Christianity and the Coming Dissolution of the United States

Conservative Chloe's Eagle Eye blog takes activist judicial interpretation of the Constitution to court.

Chloe argues that Jefferson and other of the Founding Fathers believed in a literalist interpretation of the Constitution. Quoting Jefferson:

"On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."

As well, Chloe points out that the Founding Fathers saw this as a Christian nation. Quoting the Northwest Ordinance, signed by President George Washington:

"Religion, morality, and knowledge, necessary to good government and happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."

Chloe argues that America is a Christian nation. Supreme Court and other rulings that have overturned the Founders' original intent are illegitimate.

Recently, I received an e-mail from Baruch College, a campus of the City University of New York, as is my employer, Brooklyn College. The e-mail said that Baruch College was holding a colloquium on whether the Constitution should be abolished. The academics involved were indifferent to republicanism, limited government or restrictions on government to steal, murder, loot, mismanage and oppress. These academics are ignorant of history. In short, they are quacks.

Conservative Chloe makes a good point. However, the resolution of these differences is hard. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of today functions as a legitimate institution. It is not authorized by the Constitution to write law, but it has repeatedly done that. It has done so in the name of changing social values. Yet, the Supreme Court does not represent Americans' values and has no mechanism to be aware of them.

The justices on the Supreme Court are taken from the ranks of elite universities. Elite universities are overtly antagonistic to traditional American values. I would add that quack social theories; medieval belief systems concerning socialism and how economies ought to work; and primitive attitudes toward the legitimacy of state violence and murder, especially as concerns left-wing or communist dictatorships and murderers are common. A murderer like Che Guevara is eulogized in these circles, as are failed, stupidly conceived medieval economic systems such as those of the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Trained in the primitive ignorance characteristic of American universities, the Supreme Court of the United States reflects neither prevalent social attitudes and mores nor any kind of evolution. They are a medievalist, reactionary body whose aim is to assist the far left in imposing aristocratic and monarchical systems on the American people through a total state similar to what existed in Russia in the 14th century.

The question is how to resolve this dilemma. On the one hand, the quackademics agitate ceaselessly for medieval government through what they pathetically call "progressivism". At the same time, real Americans favor progress through economic evolution, free markets, innovation and the free circulation of ideas, free of the unlimited authoritarian state that left-wing academics and their pupils on the Supreme Court advocate.

The conflict is one of an unstoppable force and an immovable object. The end result will be dissolution of the United States.

There is no reason why Conservative Chloe should be forced to share this nation with the thuggish, left wing knuckleheads who dominate Congress. Nor should people schooled in American history like Conservative Chloe be forced to share this country with ignoramuses who do not know that the Founders saw a militia and the ownership of guns as necessary to protect against the tyrannical state--the very kind of state academics and the US Supreme Court advocate.

The country ought to be broke up into several regions. The regions ought to reflect widespread values of large groups of Americans. Each region ought to be free to form its own constitution as far as economic and social values. The Supreme Court ought to be decentralized into the several regions. The chief remaining duty of the federal government ought to be national defense. The federal government ought to be elected by the state governments and by the people. The regions should be free to decide on their own monetary, economic, social and religious policies.

America is simply too large to manage. The attitudes of the left, namely, the activist state, are incompatible with the ideals of the Founders. The failure of the activist state has, unbelievably, been met in left-wing and Democratic Party circles for calls for an ever more activist state.

The current federal government lacks legitimacy. It exists by force of violence. It is a tyranny.

Lt. Michael Behenna

I just received the following e-mail from Jim Crum concerning Lt. Michael Behenna:

>I attempted to let all of you and others know about the terrible injustice in regards to 1st LT Michael Behenna who is now serving a 25 year sentence because the prosecution did not provide the defense team with very important evidence. This information by a pathologist who examined the terrorist’s body shows clearly that Michael was only acting in self-defense when the terrorist tried to take Michael’s 9mm pistol.

Please make calls to the Glenn Beck show today. He will have an open forum where callers can voice the issues bothering them today.
So please, call in support of Michael Behenna especially since none of the news services has made any effort to h elp this brave soldier who was serving with the 101st Airborne Division.

Honor and Duty,
Charles R. Gant
Governor 502nd Regiment
101st Airborne Division Association


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Government: The Oldest Confidence Scheme

For a number of years I worked at starting a business and investing in real estate. One of the chief challenges with which business men have to deal is the deception and manipulation of confidence men and women. Elderly people fall prey to confidence men who offer prizes for cash and Internet sweepstakes, but seasoned, high level executives fall for them as well. The Madoff scandal is but the most glaring of history's confidence schemes. In 2001, Sam Waksal convinced Peter Dolan, then recently appointed CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb and Waksal's friend (as was the also ill-fated Martha Stewart) to invest $2 billion in Imclone. According to the Wharton School of Business:

"But in December, the Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's application for Erbitux's market approval. ImClone's stock is now trading under $10 a share and its former chief executive, Samuel Waksal, was arrested in June on charges of conspiracy, perjury and insider trading. Authorities are investigating whether Waksal tipped off his friend, Martha Stewart, also an investor in the company, to sell shares just prior to the FDA's December ruling."

The annals of business are replete with stories of confidence schemes.

But government offers confidence schemes that are even bigger and of more malicious scope than does business. For example:

-Chinese, Soviet and Cuban governments came to power on the promise that communism would make their comrades' lives better. After decades, tens of millions of victims murdered by these governments, and one mismanaged enterprise after the other, the comrades were as poor as ever. The communist countries could not develop.

-In America, the Great Society programs of Lyndon B. Johnson claimed to be an important tool to help the poor and minorities. Today, 21% of inner city black teenagers are unemployed. Poverty has not been eradicated, rather income inequality has grown.

-Social security claimed to help the economic security of the elderly. Yet today, the economic value of social security contributions is far lower than the economic value that taxpayers contribute. Politicians transferred benefits to politically vocal constituencies in the 1970s and earlier. The result is that today's taxpayers pay for the retirement of previous generations, while seeing their own recede into the ever more distant horizon.

-Military strategy. Government claims expertise with respect to military strategy. Defense is the one area where no one denies that government ought to play a role, although the left believes it should be a smaller role than the right. But in Vietnam and Iraq, the military refused to heed the advice of William S. Lind and Thomas X. Hammes as to the importance of Fourth Generation Warfare. The result was botched strategy, thousands of Americans killed unnecessarily and at least hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Iraqis killed unnecessarily.

-Central banking. The biggest scam. I have blogged about this elsewhere. The idea that economists are better equipped to judge how much money the crooks at the Federal Reserve Bank ought to print is a funny idea. Add to it the laughable claim that the money ought to be given to bankers, and the bankers ought to have the power to expand the counterfeit money five fold in order to "help the poor" is unquestionably the biggest financial scam in the history of mankind.

-Government operations. In the 1970s I had the privilege to work as an office temp in New York City's Department of Social Services. I was still in college. My job was to type forms for medicaid claims. The office as a large, 20,000 square foot room with at least 100 employees, maybe more. I was typing the forms, but when I looked up, not a single other person was working. Everyone else in the office was standing around talking. Not a single employee at a typewriter. Then, a group of them came to my desk and stood around me. One started saying that it was ungodly to work because Jesus said to give unto God what is God's and Ceasar what is Ceasar's.

This occurred just before the mayoralty of Edward I. Koch, the Democrat who advocates lots of additional government programs. The DSS continued unaffected during Koch's 12-year mayoralty.

It is difficult to get to the bottom of all the thieving, stupidity and incompetence in government operations. One example was FEMA's handling of the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina a few years back. The Democrats, with their usual incompetent finger pointing and refusal to look for real causes, blamed the hurricane on Bush. But there is hardly a competently run agency in state and federal government. They are all mismanaged scams.

But, of course, the confidence men cum politicians do not discuss the mismanagement, waste, misallocation of resources and failed regulation. They do not tell you that they are helping the rich through their regulatory and monetary scams.

Rather, they tell the American people that they are helping the poor and the general population.

The American people are suckers. They are suckers to allow 50% of their income to go to federal and state taxes to be squandered on the garbage that politicians oversee.

America's Batty President

Legendary conservative blogger Doug Ross (h/t Phil Aver)notes that Barack Obama has proposed to shoot pollution particles into the stratosphere to reduce the sun's rays and reduce global warming. It seems that not all the mental cases are in Creedmore. One is in the Whitehouse:

"No, this isn't a hungover April Fool's joke. The Obama administration means business on climate change, even if its plans will destroy businesses large and small. Fox News reports that 'Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming'."