Another Attempt to "Bork" a Supreme Court Nominee

By

       Zeno Potas

      It was in 1987 that the Democratic party, led by Edward Kennedy in the Senate and Dick Durban in the House first initiated the “smear campaign tactic” that we have seen used again this week. The Democrats have used this tactic every time a Supreme Court nominee that they do not philosophically agree with comes up for consideration. That year they used the political stunt and successfully blocked Judge Robert Bork from confirmation. They were so pleased with the results they coined the phrase “ to be borked.” Today, borked is in our national vocabulary and it means literally to get stuck or screwed.

      Since they were initially successful they have attempted to use this tactic ever since. This is something the Honorable Clarence Thomas and others can attest to. The silent mantra is “damn the truth, stop the traditional Constitutionalist” as they cannot move America towards a more Socialist agenda with traditionalists on the highest court in the land. So, with the debate over, the confirmation a given, and the vote about to take place, suddenly, new allegations from, surprise, a Democrat, Christine Ford. Allegations that apparently six FBI investigations missed! Here we go again!

      I won't go over everything that was testified to because the falsehoods are too numerous but I will go over the most obvious. In her initial letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein(D), Ford claimed that four people besides her were at the party. That number seems to change by the day, but let’s go with her original claim. Those four people were Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, who she says were both in the room along with PJ Smyth and her friend Leland Ingham Keyser. All of them have denied her story under the penalty of felony perjury. It’s even more damning that her friend Leland Ingham Keyser says she has never even met Brett Kavanaugh. Keyser has never met Kavanaugh at all, but she was at the party where Kavanaugh did this? In the letter sent to the Judiciary Committee, Keyser’s attorney said her client is willing to cooperate fully with the FBI’s supplemental investigation into Kavanaugh. “However, as my client has already made clear, she does not know Judge Kavanaugh and has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford,” Keyser’s attorney said. “The simple and unchangeable truth is that she is unable to corroborate it because she has no recollection of the incident in question.” The female witness, Leland Ingham Keyser, who is a Democrat and a lifelong friend of Ford’s, not only doesn’t remember the house party in question, she says she has never met Kavanaugh!

      A friend, Christina King, who has been critical of Trump administration policy on social media and attended the same all-girls prep school stated, “To all media, I will not be doing anymore interviews. No more circus for me. To clarify my post: I do not have first hand knowledge of the incident that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford mentions, and I stand by my support for Christine. That’s it. I don’t have more to say on the subject. Please don’t contact me further.” Every single witness named by Ford says they have no memory of any of this. The same is true of Kavanaugh’s second accuser, Deborah Garcia, also a Democrat, who told her admittedly flimsy story to the New Yorker, but has refused to go under oath. She has been told, by her attorney, that perjury is a criminal offense.

      So, is this another Democratic set-up? Then riddle me this, why was Christine Ford’s Stanford bio page altered — updated 10 days before the hearing? In addition why was Christine Ford’s Stanford bio page was revised seven times this month before her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee? A little tweaking to get the right slant? What happened was that she mis-represented herself. During testimony Thursday in front of Senate Judiciary Committee Christine Ford identified herself as a “Research Psychologist” at the Stanford School of Medicine. Under California law, as with almost every other state, in order for a person to identify publicly as a psychologist they must be licensed by the California Board of Psychology, a process that includes 3,000 hours of post-doctoral professional experience and passing two rigorous exams. To call oneself a psychologist without being licensed by a state board is the equivalent of a law school graduate calling herself a lawyer without ever taking the bar exam. According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. There are no state records that show Ford is a licensed psychologist. This is another direct hit on Ford’s credibility.

      These series of events go back to the sessions with the professional who was attempting to help save Christina Ford's marriage. Desperation at one's life unraveling can cause a person to “make-up” an event in order to gain sympathy and help stabilize a troubled personal relationship. There are also may in the Democratic party that will go to any means to “save the country” from those on the right. It is also no secret that Dr. Blasey is a registered Democrat who has given money to progressive organizations and campaigns — these facts were reported by the The Washington Post

      Justice Kavanaugh has undergone six FBI background investigations from 1993 to 2018 and none of those investigations unearthed any similar claims. Nor has anyone reported similar allegations to the Republican judiciary members or staff. It is implausible to believe that a man subjected to as much scrutiny as Kavanaugh has been, and whom has received unanimous praise as a man of the highest character, could have assaulted Ford. Conversely, it is entirely consistent with scientific research about memory processes for Ford to suffer from a false memory—something more likely when traumatic events are involved, making her memory malleable and prone to distortion that could be used by others to accomplish an end, their end, by any means.

Assault on the Constitution Ignored

 

By

M. Richard Maxson

     The separation of powers is a model for the governance of a state. The Founders made sure that no one entity could take control of their new country. Under this model, a state's government is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches. The Constitution calls for three branches: a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary, which is the trias politica model. 
 
      Separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another. The intent of separation of powers is to prevent the concentration of unchecked power and to provide for checks and balances to avoid autocracy. The Democratic party seems to have forgotten this or just has so much disdain for our form of government, they just don't care. Their latest attempt to illegally regain power should send a shiver down the spine of every American.

      Before proceeding further, a few points of clarification. The legislative branch has a hierarchy. High ranking senators and representatives meet in a committee known as the 'gang of eight.” Currently these members are:

• The Chairperson of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence – Devin Nunes (R)

• The Minority leader of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence – Adam Schiff (D)
• The Chairperson of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – Richard Burr (R)
• The minority leader of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – Mark Warner (D)
• The Majority Leader of the Senate – Mitch McConnell (R)
• The Minority Leader of the Senate – Chuck Schumer (D)
• The Speaker of the House – Paul Ryan (R)
• The Minority Leader of the House – Nancy Pelosi (D)
  
  

     The laws of our nation, as laid out in the Constitution are:

• The Executive and Legislative Branches are co-equal branches of government. One is not subordinate to the other.
  

• The Department of Justice (and the FBI) are part of the Executive Branch—under the authority of President Trump.

• The Department of Justice (and the FBI) are subordinate to the President.

      The issue is that on Monday, President Trump ordered the DOJ to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation from James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.

• President Trump has issued a Presidential Order—not a request.

• The President has the Constitutional Power to declassify documents.

• President Trump has plenary (absolute) authority in this matter.

     In a shocking letter intended to undermine the President, and his authority over the Executive Branch, multiple high ranking Democrats, and ONLY Democrats, sent a letter ordering intelligence agencies to ignore Trump’s order to declassify numerous documents involving the Russia investigation until consulting with Congress.

      Democratic Legislative branch members: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and Mark Warner write a letter today to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding the executive branch cabinet members withhold information from the White House. “Your agencies’ review, and any communication with the White House on the substance of the material, should not proceed further until you have briefed the Gang of Eight in person.”

      There’s a lot in this letter but let’s start with the closing sentence, “should not proceed further.” The Legislative branch cannot circumvent a Presidential Order that has been issued to Executive Branch officials—officials who are subordinate to the President. "When the president issues such an order, it triggers a declassification review process that is conducted by various agencies within the intelligence community, in conjunction with the White House counsel, to seek to ensure the safety of America’s national security interests," a Justice Department spokesman said in a statement. 
 
      Congressional members are responsible for various oversight issues, but they cannot issue an “order” to officials within the Executive Branch—especially one that attempts to circumvent a Presidential Order. The Gang of Eight does not represent a “fourth branch” of government. The intelligence agencies serve at the pleasure of the president — and this clearly crosses the line separating the branches of government. Perhaps more stunningly, and extra-constitutionally (meaning outside the framework of constitutional separation of power), within the jaw-dropping letter the four Democrats outline previous verbal conversations and current agreements with Coats, Rosenstein and Wray where the Cabinet officers agreed to keep information away from the White House Chief Executive, the President. What is even more shocking than this deliberate attempt to skirt the rule of law and the US Constitution is the admission by Democrat leaders that Democrats are cutting deals with top Trump intelligence officials behind the president’s back and illegally negotiating with foreign governments without the approval or knowledge of the President.

      DC-based lawyer Will Chamberlain called the letter a constitutional crisis and urged the GOP to consider taking action against the lawmakers who signed. Chamberlain continued on to say that, “President Trump has issued an order to his subordinates to declassify certain information related to the Russia investigation. He has plenary declassification authority as the President of the United States. The FBI and DOJ are subordinate to him. Congress does not get to order Executive Branch officials to defy a president — that is actually a constitutional crisis.” The demand by the Congressional Democrats is a written attempt to assume power not rightly granted by our Constitution. Such an attempt should not be tolerated. Unfortunately, at this juncture, there has been no such outrage.

How Can We Not Teach the Constitution?

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      When I was in public school, civics was a required subject. That it is rarely taught today. A recent poll conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center discovered that young Americans are extremely ignorant about the Constitution and the rights it protects. The poll found that 37 percent of those interviewed could not name any of the five rights protected by the First Amendment. Only forty-eight percent got freedom of speech right. Thirty-three percent could not name one of the three branches of government, and only 26 percent correctly named all three. Only 19 percent of those polled knew the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion.

       These results emphasize the need for high-quality civics education in the schools and for press reporting that underscores the existence of constitutional principles. How can young citizens make sense of our history without a proper understanding of the Constitution? How can we know, for example, why President Lincoln was willing to endure a bloody civil war to preserve the union if we don’t know how that union works and how it was formed? How can one making sense out of the cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and various appellate courts every year without an understanding of the Constitution. If you don’t know what it permits and what it doesn’t, an informed opinion about the decisions they reach is impossible. Many government agencies make decisions every day that affect our lives. How can we know if they are acting within the law -- or if they are pushing the limits, as those who are entrusted with power so often do -- if the Constitution is unfamiliar to us?

      Higher education's failure to educate our young citizens on constitutional law allows alternative interpretation to be regarded as truth. The result is that propaganda or “fake news” is accepted as accurate and true. Graduates believe they are fully knowledgeable about the Constitution yet most of what they know has been gleaned from the media. How can anyone reach a accurate conclusion on any issue when their basis in incomplete or skewed?

      Higher education, instead of teaching the principals that have been the foundation of American society since it's birth, instead provide a smattering of classes on hot-button topics in higher education such as multiculturalism, inequality, gender, and immigration that will do nothing to improve the country. This is also the reason that modern-day American youth are being duped into accepting a European-style march toward Socialism because they fail to appreciate or fully understand the rich legacy of personal liberty that is everyone’s birthright in this country. This incomplete education produces graduates who find it difficult to find jobs and must return home to live with parents burdened with crushing student loan debt, which according to the Department of Education, is at an all-time high of $1.33 trillion.

      According to Thomas Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton, authors of “The Lifespan of Written Constitutions,” the average lifespan of a constitution since 1789 is only 17 years! For a constitution to last more than two centuries -- through wars small and big, through periods of great transformation and upheaval -- is a remarkable achievement. No wonder William Gladstone, the legendary British prime minister, called the U.S. Constitution "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” 

 

      If you’ve never read it -- or if the last time you did is years ago, I’d like to encourage you to do so. It’s not nearly as daunting a task as some people may assume. It’s about 4,500 words or so, and it takes roughly half an hour to read it. It’s more accessible than you may think. There’s a reason our Constitution has endured for so long. To ignore it is true ignorance.

 

American Discourse has Descended to a Dangerous Level of Irrationality.

By

       George Sontag

 "There is essentially a civil war involving parts of senior management and upper parts of our government that is occurring in the United States. It’s between the ‘Dark’ side and the ‘Constitutional’ side. There has never been anything like this in history. It is extremely serious, and this is an extremely serious hour for our government and especially for our constitutional freedoms. . . . This essentially is a global criminal cabal that has penetrated into our government and now has senior level officials colluding and, I would argue, conspiring to unseat this president." - Kevin Shipp, former CIA officer

      There is a power that has risen up which controls the U.S. government, and now more than ever it’s there for us to see. The global elite have declared a war on America. What America is. What she stands for. What she believes. They are fueled by hate for everyone who disagrees with them. They are bitter about the last election. They are angry that America is prospering and the lower classes are making more money. They are elitists, the rich, and they come from both of the left and the right. Unlike traditional liberalism and conservatism, neoliberalism and neoconservatism are not opposites. Neoliberalism is just another name for transnational globalization, while neoconservatism is nothing other than the U.S.-dominated global empire project. They work together, two inhuman, anti-human processes that ensure a tiny minority of people control and own all. Their common thread is power and control, something they lost with the populist results of the ballot box in 2016.

 

      There is a desperation at the loss of this power exposing their open & undeniable hostility towards traditional America. They mock the results of the elections , the rule of law, and our public servants who align themselves with the nation's constitutionally elected president. They are using any and all tactics to fight back regardless of how gutter-prone they may be all pale in comparison to what they believe about their own beliefs. No longer interested in a pluralistic society with many different world-views competing in generations’ long struggle over ideas. They are not interested in hearing opposing viewpoints, much less allowing them to prosper.

      That brings great danger as there are a lot of elitists inside Washington who think they can stave off the Constitution and the will of the people. We are witnessing a war between Donald Trump and the mainstream for a reason, because the powerful elite(who represent mainstream media, and own it), do not want him to succeed. He is a disruptor, and his disruption falls squarely against the two key pillars of the American ruling elite’s ideology: neoliberalism and neoconservatism. They will continue to bash and slander his name, meanwhile, those who are considered war criminals by many, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are made to look like saints.

      These people had the ear of Bush, Obama, and Clinton. They were and remain very dangerous. They are still in the U.S. government as this week's “news” has exposed. The deep state and the shadow government with their ownership and control of the media seeing their attempt to remove the president with a phoney Russian narrative crumble, have now gone to Defcon1. What we are witnessing now what could be completely fake news, a story that was manufactured. How many times have we been misled? How many stories have we been made to believe are real, but are actually fake? How many times have we heard fake explanations for real events? It’s important to keep in mind that mainstream news stories are changed to serve their interests of “national security.” Multiple documents via FOIA have shown intelligence agency influence over mainstream media, a close relationship, as well as the need to completely fabricate stories.

       As a result of their blatant propaganda a great deal of patriotism has been sparked inside the heart’s of many Americans, who are made to believe that supporting the Socialists something dignified, something necessary, something very brave and patriotic about. Never before has there been such an awakening, never before has the idea of the ‘Deep State’ government, a shadowy government, been acknowledged by the mainstream and by global politicians/academicians around the world. It’s no longer taboo to talk about these things, and mention them, but every now and then you still get the standard “conspiracy theory” response, simply because the information conflicts with elitist's versions.

      Part of transforming our world back to the people involves peeling back layers and truths that have been concealed from us. We can’t keep living in a elitist fairytale of lies, where what’s important and what happens is determined, staged, set up, orchestrated, and dictated in so many different ways by powerful people who desire power and control over others. The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. It remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world into what they want to achieve for the maximum amount of profit for themselves.

      It really exposes the priority of mainstream media and how it doesn’t convey what’s really happening in the world, but perhaps creates it just as Pravda did in the now defunct Soviet Union President Trump was not controlled by this ‘secret government’ prior to his election, but he is a “monkey wrench” in the agenda of those who are much more powerful and although his actions have slowed it down, the agenda seems to continue forward in many aspects. This is what President Trump has now found out - what really happens behind the scenes, and in some areas he has had to succumbed to the will of the ‘Deep State. As you can see, presidents don’t really call the shots, and this is exactly what they find out when they get into office. It seems their hands are tied, and they are forced to make moves for others and then claim the decisions as their own.

      This does not mean we support Donald Trump, at all, please keep that in mind. We are simply looking at the big picture and taking an observer perspective into what’s really happening. It is important to keep an open mind because so much new information is constantly emerging. Today's political climate is not only hostile, it’s now bordering on dangerous. American discourse has descended to a dangerous level of irrationality. The most ordinary standards of evidential procedure are forgone. Many of our key institutions—the foreign policy apparatus, the media, key intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, the political leadership—are now extravagantly committed to a narrative none appears able to control.

Elites Unite to Attack the President at McCain Funeral

by

       Zeno Potas

      Americans were disgusted after another grotesque stunt by the classless D.C. elites who bashed Trump at Senator McCain's funeral. The ruling class elite from both parties came together, not to honor a fallen Senator, but to viciously attack the non-politician who has been disrupting their staus quo for the past 21 months, President Donald Trump. They’ve taken what should be solemn moments of reflection on the legacies of those they came to honor and instead used their moments in the spotlight to attack someone who wasn’t even there. 
 
      American Patriots were outraged after the funeral turned into a Trump bashing session by the ruling class. These elitists can’t even shut their mouths about President Trump at a funeral. Instead of peacefully celebrating her dad’s life, Meghan McCain used her eulogy as a cheap stunt to repeatedly jab at his political nemesis. Speaker after speaker, from Meghan McCain, to George W. Bush, to Barack Obama took turns to rip President Trump in words of anger. The elite from both sides hate the president as he is beholding to no one and there lies the crux of their problem with him – their influence has been greatly diminished – their agenda slowed and side-tracked.

      They gathered together, left and right at the funeral of the third most unpopular US senator and hailed him as a hero, not for his service in Vietnam, but because he hated Trump. For decades, the mainstream media attacked John McCain as a racist, sexist white supremacist. But they hypocritically spent all of last week lionizing him so they could weaponize his death to attack President Trump. McCain became a liberal hero starting in 2015, after he repeatedly obstructed and trashed the leader of his political party and a sitting United States president. 

  
                        American Patriots Disgusted Reactions to McCain Funeral

        Does anyone believe that Donald Trump gave up a cushy life as a celebrated billionaire mogul so he could be viciously attacked around-the-clock for advancing the interests of the United States—the country he vowed to champion against all enemies - foreign or domestic. What exactly is the purpose of using the funeral of a war hero and longtime U.S. senator to attack a sitting U.S. president? Is that patriotic somehow? Is that appropriate or heroic? Yes, he was a prisoner of war and considered a hero upon his return, but in later life he was the darling of the military industrial complex and the billionaire elites advocating for hostility and war around the globe. McCain’s most dubious political accomplishment was turning over the discredited “Steele Dossier” to James Comey. That debunked dossier was then used to kickstart the phoney Russia collusion investigation in order to bring down a duely elected president even before he was sworn into office.. That probe has cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and obstructed a sitting president for properly serving the citizens of the United States. Their intent has never been more clear.