The 13 Folds of An American Flag

November 7, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 79: Veterans Week

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. 

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A Vow to Serve by Mark Lamb

November 5, 2022

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 In their telling, these venerable documents are old, dusty, and out of date.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.

 

November 4, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 78: The Republic of the United States

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. 

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November 3, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep. 77: Democracy under Attack

The Democratic Marxists know they are losing the support of the American people.  They have had to return to their very, very, very old tactic of saying the GOP will take away your Social Security and Medicare.  Well, the Democratic Marxists have done a very good job of that themselves.

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November 2, 2022

The Medlock Post Ep: 76: Reverse Brainstorming

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.

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Abraham Lincoln: Fragment of the Constitution and the Union January 1861

November 2, 2022

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.