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We Failed the Freedom Test

BY JOHN AND NISHA WHITEHEAD MARCH 27, 2024 GOVERNMENT, HISTORY 7 MINUTE READ

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The remedy is worse than the disease.Francis Bacon

The government never cedes power willingly.

Neither should we.

If the Covid-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”

Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned.

We’re still allowing ourselves to be fully distracted by circus politics and a constant barrage of bad news screaming for attention.

Four years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which gave world governments (including our own) a convenient excuse for expanding their powers, abusing their authority, and further oppressing their constituents, there’s something being concocted in the dens of power.

The danger of martial law persists.

Any government so willing to weaponize 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 will not hesitate to override the Constitution and lockdown the nation again.

You’d better get ready, because that so-called crisis could be anything: civil unrest, 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.”

Covid-19 was a test to see how quickly the populace would march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, no questions asked, and how little resistance the citizenry would offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national security.

“We the people” failed that test spectacularly.

Characterized by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch as “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” the government’s Covid-19 response to the Covid-19 pandemic constituted a massively intrusive, coercive and authoritarian assault on the right of individual sovereignty over one’s life, self, and private property.

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.

Truly, 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.

What started off as an experiment in social distancing in order to flatten the curve of an unknown virus (and not overwhelm the nation’s hospitals or expose the most vulnerable to unavoidable loss of life scenarios) quickly became strongly worded suggestions for citizens to voluntarily stay at home and strong-armed house arrest orders with penalties in place for non-compliance.

Every day brought a drastic new set of restrictions by government bodies (most have been delivered by way of executive orders) at the local, state and federal level that were eager to flex their muscles for the so-called “good” of the populace.

There was talk of mass testing for Covid-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, mass surveillance in order to carry out contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities, and heavy fines and jail time for those who dared to venture out without a mask, congregate in worship without the government’s blessing, or re-open their businesses without the government’s say-so.

It was even suggested that government officials should mandate mass vaccinations and “ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”

Those tactics were already being used abroad.

In Italy, the unvaccinated were banned from restaurants, bars and public transportation, and faced suspensions from work and monthly fines. Similarly, France banned the unvaccinated from most public venues.

In Austria, anyone who had not complied with the vaccine mandate faced fines up to $4100. Police were to be authorized to carry out routine checks and demand proof of vaccination, with penalties of as much as $685 for failure to do so.

In China, which adopted a zero tolerance, “zero Covid” strategy, whole cities—some with populations in the tens of millions—were forced into home lockdowns for weeks on end, resulting in mass shortages of food and household supplies. Reports surfaced of residents “trading cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables. One resident traded a Nintendo Switch console for a packet of instant noodles and two steamed buns.”

For those unfortunate enough to contract Covid-19, China constructed “quarantine camps” throughout the country: massive complexes boasting thousands of small, metal boxes containing little more than a bed and a toilet. Detainees—including children, pregnant women, and the elderly— were reportedly ordered to leave their homes in the middle of the night, transported to the quarantine camps in buses and held in isolation.

If this last scenario sounds chillingly familiar, it should.

Eighty years ago, another authoritarian regime established more than 44,000 quarantine camps for those perceived as “enemies of the state”: racially inferior, politically unacceptable, or simply noncompliant.

While the majority of those imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, forced labor camps, incarceration sites and ghettos were Jews, there were also Polish nationals, gypsies, Russians, political dissidents, resistance fighters, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.

Culturally, we have become so fixated on the mass murders of Jewish prisoners by the Nazis that we overlook the fact that the purpose of these concentration camps were initially intended to “incarcerate and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.”

How do you get from there to here, from Auschwitz concentration camps to Covid quarantine centers?

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect the dots.

You just have to recognize the truth in the warning: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This is about what happens when good, generally decent people—distracted by manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring “us vs. them” camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains.

It’s about what happens when any government is empowered to adopt a comply-or-suffer-the-consequences mindset that is enforced through mandates, lockdowns, penalties, detention centers, martial law, and a disregard for the rights of the individual.

This is the slippery slope: a government empowered to restrict movements, limit individual liberty, and isolate “undesirables” to prevent the spread of a disease is a government that has the power to lockdown a country, label whole segments of the population a danger to national security, and force those undesirables—a.k.a. extremists, dissidents, troublemakers, etc.—into isolation so they don’t contaminate the rest of the populace.

The slippery slope begins with propaganda campaigns about the public good being more important than individual liberty, and it ends with lockdowns and concentration camps.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the danger signs are everywhere.

Covid-19 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.

Everything I have warned about for years—government overreach, invasive surveillance, martial law, abuse of powers, militarized police, weaponized technology used to track and control the citizenry, and so on—has become part of the government’s arsenal of terrifying lockdown powers should the need arise.

What we should be bracing for is: what comes next?

Plato’s Cave Resurrected

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Steve Balich

April 3, 2024

BY BERT OLIVIER MARCH 28, 2024 HISTORY, MEDIA, PHILOSOPHY 10 MINUTE READ

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Having lived through more than four years of systematic subjection to gaslighting as well as misinformation by the mainstream media, governments and non-elected, private global companies, those among us who sojourn in the land of the awake and awakened, would understand the metaphor of ‘looking at shadows.’ And if you do, perhaps some readers might recall that in the 4^th century BCE there was an ancient Greek philosopher named Plato, who invented a myth involving shadows to explain the congenitally deceptive character of the human world in space and time.

If you have studied philosophy and you haven’t heard of Plato’s allegory of the cave, there’s something missing in your philosophical education. But if you have, you may also know that some commentators have observed that it is probably the first imagining of what we know as the film theatre, given the crucial idea of something being projected onto a flat surface.

In Book 7 of Plato’s dialogue, the Republic, Plato’s spokesperson, Socrates, relates the allegorical story of a community of people who live in a cave, with their necks chained in such a way that they have their backs to the cave opening and can only look at the cave wall. Behind them there is a road with different beings moving along it, and behind the road and its users there is a big fire. Even further towards the entrance, behind the fire, is the cave opening, with the sun shining brightly outside.

Here is the first crucial part of the cave myth: the light from the fire behind the road casts the shadows of the creatures and objects moving along the road on the cave wall in front of the cave prisoners, who – because they cannot turn around – perceive these shadows as real things, and conduct conversations about them in ‘shadow language’ as if this is all there is about ‘reality.’ This is obviously similar to the ontological value that many contemporary people attribute to television and movie images, as well as to those internet-mediated images that appear on computer screens – they behave as if the images are real.

The chained denizens of the cave represent human beings, of course, and the allegory is Plato’s way of saying that human beings are like the cave-dwellers in erroneously attributing ‘reality’ to the things of sense perception, which are like shadows compared to the objects of thought. The latter, by contrast, are the only truly real entities, according to Plato.

The second crucial part of the cave myth is encountered where Socrates recounts how one of these prisoners (probably a woman, because women tend to be less conventional than men in my experience) painstakingly manages to remove the shackles from her neck, and succeeds in turning around and making her way out of the cave, past the road and the fire, into broad daylight. It takes some time for her eyes to get accustomed to the bright light, but when she finally sees the extant world in all its splendour, she is understandably astonished, and can’t wait to share her discovery with those in the cave.

In passing, one should note that it is easy to deconstruct Plato’s derogation of sensory perception in favour of abstract thought, by showing that he is dependent on the recognisable meaning and validity of precisely what he argues against, namely sensory knowledge, for his metaphysical philosophical argument to ‘work,’ not only in the Republic, but in the Symposium too.

One should take particular note of Plato’s account of the newly ‘enlightened’ person’s return to her tribe in the cave, for here he reveals great insight into the relationship between the true philosopher (or artist, for that matter), and society. Why? Because he intimates what all true philosophers and artists experience from time to time. The person who returns to the cave community to share their unbelievable discovery of the real, sensory world outside the cave with them, runs the serious risk of not being understood.

After all, how would she describe something for which the cave inhabitants would lack a vocabulary? Theirs is attuned to shadows. She would therefore have to devise a novel language to share her newly acquired knowledge, and as we know from history, novel ideas are all too often frowned upon by those who cling to convention. In fact, such individuals risk nothing less than their lives in their attempts to ‘get through’ to their erstwhile community, who, in all likelihood, will regard them as being insane.

Recall Vincent van Gogh, whose art – particularly his use of vibrant colours in a Victorian world accustomed to black, grey, and dark brown – was incomprehensible to all but his brother Theo, who managed to sell exactly one of Vincent’s artworks in an uncomprehending world. (Listening to Starry, Starry Night, by Don McLean, imparts some insight into this.)

Or think of the ancient philosopher, Socrates, who was condemned to death for sharing his critical ideas with the youth of Athens, and of Polish astronomer, Copernicus, whose revolutionary heliocentric hypothesis was initially ridiculed. So was Italian physicist Galileo’s notion of an ‘earth in motion,’ and Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno’s unconscionable idea of an infinite number of worlds, where there are creatures like ourselves (for which he was burnt at the stake).

Or think of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was (and still is today in many circles) caricatured as ludicrously reducing humans to monkeys – many cartoons appeared in magazines like Punch at the time, depicting people in different postures as primates, for example. Freud, too, was treated – and is still being treated by some today – as if he was the devil, for daring to suggest that ‘originary repression’ of infantile erotic desire (for the mother), through which the unconscious is constituted, somehow taints the human race unbearably.

One could add many others, like D.H Lawrence, who was persecuted for the right of literary artists to explore all aspects of human existence, including that of sexuality. What all these instances of philosophers, scientists, and artists have in common is that these individuals were in the position of the ‘rebel’ who made her way out of Plato’s cave of conventional assumptions, and tried to share her discoveries with those still bound by the neck – to their uncomprehending consternation, and her relentless ridicule or persecution.

Does this sound familiar, especially in the present time, when there is an added layer to the kind of ‘distance from reality’ that Plato was writing about? Not only do we have to remind ourselves that sense perception can be – and often is – deceptive, without the intervention of (critical) thinking; in addition we have to grapple with the fact that the things we perceive have been deliberately distorted into the bargain, so that our critical appropriation of the mendacious, shadowy texts and images which are circulating in media space have to be subjected to a different kind of critical thinking altogether.

Analogous to the hapless cave prisoners in Plato’s story, contemporary people are at the mercy of powerful media companies that spread officially sanctioned news and commentary about everything from the plandemic to supposed ‘vaccine’ efficacy and safety, the world economy, and the conflict in Ukraine and in Gaza.

Fortunately, given the ambiguous status of communication as a double-edged sword, the internet enables the dissemination of adversarial news and critical commentary that challenge the official news hegemony. As a result, what greets one in global media space is an information and communication divide which resembles the stark contrast between what the escapee from Plato’s cave knows and what the unwitting cave denizens believe they know, except that this is occurring on a scale never before witnessed in history. It is as if a war of information has erupted between the newly enlightened escapee and those in the cave who dogmatically and with increased desperation defend the presumed veracity of their projected belief in shadows.

In other words, just as, at any given time, there are conventions or ‘shadows’ that have a stranglehold on people’s ability to see beyond what current, tacit agreements allow one to see, today there are unprecedented, deliberately manufactured ‘shadows’ that govern the visible and auditory world. What are some of these?

One of the most persistent shadows cast on the media wall by the official channels concerns the vexed issue of thousands, if not millions, of illegal immigrants crossing the US border into the country. Not only are these people allowed entrance to the US; even worse is the fact that the prevailing Biden administration policy amounts to prioritising the needs of these immigrants over those of American citizens, providing them with free flights, bus rides meals, phones, and accommodation – in this way making sure that they will be loyal to the Democratic Party for giving them access to American society.

Moreover, the plan seems to be to make sure that these immigrants will stay in the country, regardless of the crimes they may commit, and to count them in a national census, so that additional congressional districts can be created. An identifiable media ‘shadow’ in this regard – apart from the fact that the information available on the video linked above is not available in the mainstream media – is the strategy of attacking the language employed by critics, when referring to the mass ingress of immigrants, as being ‘racist,’ cleverly diverting attention from the immigrants themselves. In this way the testimony of what may be seen in the sunlight of compelling evidence, provided by those who have escaped from the media cave, is itself transmuted into another shadow.

Another shadow on the media cave wall concerns the causes of the economic decline worldwide, especially conspicuous in formerly wealthy European countries. ‘Climate change’ is usually adduced as the reason for the deteriorating situation, but investigative reporting has uncovered something even more sinister than climate change claims – given that current information suggests that human beings cannot, with certainty, be labelled the generators of climate change, as one is incessantly being told – namely, that the food crisis (as part of the continuing economic decline) and the supposedly consequent, expected famine are being manufactured in the same manner as the Covid ‘pandemic’ was.

One final shadow projected on the screens of the world pertains to the image of the United Nations as being a benign organisation working for the well-being of all the people of the world. Just this past weekend one of my former PhD students – now a fully-fledged Doctor of Philosophy – attended a conference on the UN’s ‘sustainable development goals,’ and her report on the papers presented there, and the ensuing discussions (as well as being perceived as ‘the one who asks difficult questions’), convinced me that she was probably the only person there who is fully aware of the spurious nature of the work carried out by the UN worldwide.

If this is difficult to swallow – should one not yet be apprised of the invidious relationship among the World Health Organisation, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations – a certain cure to such ignorance consists in viewing deceased investigative journalist, Janet Ossebaard and Cyntha Koeter’s Sequel to the original Fall of the Cabal (both available on Rumble) – particularly the episodes dealing with the UN (such as this one, where they expose how the sexual abuses committed by members of the UN stabilisation mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were swept under the carpet, even after an investigation had been conducted on the charges levelled against these members).

Once the sunlight of evidence-based investigations such as Ossebaard and Koeter’s has dispelled these shadows for those with the proverbial ‘eyes to see,’ it may not be easy to believe the testimony of one’s eyes; after all – like the delegates at the conference referred to earlier – one has been exposed to only the (deceptive) image of the UN as a benevolent organisation. And it would be even more difficult to communicate these newly acquired insights to others, who would probably suffer ‘cognitive dissonance’ in the face of such ‘incomprehensible accusations’ against the world organisation in question. But who knows, perhaps the ones still befuddled by ‘shadow talk’ may just catch a glimpse of some light here and there. It is worthwhile persisting in pointing them towards the light.

The CDC Intervened in Voting Protocols

Steve Balich

April 2, 2024

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The CDC Intervened in Voting Protocols

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In the spring of 2020, a deliberately cultivated disease fear swept across the population. Everyone was urged to do everything possible to avoid the invisible enemy.

It is an implausible request.

The terrorist-era slogan “If you see something, say something” was bad enough. This was “You can’t see something, so just do whatever.”

If you cannot see it, you cannot know where it is, in which case people filled the epistemic void with fantasies of their own invention.

It’s on this sandwich! Wait, it’s on this whole bag of groceries! It’s in this room while that room seems safer! It’s probably on the pen I just used so I’d better wash my hands! I should wear this helmet and these gloves, plus wash my dishes five times before using them! And so on.

It was all madness and it immediately affected the subject of voting, which quickly became a subject of discussion. If we are social distancing and staying home, how can we have normal elections with crowds at polling places? Surely we need a completely different system.

It was in this thicket of sudden frenzy that the CDC got involved. But not eventually involved; it was involved at the very outset.

The page is now scrubbed from the CDC website as of January this year but it has long posted voting protocols as a means of controlling infectious disease spread.

What’s fascinating is the timing. The page was updated to mention the necessity of mail-in voting on March 12, 2020. That’s the same day at Donald Trump’s famous hostage-style video that announced universal travel restrictions for Americans traveling to and from the UK and the EU, for the first time in US history.

He was so nervous that he actually garbled a sentence. He said that he would stop all goods transport. He meant to say that he would not! The correction came a day later but only after the stock market crashed.

That very day, someone went to the page on the CDC site and added that good hygiene involves pushing mail-in voting. We only know this thanks to Archive.org and checking the day-by-day timeline.

States now armed with this exhortation had every reason or excuse to liberalize their laws concerning mail-in voting. Plus with the CARES act, they were suddenly flush with billions to make it happen, all in the name of disease control. People permitted practices that otherwise would never have gone through.

In addition, the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency, as part of the Department of Homeland Security, also took charge of securing the elections, obviously with the new liberalized ethos as part of the goal, which is to say, the opposite of security. This is the same agency that divided the workforce between essential and nonessential workers and also led the censorship charge.

There is nothing new about the controversies concerning mail-in ballots. Only half the world’s nations permit them at all. Nations such as France ban them entirely. Those that do allow this are very strict, as the US once was. You have to write in with a good excuse and then receive your mail-in ballot and there must be an exact database match. Part of this is proof of identity. This is all in the heightened interest of security.

By contrast, when I was traveling the country in October 2020, each place I landed I would receive a notification from Facebook to get my mail-in ballots. These were states where I didn’t live. I did not attempt this but I swear I could have voted six times. And otherwise you know how much controversy this elicited.

Indeed, Trump’s raison d’etre to this day is revenge for an election he says was stolen due to mail-in ballots. Well, if so, it only happened because of decisions made by his own executive agencies, CDC and CISA in particular. He has never been asked about this, by the way.

What is the precise connection between voting lines and infectious disease spread? There was every incentive to demonstrate one, something definitive to prove that in-person voting creates a super-spreader to be avoided. Despite this, there is not one single high-quality study showing some relationship. In fact, despite extensive research, I cannot find a single study that even purports to show that in-person voting spreads disease. Not one.

In these days of fiction over science, the CDC just assumed there was some relationship and so invoked all its powers and influences over state health agencies and further to maximize mail-in voting and minimize in-person voting. It was entirely due to mail-in votes that Trump went so quickly from winning to losing literally overnight.

Here we have the nation’s great disease-mitigating agency, operating under the banner of science, issuing an order that fundamentally compromised the integrity of the very essence of American democracy without one shred of scientific evidence to justify the decision.

It does indeed stink to high heaven.

Does this imply that the goal of the whole wild episode was to unseat Trump from power? This would not explain why many of these same protocols were followed all over the world. Was Trump’s loss, real or manufactured, a benefit for those who ran the pandemic response? Most certainly. And the unearthing of this little change from the CDC – which found itself in the middle of the most contentious political struggle of modern times – certainly underscores the point.

Boat and RV Stroage is coming to 159th. County Changes Zoning from A-1 to I-1

Steve Balich

April 1, 2024

There have been several concerns about the tree removal along 159th Street, as well as the pending storage facility. Below are the actual minutes from a county meeting that facilitated this project. Here, you will find how your local officials reacted to this project. If you have additional questions, please feel free to reach out to Steve Balich, or Angel Shake and they can share any other information that may be available. Thank you.

Boat and RV Stroage is coming to 159th

County has changed zoning on 159th from C-2 to I-1 causing issue with Homer Twp. (This happened in 2022)

The Boat and RV Storage that is being built on 159th was passed in the County at Land Use then the Full Board. Former Homer Glen Mayor Yukich was present but did not speak. Former Village Manager Carmen Maurella’s comments, Supervisor Steve Balich who is also on the County Board comments as well as former County Board Member Mike Fricilone’s comments from the minutes can be read below.

It will be clear the only Balich And Maurella tried to stop this project.

Member Balich stated the people in the room need to know that I am the supervisor of the township and Chairman of the Planning Commission for Homer Township. We objected to this also. You guys did a good job talking except for one thing you left out. The main reason we object from the township side and the village side…right now our zoning is C-2 for that whole corridor, and the county’s zoning was C-2 for the whole corridor. If we allow this at the county, then it becomes C-2 or I-1. Can the village take this to court and sue the county? What’s the next step for the village if this doesn’t pass? Because the township is going to be very upset about it. I resent the fact that a county would go into a city and change the zoning for a whole corridor by making it I-1. That means if you do it for one, you have to do it for all. What is your next step if this Board says to go ahead and do it? Then the money that was put into it goes down the tubes.

Mr. Carmen Maurella stated my next step is to wrap our heads around this with staff and see what our next move would be. We would like to see that corridor stay with the mixed use of C-2 and let the village control the development.

Mr. Carmen Maurella stated when we look at property that’s not incorporated into the village, we try to talk to the property owners to try to petition into it. A lot of these property owners held off because of the 159th Street corridor reconstruction and the (inaudible) sewer system because there was no infrastructure for that. Now that we have the infrastructure in there, we would like them to annex in. That’s the goal of the village, for sure.

Member Balich stated I am representing the township, Homer Glen, as the head of the planning commission. Our planning commission has four members from Homer Glen and three members from Lockport. I’m not talking only for Homer Glen; I’m talking for the township of Homer which includes mainly Lockport and Homer Glen. People in our planning commission comprise Lockport also, and they don’t like it. It was unanimous. Our planning commission said no. Again, I’m with the Homer township, the unincorporated part. That’s what I represent. I’m speaking for them. They all said no. I don’t know what else to say. The project itself looks nice, it’s just in the wrong area. Everything else can be either C-2 or I1. That changes what the cities do. I’m on the land use committee. It’s not right to do something like that without consulting the cities. There’s going to be a lot of other problems by doing this. If you do it there, now you can do it all over the county. That means all these cities that have C-2 can now be called I-1 and they’re not going to like it. This was done in an effort to streamline some of our County land Use cases. Whatever we do has to correspond to the whole county. There’s going to be a lot of issues with this because it hasn’t been thought through correctly in my mind. I’m voting no to it and I’m hoping everybody will support Homer township. Thank you.

Member Fricilone stated there’s no legal objection from Homer Township, I know there is one from the village. The problem is the village is missing a great opportunity to secure their boarder. Why they can’t come together for a pre- meeting, Will County Board October 20, 2022 Will County, Illinois Posted: Page 14 annexation agreement is beyond me. I live the closest to anybody to this development. I’m probably ½ a mile from this facility, I could walk. It’s going to be the best looking thing on the 159th Street area, so I’ll be voting for it. Member Balich stated I just want to clarify that our township did object, we just didn’t file a legal objection.

RESULT: APPROVED [21 TO 5] MOVER: Tyler Marcum, District 10 (D – Joliet) SECONDER: Rachel Ventura, District 9 (D – Joliet)

AYES: Newquist, Ogalla, Flagel, Moustis, Tyson, Gazanfer, Traynere, Fritz, Mueller, VanDuyne, Fricilone, Brooks Jr., Winfrey, Ventura, Coleman, Marcum, Berkowicz, Cowan, Pretzel, Weigel, Freeman

NAYS: Mitchell, Gould, Balich, Parker, Kraulidis

PZC: 5-0 Appr Map Amendment fro A-1/C-2 to I-1 PZC: 4-1 Appr Var for Maximum Self-Service Storage Bldg Height from 12 ft to 28 ft PZC: 5-0 Appr Var for Maximum Self-Service Storage Unit Floor Area from 600 sq ft to 700 sq ft LUD: 3-1 Appr Map Amendment from A-1/C-2 to I-1 2. Ordinance Amending the Will County, Illinois Zoning Ordinance Adopted and Approved September 9, 1947 as Amended, for Zoning Case ZC-22-015, Lorrayne, Ltd., Owner of Record (Christina Rowinski, 50% Interest; Peter Zeman, 50% Interest), Peter

Katowicz and Amy Katowicz, Agents, Requesting (M-22-006) Zoning Map Amendment from A-1/C-2 to I-1, (S-22-012) Special Use Permit for Self-Service Storage

Will County OKs rezoning for storage facility despite Homer Glen and Homer Township objections

A Gift From the Past By M. E. Boyd “Miss Constitution”

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Steve Balich

March 30, 2024

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin

As noted last week in Dry Bones, our unique governance system is all connected. When those in power do not understand the system and damage it by neglect or deliberately mangle it, all parts are affected. Every reader knows that if one starts favoring one part of the body the other parts that must take up the slack soon become affected, also. Our revered judicial system is now being mangled. Here are some of the signs:

Judicial lack of required impartialty.

Judicial neglect of basic Due Process.

Judicial rulings that shock the conscience.

Judicial disregard for the Bill of Rights.

Judicial misunderstanding of the Doctrine of the Black Robe.

Miss Constitution is not talking about expected judicial corruption in any system. She is not talking about the lack of judicial seriousness and scholarship that exists at all times and in all ages. She is not talking about personal decorum, integrity of purpose, or legal genius that crosses centuries. She is talking about deliberately destroying the intricacies of detail that actually make the American judicial system what it is – that institution whose bones hold all the other aspects of our governance system together, and in addition, accounts for capital investment in America from around the world.

Capital investment from around the world?

Yes. America’s prosperity, in part, relies on capital investment from around the world. This capital funds new and innovative industries that employ thousands of people; undergirds our private market system; and is the basis for retirement account values that sustain American retirees for decades. One of the main reasons private capital flows into America for investment is the stability of our judicial system. This stability also partly accounts for the dollar being the reserve currency of the world. Careless and childish mangling of the judicial system in New York, the center of our national finance structure, if not corrected quickly, can have devastating affects on the average American – employment opportunities, financial progress over time, and sufficient retirement assets for the increased life expectancy Americans enjoy.

That institution whose bones hold all the other aspects of our governance system together?

Yes. It is true that on the federal level our governance system envisions three co-equal branches – the Executive branch, the Congressional branch, and the Judicial branch. The system can sustain, and has sustained historically, dizzying heights of incompetence, corruption, and laziness in the Executive branch and the Legislative branch, in part because both have relied on the stability and minimal corruption in the Judicial branch. This reliance is unravelimg – both at federal and state levels.

Intricacies of detail that actually make the American judicial system what it is?

Yes. We are a Common Law country as opposed to a Civil Law country. This means that recorded judicial decisions going all the way back to 1066 AD and Norman rule in England are part of this detail. Civil law countries rely solely on statutes to govern them. Corrupt and malicious statutes can destroy a whole country. Our common law, in contrast, represents judicial decisions prior to our becoming a country and represents the “wisdom of the ages” that protects us against corruption in the legislative branch.

Our Western system developed as hierarchical and centralized. This gave our legal development procedural consistency that citizens could count on against the whims of tyrants. Many early English cases were about private property rights that are the basis of the American economy. Judges were well-educated scholars, for the most part, decisions were recorded, thereby requiring stable housing for those decisions (courthouses), and libraries to study them.

We also inherited the concept of Equity Courts, decided on a case-by-case basis where the strict application of law and procedure would result in an injustice. While the common law and equitable law merged in the United States federal courts in 1938, some states still maintain Courts of Equity known as Chancery Courts. Many corporations incorporate in these states due to the maintenance of an alternative to law courts where a fair, just result is not possible. The Founders rejected separate federal Equity Courts in favor of a robust jury system. Equity Courts rely on bench rulings. The 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution represents the Founder’s connection and vision regarding the importance of our common law in civil as well as criminal cases:

“In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”

Some of the corruption in our judicial system today could be mitigated by more jury not bench trials – just as the Founders envisioned. Many judges have forgotten that once appointed, they must forget who appointed them – the Doctrine of the Black Robe – and maintain a demeanor of fairness and impartiality at all times. Sentencing must meet these requirements, as well. Miss Constitution cannot explain an appellate court deciding guilt on facts not established by trial – an appalling lack of Due Process. “No person shall. . .be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. . .” Amendment V, United States Constitution.

These corruptions are often handed off to the Supreme Court of the United States as an unnecessary burden, blurring the original outrage and putting the Justices in the untenable position of taking the case and being personally threatened with physical harm, or refusing the case and participating in further mangling the national judicial system. International investors are watching in disbelief as this is going on in the United States right now. They will be looking to invest elsewhere unless the American public puts a stop to it.

Our unique American judicial system is a gift to us from the past and the bones that connect all. There is no system like it in the world. There are remedies in it for damaging statutes, tyrannical Presidents and bureaucrats, and slimy judges. As Winston Churchill advised a young Elizabeth II, “the further back you can look, the further forward you can see.” Oh say, can we see?

The “I’s” Have It by M. E. Boyd

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Steve Balich

March 27, 2024

The “I’s” Have It

M. E. Boyd

2/16/2024

Miss Constitution has noticed that confusing words, sentences, paragraphs, and columns seem to be multiplying, leaving the average American anxious about what to believe and who to trust. She is sympathetic. Many go to sources for short snippets thinking they are getting accurate information when they are getting just enough information for the conclusion to be misleading.

An example – the word “bipartisan” has been used lately regarding legislation devised in the Senate regarding border security and foreign aid. It was “sold” as bipartisan because a Republican and a Democrat sponsored the Bill. The word “bipartisan” is commonly thought to mean compromise between political parties. 100% of all Democrats voting the same way with a few Republicans thrown in is not bipartisanship. Bipartisanship is sufficient members of one Party supporting the legislative position of the other Party. So, to be considered bipartisan, some Democrats would have voted against the so-called Border Security Bill and some Republicans would have voted for it.

An ancillary to confusion regarding the definition of important words is the misleading labeling of legislation. The proposed Border Security Bill would not have secured the border. Anti-inflation legislation has caused, not stopped, inflation. The American Rescue Plan has rescued nothing. Miss Constitution would suggest the voting public disregard titles attached to legislation and know the contents instead. To know the contents of legislation, Bills must be understandable and the public must be fully informed partly through hearings and debate, allowing them to discover hidden provisions and possible unintended negative consequences. This would be true for both Democrat and Republican legislation.

Confusion is lessened if we remember our 7^th grade civics class regarding how a Bill becomes a federal Law:

A Bill is written by Congressional staff and lobbyists (salespeople), sponsored by either a Senator or Congressman or more than one, approved by House or Senate leadership, and proposed in either the House or the Senate, unless it is a Bill to raise revenue that must originate in the House.

The Bill is then assigned to an appropriate subject-matter Committee for further examination and public hearings. After the public has had a chance to review the legislation and hear debate on the Bill, amendments might be introduced. The Committee then votes the Bill out of committee, with or without amendments, for a full vote, scheduled by leadership.

The Bill, passed by a majority or super-majority (if required), is then sent to the opposite chamber (House or Senate) for the same process.

Why this elaborate process? The Founders created this complex and transparent process to reflect the fact that we are a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The public elects representatives to stand in for them. To avoid inevitable corruption where taxpayer money is spent, the public must be allowed to hear debate on federal legislation, to be informed of every aspect of the proposed legislation, to know who would profit by the passage of the legislation, to know what “poison pills” are embedded in the legislation, and to be clear what the provisions of the legislation really mean to taxpayers.

After additional hearings in Committee in the opposite chamber and any amendments, if the Bill is changed but passes that chamber, a reconciliation between the House and Senate produces the final Bill for a final vote. The legislation then goes to the President for signature or veto. If vetoed, 2/3 of both the House and Senate can override the veto and the Bill becomes law.

For this process to work as the Founders intended, Bills must be short in length, involve one primary subject, and be available to study without hurry. Live public hearings must be available and any conflicts of interest exposed. In other words, ‘regular order”must be followed. Regular order does not prevent all corruption, but lack of regular order guarantees it. Regular order includes a free and fair press, with all points of view available to the public. The 1^st Amendment’s Free Speech Clause to the United States Constitution precludes a government actor from calling any point of view on public policy “misinformation” or “disinformation.” We learned this the hard way with the COVID pandemic and the resultant unnecessary deaths of many Americans.

The Founders had it right. However, with many American political leaders unknowing or unwilling to follow the US Constitution and regular order, three I-words – Invasion, Insurrection, and Impeachment need to be explained.

“Invasion” has traditionally been thought to be a hostile entrance by force and implies military action. Many have argued that mass migration is not an “invasion.” Miss Constitution, however, would define it as the illegal encroachment of a sovereign border. Using this definition, the United States government must prevent this encroachment – Article IV, section 4 – or let each state prevent it – Article I, section 10. It is not the alien who is illegal, it is the act of crossing a sovereign border without permission or vetting that is illegal. International interests in eliminating nation-states does not take precedence over the United States Constitution unless by vote of the whole American people to dissolve their nation.

“Insurrection” is a revolt against political authority. Amendment XIV, section 3 defines it also as a rebellion against one’s oath to support the United States Constitution and referred to persons who supported the armed revolt against the United States during the Civil War. An insurrection is not a riot or a violent protest against perceived political injustice. The riot of January 6 was completely preventable and occurred through the negligence of those who had a duty to protect both the Capitol and elected representatives within the Capitol.

“Impeachment” is a Constitutionally mandated political process to hold those who serve the nation accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors while in office. The House of Representatives impeaches (accuses) and the Senate tries the case. What constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor is up to the House. Removal from office and public shame are the punishments. Impeachment is not a legal process.

Miss Constitution understands that few adult Americans have the time or inclination to sift through the myriad of ways those in power attempt to mislead, misdirect, or misinform We the People. She would say that the “I” qualities most helpful to the average citizen in protecting our Constitutional Republic are Inquisitiveness and Integrity. The basically good American, wanting to know why certain things are happening, who is responsible for those things, and what can be done about them is the measure of being inquisitive. Making sure those responsible are held accountable is the measure of having integrity.

In all aspects of life, the “I’s” have it!

Homer Glen gets Boat Storage despite Township And Village Opposing it. (July 2022)

Steve Balich

March 26, 2024

Will County reconsidering 159th Street storage after Homer Township, Homer Glen object

Michelle Mullins / Daily Southtown

The vacant farmland on 159th Street within Homer Glen’s planning boundaries that the village would like to see used for a mixed-use development.

By MICHELLE MULLINS | Chicago Tribune

PUBLISHED: July 20, 2022 at 4:42 p.m. | UPDATED: July 20, 2022 at 8:42 p.m.

A Will County committee will reexamine a proposal for a self-service storage facility to be built on just over 32 acres of vacant farmland after the village of Homer Glen and Homer Township objected to the plan.

Peter and Amy Katowicz, who own an outdoor, self-service storage facility in Volo, want to open a second Illinois location in the 15300 block of 159th Street, between Gougar and Cedar roads in Homer Township. The business would provide traditional drive-up and temperature controlled self storage and also areas to store boats and recreational vehicles.

The land is located in Homer Township, but it is on the border of Homer Glen and is in the village’s long-term plans. The Will County Board would have to change its zoning from agricultural to industrial for the storage facility to be built.

Melissa King, Homer Glen’s director of planning and zoning, said the village objects both to the industrial zoning and storage facility, which do not fit with the village’s vision for 159th Street. Village officials want the 159th Street corridor to host high quality commercial and residential properties that provide jobs and revenue for the town. The Homer Glen Village Board voted to file an objection to the plan last month.

Peter Katowicz said he is building a high quality, state-of-the-art facility that would complement the nearby area, and he plans to donate 10 acres of land in the back of his property to the Forest Preserve District of Will County, which abuts the proposed storage facility.

Homer Glen officials objected to the plan this summer because they would like input on developing the 159th Street corridor.

Melissa King, Homer Glen’s director of planning and zoning, said the industrial zoning and proposed use is not compatible with the area. She said the village’s vision is to have a mixed development with retailers, restaurants and other sales tax producers as well as offices and housing. She said village officials are concerned once the land is rezoned, other properties could be rezoned as well.

Homer Glen village manager Carmen Maurella said prime, developable land has sat vacant on 159th Street while the Illinois Department of Transportation completed its multiyear widening project and the village extended utilities.

“Let the village control the development is what we are asking,” Maurella said.

Will County Board member Steve Balich, who is also Homer Township supervisor, said Homer Township officials also object to the plan.

“The project itself looks nice,” Balich said. “It’s just in the wrong area.”

Bonnie Willis, a real estate agent representing the property and a Homer Township resident, said the storage facility fits well along the corridor, which also includes a gas station, furniture store, landscaping businesses, a picnic grove, vacant land and houses. Areas throughout the corridor have different zoning classifications.

She said if nearby residents objected, they would have protested to the county, but they did not voice any concerns. Rather, she said, she collected signatures from neighbors who supported the development.

The project would bring in sales tax and property tax without affecting schools or generating high volumes of traffic, Willis said. It would also give residents a place to store motor homes and boats, which is needed since many homeowners associations do not allow these recreational vehicles at a resident’s home.

Board member Jim Moustis, a Republican from Frankfort, said even though Homer Glen is located within 1 1/2 miles of the development, it didn’t appear any of the nearby properties were actively planning to be annexed into the village.

He said he doesn’t want to deny property owners the right to develop in unincorporated territory.

“What is your path to ever annexing this property in, because I don’t think it’s fair for unincorporated property owners to be in some kind of limbo or held hostage because municipalities have a 1 1/2 mile oversight,” Moustis said.

Several other board members expressed satisfaction with storage facilities within their districts and said they were an asset.

“A boat rusting in a neighbor’s front yard is unsightly,” said board member Rachel Ventura, a Democrat from Joliet. “A boat sitting in a storage facility where no one can see it regardless if it’s rusty or sparkling clean is not an eyesore. I would prefer people put their RVs and boats somewhere out of our neighborhoods.”

Michelle Mullins is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.

The Will County Italian American Association Stands With The JCCIA OPPOSING Renaming Columbus Drive

Steve Balich

March 23, 2024

The Executive Board of the Will County Italian American Association: Steve Balich, Jay Roti, Mike Bonomo, Brent Porfilio, Carmen Consolino, Carmen Maurella, and Dan Fialko are appalled at the continued slaps against any ethnic group. Italians have contributed so much to the world yet are continually having to deal with mistreatment of our Heritage, Culture, and Contributions. This must stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chicago’s Italian American Community Strongly Opposes

4^th Ward Alderman Lamont Robinson’s

Renaming of Columbus Drive Proposal

CHICAGO: “Insensitive and unvetted,” said Ron Onesti, President of The Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, about 4^th Ward Alderman Lamont Robinson’s proposal to rename Columbus Drive after the 44^th President, Barack Obama.

The organization that represents over fifty Italian American organizations in the Chicago area is furious at the suggestion, citing it as another flippant act against an ethnic group that has contributed much to this great city.

“As we commend Alderman Robinson’s intent of honoring a most worthy historic, home-town figure, why must it be at the expense of one ethnic group, and why take such a noble effort and attach it to an action offensive to the over 500,000 Americans of Italian descent in and around Chicago,” Onesti asked. “It would be more relevant to rename a portion of South Greenwood Avenue where the Obama residence is, or Stony Island Avenue where the Barack Obama Presidential Library sits.”

Columbus Drive was named for the explorer as part of the Century of Progress World’s Fair in 1933 on “Italian Day”, celebrating contributions made by Italians to the development of the city.

The JCCIA implores Alderman Robinson to retract his proposal and invite Chicago’s Italian American community to join the effort to find a relevant, all-inclusive, and positive way to honor a leader who is a symbol of pride for all Chicagoans, and a role model for its youth.

The JCCIA has attempted to reach Alderman Robinson to inform him of the insensitivity of his proposal.

Dry Bones By M. E. Boyd Miss Constitution

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Steve Balich

March 23, 2024

Dry Bones

M. E. Boyd

3/21/2024

“Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
“Oh, hear the word of the Lord.”

The foot bone connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone connected to the knee bone,
The knee bone connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to the back bone,
The back bone connected to the neck bone,
The neck bone connected to the head bone,
Oh, hear the word of the Lord!

American Spiritual – Ezekiel 37 “The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.” New King James

Miss Constitution has been conducting her own small survey at appropriate times and places to see just what average Americans know about their political history. She has asked the same question over and over again, “who was the third President of the United States?” Not wanting to embarrass if no immediate response, she switched immediately to “who was the first President of the United States?”

Not one person has answered the first question but several have answered the second correctly. What are we to make of this result? Miss Constitution thinks we should interpret the informal result as an indication that most people think our whole system is on auto-pilot. Most people are not interested in who the third President was and find no relevance in understanding the past. That we seem to have stable political and social institutions is simply taken for granted.

Most Americans and others, in what has been since 1783 a separate nation-state, wake up in the morning, turn on the lights, brush their teeth, put on the coffee or squeeze the juice, check their phone or computer, take a hot shower, get dressed in clean clothes, feed the pets, and are then are off to school or work. None think about the fact that the street is paved, that the traffic lights work, that there is a drugstore that is open, that there is a station to gas-up the car, that there is a bakery to get pastries for the office, or that there is a policeman sitting in his car making sure all is well.

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones,

Oh, hear the word of the Lord.

It is all connected: the philosophies that undergird our system, the development of the person not the group, individual liberties against government power, private enterprise and property, economic initiative, checks and balances, the Rule of Law, and the consent of the governed among other critical concepts. The American system is unique in the world and constantly under attack from its adversaries.

The foot bone connected to the leg bone. . .

The philosophy of virtue, from Aristotle to Frances Hutcheson to Adam Smith and others. This is not the philosophy of the negative about human nature, but the positive. Our political and social system is based on the potential of human beings on their life’s journey to make mistakes of choice but then to improve – to fail but then succeed – to have wronged but then repent – to start slow but then recover. Deeply rooted faith helps in this journey – religion has essential tools for repair and progress. Studying the Scottish Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian doctrine helps one understand this aspect of our system.

The leg bone connected to the knee bone. . . .

Each person in each group must be vetted for virtue and helped, if help is needed, individually. American blacks have had a special status as a group because of their unique place in our history. Each American black must nevertheless be judged individually relative to the law. Studying authentic American history helps one understand this aspect of our system.

The knee bone connected to the thigh bone. . .

Our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, lists personal rights against government power. In addition, power not granted the federal government is reserved to the states or to the people. Recognized rights not listed in the Bill of Rights still belong to the individual. Studying American governance (Civics) helps one understand this aspect of our system.

The thigh bone connected to the back bone. . .

America’s economic prosperity is based on private business and the sanctity of private ownership of property. Government funds its functions through taxation of profits created by private individuals and businesses. Government policy can help or hinder business but cannot substitute for it. Adam Smith connected raising capital and the requirement of all who make a profit to give back to the society as a whole. Greed is to be overcome. Studying the basis of American economics, especially relative to other economic models, helps one understand this aspect of our system.

The back bone connected to the neck bone. . .

Unchecked power corrupts. It runs through all levels of our governments, business, and politics without enough unbiased press to expose it. The Founder’s partial answer to corruption is balance – checks on misuse of power and balance between competing power centers. Studying what Journalism is supposed to be in the American experience helps one understand this aspect of our system.

The neck bone connected to the head bone. . .

America’s Rule of Law – four large bundles of it – adopted with the consent of the governed must all be acknowledged and obeyed for a stable society to exist. In our unique system we have a duty to obey Moral Law (right versus wrong); Natural Law (unalienable rights from God); Positive Law (our Constitutions, statutes, and common law); and Unwritten Law (courtesy and comity between all.) Without this obedience, America’s stability might simply dissolve away and investment in us with it.

Miss Constitution understands most Americans have taken all this for granted. Our system now, however, needs your study and your care. And the third President was?

Why Shoot the Bridegroom? By M. E. Boyd Miss Constitution

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Steve Balich

March 21, 2024

Why Shoot the Bridegroom?

M. E. Boyd

3/12/2024

“Why shoot the bridegroom after a shotgun wedding?” – unknown, but a comment made when the Supreme Court changed positions on New Deal legislation when Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court in the 1930s.

Last week in Miss Constitution’s column, The Heart and The Hammer, she advised that you forget listening to pundits (even your favorites) and for now discern what is true from your empirical senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling). This is because there are so many artificially created “facts” and distorted images or omissions of images that one cannot tell political truth from fiction at this time.

Miss Constitution stands by her statement that our Constitutional Republic has been suspended. To get it back, if that is what a majority of citizens want, will take hard individual, daily effort by every American and every resident who wants to be a part of our grand experiment in the development of the individual person. Both political parties have significant corruption (though not all in positions of trust are corrupt); Congress refuses to proceed in regular order so that We the People can get a real idea of what is being proposed and its cost; and some persons currently serving and retired from the Executive Branch, involving critical intelligence and defense policy, border on betrayal.

Miss Constitution feels it is unnecessary to name names. If citizens are watching, listening, tasting, and smelling they know exactly who has, is, and wants to betray them. In her view, our laser focus needs to be on the Republican Party.

The Republican Party is the bridegroom in a shotgun wedding. They have been co-opted to appear as an opposition to the Democrat Party that is now openly Marxist, without apology, intending to make good on transforming America as part of the global hegemony run by an oligarchy of international bankers, media magnets, and corporate political sycophants. None of these players has any interest in “brown people” as one commentator mentioned on CNN, and will themselves be subject to the same tyranny they wish upon other Americans. China, North Korea, and Iran will see to that.

The Democrat Party is not the problem. They are very clear about what they want (and have wanted since at least 1912) and how they intend to get it. Their political strategies over time have finally overwhelmed the system. Your senses surely have noticed:

Democrat Party funded efforts to destroy public safety by defunding the police, placing non-functioning District Attorneys in key states and cities, providing sanctuaries for known violent terrorists and criminals so that they can be released into communities to physically injure, maim, or kill innocent human beings. In unison, Democrats vote into office persons responsible for the death of their own children and others. Such is the power of branding – one can see it, hear it, smell it and taste it.

Democrat Party funded efforts to eviscerate America’s entire system of public education, its once-respected institutions of higher learning, and even what is left of its top-of-the-line innovation in complex defense systems for the armed forces, including the Space Force. No amount of available wealth will save American families from the results of a lack of an effective national defense. Our military and intelligence operations must be second-to-none. In unison, Democrats vote into office persons responsible for the miseducation of our children and the diminution of our military. Such is the power of branding – one can see it, hear it, smell it and taste it.

Democrat Party funded efforts to crush the pride most Americans feel in their communities, in their families, in their faith, and in their own skin and background. The entire industry of race-based hate education against white Americans, Jewish Americans, Asian Americans and others as an attempt to inspire “social justice” is, of course, its opposite. These efforts have been highly successful in some main-line Christian Churches, stewing in a kind of white self-loathing. In unison, Democrats vote into office persons responsible for racial division, racial chaos, and racial violence. Such is the power of branding – one can see it, hear it, smell it and taste it.

Why would the Democrat Party support these things when all Democrats will eventually be injured, also?

Miss Constitution has no explanation for the inexplicable. She also does not know why the Republican Party would go along with it except that the corruption has gone deep and they have enjoyed the cover of a faux bipartisanship under the direction of Democrat and Republican leadership – the bridegroom with a gun to his head. When in power they seem unable to lead. Citizens must HEAR and SEE the following to have any confidence that the Republican Party can help restore the sanity now required to bring back our Constitutional system and Rule of Law:

The public must hear and see new Republican Party leadership. Proteges of current bridegrooms are unacceptable. There can be no more “projects” created whose purpose is to persuade Republicans to destroy other Republicans. The Party must state a mission in concert with the Constitution, govern by its word, and admit any error when error is made. The Party must encourage honest political journalism as the critical eyes and ears for We the People.

The public must hear and see a commitment by Republican Party leadership to end earmarks and other self-serving practices. Deep-seated Republican corruption must come to an end.

The public must hear and see an intention by Republican Party leadership to restore regular order in Congress. This means that Bills have one subject, not three or more, be readable and understandable, go through extensive public hearings in specialized Committees so that intended and unintended consequences can be fleshed out, amendments proposed, and, if the Bill is passed, sent to the other House for the same long process.

What if the Republican Party continues to go to the altar under duress? What if the Republican Party cannot bring itself to be worthy intellectual opposition to the suspension and dismantling of our Constitutional Republic?

The Party must be disbanded and a new opposition Party formed.

Miss Constitution would remind readers that our federal government is composed of three CO-EQUAL branches – Congress (the legislative branch), the President and executive officials (the executive branch), and the Supreme Court and lesser federal courts (the judicial branch). Each is supposed to display utmost courtesy and comity to the other. When Franklin Roosevelt was stymied by the Supreme Court he gave a friendly fireside chat on the radio and offered to “help” the Justices. The Court caved under the immense pressure of his popularity. In today’s world, we simply entrap our opposition in its own corruption and drag them to the altar. Why shoot the bridegroom after a shotgun wedding? He’s already agreed to the arranged marriage

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