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The outrageous FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago Monday evening indicates our justice system is broken, and the federal government is corrupt.

The IRS has hired 87,000 agents to police innocent American citizens.  Taxes are being raised during a recession.  Moms and dads are being declared terrorists for showing up at school board meetings.   Criminals and fentanyl are flooding across our open border killing 109,000 Americans in one year!

What are Democrats and Republicans doing to fight this TYRANNY?  What are they doing to keep our LIBERTY? 

Paul Venable shares these concerns.  He is a Constitution Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, who we are featuring in today’s Newsletter.

This is Paul’s story:

 “Why am I a candidate for Missouri’s United States Senate? Well… what does Liberty look like? Do you believe that you and I are living it right now? Are we not seeing, over the years, and especially the last two, a condition that rivals what prompted the Declaration of Independence? For those of us who remember September 11, 2001, do you feel freer today – I didn’t say safer – I said freer, than you felt on the previous day, September 10?”  Paul Venable, State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Missouri

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Why are you here? I imagine that like me, you can plainly see that there is something very wrong in America and the current political practices are not improving anything.

• There’s an invasion taking place – in America
• Many American cities have burned, and their streets are unsafe
• Americans are being divided against each other
• Our children are being robbed of their futures, intellectually and economically
• An inflated currency is taxing us behind our backs
• …and that’s not a fraction of the issues we face today!

We could all go on pointing out what’s wrong in America right now and many of us are standing up – right now – in one way or another, whether it is fighting for free speech, the Second Amendment, pro-life, election integrity, community safety, health freedom or against the abominable practices in our schools. It’s like fighting a hydra, but…

It doesn’t have to be this way!

Every single one of these issues has two root causes and two root solutions. The first cause is ignorance. NO ONE ELSE IS TELLING YOU THIS, but our ignorance of the power that we, as a people and our several states, have to right the wrongs in our communities and nation can be our undoing.

One of those things we need now is…

Constitutional Repentance

Yep… every one of these maladies we are facing as a result of our out-of-control government has a root solution. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE! It is, the Constitution!

The flouting of the Constitution is so flagrant in the Biden Administration, that it defies reason, whether it is promoting an invasion on our southern border, to fighting an undeclared war in Ukraine to hog-tying our local officials using federal dollars with strings, to smashing our own energy production, and more… far more! Every bit of it defies the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution! But…

Let me give you the good news!

This is a wide open door for a People with Power who understand the Constitution and apply it, and I have heard this statement attributed to both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson…

…that we must “Know the law, and be well disposed to use it!”

The Constitution is the solution!

It was the miracle that saved our young Republic, after the Revolutionary War!

Root causes require root solutions. Returning to the Constitution is one root solution.

What Does Liberty Look Like?

How many of you are old enough to remember when there were only three or four television stations in our communities. We didn’t grow up with 24/7 video news and entertainment. In out day, a television station would start around 6 a.m. with test pattern and tone and then they would end, often between 1and 2 a.m. Do you remember how these stations would sign on and sing off?

Of course! In the morning, there was static. At the scheduled time, a test pattern and tone would appear, followed by maybe the pledge of allegiance and always our National Anthem.

At some point after I was old enough to discover what was on the other side of midnight, I was up “late” with my father, a veteran of World War II. While we were watching TV together, eventually it was time for the station to sign off. The Star Spangled Banner started, signalling the end of the broadcast day when a little past half-way through, my father got up, walked across the room and turned off the television (we did not have remotes back then).

He noticed my unspoken, but quizzical inquiry, to which he just calmly responded, “I never want to hear America’s song end.” He could not have conveyed to me in a thousand words what he taught me in that moment.

So… what does Liberty look like?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal…”

Of course, you recognize where this phrase comes from? Here’s more:

     “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, government are institution among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

What is the bottom line here? Our rights come from God – not government – and it is the purpose, it is the duty, it is the mission of government to secure these rights!

I submit that if we are to expect a political correction in America, we must also have a spiritual revival in America. That is the other root solution.

Why am I doing this? Because of the hope I have, that my posterity and yours, may have the opportunity in their lifetimes, to know what Liberty looks like.

Click here to hear Paul in his own words:

So… WHAT do I propose to do?

I will ADVANCE the Cause of Liberty.

This is not a conservative position. I am not seeking to conserve – or preserve a status quo, which continues to slide further from stated “Conservative” principles as more and more elements of our rights and liberty are abandoned to “bipartisanship,” driven by the attraction of wealth and power within a conclave that exempts itself from its own laws.

This is not a Liberal position, which appears to seek government solutions for issues outside of its authority.

To ADVANCE the Cause means that we recover the territory that has been lost, restore order and Reclaim the Republic!

I will HONOR MY OATH OF OFFICE!

 Those elected or appointed to any office of public trust at every level of government in our Republic, swear or affirm by oath to support and defend The Constitution of the United States and, if applicable, their respective State Constitutions. That Oath or affirmation is their contract agreement with you and with me, to promote and follow the laws that advance our Liberty and spend wisely and within the proscribed limits, the treasure that we provide for them to do so.

Beginning 3 January, 2023, my first obligation will be to honor that oath, every moment I am in office and to, within my responsibilities, alert my fellow office holders – and you – when government steps outside of those bounds.

I have a project for you. Next time you encounter any elected or appointed officer, ask this simple question (don’t be shy, like you they are just another human and fellow citizen – and your servant). Here is the question:

“What is the purpose of government?”

If the response is anything other than to secure the rights of its Citizens, you can know for yourself, that this individual is violating his or her Oath of office, even if unknowingly. Get in touch with me and let’s find someone to replace them. If they give you the right answer, check their record and see if it matches their words.

I will use the power of the Constitution to restore the Rights of the People and require full compliance to it.

The Constitution has TEETH, and we the People and our state legislatures have power in their exercise thereof.

With the Constitution, we can get the attention of our government officials, require their compliance to it, and if they fail to comply, we can remove them from office.

Remember in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy was told that she’d always had the power to return home? Well, so do we! We have the power to return to Liberty, but it is not couched in the Liberal vs Conservative, Red vs Blue, Democrat vs Republican paradigm. How’s that worked out for ya over the last 100+ years.

The Liberty Bell has these words from Leviticus 25:10 cast upon it:

“Proclaim liberty throughout the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

What do I propose to do? I am doing it right now. As I proclaim Liberty throughout the land, I have this question for you:

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Dear Constitution Party Lovers of Liberty,

If you are reading this Newsletter, then you feel strongly enough about the future of our country to seek out the only political party in America that is committed to restoring constitutional limits to our nation.

Primary election dates and candidate filing deadlines vary widely by state, but there is still time to file for office in many.

Time is of the essence. Your state and country needs YOU. Click here to find your state’s deadlines from the National Conference of State Legislatures:

2022 State Primary Election Dates and Filing Deadlines (ncsl.org)

Consider the tyrannical takeover of our country as you ponder this list of “Hot Button Topics” that are occurring in our communities. Then ask yourself, “is it time to get actively involved and consider running for office? If not me – then who? If not me, then how can I help those who will?”

This is what’s happening under the leadership of Republicans and Democrats:

• Opening our borders to Fentanyl, criminals and terrorists

• Shutting down our pipelines and energy sources

• Closing down 30% of our small businesses

• Indoctrinating our children

• Vaccinating our school-aged children without parental consent

• Rigging our elections

• Creating dependency on government

• Worldwide loss of respect for our country

• Rumors of a “new” pandemic/variant this fall

• Tens of thousands of people dying from the jab (per VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System))

• Millions of people suffering serious injury and/or hospitalization from the jab (per VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System))

• Historic inflation

• Supply line shortages

• Rising crime rates

Are you mad yet?

Isn’t it time to get up out of that armchair and consider running for office on the Constitution Party ballot?

Liberty is a not only a blessing; it is a responsibility and a sacred trust. It is not only our right; it is our duty to remain free. The future of our children, grandchildren, and indeed the nation, depends on the commitment of concerned citizens like YOU.

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Darrell Castle talks about how fear of the pandemic is being used by various people around this world to dismantle democracy, obliterate constitutional rights, and usher in totalitarian governments.

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Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 10^th day of December in the year 2021.  This report will discuss how fear of the pandemic is being used by various people around this world to dismantle democracy, obliterate constitutional rights, and usher in totalitarian governments and leaders.

Before I begin I make note that last Tuesday the 7^th of December, was the 80^th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War ll. That date is an appropriate start from which to begin a discussion of fear and what it is currently doing to the once free people of the world. The United States had a population of about 160 million at the start of the war and during the four years of conflict about 16 million served in uniform or about 10% of the population. They served because their nation had been attacked and because evil had to be eliminated from the world. Their victory gave the world, even defeated foes, a chance at democracy or the right of people to govern themselves.

Today, we find ourselves in another battle, the greatest battle of our lifetimes, possibly of all time, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” which I again urge you to read. Mr. Kennedy describes how a coalition of forces—intelligence agencies, pharmaceutical companies, social media titans, medical bureaucracies, mainstream media, and the military, are using fear induced by a health crises to impose totalitarian control worldwide.

Anthony Fauci is the face of this coalition, its most prominent face, because he has been medical advisor to six presidents. Mr. Kennedy argues that the concept of regulatory capture has turned U.S. public health agencies into veritable pharmaceutical companies. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives 45% of its annual budget from big Pharma. Big Pharma receives much of its profits from the U.S. taxpayers via vaccine payments, etc., which money is then used to fund governmental agencies responsible for regulating the industry.

Fauci in his role as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) no longer looks out for public health but instead is in the business of pharmaceutical promotion. Just a few of the facts exposed in this book would be enough, but there are more than just a few. In 1984 when Fauci took over NIAID, 11.8% of Americans had a chronic disease, and now it is 54%. It was his job to research and discover why autism, allergies and many other diseases were increasing and eliminate the toxins causing it. Instead of acting as a true public health agency he used it to develop and sell pharmaceutical products.

He accomplished these things by creating a climate of fear in America and around the world that would make the world run to pharmaceuticals. These drugs were funded by U.S, taxpayers and some of the profits were then funneled back to the agencies that were charged with regulating them. So much money changed hands that it corrupted everyone it touched and the incentive to create more unfounded fear increased accordingly. Originally, it was the AIDS epidemic which was supposed to wipe out the human race. It was a disease which anyone other than IV drug users and male homosexuals had only an infinitesimally small risk of contracting, but it was used to create fear in the general population and thereby sell the drug cocktails developed to treat it.

AIDS was terrible and scary but something more frightening was needed to induce the population of the world to rush to the coalition’s only available preventive. A series of flus started to appear in the world usually originating in China. Swine Flu, Bird Flu, H1N1 Flu, Zika Virus, all fell upon humanity until vaccines were widely available to supposedly stop them. Everyone had to get a flu shot so people gradually became conditioned or used to the yearly vaccine routine.

The anthrax attacks after 9/11 helped with the fear factor as well since several prominent politicians supposedly received letters containing white powder presumed to be anthrax. Fear was ramped up in the population by leaps and bounds. Anthrax allowed Fauci to circumvent the treaty preventing research and development of bioweapons and that research was funded by the U.S, military as joint or dual use material. Dual use is research that could possibly be civilian, but the real purpose is military thus the military funding of biowarfare agents.

That is the program under which Fauci funded gain of function research at U.S. University labs and later in China. The CIA and the Pentagon through DARPA were all apparently working in tandem with Fauci to teach the Chinese how to weaponize bat virus. Dangerous pathogens were studied and made far more deadly to humans through all this research. Most people can see that this is all very sinister, and this man is not someone who should be running U.S. public health, but its even worse. According to Mr. Kennedy his sordid past goes back to the AIDS crisis and his diabolical experiments on children which killed at least 85 children at least. The experiments were barbaric and illegal, but he did it anyway. He gained control of foster homes in 7 states and then turned the pharmaceutical industry loose on these children.

The children were powerless with no legal representation and no guardian. They were tortured literally to death. Many of them did not even have HIV but were simply human guinea pigs. Those children who refused the drugs or were noncompliant were taken to Columbia hospital and had feeding tubes installed to administer the drugs. At least 85 died during the experiments. This atrocity wasn’t enough for him though, so he took the experiments to Africa where he killed many pregnant mothers.

This is all horrible isn’t it, perhaps too horrible to be true. No, it is all true and documented in Mr. Kennedy’s book, but if Dr. Fauci disputes any of the charges let him file a lawsuit against Mr. Kennedy and his publisher for defamation. I doubt that any such lawsuit will be forthcoming, so the public has a chance, finally, to understand what all the fear and all the hype, and all the destruction of the economies of the world is about, but they first must read or at least listen.

This is a planned and orchestrated use of pandemics to clamp totalitarian control on the world’s population. Throughout man’s time upon the earth, he has dreamed of being able to control the whole world. You know all the names of those who tried and failed, but the difference is that for the first time it is now possible. The involvement of the intelligence agencies such as CIA, even though it has nothing to do with health, is a giveaway.

“The intelligence agencies and health agencies have developed these extraordinary techniques for using fear to disable critical thinking. If you look at the whole rationale behind this pandemic, all of these rationales collapse, why are we mandating vaccines that don’t prevent transmission? What is the possible reason? That’s just one of many absurdities of what we’re doing today, but people who are subsumed in the orthodoxy, which is the product of orchestrated fear, misinformation, and propaganda, need to be woken up.”

I add my own words to say that the woke and the unwoke, the liberal and the conservative the Democrat and the Republican, all need to wake up and understand what is happening to them. It looks very bad for our future if people continue to blindly obey and submit to totalitarian control.

“I think this is historical jeopardy to humanity that we’ve never seen before. You know, the black plague and WWll are arguably rivals for it. But I would argue that this is the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity because the essential ambition of the totalitarian state is to control, not just conduct, but self-expression and thought. And for the first time in history, because of the technological revolution, the capacity for totalitarian forces to literally control every aspect of human expression and even human thought is now unprecedented.”

Keeping all that in mind the 80^th anniversary of the start of WWll is an interesting coincidence. Those people fought to free the world from NAZI oppression, from Japanese Imperial militarism, and the other forms of evil that seeks to enslave mankind. They sacrificed their lives for their country certainly, but also for the chance to give the world the ability to shake off the yoke of totalitarianism. What have we done with that right, with their sacrifice? We should educate ourselves enough to at least be able to intelligently answer that question.

The nations which were freed by victory in WWll are almost all sinking into totalitarianism based on fear of the pandemic that I just talked about. Australia is sending people to a literal camp behind wire against their will. Austria has locked down the entire population of unvaccinated people and won’t allow them out of their homes. Germany is perhaps the most restrictive country in Europe, and we all know what has been happening here in the U.S. The U.S. response has been by way of unconstitutional mandates rather than by debate and vote of the peoples’ representatives. The work that the Nazis, Japanese, and Italians could not accomplish in four years of total war is being accomplished through the application of fear.

There is, however, a little bit of good news about all this coming from the nation of India. Quoting from the complaint: “Petitioner has sought prosecution of AstraZeneca’s (Covishield) manufacturer Bill Gates, his partner Adar Poonawalla and other Government officials and leaders involved in the murder of a 23-year-old man, who lost his life because of vaccination. The deceased took the Covishield vaccine by believing in the false narrative that the vaccine is completely safe and also owing to the compliance requirement set by the Railways that only double vaccinated people would be allowed to travel.”

I suppose that Mr. Gates should plan to stay away from India for a while because if convicted the sentence is death. Now, one final quote from Mr. Kennedy’s book. “Today we have this situation where the U.S. military and the CIA are conspiring with the Chinese CDC and military scientists, developing bioweapons together and conspiring to lie to the public…We have U.S. federal officials who are conspiring with Chinese military officials to hide truth from the American public.”

Finally, folks, is this the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity? You can decide for yourselves, but for me this entire program of fear stampeding us to destruction is run by a bunch of satanically inspired homicidal maniacs and is the spirit of antichrist.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle is a Memphis attorney, former USMC combat office and the 2016 Constitution Party nominee for President.

His blog, The Castle Report – Defending Western Civilization, can be found HERE.

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When news of COVID lockdown orders began to be reported back in early 2020, my immediate concern was not over the virus but the lawfulness of the orders. Yes, the virus matters and should be researched by doctors so they can advise their patients as to the best methods of prevention and/or treatment. However, without the rule of law, we have no protection of our God-given rights, including the right to life. Therefore, rights and the rule of law are paramount, even above COVID.

I quickly observed that the lockdown and shutdown orders being issued violated God-given rights, were not constitutionally authorized, and therefore lacked the force of law. As the orders that were promised to be for only a few weeks dragged on into months, it became clear we’d been lied to and that action needed to be taken to restore the rule of law.

I had already been pondering the many ways such violations could and should be stopped and how the usurpation of power by governors could be put in check. However, neither elected officials, political leaders, political parties, nor the big-name organizations of the right seemed ready to step up to the plate and provide the bold and decisive action needed. Without such leadership, the rank and file were effectively sheep without a shepherd, able only to bleat out a modicum of disapproval at their rights being violated by executive orders.

Before discussing the actions that could and should have been taken to put an immediate stop to the violations, there needs to be an understanding of God-given rights and the rule of law that lie at the foundation of this matter.

God-Given Rights

God-given rights are those things which the Creator of man decrees by His word, or reveals through the design of His creation, to be right for the creature of His creation. Man cannot add to himself rights not conferred by his Creator, nor can any remove from man the rights conferred by his Creator – they are immutable.

According to the American Founders, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of civil government is to secure God-given rights, among which are:

• LIFE: including the right to choose how to care for the health of that life.

• LIBERTY: both to come and go, freely associate, and worship.

• PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: through ownership of property and stewardship of the fruits of one’s labor, which necessitates freedom to operate, or be employed in a business.

The Founders deemed these principles to be of such paramount importance as to state that whenever “any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”

Closing churches, shuttering businesses, locking down citizens, and banishing people from the workforce for declining to be injected with a foreign substance, all violate these sacred rights and violate the very purpose for which governments are instituted among men.

The one traditional, Biblically-based exception, is the quarantining, or social distancing, of individuals found to be infected with, and currently contagious with, a disease known to be generally deadly or debilitating, such as leprosy was in Bible times. However, with well over a 99 percent survival rate among the infected, COVID is far from inherently deadly, and “if” a person does get infected, they are generally only contagious for a couple of weeks, not two years.

Romans 13:10 tells us that, “Love does no harm to a neighbor.” While that would compel those who are currently contagious with COVID to stay home, it also compels the rest of us to do no harm to our neighbor’s liberty or livelihood during the other 50 weeks of the year that he is not a threat to our health. Long-term, society-wide, lockdown-shutdown-maskup-vaxup orders show the antithesis of love, do harm to our neighbor, and violate his God-given rights.

The Rule of Law

Government operates by law, law operates by authority, and authority operates by chain of command. God, as the Creator, is the source of all authority. The Creator has delegated a measure of His authority to man with which to exercise dominion here on earth. Man has in turn delegated a subset of that authority to civil government by the consent of those who will be governed.

Here in the United States, the precise amount of authority delegated by we the people to our government is spelled out in our state and federal constitutions, each of which enumerates the specific powers therein granted. Any powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution are reserved to the states and the people (Tenth Amendment). Any powers not enumerated in a state constitution are reserved to the people alone.

All legislative (lawmaking) power is vested in Congress at the federal level, or a legislature at the state level. Therefore:

• Because the COVID lockdown-shutdown-maskup-vaxup orders have not been voted on and passed by the state or federal legislative assemblies, and;
• Because neither the state (at least in my state) nor federal constitutions grant power to government to regulate or dictate personal healthcare, and;
• Because these orders violate the God-given rights of healthy (not currently contagious) individuals, and;
• Because the executive branches of state and federal government that issued the orders do not have lawmaking power;
• Therefore, no such orders can be law, nor do they have the force of law.

“But what about emergency powers acts passed by Congress or state legislatures?” Well, what article, section, or subsection of the constitution grants to the legislative branch the power to grant to the executive branch powers not granted by we the people to either branch?

The idea of emergency powers is ludicrous. Such a concept would serve as a blank check for the government to grant to itself whatever powers it wants. It would render the very idea of a constitution utterly meaningless. That’s why the American founders made no such provision in the U.S. Constitution nor is there such in my state constitution.

Even if a state has laws providing for the quarantining of persons known to have certain infectious diseases, blanket application of lockdown-shutdown-maskup-vaxup orders to the entire population without verification of an individual’s infectious status violates the due process of law. It effectively skips the step in law where evidence of wrongdoing is required and proceeds instead directly to sentencing. It’s equivalent to a state suspending everyone’s driver’s license over the holidays because some might drink and drive. Even if it saves a few lives, it voids due process and violates everyone’s rights.

Seven Ways the Violations Could Be Stopped

Seeing that blanket application of lockdown-shutdown-maskup-vaxup orders violates God-given rights and the rule of law, let’s look at some of the ways they could, and/or should have been stopped.

1) GOVERNORS

No governor was forced to lock their state’s citizens in their homes, suspend religious services, shutter businesses, or make healthy people wear masks. And though President Trump once said he would have made states implement shutdowns had they not done so on their own, neither the President nor governors have the constitutional authority to make such policies law.

Of 27 Republican and 23 Democratic governors in 2020, only one chose to confine herself to the powers granted in her state’s constitution from day one – South Dakota’s Kristi Noem (see the last section of this article).

“But I thought the Republican governors were better than the Democrats.” Well, if by “better” you mean they violated their citizen’s rights less, or for a shorter period, then yes, some Republicans did that.

Regarding President Biden’s current unconstitutional vaccine mandate on employers, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis appears to understand and be performing his duty to protect the citizens and employers of his state against unlawful federal overreach. Only time will tell how many of the governors currently echoing DeSantis’ sentiments possess the courage to follow through or how many are just making the noises conservative voters want to hear.

2) STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS

Any state attorney general who has read the Declaration of Independence, has a rudimentary understanding of God-given rights, and knows that only legislatures can make law, should have been at the governor’s office the day after any shutdown-lockdown-maskup orders were issued reminding the governor that he does not have such authority and that to avoid prosecution for violating the rights of the citizens, he must cease and desist.

3) STATE LEGISLATURES

Whenever a governor usurps to himself power not constitutionally granted by the people or uses power in a way that violates the God-given rights of the people, it becomes the duty of the state legislature to bring impeachment charges against the governor and remove him from office.

Republicans hold a majority in the legislatures of 30 states with a veto-proof supermajority in 16. If they’re really the defenders of law and liberty, then Republicans missed a great chance to prove it by impeaching 29 governors and removing 15 (accounting for South Dakota where the governor did not engage in usurpation).

The Biden vaccine mandate on employers provides an excellent opportunity for state legislatures to practice the principle of nullification, passing resolutions declaring the businesses of their state exempt from the unlawful edict and pledging the state’s protection to those businesses choosing not to comply. Though some Republican legislatures are making noises about passing bills to protect workers against forced vaccination, sadly, some appear to be planning to simply place a reverse mandate against employers, not taking a real stand for the rule of law but instead taking the coward’s way out and leaving employers stuck in the middle between opposing state and federal mandates.

By the way, the Trump moratorium on evictions was just as unconstitutional as Biden’s vaccine mandate, though I don’t recall these same Republican legislators opposing that, which tells me their current indignation is more about partisan politics than devotion to principle.

4) THE COUNTY SHERIFF

As the highest law enforcement officer in the land, it is the duty of the county sheriff to interpose between overreaching state or federal officials and the citizens of his county in defense of their rights. I would like to think this happened in at least a few of the 3,143 counties in the U.S., but I’ll rely on readers to let me know if it happened in their county.

5) THE COUNTY COMMISSION

When a governor takes to himself powers not delegated by the state’s constitution and begins to violate the rights of citizens, it becomes the duty of the county commission to adopt a resolution acknowledging that the governor’s orders are without the force of law and may not be enforced upon the citizens, businesses, or churches of their county. The resolution should further call upon the county sheriff to repel any state officers seeking to enforce such orders or impose any resulting fines.

6) PRESIDENT

It is the duty of the President of the United States to use the bully pulpit of his office to articulate, and when necessary, reassert the God-given rights of the people and the duties of state and local authorities in preserving those rights.

The U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, guarantees “to every state in this union a republican form of government,” which is to say, government by the rule of law as opposed to government by edict of an executive. The lockdown-shutdown-maskup orders issued by governors in 2020, and continuing in 2021, give cause for the President and Congress to remind states of this provision and call misbehaving governors to account.

However, neither Presidents Trump nor Biden have so used their bully pulpit but instead chose to hand it over to an unelected bureaucrat named Anthony Fauci.

7) WE THE PEOPLE

The last line of defense against tyranny is always “we the people,” both through the courts, and when necessary, through acts of civil disobedience that obey the rule of law rather than the edicts of tyrants. In the case at hand, this would consist primarily of individuals, churches, and businesses declining to obey the unlawful lockdown-shutdown-maskup-vaxup orders. And yes, this would necessitate a legal defense against the ensuing fines that would be levied, and that would require we the people putting our money where our mouth is in the form of donating to such undertakings.

There are a few smaller organizations that have taken on some court cases around the country, but where are the big organizations and the big money of the right? Where are the multi-million dollar entities that are hallowed in the halls of CPAC every year? Where are the political heroes of the right who the faithful pay hundreds of dollars per plate to attend dinners with and fawn over their words?

In 2020, $6.6 billion was spent on presidential campaigns. A fraction of that diverted to court cases could have overwhelmed the system and brought unlawful COVID orders to a grinding halt under the weight of more legal battles than governors could fight. Such a response by we the people could have set legal precedents that would have done more to preserve liberty than electing any president has done in our lifetimes.

Yes, we can also write to our representatives, begging and pleading that they defend our rights. We can even hold rallies and march through the streets of our cities calling for medical freedom, as I recently did with a group of several thousand here in Spokane.

We’ve Elected the Wrong People at Every Level

However, at the end of the day, one thing remains – we are and will be, governed by this, or some other form of government that will either venerate or violate our God-given rights. Therefore, the effectiveness of any activism by “we the people” ultimately depends on our having first elected, to at least some levels of government, individuals who understand our God-given rights and possess the courage to defend them when our pleas reach their ears. But the fact that we find ourselves relegated to action item number seven in the list above, stands as evidence that we’ve elected the wrong people to every level of government that could have been used to interpose on our behalf.

Yes, there is a handful in Congress, and in most state legislatures around the country, who still contend for God-given rights and the rule of law, about five percent by my last estimate, though a friend and former state rep in Montana thinks that’s a bit optimistic.

And how did we get to the place of electing all the wrong people? We did it by the conservative movement spending decades pursuing political power at the expense of whatever principles Republican leaders told the faithful they had to compromise away to beat the Democrats.

A Precedent Is Being Set

Failure to actively resist a violation quickly becomes acquiescence and acquiescence is eventually counted as consent.

After over a year and a half of suffering unlawful violations without clear and decisive action in defense of our rights, we now stand at the point where further acquiescence could rightly be interrupted as consenting to the forfeiture of the very concept of there being such a thing as inherent and immutable rights. We have begun to set the precedent of government being no longer by the constitutional rule of law, but by whoever has the most guns, bureaucrats, judges, and political will to subjugate the masses.

For rights and the rule of law to be restored to America will require repentance from the cowardice, compromise, and inordinate party loyalty that brought us to forfeit our heritage of freedom in the first place. Only a spiritual awakening and reviving by the Spirit of God can restore the moral character and courage that will be needed. Hopefully, such a restoration can be realized without bloodshed, but that may be for a future generation to discover.

© Robert W. Peck

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Our Liberty Teeth – Part Two

“A toothless lion may have a slow and painful death, unless mercifully eaten beforehand”

– A Republic, If WE Can Keep It!, 17 September 2012

CONSITUTION DAY 2021!

Is America a toothless lion?  Are we about to be eaten alive?

Well, it would certainly seem that way. But why?  America has been a beacon of Liberty throughout the world. On the whole, it has produced a prosperous life for generations of its inhabitants, a people who have also welcomed those who were willing to enjoy in the freedom afforded by the principles of Liberty and live by its laws.  Those principles are enshrined in two simple and inspired documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the united States of America.

For much of 250 years, even in the midst of turmoil, America has managed to feed itself and the world, to produce more than it consumes and to be protected internally from the storms of international intrigue.  In the course of two generations, however, we’ve seen the Republic transition from the most prosperous of times to the most perilous of times since Lexington and Concord.

The grievances expressed in the Declaration were not new…

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The colonists had done everything in their power to appeal to the sensitivities of their fellow countrymen.  Finally, finding no other alternative, for those countrymen were now warring upon them, Patrick Henry declared…

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
– Patrick Henry, 1775

The following year, independence was declared and the new nation shed the monikers of “colonies” and “colonists” for the title of Free Men of “Free and Independent” States.

Nevertheless, that new nation was still vulnerable as the Articles of Confederation did not have the power to maintain it for the long term.  Within a decade of Revolutionary War victory, young America was facing a stagnant economy, with public debt at record levels and inflation out of control. Foreign powers were watching like vultures, hoping to carve up the lands of the struggling nation.  What then, was the miracle, that helped America survive that period? It was the Constitution!  Within four years of adopting the Constitution, George Washington wrote to David Humphreys, and said…

“Tranquility reigns among the people, with that disposition towards the general government, which is likely to preserve it…. Our public credit stands on that high ground which three years ago it would have been considered a species of madness to have foreseen.”
– George Washington, letter to David Humphreys, 20 July 1791

Where in this scenario do we find ourselves today?  It may be that we don’t realize that there is, and has been for some time, a War on Liberty.  In a brilliantly sinister way, our Republic and its people have been conditioned for destruction, just as the frog in the pot of warming water endures its last moments of life, with the waxing and waning of one emergency after another, we have been both alarmed and then relaxed and alarmed and then relaxed, until an alarm is no longer seen for what it really is.  Then comes the boiling.  But as Patrick Henry emphatically queries, “The war is actually begun! … Why stand we here idle?”

Well. why do we?  It’s really not because we wouldn’t be willing, or that we are unable.  Who among us would allow our homes or families to be openly intruded upon or attacked?  We know we have the right of self-defense and many of us certainly have the capacity and willingness, even if with fear and trembling, to use it.

There is good news in this scenario, and there is bad news.  The good news is that the Constitution has teeth.  The People have power in our Republic, but in the absence of understanding, the knowledge of this power has been hidden.  The good news is that there are still more of us who love Liberty than those who want to subjugate the people.  And the really good news is that there is a palpable fear among those who are exercising unrighteous dominion by the force of government, a real fear that you… and I, will get it.  That we will unite and refuse to accept that a free people can or must be divided AND, that we might reject our national sins and comprehend this counsel from Benjamin Franklin…

“In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine protection – Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered.  All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor.

‘To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on means of establishing our future national felicity.  And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend?  Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

‘I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man.  And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?  We have been assured sir, in the Sacred Writings that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it (Ps. 127:1).”
–  Benjamin Franklin, remarks to Constitutional Convention – 1787

How can we suppose that a ragtag, rarely paid, untrained army of tradesman and laborers and ministers and farmers defeated the most powerful military force on the planet at the time of the war for Independence?  The providence of God attended the birth of this nation and only with His providence will it survive.  Maybe, just maybe… can we shed our personal and national pride and sins, and plead for deliverance.  And while we’re at it, maybe we can show that we mean it.  Get to know those around us; love your neighbor, visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, liberate the captive, feed the hungry, etc.?

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”
– Psalm 51:17

What is the bad news?  We already have experience with this, history hath taught us from the loss of liberty in other lands, and even here, that tyrants look for a provocation, in one place or another and from time to time, an opportunity to alarm the people and offer them solutions for safety.  Don’t buy it.  Don’t fall for it.  Learn of and exercise the power we already have, that has been hidden from us for generations.

What is the bad news?  It’s that we have a very narrow window of opportunity to act before the command-and-control virus infecting our Republic and other governments around the world overcome the host.

In a previous post, Our Liberty Teeth – Part One, the importance of the States as the ultimate arbiters of the Constitution was emphasized.  In our Independence Day message, O Thus Be It Ever, When Free Men Shall Stand, we asked what’s to be done with oath bound public servants who violate that oath, or the solemn agreement they make to commit to the Constitution.  In a conversation that I had with a Marine veteran yesterday, I asked, “Do military service members take an oath to obey the President, or the Constitution?”  “The Constitution!” was her emphatic response.  And then she continued with her own added emphasis, “…against all enemies foreign and domestic!”

Well, here it is!  This document from our friends at Reclaiming the Republic has background and detail on the solution that is worth the time it will take to read:

The Unknown Teeth of the Constitution

For our next post in this series, Our Liberty Teeth – Part Three, the action plan will be shared.  Will you help?  Let us know!

Take a moment, now, to watch and share this brief introduction to the power that we have in our States.  The states are stakeholders in a contract, the compact that created the Constitution. They are the final arbiters of that compact and when the rights of their respective Citizens are being violated by the general government, it is the duty of the states to interpose. The legal basis for its enforcement was clearly defined during the Ratification Debates, but they have been largely unknown. Here is a link to a video for an overview of what this means:

Paul Venable is the author of this article and is currently chairman of The Constitution Party of Missouri.  He was a candidate for Missouri Secretary of State during the 2020 General Election.  He can be reached by email here:
paulvenable [at] constitutionpartymo [dot] org

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