REMINDING ourselves: it NEED not NECESSARILY be SO, Steven - again, ENTIRELY removed of RELIGIOUS conditions - HAVE to KEEP faith, IN same.....there is NO actual SEPARATION between us as humans (AND other life); it's ALL illusory.....
Agreed Hamish. We are but a part of 'nature in its entirety' ... a definition of god that was espoused by the likes of Spinoza, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Einstein ... and here in a secular land of a thousand gods, most Japanese who are educated enough to articulate their take on human nature.
That being said, we will not be the first, or last, 'apex' species to go the way of the dinosaurs. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr put it more bluntly in his debate with Carl Sagan regarding the Fermi paradox. The first 3 paragraphs are enough to get the gist of his argument ... https://chomsky.info/20100930/
Despite it all, cheers.
Ooops ... Gotta get back to work.
(sigh)
Hi Whisk.
Yeah. Stephen Hawkins had a similar mind-set https://apnews.com/article/be53fc24c4ff476f929237d042125621 While I agree that we have degraded the environment, and can't expect unlimited growth with limited natural resources ... I question the degree to which we can effect climate (though those black-ops planes are trying awfully hard with their chem-trails). And a maltusian solution is morally repugnant, playing right into the hands of the sociopaths among us.
I really don't know the way out. But the unnaccounable who strike the pose of knowing, just for the sake of personal power ... have got to go. If not soon, future generations will find homo sapiens, only another layer of fossils upon the dinosaurs.
Cheers Whisk, and keep up the good fight.
steve
You are so right. Our government brought criminals here! "When shall all men's good, be each man's rule..." Tennyson. It is unthinkable that so many in our government use our assets to destroy humanity. The vaccine industry using mercury and aluminum in their vile products have lowered the mentality of many over the last seven decades. Was this part of the "Solution?" Turn people into robots following the commands of the leaders?
Thus, the Communists within, waiting for the BIG moment to come out of hiding.
Hi Lynn.
Yup. Communists, Corporatists, Fascits, Authoritarians. Kind of hard to put them into one ideology. Although there is some risk of the fundamental attribution fallacy, I am leaning towards believing some people are just genetically predisposed towards Cluster B / dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and born to the bone psychopaths among us. We see them in the family closet, on the Boards of Directors, and gravitating towards any zero-sum game — concentration of power they think they can win. They were born playing 'king of the mountain', and have neither the willingness nor capacity to see the world in any other way. If they did not cause so much harm to the innocent, I'd almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Hi Steven: Thanks for the facts and information. My husband and his Mother came from a Communist Country to US and became US Citizens. She was a Medical Doctor (Surgeon) in
Hungary. She refused to become Communist and saw what the ultimate end would be, if they stayed. His Father was a Contractor and had his business Nationalized 4 times. The last time was too stressful and he died of a heart attack at age 50. The Communist came one day to his
grandparents' farm and gave them 24 hours to get out. I couldn't even imagine that in my mind. That's why he will never give up his guns.
They had to leave his grandparents behind and all their belongings. They came to the US with
$20 and 2 suitcases. With a lot of work and determination his Mother became a Doctor in the
US and eventually opened a small practice of her own. Thanks for sharing :-) Take Care
Hi Lynn,
Died at 50? State sponsored murder. And it is happening now. I am sorry to hear how hard a time your family had, but on the other hand, maybe only those who've experienced it, or had immediate friends or family experience it, can understand what is happening world-wide now. Otherwise 'intelligent' people are still buying into the state propaganda ... and without knowing they are signing their own death warrant.
My own story is not quite as harsh ... born to a German warbride and American military dad, I grew up in the relative comfort of rural North Carolina before moving to Japan 40 years ago. I was once a tenured Associate Prof. at a Japanese College, and ran the biology labs at Temple University Japan for close to 20 years. Now, I am supplementing a dwindling pension with minimum-wage contract work for public schools in West Tokyo.
Naive in thinking that simply doing my duty as a good teacher would be recognized and rewarded ... I am still single, living from month to month, and not able to even afford the considerable cost it takes to move to a cheaper apartment. If not for a couple of very close Japanese friends, I would have emulated a former colleague and committed suicide a long time ago. Now, even though it is just a job to most of my colleagues, it is the school kids that keep me going.
One. Day. At. A. Time.
The kids, a number of friends I can count on one hand, and a few like-minded writers on substack and Facebook.
Take care, and keep up the good fight.
Nobody gets out of this room alive. 😂
steve
America WAS a Republic. Long ago... It has devolved into the corporatist fascist state that is the world's premier terrorist nation since the mid-1800s. Things are now accelerating toward the Abysss and nothing can change the course... Hopefully, the far side of collapse will witness something better emerging from the ashes.
But, with COVID, medical treatments were forced on people. When and how will these people who committed these crimes (mainly in the healthcare field for the money) be held accountable?
When the Republicans take back the House in January is it just going to be hearings that go nowhere. Will it end up being just another time waster?
Lynn, people must put pressure on their representatives. These people are paid to represent us and should vote according to what we want...not lobbyists. President Trump wanted to get rid of lobbyists who are financially influencing our representative's votes. This is corruption! Everyone needs to keep calling and writing their representatives and tell them either vote as we wish or get out! I just wrote Romney and told him what i thought for voting for the Dis-Respect for Marriage Act.
I called Romney today. Told him he needed to blame his niece and Mitch for destroying the
RED WAVE. I told him he needs to stop blaming President Trump. Romney forgets how he
went to Trump Tower and asked President Trump for his endorsement. That's another reason
Romney can't stand Trump. Because, Romney choked and Trump won. Romney really beat
the Kenyan, but he had NO guts to challenge.
I hear you. That's what I've been doing. It doesn't matter. We can contact our Representatives and Senators to no avail. They want us to believe we are doing something. By the stolen
2020 and 2022 Elections, We The People, really have Voting Power, REALLY.. (NOT)
What a joke, Dr. Oz immediately calls Lurch Fetterman and says it's yours. What an oxymoron.
Dr. Oz bows to a physically unable candidate who can't function verbally or mentally. Is Dr. Oz
really a serious physician or just a TV Show Personality :-( Bet, he gets his show back on TV.
He and Oprah had a BIG laugh. I knew Dr. Oz was a plant from the start.
Most probably is my gues, going on past performance!
Agree....
Is the power there or not? NOPE
The single, most distressing question no one wants to contemplate: Has the U.S. Constitution already been terminated?
We have a guest post today from the great constitutional attorney John Whitehead, who strikes at the core of the situation facing America and by extension the entirety of the formerly Free World. He poses the question no one wants to ask, let alone try to answer. Article continues
https://leohohmann.com/2022/12/12/the-single-most-distressing-question-no-one-wants-to-contemplate-has-the-u-s-constitution-already-been-terminated/
.....well, 'TWO' can PLAY at THAT game - if we AGREE that it's been terminated - and MILLIONS of us, DON'T.....
Scared to read this before lunch. Or after. Will be back to read it soon enough, but I think we both agree, as does Katherine.
Wow Katherine ... I see the cross-disciplinary philosophy major in you.
If quoting from Frank Zappa weren't enough to put a wry smile on my face,, finding something straight out of the pathological narcissist's playbook ("when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.") ... did the trick. Bullseye.
Now making more of a long overdue habit of reading you, and sharing what I can in private Facebook groups.
Cheers from Japan Katherine.
p.s. Just got back from a walk to the local convenience store for lunch, and couldn't help but to think of what Howard Zinn would have said, or those whom he gave voice. Maybe a horse of another color would have heard 'Constitutional Republic' and given a horse laugh to echo through long forgotten canyons.
My jaw dropped so hard I think it shattered. The simplicity of the principle, as stated, clarifies a lot. And the “mirroring effect” completes the circle.
DoctorRamani's YouTube podcasts (and to some degree A. Lobaczewski's book, 'Political Ponerology') also confirm Katherine was right on the money. One of her better podcasts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpjYtAB9i2w&t=189s
Queued up. It's hard to keep up!
It is indeed DD. We are 'gifted' to have enough of the right information to make sense of it all, cursed with an even greater amount of information running the gamut from the merely mistaken to unimaginably malicious evil.
Despite it all ... cheers, and keep up the good fight!
steve
I appreciate the art. I remember walking into Sta Maria del Populo and putting a lira in the box, June 2001, to have the Carravagios light up. It was a moment of illumination of a moment of illumination!!!
I am so overwhelmed by information that I had no idea of before today--to know that by 1973, at least a few US Senators understood that this country had been run under a continuous “state of emergency” for 40 years, and were actively looking for pathways out from under the resulting executive branch dictatorship, to know that our government signed on to a UN Genocide agreement that would allow outside governments to reduce our population... I've probably got this only partially right but close enough to be really disturbing. I thank you for so intelligently tracking this information down across the many years that these plans have been being laid. Few would have the tenacity. It is highly disturbing--most especially because it looks like the other branches of our government appear to have no power to stop this march forward to lay our country at the feet of the WEF. What appears to have stopped them so far is our legal system and guns. What do you say about that?
Fascinating documents.
And you highlight the exact right point. The assumption of power in the people's hands (and I would say not actually an assumption, it's a right and claim) for the good of the people and the country, that's when it's game over and the work of rebuilding starts. Thank you.
As I have muttered to myself- for some years now, while stumbling down countless moonlit streets...
"the State does not exist...! Smash the State...!"
;)
Aloha. I'm reminded of my friend Pastor Jim Kimmell of Maui who told me that 1 - infinity. That each of us are holograms of the whole thing and that I / you / we have enormous power in reserve.
Thinking of Pastor Jim I testified to the Hawai'i County Police Commission yesterday with some ideas about choosing a new Chief of Police for the island, a rare and important opportunity we're going through right now. My thought is that an enlightened Chief of Police, a really terrific, constitutionally minded, sincere and strong-centered person could, would and should help to make things right here. How could they help us to defend, neutralize and overcome against the giant wave of globalist tyranny sweeping the world?
The Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates is one idea. It teaches that when a superior or higher ranking authority makes an unjust or immoral law, policy or court ruling - the lower or lesser ranking civil authority has both the (God-given?) right and the duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority; and, if necessary, to actively resist the superior authority.
Hope springs eternal.
May unexpected blessings and love keep coming to you and from you.
DeJa Vu all over again. Cult of Delphi.
Black Ops.
History is a dark mandelbrot of emerging fractals. Or maybe 'submerging' is a more appropriate term for the fall of yet another 'Tower of Babel' ... or is that 'babble'?
Perhaps a Thunderbird takes flight?
DeJa Vu all over again?
Thinking of Plato’s cave and Socrates,
Benjamin Franklin, as a Confucian…
A Revolution via Narrative.
In the beginning was the Word…
Ooof. You hit me in my soft spot.
When I was still in a tenured position at Jissen Women's College, I would begin the academic year in some classes (e.g. Comparative Culture) with a 1 minute sketch of Plato's Allegory of the Cave on the white board (being careful not to give out who made it or when) have the students form groups, and discuss and present their judgement of whether it applies to contemporary Japan.
After their presentations, I give the big reveal of who, when, and why ... and most were generally shocked. For the last class of the academic year, I would draw the same sketch on the board, have them group up, and discuss its relevance today. But I ended the class with my message that allegory is a form of art. And 'good' art is a mirror.
I gave them a moment of silence to look in the mirror, and consider how much they had changed, if at all, by comparing a memory of their first contact with Plato's Myth of Cave, and what will probably be their final contact.
If nothing else, it helped complete a circle for me, as a reminder as to why I became an educator to begin.
Cheers Warren.
We are on the same wavelength.
Quiet weapons for silent wars indeed! (excellent post as always, Katherine).
Wasn't it 1932 FDR recognized the Soviet Union and invited the Communists to come (back) in?
......it TOO, every BIT as much a dualistic (or should I say, 'duElistic') CONTRIVANCE of his HANDLERS, theirs as WELL.....the late Antony Sutton was SWIFTLY whistled DOWN at a HOOVER Institute interview for asking WHY military aid was being PROVIDED them even one half-CENTURY later.....
‘Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars’ is a work of political fiction written by a man named Hartford Van Dyke in 1979.
http://thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/02archives/Letters_from_the_Author_of_Silent_Weapons_for_Quiet_Wars.html
You can see him talking here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4uI3E_YxuQ
Maybe, maybe not.
I've seen persuasive arguments that people who are attempting to reveal true information to the public pretend to be crackpots and fiction writers to protect themselves from being arrested, tortured and/or killed by those they expose. David Icke and Malachi Martin spring to mind.
What's more interesting to me is the plausibility of the content of the document, when reviewed alongside the government acts directly observable in the last three years.
Brilliant analysis, Katherine! We need substackers and others to spread the succinct phrasing you used. Everyone must come together and spread the same message. The divisive infighting I am seeing must stop.