Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution
John whitehead
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”Justice Neil Gorsuch
We have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security.
COVID-19, for example, served as the driving force behind what Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch characterized as “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”
In a statement attached to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Arizona v. Mayorkas, a case that challenged whether the government could continue to use it pandemic powers even after declaring the public health emergency over, Gorsuch provided a catalog of the many ways in which the government used COVID-19 to massively overreach its authority and suppress civil liberties:
Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.
Federal executive officials entered the act too. Not just with emergency immigration decrees. They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans. They threatened to fire noncompliant employees, and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement. Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed.
While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress—the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws—too often fell silent. Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few—but hardly all—of the intrusions upon them. In some cases, like this one, courts even allowed themselves to be used to perpetuate emergency public-health decrees for collateral purposes, itself a form of emergency-lawmaking-by-litigation.”
– ARIZONA, ET AL. v. ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL.
Yet while the government’s (federal and state) handling of the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a knockout blow to our civil liberties, empowering the police state to flex its powers by way of a bevy of lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, contact tracing programs, heightened surveillance, censorship, overcriminalization, etc., it was merely one crisis in a long series of crises that the government has shamelessly exploited in order to justify its power grabs and acclimate the citizenry to a state of martial law disguised as emergency powers.
These attempts to use various crises to override the Constitution are still happening.
It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be: civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
They have all become fair game to a government that continues to quietly assemble, test and deploy emergency powers a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution and can be activated at a moment’s notice.
We’re talking about lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level): the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease,” reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die.
While these are powers the police state has been working to make permanent, they barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has unilaterally claimed for itself without any pretense of being reined in or restricted in its power grabs by Congress, the courts or the citizenry.
As David C. Unger, observes in The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs:
“For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. […] Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.”
This rise of an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security is all happening according to schedule.
The civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters,” the government’s reliance on the armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems, the implicit declaration of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security: the powers-that-be have been planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now.
The seeds of this ongoing madness were sown several decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency, which is loosely defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.“
Comprising the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, these directives (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20), which do not need congressional approval, provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “national emergency.”
Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president.
The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended.
Essentially, the president would become a dictator for life.
It has happened already.
As we have witnessed in recent years, that national emergency can take any form, can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president.
The emergency powers that we know about which presidents might claim during such states of emergency are vast, ranging from imposing martial law and suspending habeas corpus to shutting down all forms of communications, including implementing an internet kill switch, and restricting travel.
Yet according to documents obtained by the Brennan Center, there may be many more secret powers that presidents may institute in times of so-called crisis without oversight from Congress, the courts, or the public.
Remember, these powers do not expire at the end of a president’s term. They remain on the books, just waiting to be used or abused by the next political demagogue.
So, too, every action taken by the current occupant of the White House and his predecessors to weaken the system of checks and balances, sidestep the rule of law, and expand the power of the executive branch of government makes us that much more vulnerable to those who would abuse those powers in the future.
Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents (Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.) have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.
The Executive Branch’s willingness to circumvent the Constitution by leaning heavily on the president’s so-called emergency powers constitutes a gross perversion of what limited power the Constitution affords the president.
As law professor William P. Marshall explains, “every extraordinary use of power by one President expands the availability of executive branch power for use by future Presidents.” Moreover, it doesn’t even matter whether other presidents have chosen not to take advantage of any particular power, because “it is a President’s action in using power, rather than forsaking its use, that has the precedential significance.”
In other words, each successive president continues to add to his office’s list of extraordinary orders and directives, expanding the reach and power of the presidency and granting him- or herself near dictatorial powers.
All of the imperial powers amassed by Obama, Bush, Trump and now Biden—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects (including American citizens) indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to wage wars without congressional authorization, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to establish a standing army on American soil, to operate a shadow government, to declare national emergencies for any manipulated reason, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability—have become a permanent part of the president’s toolbox of terror.
These presidential powers—acquired through the use of executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements and which can be activated by any sitting president—enable past, president and future presidents to operate above the law and beyond the reach of the Constitution.
This is what you might call a stealthy, creeping, silent, slow-motion coup d’état.
As an investigative report by the Brennan Center explains:
“There are currently 41 declared national emergencies, most of which have been in place for more than a decade… Some of the emergency powers Congress has made available to the president are so breathtaking in their vastness that they would make an autocrat do a spit take. Presidents can use emergency declarations to shut down communications infrastructure, freeze private assets without judicial process, control domestic transportation, or even suspend the prohibition on government testing of chemical and biological agents on unwitting human subjects.”
If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.
We must recalibrate the balance of power.
For starters, Congress should put an end to the use of presidential executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements as a means of getting around Congress and the courts.
At a minimum, as The Washington Post suggests, “all emergency declarations [s]hould expire automatically after three or six months, whereupon Congress would need to vote upon any proposed extension. It is time for both parties to recognize that governing via endless crises — even when they are employed to implement broadly popular policies that win plaudits from key political constituencies — subverts our system of constitutional government.”
We’ve got to start making both the president and the police state play by the rules of the Constitution.
As Justice Gorsuch recognized:
Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.
– ARIZONA, ET AL. v. ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL.
Unfortunately, the process of unseating a dictator and limiting the powers of the presidency is far from simple but at a minimum, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it must start with “we the people.”
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]
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This is a very troubling article which sums up the situation which many people, not only in the USA but around the World, suspect and fear. In the same way as astronomers use the behaviour of stars to determine the presence of a black hole in the centre of a galaxy, we can deduce the likely location of the political and societal black hole that has opened up during the Long Emergency which can be traced back to the end of World War 2 and the determination of the Western allies to build an immutable Anglo-Saxon socialist-free empire. The doctrine of Neoconservatism fits the bill in terms of it’s militarism, imperialist aims, it’s attraction to authoritarianism and contempt of the general population, it’s ability to attract the powerful and wealthy, it’s closeness the military industrial complex, security services and large corporations. We need to stop these influencers at every turn,… Read more »
Incidentally, all this is leading towards WWIII, few see it coming. No empire has ever seen its own fall – its own infallibility.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
Somewhere Eric Blair’s ghost is chuckling.
We are jointly and severally blameworthy by letting this sate of affairs happen.
I wonder if that idea makes you feel better?
No, we are not blameworthy for the criminals who run everything today.
We are more like the Christians in Roman times.
The Christians didn’t let that state of affairs happen.
They simply had no weapons or military organization with which to defend themselves.
Unless, of course, you’re sitting on an arsenal of really scary stuff – along with the technology to run it…
But in any case, the Christians’ purpose in life wasn’t centred around wars and conquest.
It’s worth remembering that not everybody is a Bolshevik, although I do realize that saying so isn’t really a solution to our current political catastrophes.
The situation is already far bigger than the President. There’s already people telling the President what to do. And they’re telling all the governors and mayors and sheriffs what to do, too. And they’re all in on it. They all comply so readily as if in their minds is business as usual. And then, it’s not just America but all NATO coalition partners, expanded NATO, the bulk of the UN members and developing world, China and Russia. All that can be done at this point is pray.
Rule by Emergency also eases, or removes, the burdens of progressive conscience, which we saw in (most, or much) of the “Left’s” woeful enthusiastic capitulation to the house arrests and mandates. Overburdened in modern times by an embarrassment of riches that way, the “social justice” devotees found it much easier to follow directives that pretended to care than to apply any rigorous analysis, or even a mostly scnleppy one, which even the latter would have revealed as mostly, if not pure: BOLLOCKS. Even to the poorly informed. I can say that because I saw those mental gears turning ~ in authorities at schools, churches, stores, etc etc ~ (albeit with very poor lubrication) and soon jamming. Once jammed, the efforts to unjam them recalled bluntly such similar desperation as when trying to start a motor that has just “thrown a rod.” And billions in that dilemma insisting to each other… Read more »
Right on. >
“A tyrant needs above all a tyrant-state, so he will use a million little civil servant tyrants who each have a trivial task to perform, and each will perform that task competently, and without remorse, and no one will realize that he is the millionth link in the final act.”
From: Henri Verneuil‘s film I Comme Icare
Release date: Dec 19, 1979
The Peter Hotez files: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-unique-terror-of-being-a-covid-scientist-after-january-6 “The Unique Terror of Being a COVID Scientist After Jan. 6 …. It’s no coincidence that one of the first guilty pleas in connection with the Capitol riot was of an anti-vaxxer.” Well of course it’s no coincidence. It was scripted that way. Anthony Fauci is “a punching bag for the far right since the earliest days of the outbreak”. Poor Anthony. He was “frequently targeted by the administration and its allies under Donald Trump” and this is “a piece of a much larger and systematic anti-science project on the far right”. The Trump White House “embarked on a deliberate anti-science disinformation campaign. The explicit language both from the president and his staff members: COVID-19 was a hoax” and “many red-state governors prematurely relaxed social distancing and mask measures, stoking terrible waves of COVID-19 across southern states in the summer and the Midwest in the… Read more »
Here is an interesting read that provides a bit more perspective..
https://anationbeguiled.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/war-powers-act-of-1933/
The starting point for all this undermining of democracy was G.Bush and his entourage of assorted psycho criminals responsible for the 9/11 theatre. To understand how a man in a cave in the Middle East co-ordinated an attack on American soil, using terrorists armed with box cutters, performing amazing skills by flying jet airliners into the Twin Towers, which disintegrated into dust in turn collapsing, in free fall, the nearby Building 7 or the airliner which supposedly flew into the Pentagon but where no evidence was found of its engines, or the Shanksville crash where everything was mysteriously turned into tiny fragments unlike any other air disaster in modern aviation history, is this all too difficult for the majority of Americans to understand ? To acknowledge that they have been shafted by a bunch of lying, psychopathic criminals ? What has followed on from this point is what the above… Read more »
Just go back a bit earlier like the Kennedy assasinetion , a coupe d’etat by the same crime family and cohorts
Kennedy also remarked on the soviets who were the main part of the liberation front in the second WW with 27 million death and a destruction comparable , from Chicago to the eastern seaboard ( Americans 500.000 death)
What did we do in “gratitude”?, we planned an all out war against our former ally right after 2de WW ( Churchill iron curtain) FACT
And then Today !!, it is as if the 2nd WW never ended
Ah yeah, no. Not all GWB, although it would sure as hell make things simpler if he alone were to blame or that only Republicans are to blame, but it is NOT SO. The corruption goes a lot farther back, very probably from inception of the US, but really, the US is hardly alone. As for the stupidity of the American public regarding 911, that’s been trained for generations now. You expected the majority of the American public to look at things like physics and understand those concepts? After decades of dumbing down? Our owners knew good and damned well the majority would accept the scary Muslims from caves story and act accordingly. For the “smart set” it was all blowback from what “we” did in the ME. Then there was the whole LIHOP theory, which I myself used to subscribe to. But when one reads the words of the… Read more »
You give Bush Jr. too much credit. His reading level is at “My Pet Goat”. Think of the orligarchic system that could make him the top icon, like a giant cutout. With rigged voting machines, it is getting easier. Everyone else in power, including ministers, legislators and judges must march in step, or else.. Outside politics, even some of the industralist billionares are cutouts.
Hello Grafter: George W’ya Bush was simply another link in a chain of events that began with the erasure of the original 13th Amendment See: Titles of Nobility Amendment. The Original 13th Amendment prohibited certain members of the public from holding political office. “Honest Abe” (Abraham Lincoln) allowed erasure of the original Amendment, committing treason upon the Republic. The public still cheers his name… Read: > CONFIRMED: The Original Thirteenth Amendment Was Ratified, And Then Improperly Removed From The Constitution by Richard C. Green April 2, 2017 CONFIRMED: The Original Thirteenth Amendment Was Ratified, And Then Improperly Removed From The Constitution – The Millennium Report The only organization that certified lawyers was the International Bar Association (IBA), chartered by the King of England, headquartered in London, and closely associated with the international banking system. Lawyers admitted to the IBA received the rank “Esquire” — a “title of nobility”. “Esquire” was… Read more »
“We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good…. If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.”
So “deep discomfort” is now grounds for restricting freedom of expression – that’s according to the leader of Eire’s Green Party.
whether the government could continue to use it pandemic powers even after declaring the public health emergency over
Could it have escaped the attention of every “opposition” legislator, lawyer or judge anywhere in the world that the covid jabs, approved under an emergency, became invalid with the local approval of the first proprietary pill?
Even John Whitehead cannot see beyond his national concerns to the world GloboCap is trampling on. Such awareness must become widespread before his insane country begins to metamorphose, but it seems that it will then be too late.
The issue is abuse of power and not enough limitation on the monopoly of power. The police should be there to stop government attacking the people who put them in a position of power. The problem also is because of the party system where corporations fund the parties in a parliament in return for driving their interests.
WSWS upping the ante:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/20/naxb-j20.html
“Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez!
On Sunday, as he was getting a cake for his father on Father’s Day, vaccinologist Dr. Peter Hotez was stalked at his home by two fascists, who followed him to the door of his house while shouting accusations that he was “injuring” the population with vaccines.
This incident is part of an escalating campaign, spearheaded by the fascist right, against experts who specialize in COVID-19 research and are fighting for a scientific response to the pandemic, aimed at terrorizing them into silence.
Dr. Hotez regularly receives threats, along with antisemitic hate speech.”
Ah it was always a matter of time before the “anti-Semitism” card is triumphantly flourished.
So those who oppose the “fight against the pandemic” are anti-Semitic Far Right …..
Oh you’ve heard it already!
It’s interesting to see the WSWS’s increasingly explicit attack on those who reject the covid narrative. Obviously the sceptics are growing in number at a concerning rate.
Also, the fact that the Trotters are still aggressively shilling for the vaccines at a time when the entire vaccine project is becoming incredibly incoherent shows the extent to which the WSWS is a creature of the Deep State.
Dante’s Lowest Ring of Hell is much too high up for the likes of Dr. Hotez. He is, to put it bluntly, a monstrosity.
Chip chipping away at our constitutions. We’ve got it happening in Australia too. The current chipping away at the Australian Constitution thing here in Aussie is by the Labour Party and is called The Voice. Ostensibly to give so called first nationals even more say than they’ve already got. In reality it’s another damaging dose of race based apartheid. But whether in the US or Australia, this relentless chipping away at our Constitutions is designed not to strengthen freedom but to reduce it to something the government bestows as a reward for good behaviour to selected serfs.
The massive, wealthier than the nation states that host them, global in scope, non-human entities (corporations, partnerships, ngos, etc.) and the oligarchs that own them, are the hidden, but positive, set of forces that are operating in the background; with purpose: to destroy everyone’s human rights ( life, liberty, right to know, right to be counted, right to participate, and right to pursue personal happiness). Without human rights there is no purpose for humanity to support a government. The global entities are actively engaged in flipping the purpose of government and stripping humans of their human rights . These monopoly powered, wealthy, non-human entities have been secretly installing a set of legal and political systems [standardized government in a box] that do not recognize human rights. Instead the new governments will contain, control and use the human subjects they govern as the non human entities and their oligarch owners see… Read more »
We can view the matter simply, like this: Every official promoting or ratifying a treaty that violates the national constitution is a traitor.
We really should understand the Constitution is voided everywhere where gov’t operates.The prime case is the Courts where “justice” is supposed to be the objective. When a Municipal Court Judge and then a County Court Judge say to a human being demanding a Class 3 Constitutional Court that “the Constitution does not apply here”, be forewarned. The Constitution and Bill of Rights have been incrementally abrogated since inception. Read your City Corporate Charter. It assumes abrogation of Constitutional limits, states residents are incorporated under the city corporation. It gives itself autonomy to gov’t employees to make “rules” as they wishe. We personally have experienced this fighting mask mandate legal punishment rituals defended at all cost by the System and it’s prosecutors. If you have ever protested at a Police provoked/attacked political event you will understand the purpose of Police and Courts. They have nothing to do with justice.
Hello sandy: Well, yes and no. The Constitution should not be considered as void, regardless of dictated circumstance. Yes. The “system” has been hijacked by corporate boots wearing suits. The county sheriff still holds sway – regardless of attempted Federal manipulation of the States. > County Sheriff’s Handbook Published March 8, 2021 Microsoft Word – Sheriffs Handbook 03-22-21 (nationallibertyalliance.org) Note to Sheriffs and Statutes 18 USC §241 Conspiracy Against Rights 18 USC §242 Deprivation of rights under color of law 18 USC §645 Court Officers Generally 18 USC §654 Officer or Employee of United States Converting Property of Another 18 USC §872 Extortion by Officers or Employees of the United States 18 USC §1001 Statements or Entries Generally 18 USC §1503 Influencing or Injuring Officer or Juror Generally 18 USC §1512b Engages in Misleading Conduct 18 USC §2071 Concealment, Removal, or Mutilation Generally 18 USC §2076 Clerk is… Read more »
Speaking of:”Power-hungry and lawlessness, in the Sydney Morning Herald June 20 2023 there is a professor Graem Stewat, from Westmead Hospital openly shilling for the pharma bio-weapon under the pretext of “nab a jab, save a life,” in other words he appears to be advocating that all should get vaxxed and boosted as a measure of being ‘responsible’. How bloody pathetic that the supposed health-professionals can so readily be co-opted to shill for Big-Pharma and ostensibly to justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. From my perspective, this professorial prick needs to hang his head in shame … Long-covid, my arse …
His jingle should read “ban a jab, save a life”.
I overheard an elderly lady speaking in an op shop in Gippsland two days ago. She had just ” had ” COVID despite being jabbed and boosted 5 times. She was considering booking in for her sixth shot when available and seemed to think six-monthly boosters thereafter might be well warranted.
Jabba jabba doo!
The normies believe.
People walking in the open, beautiful fresh-air, donning ‘masks’ … wearing ‘masks’ while alone in a motor-vehicle, border-line insanity. I can only think that ANYONE, despite 24/7 propaganda, volunteering for MORE THAN ONE injection – for the same imaginary-virus … is beyond saving and moreover, should be allowed to become part of Bill Gates’ 10-15 % of expendables. By their actions and/or ignorance, they have marked themselves as being “useless-eaters”. Sorry, but that is the cruel reality … my gran, or not.
I find this particular scamdemic-thrall doublethink loop sad and appalling. I know people trapped in this loop; it’s probably by now superfluous to say that they’re well-educated and seemed reasonably intelligent and perspicacious before the Megadeath Virus of Doom scamdemic blew their collective minds. They see no conflict or contradiction in their “COVID” perceptions, or delusions. As True Believers in the jab, they devotedly seek out and welcome the jabs and boosters. And yet they also lament that they have inexplicably “gotten COVID” several times. I’ve written about a scamdemic-thrall old friend, A.– actually, my brother’s closest friend– who was delighted last year because he could finally return to Italy (from the US) to participate in a performance art workshop and performance program that he’d been attending annually for several years, until the scamdemic brought a stop to the program “for the duration”. Of course, A. diligently got his booster jabs and… Read more »
Mandatory sterilizations via emergency use authorization, a brief history:
The Great Rebalancing – A History You Haven’t Heard Because Nobody Wants To Talk About It
Neo‐Malthusianism and Coercive Population Control in China and India: Overpopulation Concerns Often Result in Coercion
“Neo‐Malthusianism, defined as fear that a large population size could lead to a humanitarian and ecological disaster and that combating so‐called overpopulation is thus an urgent problem—has real‐world consequences. The belief has often resulted in support for coercive policies. Countering neo‐Malthusianism is especially critical now given the recent prominence of such thinking.”
“After Malthus died, the Industrial Revolution transformed Western society. It created unprecedented prosperity. Food became more plentiful even as the population grew. Malthusianism seemed disproven. Moreover, increased wealth led to more funding for sanitation, hospitals, and education and a decline in child mortality. That allowed for smaller family sizes and resulted in a decline in fertility.”
I’m watching One Child Nation on Amazon Prime now, about China’s policy from 1979-2015. It traumatized the nation.
Considering that we are now hearing about “Researchers Create Human Embryo-LIKE Structures”, and that when we hear about this type of stuff, it means they are much farther ahead then they let on, it is very likely that the puppets of TPTB are not human.
Learn about the occult Homunculus, or Golems.
Down vote isn’t an argument that refutes the suggestion.
Try harder.
Problem-Reaction-Solution April 23, 2019- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security publishes a report titled “Vaccine Platforms: State of the Field and Looming Challenges.” The project was sponsored by Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz’s “Open Philanthropy Project“, which also sponsored Event 201. ========= From report: “To date, the pharmaceutical response to emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism has been characterized by a “one bug, one drug” approach, where specific medical countermeasures—effective vaccines and therapeutics—are developed, manufactured, and deployed, explain experts in a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. However, over the past several years, platform technologies have been developed that could make it possible for multiple vaccines to be more rapidly produced from a single system.” “Over the past several years vaccine platform technologies have been developed that could make it possible for multiple vaccines to be more rapidly produced from a single system.” … “Amesh A. Adalja, MD,… Read more »
Declaration of Independence of the United States 2020 The unanimous Declaration of We the People of the United States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with government, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the world requires that they should declare the abuses that lead them to separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Self Defense, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the people. That whenever any Form of… Read more »
In every stage of these abuses We have Petitioned for Redress in the humblest terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the government of a free people.We have warned the government corporation from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over the people. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration, settlement here and the year 1776. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have pleaded for the people that they disavow the usurpation, which would inevitably interrupt our relations and communication. They have been deaf to the voice of justice and the people. We must, therefore, tell those that denounce our Separation, we hold them, as we hold the rest of the world. Enemies in… Read more »
Down vote equals down syndrome.
Down vote equals butt hurt.
The Founding Fathers and Framers of the USA’s Representative Constitutional Republic, understood that this, or something similar, would eventually happen, and the reason for the Bill of Rights. Specifically the First and Second Amendments. In the last 50 years, the two biggest usurpations of power by the corrupt federal government have been the Patriot Act and the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. The best way to fight this usurpation of power, peacefully, is through nullification and the power of lower magistrates. If the Federal Government continues to push, violatate inalienable rights, and attempt to disarm We the People, then under the Just War Principles, the Second Amendment must be implement fully to change and alter the guards of government. That the government has passed, or proposed, laws that are repugnant to the Constitution, is factual evidence of Congress conspiring against the inalienable rights of We the People. This has… Read more »
Down vote is just another dialectic mentally ill.
The Constitution enabled what’s been going on to happen. It was written to ensure the continued rule by the wealthy elite over the rest of society, “Founding Fathers” like James Madison openly said so, e.g. in the Federalist Papers #10. What’s going on now is just the latest stage of what has developed since 1788.
Historian Howard Zinn wrote, “The Continental Congress, which governed the colonies throughout the war, was dominated by rich men, linked together in faction and compacts by business and family connections” [3] and that the Constitution illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law—all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity…When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work… Read more »
Historian Howard Zinn wrote, “The Continental Congress, which governed the colonies throughout the war, was dominated by rich men, linked together in faction and compacts by business and family connections”[3] and that the Constitution illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law—all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity…When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of… Read more »
So you have a better example or idea of a contract with government? What other nation recognizes INALIENABLE RIGHTS that cannot be taken away? Who promised that the Constitution and Bill of Rights (BoR) would stop tyranny from within or from outside? The Constitution was violated as soon as the First Central Bank was chartered by Alexander Hamilton in 1791. Franklin argued for honest money over fractionalized banking, and lost out to the AH and the people backing him specifically. AH modeled that bank after the Bank of England (BoE) and invited Rothschild to invest. That has nothing to do with the Constitution and BoR, and everything to do with human corruption. The corruption of the guards of government is not a refutation of our form of government. We were explicitly warned that we would not keep our Republic if we didn’t constantly exercise vigilance. We the people failed at… Read more »
Try harder Obtuseman.
That is not an argument that refutes my assertions.
It is noted that you have no argument and resort to deflection.
Good job.
No sense arguing with an Obtuseman. And your argument doesn’t refute my assertions. Do you just cut and paste your favorite sayings or do you type them out every time? No, don’t answer that.
I did in fact REFUTE the assertions of the government “expert” you chose to quote.
If thinking otherwise helps you feel better, then good for you.
Still waiting for your improved and better contract with government.
Your ad hominem attacks prove that you have no argument.
Maybe you need lessons from Yoda on what it means to try.
No, you didn’t, you just called Zinn a name and weirdly claimed he was a government sanctioned expert who was dissing the Constitution. Hardly a refutation of his points, particularly regarding the economic angle. Do some research dude, you aren’t as smart as you think you are. This founding father infatuation of yours is creepy, but I’ve certainly seen it before. You sound like you have a narrow and limited knowledge of the history of the constitution based on a conservative ideology supporting your views against democracy. Which is why you say the same shit over and over. My brother had the same disease. He’s mostly cured now. Other than that, it’s already been proven that debating with you (seriously) is a worthless endeavor.
That is exactly what Zinn is doing. Regurgitating the same narrative that tyrant funded academics use to suggest that the Constitution and BIll of Rights are outdated, not the supreme law of the land, and that rights are not inalienable. The suggestion that “we know better” and only the “educated” are allowed to have an opinion on the subject. What economic angle specifically? The quoted statement is vague at best and offers no evidence of the assertion. I have done research and I have read most of the Federalist Papers. Have you read the Federalist Papers? Since you are so freaking smart, where is your better form of government and constitution and bill of rights? Direct Democracy isn’t better, and isn’t new. Asserting that I am “creepy”, or that my position is based on “narrow and limited knowledge”, or “based on a conservative ideology” are not arguments that refute my… Read more »
To my mind, there is only one course of action available to any Supreme Court Justice who has noticed that the government despises its own Constitution and deprives the citizens of the country of decent representation:
He must resign, revolt, appeal to the American people for support, and even run for President if necessary. Anybody but a basket case would be able to understand his motivation.
A Supreme Court Jusice isn’t supposed to be simply a rather bright person.
That is nowhere near enough.
He is supposed to be outstanding and remarkable, and his word is supposed to count for something.
Why even have a Supreme Court if all it can do is wring its hands like the rest of us?
The Supreme Court is not the progenitor of all things legal or constitutional.
That is nothing more than suggesting we need to operate on the basis of Judicial Supremacy.
No one needs a law degree, or to be a judge, to know when a law, or regulation, is repugnant to the Constitution.
Anyone that has supported, participated, penned, proposed, any legislation, or regulation, that is repugnant to the Constitution, has committed sedition, if not treason, or both.
Those guards of government should be removed by any means required.
I was only focusing on this particular specimen – Gorsuch – to make the point that today’s Supreme Courts have nothing whatsoever that is ‘supreme’ about them.
Some of the holders of the title of “Supreme Court Justice” are clearly not even particularly bright.
Given that Gorsuch happened to be one of them, there were more honourable courses open to him than just sitting out the rest of his life spouting 3rd-person wisdom.
I am most certainly not suggesting that the Supreme Court is any kind of answer to anything at all, but it really should do something to lift its reputation a little higher than the bottom of the barrel, which is where it has been for decades.
Presumably the adjective, “Supreme” was appended at some point to imply remarkable excellence…? Can’t they even pretend…?
They are as corrupt as the rest of the justice system.
If SCOTUS wasn’t corrupt, almost every judge in the 9th Circuit (AKA 9th Circus) would be facing judicial review and disbarred.
That a so called “conservative court” are the ones that pushed the idea that that SCOTUS can make law, and pushed the ROE decision to make abortion OK, should be a red flag to anyone that is pro life.
SCOTUS itself, IMHO, has become repugnant to the Constitution.
This is a case of the “Binary” rearing its ugly head yet again. Justice Gorsuch falls to the right of said Binary. And, unfortunately, what most characterizes this side of the Binary in judicial terms is an absolute hatred of “Judicial Legislation” (as used to describe the infamous Warren Court).
Justice Gorsuch has of course hit the nail on the head, plus the ball out of the park when he says how easily so-called “citizens” fall for the “National Security” ruse – one of the biggest cons in modern history.
And I’m afraid as long as that sickening trend continues, there’s nothing to be done. National Security is not only one of the bulwarks of modern “civilization,” it is also almost entirely exclusive to Western and other “Big” nations.
The nations that actually need National Security – because the Big bully nations are always just at their doorstep – don’t seem as obsessed with it as the nations which periodically attack other nations.
As a sidenote, wonder what will become of National Security if the globalists manage to supplant nation-states.
One Earth, One World, One Normal…
One nation under Pfizer…?
https://ifunny.co/picture/the-system-is-broken-and-must-be-fixed-the-system-9AD2N9OMA?s=cl
Commi commi commi. Commi commi commi.
Bitcoin fixes this
Propaganda is a mighty tool, isn’t it.
McCarthy did exceptionally well. Fearfearfear. Fearfearfear economic justice. Bow to the rich. They will throw you a bone.Eventually.
Putting any state on a perpetual emergency footing is identical to the Tojo concept (and other Axis powers, and not a few “Allies”) of “Total War.”. Same net result, in terms of “taking off the gloves” and governance’s “having its way” with whomever it chooses (to “pick on”).
As they say, “all’s fair in ‘love’ and war.”
It just amounts to a functional suspension of the rule of law, which we already saw another face of when the “Patriot” Act was foisted only two decades back.
Like Hitler’s brownshirts and “the night of 1,000 knives” it exposes many valuable malcontents to, ah, “vigilantism.”
I’d suggest that the most important changes were due to the Patriot Act with Covid just being a bit player. Since a lot of people today were either not alive or were children back in 2001 they’ll know the history as the “Attack on the Twin Towers” and not remember the appearance of a huge, oven ready, bill that was rushed through Congress with a bit of anthrax powder encouraging the Senate to not ask too many questions. It was classic ‘taking advantage of a disaster to push through legislation that would never pass muster in normal times’. Now we’re so confused as a society that we can’t differentiate dictators from generic politicians. We see wannable dictators as our friends, we see old school politicians as ‘threats to the Constitution’ and generally are led around by the nose chasing phantoms. We should be asking ourselves about who’s sourcing all this… Read more »
“Most important changes”? Neither Usher nor more to the point John Whitehead even reference https://substack.com/@bailiwicknews, that is. the US paralegal Katherine Watt. If they had they would know that the changes to US law leading to the Scamdemic seem to go back to 1969. Watt herself references US attorney Todd Callender. Another very useful legal input comes from Sasha Latypova. She and Watt have appeared on various videoed sessions since 2022, why is Whitehead unaware of their input? This smacks of the same sort of silo thinking otherwise afflicting the Freedom Movement, ie the majority of doctors, such as McCulloch, Marik, Kory, etc. insist on handling the Jabs as biological in nature. Because that is what they learned in med schol, where they never learned any Materials Science of E-Engineering, so it has to be right. But if it is right, why were “injectable electronics” of Charles Lieber the great… Read more »
Note these excerpts from the article: “the government has weaponized one national crisis after another…. COVID-19, for example, served as the driving force…. the government’s (federal and state) handling of the COVID-19 pandemic…. …it was merely one crisis in a long series of crises that the government has shamelessly exploited…. These attempts to use various crises…. …one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency…” See? The “crisis” is not doubted. It “definitely happened”. We even get this: “It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be…” Because, after all, “the crisis” is definitely “a crisis”. So the nature of it doesn’t matter! Note also that the term “pervasive public health emergences” appears twice. One signals a link. Eager to find what these emergences are, I clicked, only to find: “Error 404! The page you requested does not exist or has moved. But here are… Read more »
Well spotted!
George Orwell:
If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a (masked) human face forever.
COVID-19 = CON JOB-1984
Convid-1984
“Congress should put an end too”
Congress is as corrupted as all the other parts of government.
Government is the problem not the solution…Full of corrupted souls power hungry minions of Satan.
“A society which exists in a constant state of emergency cannot be free.”
A society, which drive cars on heavy lead fossil dinosaur oil which increase the warmness of our planet with +1C a year up to the boiling point of +100C, can never be a free society.
Erik Nielsen, Where were we and where are we going after that.
Nobody knows what a free society is any more, so nobody is actually heading in that direction.
Why are you guys then even mentioning the concept and even writing and commenting on it, if you guys dont know what it means? To look wise and intelligent, or to look like a nice guy??
Meaning the Elite are right again. We are too many fools on this planet. “We have to inject the entire global population.”
Well, Erik, I DO know what it means.
When I say “nobody knows”, I am using the sort of common exaggeration which everybody understands, except those who like to make an issue out of such things.
To be excruciatingly precise:
“Hardly anybody knows what a free society could possibly look like in 2023, because most people can’t be bothered to inform themselves about what is being done to prevent a free society from forming.
Those few of us who do care don’t have enough political clout to make a difference – which apparently makes us fools in your eyes.” But we are not fools. We are looking for better answers than the ones the Elite have in mind for us.
So just climb down a couple of yards and tell us what your intelligence has taught you – something that might put our honest and informed endeavours to shame, perhaps?
Fact free drivel – other than the boiling point of water you got everything wrong.
I know, but you didnt.
Wauw, how eager you all are with the correcting pencil. Commenting with down votes on everything you dont personally understand.
Gregg Braden – Why “THE POWERS THAT BE” are So Desperate to Reduce Carbon Dioxide on OUR Planet?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJ-Qefos8A