10/29/2022

SCOTUS & Contemporary Politics by Richard G. Medlock


October 29, 2022

SCOTUS & Contemporary Politics


This is a response to an email this morning concerning the following article:

"Supreme Court justices spar over court legitimacy comments"


Let me start out by turning to the Founding Father that wrote most of the Constitution, James Madison.  There are two quotes from The Federalist Papers that will help us understand what might be going on with SCOTUS.

In Federalist 47 James Madison explained this “When the legislative and executive powers are united and the same person or body, there can be no liberty because apprehensions may arise at least the same monarch or Senate should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Or the power of judging joined with this legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power the judge might behave with all the violence of an oppressor.”


Here, Madison is explaining the problems that will develop if "Separation of Powers" is not kept intact.  Tyranny.  We have seen this warning come true in the last few presidential administrations, even under Trumps admin.  But the movement had already started, and Trump's attempts at halting the movement were limited and have been completely undone by Biden.  This current administration is the gravest example of Madison's warning.  I believe the Democratic Marxists have intentionally escalated their plans to destroy America.


In Federalist 39, James Madison explained it this way. “The first question that offers itself is whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican. It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; With the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or would that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.”


On The Medlock Post, I have mentioned the question about new bills and laws.  "Which principle of the Constitution does this bill, law, regulation. or government agency apply to?"  This is what Madison is saying in Federalist 39.  Tom Herron and I discussed this on The Medlock Post Ep. 71 program Wednesday.  Every American should be asking this question right now.


How does this apply to SCOTUS and the cries that it is no longer legitimate?


Let's start by looking at the Dobbs ruling.  Those of us who opposed abortion have always asked the question, "Where is this in the Constitution?"  I think the six justices who ruled against Dobbs asked themselves that very question and found that principle was not there.  Upholding the Constitution in the Dobbs ruling and the other rulings they made earlier this year.


This is what brought about such a firestorm and screams of illegitimacy of SCOTUS.  The Marxists hate the Constitution and discredit that INSPIRED DOCUMENT as irrelevant.  They have the media on their side screaming the message of SCOTUS being over-rated and probably not necessarily needed in today's United States and especially not in the New World Order.

By discrediting SCOTUS, this can give the Marxists a good reason to ignore their rulings.  This is called "ANARCHY" by the ruling party and their followers. And the Founding Father's also called it, "Ruler's Law".


Let me finish with this quote concerning the Constitution:

“Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because of social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change – namely, human nature.”

W. Cleon Skousen, 5000 Year Leap


This "human nature" is what is driving the Marxists.  Power. Greed. Lust.  And it goes to the five conditions of society the Marxists are creating to maintain their Power.  CHAOS, DIVISION, FEAR, HATRED, AND VIOLENCE.


We need to "heed not the negative voices" in the world.  And as Thomas Sowell said, "Many on the Left are so enhanced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world."


Thomas Jefferson said, "The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to always be kept alive.  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.  I like a little rebellion now and then.  It is like a storm in the atmosphere."


We the People should be that "storm in the atmosphere" at all times and Stand Up to the Tyranny of the government.


MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!


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The Medlock Post Ep. 73: America vs the "World Order"



October 28, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 73: America vs the "World Order"

Today we will start a two-part presentation concerning what America and We the People are fighting against.  Elections are 11 days away and many critical decisions are to be made.  The information I will discuss in today’s Episode 73 and in the next Episode 74. will help you understand better what the fight is all about.  One way that the fight can be described is “They not only want your Life and Property, but they also want your Soul.”  



 

10/27/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 72: Political Chaos


October 27, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 72: Political Chaos


America is under attack by the Democratic Marxists.  They will do anything to get elected to maintain Power.

 

10/26/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 71: Up With America, Pt. II


October 26, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 71: Up With America, Pt. II


We believe that the best is yet to come for America — but it’s not going to happen by accident. Now is the time to join together with one voice to restore our great nation.

Tom Herron of Up with America was our special guest.


 

10/25/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 70: Liberty vs Tyranny



October 25, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 70: Liberty vs Tyranny


If you want to destroy America, how would you do it? That sounds provocative. It's not intended to be if you want to destroy America, how would you do it?




 

10/21/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 69: Anything Goes Friday


October 21, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 69: Anything Goes Friday


The Mainstream Media still refuses to tell you the facts and truth.  But The Medlock Post will do what the MSM will not.  Our Purpose and Goal is to Educate you with the knowledge you need to make choices which will benefit your lives and help save America from Totalitarianism.




 

10/20/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 68: How America Arrived at a Constitutional Crisis



October 20, 2022

 

The Medlock Post Ep. 68: How America Arrived at a Constitutional Crisis


When the 45 goals of Communism were published and made known, they were received in some quarters with skepticism, in others with abhorrence. For the most part, Americans believed that such blatantly-declared assaults on the “American way” would be virtually impossible to achieve.


 

10/19/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 67: Is there a real Constitutional Crisis?


October 18, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 67: Is there a real Constitutional Crisis?


We hear the phrase "Constitutional Crisis" a lot lately.  What is meant by that phrase? Who is causing the "Constitutional Crisis"?  Maybe The Medlock Post has some answers.

10/13/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 65: 30 Day Challenge with Lady Up America


October 12, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 65: 30 Day Challenge with Lady Up America


Moms Have Superpowers!
Learning to tap into those superpowers at this moment in history can spark a cultural fire.
You can learn to master conversations with the people you already encounter on a day-to-day basis. The ripple effect can be astounding starting with just one great conversation!
There is NO CAVALRY coming out of Washington. It's up to us!
You don't have to run for office, join some club, or try to become a "world changer".
But you can change the "world around you" starting right now!  
Time is of the essence! 

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The Medlock Post Ep. 66: Hispanic America Women's Association


October 13, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 66: Hispanic America Women's Association


Hi there! We are AHAM – the Hispanic American Women's Association. We are a group of hard-working women who are passionate about education and culture. All of us are committed to helping the Hispanic population achieve a better future through higher education–and we make it all happen through the magic of volunteerism!


 

10/10/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 64: History Lesson: Christopher Columbus


October 10, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 64: History Lesson: Christopher Columbus


After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.


 

10/07/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 63: Who Will Defend the U.S. Constitution?


October 7, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 63: Who Will Defend the U.S. Constitution?


We the People Must...Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America.


 

10/05/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 62: Hispanic Heritage Month


October 5, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 62: Hispanic Heritage Month


  • National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15.
  • The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson.
  • It was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period.
  • It was enacted into law on August 17, 1988.


 

10/03/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 61: Rule Not by Forked Tongue


October 3, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 61: Rule Not by Forked Tongue


 The greatest threat to a dishonest regime is a citizenry willing to name its lies.

America is ruled by an elite whose status and power depend on enforcing certain falsehoods. 

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10/01/2022

Renewing American Purpose (article)


October 1, 2022

Renewing American Purpose by Russell Vought

Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment

Whittaker Chambers once said that one of the most important cravings in the modern world is height. The ability to get up and see the lay of the land, above the various forces of history moving us when we don’t know we are being moved. This talk is an attempt to gain some constitutional height about where we are as citizens.

We are in a post constitutional moment in our country. Our constitutional institutions, understandings, and practices have all been transformed, over decades, away from the words on the paper into a new arrangement—a new regime if you will—that pays only lip service to the old Constitution. Our system is now much more like an unwritten constitution which operates based on precedents, like the English system. No constitutional amendments have been passed to enact this, but new legal paradigms have been introduced—a “living constitution,” independent agencies, permanent, “expert” civil servants—that have changed the underlying separation of powers at the core of our system.

How did this come to be? The Left at the turn of the nineteenth century were loud critics of the Constitution. Woodrow Wilson wanted an efficient, modern administrative state run by experts that could not be slowed by the Constitution’s separations of powers. He complained that the trouble with the theory of checks and balances, “is that government is not machine, but a living thing. . .. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live.” But these complaints largely stopped during the historical developments of the twentieth century, and there is rarely any talk of a constitutional amendment on the Left. Why is that? Because the Left quietly adopted a strategy of institutional change that left the constitutional system of separate powers in place but radically perverted how they operated, their incentive structures, and their responsiveness to the American people.

The Left’s legal theorists adopted an approach to interpreting the Constitution based on it being a “living” document, meaning that its provisions should be understood to be malleable, keeping up with a modernizing nation. This was married with increased power assumed by courts, and the notion that nine supreme court justices would make all final decisions without any response from the other branches. Congress created so-called “independent agencies” such as the Federal Reserve or the SEC, meant to be independent from the direction of an elected president, but this principle impacted all the agencies, with career civil servants protected from at-will employment.

Read full article

 is the president of the Center for Renewing America. He served as Acting Director then as the 42nd Director of OMB for nearly two years during the Trump administration.


 

The Medlock Post Ep. 60: Renewing American Purpose


October 1, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 60: Renewing American Purpose


We are in a post constitutional moment in our country.  Our constitutional institutions, understandings, and practices have all been transformed, over decades, away from the words on the paper into a new arrangement.


 

The Medlock Post Ep. 59: Crisis Cleanup


September 29, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 59: Crisis Cleanup


The Crisis Cleanup in America goes far beyond Hurricane Ian.  The government has created a crisis far worse than a hurricane.


 

9/28/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 58: Can You Sleep When the Wind Blows?


September 28, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 58: Can You Sleep When the Wind Blows?

Hurricane Ian is pounding the State of Florida as we speak.  Yes, we can talk about sleeping when the wind blows from a Mother Nature Storm.  But what are some other storms in our lives that we need to be prepared for so we can sleep?

Right now, we have the storms of Chaos, Division, Fear, Hatred, and Violence.  

Listen Now


 

9/26/2022

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

The Medlock Post Ep. 57: Climate Crisis and Daylight Saving Time


September 26, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 57: Climate Crisis and Daylight Saving Time


 What does the alleged Climate Crisis and Daylight Savings Time have to do with each other?  That is the subject of our discussion today.  Please bear with me and open your mind as I present scientific theories and facts to help you understand the relationship between the two.  Let’s start with the science.



 

American Spirit Quotes | Patriotic Sayings | Celebrating The USA

9/23/2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 56: Values and Promises (Special Broadcast)


September 23, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 56: Values and Promises

I have an important 60th anniversary taking place.  On September 24, 1962, I earned my Eagle Scout Award.  I grew up in Scouting since my dad help start Troop 183 in 1951 and served as Scoutmaster until 1969.  I had the honor to serve as an adult leader in the Scouting Program, even as a Scoutmaster.  My dad was a great example of dedication and leadership to my brother and myself.  And many more Scouts in his troop. 

Because of current circumstances with the National Boy Scout Organization, Troop 183 was retired after 68 years in 2019.

It was an invaluable honor to have grown up in the Scouting Movement and served as an adulty to carry it forward as long as I was physically able.  The life lessons learned, the friendships that developed, and the outdoor experiences served to help me with life and family.

I was able to serve on our local Scout Council in many different levels of leadership.  The last position was over the Council Adult Training Program.  Training and teaching being one of my passions.  I also served on several national committees.

I would like to take some time and review and remind myself and you, the listeners, of many of the reasons the Scouting Movement still means so much to me.

Let's start with the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

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9/21/2022

Italian review of extreme weather says no evidence of "climate crisis" in current data


September 21, 2022

Italian review of extreme weather says no evidence of "climate crisis" in current data

Scientists say "mitigation and adaptation strategies" still necessary.

quartet of Italian scientists are claiming that a review of current extreme weather data suggest the world is not experiencing a "climate crisis," contra the claims of most scientists and leaders around the planet. 

Activists and experts have long claimed that climate change will bring about an increasingly unstable atmosphere, one that is prone to ever-more-extreme weather events including more severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and droughts, among other phenomena. 

In a paper titled "A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming" published earlier this year at the European Physical Journal Plus, four Italian researchers claim that "on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet."

The researchers in the paper argue that "global trends in heatwave intensity are not significant," while "daily precipitation intensity and extreme precipitation frequency are stationary in the main part of the weather stations."

"Trend analysis of the time series of tropical cyclones show a substantial temporal invariance and the same is true for tornadoes in the USA," they continue, while noting that "the impact of warming on surface wind speed remains unclear."

When assessing "natural disasters, floods, droughts, ecosystem productivity and yields of the four main crops (maize, rice, soybean and wheat)," the researchers said they found "none of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events."

The writers stress that it is "nevertheless extremely important to define mitigation and adaptation strategies that take into account current trends."

"[W]e should work to minimize our impact on the planet and to minimize air and water pollution," they argue.

Article


 

None Dare Call It Conspiracy


September 21, 2022

This is from The Medlock Post Radio Show Ep. 55.  blogtalkradio.com/themedlockpost

None Dare Call It Conspiracy

Most of us have had the experience, either as parents or youngsters, of trying to discover the "hidden picture" within another picture in a children's magazine. Usually, you are shown a landscape with trees, bushes, flowers and other bits of nature. The caption reads something like this: "Concealed somewhere in this picture is a donkey pulling a cart with a boy in it. Can you find them?" Try as you might, usually you could not find the hidden picture until you turned to a page farther back in the magazine which would reveal how cleverly the artist had hidden it from us. If we study the landscape, we realize that the whole picture was painted in such a way as to conceal the real picture within, and once we see the "real picture," it stands out like the proverbial painful digit.

We believe the picture painters of the mass media are artfully creating landscapes for us which deliberately hide the real picture.

Millions of Americans are concerned and frustrated over mis-happenings in our nation. They feel that something is wrong, drastically wrong, but because of the picture painters they can't quite put their fingers on it.

We keep electing new Presidents who seemingly promise faithfully to halt the worldwide Communist advance, put the blocks to extravagant government spending, douse the tea of inflation, put the economy on an even keel, reverse the trend which is turning the country into a moral sewer, and toss the criminals into the hoosegow where they belong.

Republican or Democrat, continues the same basic policies of the previous administration which it had so thoroughly denounced during the election campaign.

FDR once said "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

If we were merely dealing with the law of averages, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor.

Those who believe that major world events result from planning are laughed at for believing in the "conspiracy theory of history." Of course, no one in this modern day and age really believes in the conspiracy theory of history - except those who have taken the time to study the subject.

Otherwise, why does every recent administration make the same mistakes as the previous ones? Why do they repeat the errors of the past which produce inflation, depressions and war? Why does our State Department "stumble" from one Communist-aiding "blunder" to another?

Primarily, most scholars follow the crowd in the academic world just as most women follow fashions. To buck the tide means social and professional ostracism. The same is true of the mass media.

Secondly, these people have over the years acquired a strong vested emotional interest in their own errors. Their intellects and egos are totally committed to the accidental theory.

Politicians and "intellectuals" are attracted to the concept that events are propelled by some mysterious tide of history or happen by accident.

Most intellectuals, pseudo and otherwise, deal with the conspiratorial theory of history simply by ignoring it. They never attempt to refute the evidence. It can't be refuted. If and when the silent treatment doesn't work, these "objective" scholars and mass media opinion molders resort to personal attacks, ridicule, and satire. The personal attacks tend to divert attention from the facts which an author or speaker is trying to expose. The idea is to force the person exposing the conspiracy to stop the exposure and spend his time and effort defending himself.

However, the most effective weapons used against the conspiratorial theory of history are ridicule and satire.

The "accidentalists" would have us believe that ascribing any of our problems to planning is "simplistic" and all our problems are caused by Poverty, Ignorance and Disease - hereinafter abbreviated as PID. They ignore the fact that organized conspirators use PID, real and imagined, as an excuse to build a jail for us all. Most of the world has been in PID since time immemorial and it takes incredibly superficial thinking to ascribe the ricocheting of the United States government from one disaster to another over the past thirty years to PID. "Accidentalists" ignore the fact that some of the more advanced nations in the world have been captured by Communists. Czechoslovakia was one of the world's most modern industrial nations and Cuba had the second highest per capita income of any nation in Central and South America.

It is not true, however, to state that there are no members of the intellectual elite who subscribe to the conspiratorial theory of history. For example, there is Professor Carroll Quigley of the Foreign Service School at Georgetown University.

He also makes it clear that it is only the network's secrecy and not their goals to which he objects. Professor Quigley discloses: "I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I HAVE NO AVERSION TO IT OR TO MOST OF ITS AIMS AND HAVE, FOR MUCH OF MY LIFE, BEEN CLOSE TO IT AND TO MANY OF ITS INSTRUMENTS. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies…but in general my chief difference of opinion is that IT WISHES TO REMAIN UNKNOWN, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." (Emphasis added)

As Professor Quigley observes: "… his [the individual's] freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits."

There are also religious leaders who are aware of the existence of this conspiracy. In a UPI story dated December 27, 1965, Father Pedro Arrupe, head of the Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic Church, made the following charges during his remarks to the Ecumenical Council:

"This…Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership. It makes use of every possible means at its disposal, be they scientific, technical, social or economic. It follows a perfectly mapped-out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television."

Psychological problems are also involved in inducing people to look at the evidence concerning

the Insiders. People are usually comfortable with their old beliefs and conceptions. When Columbus told people the world was a ball and not a pancake, they were highly upset. They were being asked to reject their way of thinking of a lifetime and adopt a whole new outlook. The "intellectuals" of the day scoffed at Columbus and people were afraid they would lose social prestige if they listened to him. Many others just did not want to believe the world was round. It complicated too many things.

And typical flat-earthers had such a vested interest involving their own egos, that they heaped abuse on Columbus for challenging their view of the universe. “Don't confuse us with facts; our minds are made up," they said. These same factors apply today. Because the Establishment controls the media, anyone exposing the Insiders will be the recipient of a continuous fusillade of invective from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. In this manner one is threatened with loss of "social respectability" if he dares broach the idea that there is organization behind any of the problems currently wracking America. Unfortunately, for many people social status comes before intellectual honesty. Although they would never admit it social position is more important to many people than is the survival of freedom in America.

These same factors apply today. Because the Establishment controls the media, anyone exposing the Insiders will be the recipient of a continuous fusillade of invective from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. In this manner one is threatened with loss of "social respectability" if he dares broach the idea that there is organization behind any of the problems currently wracking America. Unfortunately, for many people social status comes before intellectual honesty. Although they would never admit it social position is more important to many people than is the survival of freedom in America.

If you ask these people which is more important - social respectability or saving their children from slavery - they will tell you the latter, of course. But their actions (or lack of same) speak so much louder than their words.

They believe that most business and professional men are too shallow and decadent, too status conscious, too tied up in the problems of their jobs and businesses to worry about what is going on in politics. These men are told that it might be bad for business or jeopardize their government contracts if they take a stand. They have been bribed into silence with their own tax monies!

We are hoping that the conspirators have underestimated the courage and patriotism remaining in the American people. We feel there are a sufficient number of you who are not mesmerized by the television set, who put God, family and country above social status, who will band together to expose and destroy the conspiracy of the Insiders.

The philosopher Diogenes scoured the length and breadth of ancient Greece searching for an honest man. We are scouring the length and breadth of America in search of hundreds of thousands of intellectually honest men and women who are willing to investigate facts and come to logical conclusions - no matter how unpleasant those conclusions may be.

Allen, Gary; Abraham, Larry. None Dare Call It Conspiracy (p. 3). Dauphin Publications. Kindle Edition.