Be Alert to the Attacks on the Constitution

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      The reason why President Trump was elected is because the American public, who believe in the Constitution, who believe in the Rule of Law, saw it under attack from so many places. As the media has been busy foaming at the mouth over the impeaching of a president, and hyperventilating over the corona-virus, and watching the Democratic front-runner trying to put understandable sentences together, we must not ignore what's really continuing to go on here, which is the attempt to change the Constitution though legislation, not law.

      

       The Constitution endured leftist attacks during most of the 20th century, starting with Woodrow Wilson, and still, it held strong. Toward the end of last century, we started hearing treacherous statements like "The Constitution is a living document." If that were even remotely true, it would render it useless because what good is a malleable contract? Recently, and especially in Virginia, both the 1st and 2nd Amendments are being pounded. Constitutional Patriots are grateful to the Virginians who are standing up to the onslaught. The 3rd Amendment — one that prohibits the stationing of soldiers in the homes of private citizens — received a glancing blow when Portland, Oregon, proposed a law requiring new businesses to include in their buildings room to house the homeless — far worse than soldiers.

      The New York Attorney General has stated that he wants to able able to prosecute people twice for the same crime, a violation the Constitutional prohibition on double jeopardy. The NY Attorney General is now explicitly calling for jailing people they don’t like politically.

   

       House Democrats had completely ignored the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments during the so-called “impeachment.” The rights allotted the common criminal were denied the President during the entire "investigation" in the House. The President never had the opportunity to face down his accusers, yet he was never charged with an actual crime. His accusers won't even accept the acquittal. We now know that his campaign was spied on, that foreign governments were brought in, by the Democratic party, to conspire against him. The fact is that the Left has not only broken actual laws, but ignored Constitutional prohibitions as well and nothing is being done about it.

 

      The assault on our political system continues with constant irregularities when it comes to elections:

• Voter fraud is rampant. With every election we see evidence of fraudulent voting — states and municipalities carrying thousands of dead people on their voter registration rolls. Fictitious names of nonexistent folk are also registered. They "harvest" votes; ballots turn up in car trunks; absentee ballots fail to arrive on time. And voter ID is not required in most states, so anyone can show up to cast a ballot.

• This brings up illegal immigration, which is totally an effort to erase the American vote. The more illegal votes, the less the American vote matters. The more illegals counted in the Census, the more seats a state gets in the House, thereby skewing the vote. Democrats are thoroughly aware of that and thoroughly aware how vulnerable these shadow-people are and how cheaply they can buy those votes. Because of this, some citizens are choosing not to vote, not realizing that choosing not to vote is still choosing.

• New methods of casting our votes are suspect as well. We know that computerized voting machines can be programmed to change votes. We all remember the "hanging chad" fiasco of the 2000 election. In Oregon, they no longer go to the polls, they mail in their ballots. Seattle is considering a vote-by–cell phone scheme. It's hard to imagine that no one sees the potential problems there.

• Ever since 2000 and especially since 2016, we've been hearing the whining of the Democrats about the Electoral College. A purely popular vote would make the process of stealing an election — especially with electronic voting — as easy as riding a bicycle. It would also disenfranchise completely anyone living in flyover states — Los Angeles and New York would run the country. This has gone so far that some states have declared that their electoral delegates will go entirely to whoever wins the majority vote.

• Another attack is happening as we vote people into office while counting on them to carry out their promises to voters, only to have them turn around and do whatever they want. We saw it being tried in Virginia over gun control. We see it in Congress as well. The people were not interested in impeachment, but the House held up all other issues in order to carry it out.

• Just look at the mess the DNC made out of the Iowa caucuses. We still don't know what happened, but we do know that the votes of those participating were thoroughly disrespected, and if we've reached a stage of chaotic dissolution so bad that we can't even count a handful of votes in a fairly small state, how in the world are we going to hold a presidential election?
• And now we've watched the DNC maneuver candidate bailouts so that Biden is now on top — Biden, who doesn't even know where he is. We're supposed to believe this is what the average Democrat wants?

      Federalism is a cornerstone of our constitutional system. Every violation of elected state or federal officials is not merely a transgression of one unit of government against another; it is an assault on the liberties of individual Americans. These are changing times that require rational attitudes to reality and close scrutiny on unlawful changes put forward by unscrupulous persons bent on slipping their agenda into American society. America was built on a rock and that rock is the Constitution.