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“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” Elmer Davis
Dedicated men have worked tirelessly to help the free world understand better the deadly world conflict between good and evil which is constantly going on.
We have an enormous responsibility here in the United States to help maintain peace and freedom and to push back the somber clouds of war–threats caused by international tensions.
A Vow to Serve:
Mark Lamb
Reading about the principles of the American Founding
is not "extremist" activity.
When I was sworn in as the 24th Sheriff of Pinal
County, Arizona, I took an oath to support the Constitution. So did the more
than 3,000 sheriffs serving across America. The best of us reaffirm this oath
every morning. This daily commitment to the legally enshrined principles of
justice is the crucial philosophic orientation that separates America from a
lawless land where “every man [does] that which [is] right in his own eyes.”
There is a growing faction of elite “progressives,”
however, who deride both the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence. In their telling, these venerable documents are old, dusty, and
out of date. These radicals want to replace the bedrock principle of equality
with the idea of “equity,” colorblind justice with never-ending (and, for them,
quite profitable) racial grievance. Worst of all, they want to eliminate our
settled and fair laws and replace them with the tyranny of power politics.
I don’t accept these revisions to the American way of
life and neither should you.
But it’s not simply enough—and here I address my
fellow sheriffs—to feel that something is gravely wrong with this picture of
our future. We have to understand the why. And to get to this position, it is
helpful to do a deep dive into our founding documents and the great men and
women who first (and best) articulated the philosophic principles that forged a
great nation.
Recently, I spent a lovely week in sunny Huntington Beach studying precisely these subjects while participating in an academic fellowship for sheriffs with the Claremont Institute, a think tank devoted to “restoring the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” We pored over and discussed everything from the statesmanship of Washington and Lincoln to the teachings of Aristotle and Aquinas on natural law and natural rights. Other sessions were devoted to understanding the assault of progressivism on our cherished values of liberty and freedom. It was a wonderful experience to read and discuss these great books with other sheriffs from all around the country.
Like clockwork, however, the usual detractors emerged
to characterize a week of talking about books as an example of how Claremont is
training sheriffs to empower militias in order to take over the country in
2024. My classmates and I were labeled as “extremists” who consider ourselves
“above the law,” intent on policing “brutally,” thanks to our “relative
impunity.” This is all so laughable it’s hard to know where to begin. If
spending a week reflecting on the Federalist Papers and George Washington’s
Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior is the activity of would-be extremists
and conspirators, then I suppose you should include me among the guilty ones.
I mention this gross and purposely obtuse response not
because it is worth taking seriously, but so both my colleagues and fellow
citizens understand the kind of reaction they can expect when they try to
educate themselves about America’s founding principles. Don’t be intimidated.
Justice, equality, rule of law, separation of powers, and consent of the
governed will erode unless we make it our duty to understand their importance
and function. Our elites count on this happening, so they try everything in
their power to stamp out attempts at learning.
The Founding era in America was, like today, a
socially and politically tempestuous time. But then, unlike now, philosophic
ideas were publicly debated on stage, in taverns, and at home. Those disputes
gave light to two vibrant documents totally unique in the annals of history.
Unless we, together, follow the examples of our forefathers—enemies of freedom
and free-speech be damned—the elemental truths upon which our nation was
founded will be lost. And what replaces them will be unrecognizably bad.
I’m sure most of you have been in training courses either at work or some other organization where you separate into groups and “brainstorm” about challenge or project. You brainstorm to figure out good and great ways to improve a product or develop a new one.
We are all aware at this point in time that the Marxist and Globalists want to destroy America.
Note: While talking about the Expanded Welfare State, I mistakenly said $70K to $90K per month. It should have been per year. My apologies.
Abraham Lincoln:
Fragment of the Constitution and the Union January
1861
“All this is not the result of accident. It has a
philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have
attained the results; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great
prosperity. There was something back of these, entwining itself more closely
about the human heart. That something, is the principle of “Liberty to all”--the
principle that clears the path for all--gives hope to all-- and, by
consequence, enterprise, and industry to all.
The expression of that principle, in our Declaration
of Independence, was most happy, and fortunate. Without this, as well as with
it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it,
we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent
prosperity. No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did,
without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters.
The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the
word, “fitly spoken” which has proved an “apple of gold” to us. The Union, and
the Constitution, are the pitcher of silver, subsequently framed around it. The
picture was made, not to conceal, or destroy the apple; But to adorn, and
preserve it. The picture was made for the apple--not the apple for the picture.”
This never appeared in Lincoln's public speeches, but
it is possible that he composed it while writing his First Inaugural Address.
It draws upon the King James translation of proverbs 25:11; “A word fitly
spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”-- to describe the
relationship between the principles of the Declaration and the purpose of the
Constitution.
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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