This decay actually started way back in the 1930s, when the worms from the Frankfurt School wriggled over here to spread their communist ideology. They come here for sanctuary and set about destroying the place immediately.
spingerah, I agree, but Trump has said some very anti-liberty statements, e.g., "Take the guns, then prosecute." And his Warp Speed Vaccine is great stuff. I think Trump wants America to be prosperous, but he's weak on liberty.
Yes i suppose just have to wait & see. His take the guns thing got my attention as well. I am a long time NRA life member, my wife is also, I did not coerce her, only encouraged her to study the issue & decide for her self.
She joined as a life member at the same time one of our sons did, if anyone influinced her decision it would have been him.
It's a long article, but well worth the time and effort IMO. Liberty and abundance aren't truly missed or appreciated until they are gone. Americans have had a taste of that situation in the past 4+ years. Oppression is a horrible thing. Marxism crushes the soul, body, and mind.
The Soviet Union and Mao's China eventually collapsed. Unless American politicians and bureaucrats change course back to liberty and abundance, the Federal government and some state governments will disappear in a revolution.
As to pardons, this: This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, indeed, there is precedent from 1974:
“Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon.power conferred upon me b) Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974.”
Note that the pardon could be overturned for lack of specificity - if you've read the actual Biden pardon above, that specific crimes are mentioned - and for those, the pardon would hold. As for the unspecified actions, there is lack of specificity which would contravene the original intent behind the pardon power. If such a general pardon were upheld, then an Administration could perform all sorts of illegal actions, and then the culpable actors could be relieved of all responsibility for their bad acts by such a pardon, and that would make for disastrously bad public policy. As Justice Brandeis put it, in his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928): "Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Brandeis, J. in Olmstead, at 485, at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/. https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/the-hunter-biden-pardon
The trouble with pardons is that they're effective as long as people don't take the law into their own hands, so to speak, as we just potentially saw with the killing of the United Healthcare CEO. His company is notorious for screwing people over, hiking premiums and fighting claims tooth and nail to keep all of the money they can. It looks like his killer planned the whole thing out in detail - almost like a professional hit, using a gun with a big suppressor on it - and he dumped unfired rounds out on the street with words written on them which could be, and were, easily found. So it might not matter who gets pardoned if they just get hunted down and killed - and there's no reason to use a gun - a car could be used, a crossbow built from scrap metal and junk, poison from common house plants, and so on. A fentanyl-tipped arrow would do the job - and those don't make noise. So people could be pardoned, but they'd have to be in a witness protection program or its equivalent for life.
It's time for Atlas to shrug. And when he's done shrugging, he's going to pick up a rifle.
This decay actually started way back in the 1930s, when the worms from the Frankfurt School wriggled over here to spread their communist ideology. They come here for sanctuary and set about destroying the place immediately.
Many thousands of heads must roll. AMERICA FIRST no other country, AMERICA. Trump would be wise to.follow through with that.
spingerah, I agree, but Trump has said some very anti-liberty statements, e.g., "Take the guns, then prosecute." And his Warp Speed Vaccine is great stuff. I think Trump wants America to be prosperous, but he's weak on liberty.
Yes i suppose just have to wait & see. His take the guns thing got my attention as well. I am a long time NRA life member, my wife is also, I did not coerce her, only encouraged her to study the issue & decide for her self.
She joined as a life member at the same time one of our sons did, if anyone influinced her decision it would have been him.
Normally we cant agree that the sky is blue! Lol.
We don't always agree on
Great article and all too true. Yesterday, I read this article, "The Captive Mind" by James Kullander on LRC:
https://jameskullander.substack.com/p/the-captive-mind?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=727013&post_id=151989087&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=aplvz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
It's a long article, but well worth the time and effort IMO. Liberty and abundance aren't truly missed or appreciated until they are gone. Americans have had a taste of that situation in the past 4+ years. Oppression is a horrible thing. Marxism crushes the soul, body, and mind.
The Soviet Union and Mao's China eventually collapsed. Unless American politicians and bureaucrats change course back to liberty and abundance, the Federal government and some state governments will disappear in a revolution.
As to pardons, this: This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, indeed, there is precedent from 1974:
“Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon.power conferred upon me b) Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974.”
THE NIXON PARDON: LIMITS ON THE BENIGN PREROGATIVE by Hugh C. Macgill, at https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1319&context=law_papers
Note that the pardon could be overturned for lack of specificity - if you've read the actual Biden pardon above, that specific crimes are mentioned - and for those, the pardon would hold. As for the unspecified actions, there is lack of specificity which would contravene the original intent behind the pardon power. If such a general pardon were upheld, then an Administration could perform all sorts of illegal actions, and then the culpable actors could be relieved of all responsibility for their bad acts by such a pardon, and that would make for disastrously bad public policy. As Justice Brandeis put it, in his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928): "Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Brandeis, J. in Olmstead, at 485, at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/. https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/the-hunter-biden-pardon
The trouble with pardons is that they're effective as long as people don't take the law into their own hands, so to speak, as we just potentially saw with the killing of the United Healthcare CEO. His company is notorious for screwing people over, hiking premiums and fighting claims tooth and nail to keep all of the money they can. It looks like his killer planned the whole thing out in detail - almost like a professional hit, using a gun with a big suppressor on it - and he dumped unfired rounds out on the street with words written on them which could be, and were, easily found. So it might not matter who gets pardoned if they just get hunted down and killed - and there's no reason to use a gun - a car could be used, a crossbow built from scrap metal and junk, poison from common house plants, and so on. A fentanyl-tipped arrow would do the job - and those don't make noise. So people could be pardoned, but they'd have to be in a witness protection program or its equivalent for life.