Freedom Day 2022, A Day To Forever Remember

 

Why am I not surprised? Google, you are an American company! NO mention is found this morning citing the day's significance on Google's opening home page... instead Google chooses to celebrate the lunar new year. Today in United States of America history, February 1^st is National Freedom Day – an anniversary remembrance and celebration signed into existence by President Harry Truman. Give 'em Hell Harry! On February 1, 1865, Republican President Abe Lincoln signed the resolution that permitted what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to our United States Constitution.

Let me refresh Google management's memory and what seems to be the memory of a majority of American citizens. Remember this now: 

Amendment XIII “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.”

President Lincoln's action on this 1865 day forever codified and ended slavery in the United States as long as we have a U.S. Constitution... an immensely significant day in American history. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States... should each be thankful for the many freedoms we are afforded as citizens of our very fine country! Forget this freedom, or how freedom was won, and our freedom will continue to melt away.

Confessing To Be RED

Reading from his handy teleprompter, Obie says it's all good.  Take it away Hillary...

Some edited thoughts received recently from a good friend and former associate:

It seems that lately my life has been getting more complicated, and I want to thank those of you who are brave enough to still associate with me regardless of what I have become. The following is a recap of my current identity:

• I was born a white male, that makes me a racist.
• I am a fiscal and moral conservative, that makes me a fascist.
• I am heterosexual, thus making me homophobic.
• I am non-union – except for the final dozen years of working life where I was given no known choice, and that makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business.
• I am a Christian, that makes me an infidel.
• I am older than 65 and retired, that makes me a useless old man.
• I think and I reason; therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, that makes me a reactionary.
• I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, that makes me a xenophobe.
• I value my safety and that of my family and associates; therefore, I appreciate the police and the legal system, and that makes me a right-wing extremist.
• I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, that makes me anti-socialist.
• I acquired a good education without student loans and no debt at graduation, although going to night school while working full-time takes several years longer, and this makes me some kind of odd underachiever.
• I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland by all citizens, that makes me a militarist.
• I believe in the U.S. Constitution Amendment II and the human right to own and bear Arms, and this makes me a RED-neck (RED = Retired Extremely Dangerous).

Please help me come to terms with this, because I‘m not sure who I am anymore! And the most recent problem – I'm not sure which bathroom I should use.

Smells Exactly Like An Open Week Old Can Of Tuna On A Hot Day

Mug Shot

Here's what I don't get.  How strange is it this Constitutional Professor and Lawyer (as he and his enablers claim) never is called-out by any of his former associates or graduate school students?  OBTW, Mr. Obama did not hold the classic tenured academic professor rank – he was in fact a law school guest lecturer – a/k/a: would be considered a part-time adjunct instructor by many college & university institutions.  But then this university is in Chicago.  Certainly a few of instructor Obama’s former grad students are today politically independent practicing attorneys, seems statistically improbable they are all left-wing-nuts.  Are there no instructor Obama comments available on old graduate school papers still in existence? In personal experience, there was always a significant research paper – of maybe 5,000+ words – including many footnotes and referenced citations as a required final project by each completed graduate-level class. Significant research must be a required element of most graduate school teaching professionals. And most of the genuine graduate school professors would make significant written critiques and comments on these course papers.  So instructor Obama never communicated his true U.S. Constitution inner beliefs in comments on grad student final papers?  Right!

This often-cited U.S. Constitutional "expert" – this instructor Mr. Obama – who taught just three different elective courses at law school – graduate courses that seem to be extraneous study on re-interrupting the message & principles that our Founders set forth in their classic document.  Is it true that instructor Mr. Obama thinks the U.S. Constitution is a flawed document? Law school courses supervised by instructor Mr. Obama seem unnecessary fluff and not natural and deep core studies on the U.S. Constitution.  His coursework may even present anti-Constitution alternative studies. Instructor Obama's U.S. Constitution teachings seem to touch Politically Correct concepts on how one might redefine what the Founders expressly wrote and meant to convey. Yet for instructor Mr. Obama, it seems no former student has yet come forth who might cite first hand knowledge of his classroom instruction methods or comments and critiques on teachings he expressed at law school.  Does anyone know of written evaluations on methods and course content instructor Mr. Obama used conducting his law school U.S. Constitution classes?  There is a track record somewhere that is now missing-in-action regarding instructor Obama’s true expertise and comprehension of our most important Founder’s document.

Strange also... in this day and age where a somewhat vetted and otherwise unremarkable guy named Ed Snowden can jet off to China & Russia with details of CIA surveillance methods & practices... but no one at a post-secondary school that Mr. Obama attended can be motivated to disclose and produce young Obama's admission application claims, or his grades, or his professor evaluations, or his general student conduct for a man who would become POTUS.  We the great unwashed are left to read and consider his two historical-fiction works where Mr. Obama claims authorship – but likely produced in significant part with able literary assistance from unknown others.

And continuing to this day with POTUS’s entire self-reported “Phony IRS Scandal” – in particular regarding that two-year period of server-based Microsoft-Exchange IRS email recently reported missing.  These are the important paper trail and potential evidence for what may be criminal activities underway at the IRS and writings that may lead to persons employed in the Executive Office of the President.  Well, that Brooklyn Bridge remains for sale to anyone who actually accepts the unbelievable story where selective server-based IRS email is forever lost.  How can this happen as a result of what is very predictable local hard disk drive crashes in Windows PC workstations?  This electronic email audit trail exists somewhere... all of the missing IRS email can be discovered.  Something smells really FISHY here at the IRS.

Attack On Constitution Amendment II

Amendment II: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The language seems very clear. What is it that the Obama gun control loving "experts" don't comprehend about those 27 very clearly written words? And "a well regulated Militia" does not have to be "well regulated" under federal or state government control.

The U.S. Constitution and Amendment II do not say that.

Many of the leaders who formed volunteer regiments to fight the American Civil War did so using personal funds and privately owned logistics & supplies. The township's people often supplied necessary seed money & supplies. Many of those early regiments originated from volunteer local militias where soldiers initially trained and used their private weapons. Following the American Revolution, every able-bodied man of about age 18-45 (might be a bit off on those age limits) was also required to own a firearm weapon. The founders never intended all "well-regulated militias" to be under the absolute authority of a federal chief executive. Show me where that is written... you won't find it. And I of course realize what this sounds like... "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them..." the People... if properly armed... can meet, associate and organize in well-regulated militias and "...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." We can only hope that the coming revolution will be peaceful.

The problem with a little gun control is that old slippery-slop concept, it is so easy thereafter to do a little more & and then a little more. Look around after a bit and you may have given up a natural Human Right. And that's at the real base of NRA's problem with the liberal gun control nuts. Slippery slop governance... it's no way to run a clam shop. The federal government repeatedly does illogical and ethically wrong things. Look a history... Native American treatment, Slavery, the Whiskey Rebellion, the New York City Riots against the Civil War Draft, Wounded Knee, Japanese Internment Camps, the Waco Branch Fire, the Patriot Act, and so much more. Gosh, federal government weapons control isn't exactly that smart either under any political party (e.g., Iran/Contra, or that really dumb cluster-SNAFU over the last couple of years (Operation Fast and Furious) that gave automatic weapons to Mexican Drug Lords, etc., etc.). It may be that gun control acts in the New York State Legislature this week and Cuomo's "NY SAFE Law" is unconstitutional. We will see... the lawyers are now lining up to test this.

Do you think these dangerous leftist zealots might want to re-write the U.S. Constitution? And along the way, throw out the Natural Human Rights that a liberal left doesn't like... only to inject their own "progressive" liberal ideas. "All People (animals) are created equal, but some People (animals) are more equal than others." Stolen words I know... but one can't misread our Constitution Amendment II and simultaneously keep a straight face. And too, there was then and still remains a firm reason why the Right to Bear Arms is Amendment II. This Right was then to the Founders and today stands so strongly important... trumped only by our capstone Natural Rights... Amendment I: the Freedoms of Speech, Press, Association and Religion.

But Would They Fight Now?

Recent personal study of several New York State Volunteer U.S. Army Regiments during the Rebellion has caused some among us to rethink the fundamental validity of that "War to save the Union." Two separate and equal countries––perhaps not a bad idea that arrives 150 years too late. Two countries in what is now called the USA, call them the United Confederation of American States (holding strong state's rights in a pro-business conservative land); and the other––an imperial federal government United Federal Socialist States of America (a strong federalism nanny state and liberal leftist “progressive” land). And slavery would have turned to dust under its own weight––been gone for many decades in both of these two new republics. The abomination of slavery would have soon failed without fighting that terrible War of the Rebellion that may have cost over 800,000 American lives and unknowable American treasure.

Many, perhaps most, union military recruits in 1861 and 1862 did not sign-up to free the slaves––or even to save the union. These Private Soldier Volunteers were mainly farm boys––boys who essentially became mere cannon fodder in the view of so many incompetent union colonels and generals. They went to this fight largely because they were told it was the manly thing to do... coupled with very strong feelings of military rage spewing from pulpits and political stages. And this Rebellion was certain to be a very short anyway. Volunteer recruits received an enlistment "bounty" of perhaps $100-$300, an enlistment bonus supported in Upstate New York by the various townships. The bounty given to some late war recruits was even higher at $500 for enlistments as short as one year. In 2012 dollars, that cash enlistment bounty is in the $2500-$7000 range. And tax-free dollars too! I suspect this tidy sum was very attractive to most of those relatively poor Upstate New York farm boys.

AMENDMENT X to the United States Constitution (part of the Bill Of Rights) should be more prominently cited in a new United Confederation of American States Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  This God given right, and the other nine vital God given rights specified by the Bill of Rights, shall not be infringed. And there would be no such necessary provision set forth in the new national supreme United Federal Socialist States of America Constitution. The corrupt United States liberal federal judiciaries today seem committed to increased Federalism and largely ignore the clear and expressly written Bill of Rights Amendment X. Liberal left progressiveness can take full control with this socialist form of activist judiciary.  And we conservatives will sharply disallow such unelectable judicial activism. 

So my basic thought today is really a couple of simple questions. With complete knowledge of the present state of the union, who among us truly thinks that massive number of farm boys a century and a half ago would volunteer to fight this “War To Save The Union?” If those volunteers could entirely understand and grasp the full impact of how this country has morphed into the liberal socialist society in those future 21st Century days––would they choose to fight and die to preserve this union of increasing liberal progressivism? Perhaps likely not.

A Few Days Following Independence Day...

Following the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a lady bystander asked Doctor Benjamin Franklin what form of government we have. Doctor Franklin replied “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.” And the question today… Just how many contemporary U.S. Citizens are concerned about the present state of our republic?

It is indisputable that many U.S. Citizens and current U.S. legal voters do not comprehend the fundamental fact that our federal government is not a democracy. Our United States federal government is a republic––and it always has been. The Founding Father’s republic has evolved into an “unequal representative democracy”––a liberal-republic that presents citizens with many stunning examples of a strongly skewed representative-democracy. Voter fraud in American elections has certainly always existed at some level. But a real problem exists when federal-government-funded fraud by such left-of-center “community action groups” like ACORN generally support only Democrat candidates and actively backed the Obama presidential candidacy last year using federal tax dollars. Name one Republican elected official that the “non-political” ACORN supported. ACORN’s action is clearly government-funded cheating masquerading as simple community outreach. A few corrupt votes can tilt an election…and the entire direction of our county. Look no further than the last Minnesota U.S. Senate race for confirmation. The state of this new republic, without substantive checks-and-balances, is precisely what Dr. Franklin and his Constitutional Convention contemporaries feared most about the equality in representative-democracy. Too much power––almost dictatorial in KINGLY nature––centralized in federal government. The influence held by a single vote varies significantly and unequally across America by geographic location. Progressive politicians and political scientist may argue the semantics of statements written here. By carefully parsing public comment with half-truth, these liberal-progressives confound and blur federal government activity using misleading jargon and fancy political techno-speak. Clearly, their purpose will overwhelm common citizens––Middle Americans––and cause many concerned loyal citizens to simply tune-out. This has happened in many Middle American homes.

Fair-minded liberal Democrats must surely acknowledge that the Chicago Political Machine is both ethically challenged and flatly corrupt in many cases. And the current president is a product of this Chicago Political Machine, a man who “earned his stripes” in the trenches of a Chicago political quagmire. Yet somehow the stench of Chicago politics has not followed the new president to the White House. The new vice president earned his bones in the U.S. Senate, representing the small population of Delaware (45th of 50 in population). Few could rationally argue that Mr. Biden would be Vice President without the prior support of a plurality of Delaware’s relatively tiny population. Mr. Biden’s documented ethical indiscretions were first discovered in the 1960’s, during his first year at Syracuse Law School. There he was cited for plagiarism, summarily flunked-out of a required law school course, and subjected to a dismissal review by Syracuse faculty. As U.S. Senator, Mr. Biden has also been cited in several instances for using materials from other’s speeches without attribution––both acts of technical plagiarism and blatant dishonesty. Liberal Biden defenders––please tell us with a straight face––that our current VP has no trouble with honesty and truth. The present Speaker-of-the-House of Representatives is in reality only one of 435 elected US Representatives, sent to Washington by the people of San Francisco, California’s 8th Congressional District. It can be rationally argued that San Francisco’s congressional district is likely the single most left-wing-liberal congressional seat in the United States. It can’t be creditably stated that the current Speaker’s aggregate political stance in any way represents Middle American political thought. Further, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate hails from the lightly populated state of Nevada, a state with considerably less than one percent of total U.S. Population. Senators are supposed to represent their state, and in this Senator Reid may do an adequate job. But Senator Reid too––with his frequent leftist flip-flops and public political gaffs (like his inept April 2007 "This war is lost." comment) ––in very few ways represent current Middle American political opinion.

For goodness sake, take some time and read or re-read America's founding documents--The United States Declaration Of Independence and The United States Constitution. A clear and present leadership crisis exists in contemporary American federal government, a dangerous collage of non-representative liberal-leftist-activist. While Benjamin Franklin and his colleagues left unwritten a constitutionally mandated one-man-one-vote equality concept, their exquisite production does specify explicit constitutional principles embodied by a truly representative republican form of government. The Framers collective objective was that equal representation is both vital and necessary in a successful republic. Federal liberal activism has slowly and steadily become the Washington norm…and our current crop of federal politicians are surely poised and ready to consume the principles of Dr. Franklin’s republic.