WHAT IS A REPUBLIC?

 by       

       M. Richard Maxson

      The word republic is from the Latin res,which means thing affair, or interest, and publica which means of everybody.  It literally means everybody's  thing or interest.  The Declaration of Independence contains the principle of republican government: that all men are created with equal, unalienable rights, that governments are formed by men to secure these rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Upon these principles, our forefathers established a body of law called the Constitution of  the United States to which they added a Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to further restrict majority rule. 

  
       The essence of a republic is the rule of law, by which is meant the common or scientific
 law, which is certain and unchangeable. This law is discovered, not made,in that the
 tendency is to find the freedoms and restraints imposed by natural law, and base decisions 
upon them ("Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them," wrote Tom Paine)
 Since human nature doesn't change, what was right yesterday should be so today and 
tomorrow. Courts seek out and enforce a higher law as opposed to political or man-made
 law. As a result, the law seeks truth, transcends politics, is reasonable, consistent,
 predictable, and reflects or approximates natural justice. Government acts like a shield 
punishing the abuses of freedoms - assaults against the life, liberty, and property of 
innocent people - not the freedoms themselves. For example, the misuse of a firearm which 
 results in injury to an innocent party would be punished rather than the mere possession 
of such a weapon. Officers of the law are appropriately called peace officers, for they do 
not enforce political law, but protect everyone equally from force and fraud The military is 
used as a last resort to protect the nation.  

        Moral authority rests outside the political class who are held to a high moral standard through public pressure. Government's purpose is to protect rights and defend freedom. Taxes are voluntary assessments used to fund legitimate government functions serving the common good (in obedience to John Adams’ dictum that "No man may be taxed against his will...").

      Under this form of government, individual freedom and responsibility are maximized. The individual is sovereign and his rights are sacrosanct. Individuals are free to act without permission, but must never impose without consent. Everyone has an equal right to compete in the marketplace, succeed or fail on their own, and pursue their own happiness restrained only by the rights of others to do the same. Republics reject as a danger to liberty the public interest doctrine espoused in democracies. In a republic, the government has just enough power to carry out its proper functions, but is otherwise limited, inhibited and restricted. 

      Power is decentralized, divided, and regulated by an elaborate system of checks and balances, with the ultimate check held by the people in the form of free and open elections (the ballot box), trial by jury(the jury box), and an armed citizenry (the cartridge box). The law is neutral. No one is exempt; everyone is equal before it. All are held fully accountable to an injured party.

       In a republic, government is an instrument solely for collective security in which the 
people are served rather than regulated, represented rather than ruled. When the
principles of republican government are followed, free markets spring up automatically
followed by a growing middle class, abundance, harmony, a high degree of liberty, and
ethical behavior. The emphasis is on the creation of wealth, not the accumulation of 
power as in a democracy.

      Thomas Paine had a premise that: Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary
evil: in its worst state. An intolerable one. How far we have come from our Republic, 
our Founders ideals. Now, labeled an autocracy by the rest of the non-western world, 
we see this regime violating the constitution daily. We see the FBI weaponized and used
as the Stasi was in Communist East Germany. Retired members of the FBI, with decades
of experience, are shocked at what they are seeing in what was a country of laws. 
It is a sad time in the history of the states that were united. The wretched road from
republic to corporate socialist state continues.

WHAT IS A DEMOCRACY?

 by

       M. Richard Maxson 

      The origin of the word democracy comes from the Greek demos, meaning people, 

and kratos, meaning government. Literally, democracy means government by or of 

the people. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly, or through elected 

representatives or appointed officials, without the restraint embodied in a fixed body 

of law. The law is whatever an official organ of government determines it is. It is rule

by whim rather than law, by emotion rather than reason. Individuals have no inherent

rights, but are considered the products of history, culture, class, gender, race, religion,

etc., and are classified and categorized accordingly. The laws are political or man-made,

and reflect not truth and justice, but power. The daily constitutional violations that are 

occurring daily from the ruling elite are examples of not truth but power.

      Rights only emanate from that power. The purpose of government is to satisfy needs 

not wants or privileges of the average citizen. It is government by bias with the result 

that members of politically powerful constituencies receive the needs, wants, and 

privileges because of their classification within certain categories rather than on merit

at the expense of everyone else. Eventually, this creates a two class society with very 

little room to advance. 

     Democracy concentrates power into the hands of the few organized and clever enough 

to manipulate the masses. It is characterized by a communistic attitude toward property

and  monopolistic enterprises. Government then becomes an instrument for the 

redistribution of wealth as well as the security of the state. It is the rule of men, the 

dictatorship of the majority without regard to the consequences upon individuals or society.

It is what is happening in this country now. 

      In a democracy the nation slowly evolves into a two class society. Taken to it’s extreme 

is Communism but there is a long road before that. These forms of government have always

failed, just slowly. To see that this form of government is eventually doomed to fail is to

look at where it has already been implemented in this country before. California now has 

the highest poverty rate in the nation, and is home to one-third of the nation’s welfare 

recipients and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country. The state's

public schools remain among the nation's poorest. California’s coastal and political elites 

make laws and set rules for others but exempt themselves. They celebrate rampant

 lawlessness from illegal aliens, which they see as future progressive voters to continue 

their vision of utopia. 

      Citizens need to stop listening to the lies. Since 2008, the number of people who call

themselves middle class has plunged from 53% to 40%, according to survey by the  Pew

Research Center. That figure is dropping due to the massive inflation deliberately caused

by this regime. They are imposing their form of democracy – Corporate Socialism. Until

then they will continue to use the constitution as a prop waving around saying that 

anyone who disagrees is “a threat to our democracy.”

Patriots will agree that THIS democracy needs a threat.

We Were, Not a Democracy

by

       M. Richard Maxson

 

      Although we hear the term democracy used constantly in reference to our form 

of government, the word does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence 

or the Constitution of the United States, our two fundamental documents. Indeed,

Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution "guarantees to every State in this union a 

Republican Form of Government.’ In addition, we sing the Battle Hymn of the 

Republic, and pledge allegiance to the flag of “the Republic for which it stands.” 

      On the contrary, the founders saw great danger in democracy. Tom Paine, 

considered democracy the vilest form of government. In describing the

purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph 

commented: “The general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the 

United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it

 in the turbulence and follies of democracy.” 

     Thirty-eight years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams stated:

 “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. 

There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” 

     John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to I835 observed: 

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between

 order and chaos.” 

      As late as 1928, the "Citizenship" chapter of U.S. War Department training manual

 TM 2000-25 expressed the opinion: Democracy . . . has been repeatedly tried without 

success. Our Constitutional fathers. . . made a very marked distinction between a

 republic and a democracy . . . and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had 

 founded a republic. 

     One of America's outstanding historians, Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948), put it 

succinctly: “At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled through no chosen

agents, had the American people ofiicially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy.

The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.” 

Why, then, are the Socialist Democrats call us a democracy? 

It is because, that is what they want. 

This Is Not America

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      This is not the America most of us grew up in. What it has become is eerily reminiscent of the beginning of Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. We are in a transitory period as was Rome after the fall of it’s Republic. When that happened a dictator of sorts arose to rule the empire. Today, the dictator is not one man, but rather an entity of powerful “men in the shadows” who are controlling almost all aspects of life in the old United States. World opinion backs this up as the consensus is that we are not even a democracy, but an autocracy. Not “for the people” but for the rich elitist ruling class.

       How did this happen? Many reasons, one is that when you don’t teach history, which we don’t, we repeat all the mistakes from the past. Another is that in the name of progress we have allowed our entire education system to be infected with the cancer of wokeness destroying the basis of the society. 

       We sat by and allowed consolidation of media which ended any objectivity and after that followed the end truth. We have allowed a small number of corporate voices to pretend to be the voice of society. Many have gone along because the elite know that conformity, the desire to fit in and be liked, is a very strong human trait. The use of this and other psychological techniques have opened the door for what President Trump has labeled ‘fake news.”

      The faux Russian collusion theory, Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation lie, the entire “vaccination hoax, and the list goes on. The evidence that what we have been told by mainstream media is either false or lacking the full picture(half-truths) usually comes months later in the form of official declassified documentation, real world examples, and from multiple award winning mainstream media journalists who have committed the rest of their lives and risked their careers to let the public know how the media has deceived people.

      Many have come to the correct conclusion that mainstream media often does have an agenda, and will push their own version of ‘fake news,’ while at the same time, labeling other narratives, perspectives and evidence as the real ‘fake news.’ That has always been known as propaganda, a one-sided, don’t your dare question us half-truth or outright lie. What’s required in this time of smoke and mirror confusion is doing your own research, and seeking independent media sources outside the sphere of western propaganda to better understand our world.

      Lincoln said that America would not be taken down from an outside force, but it would collapse because of corruption from the inside. It is happening now yet most people don’t see it. How long will we last if we no longer are awake?

The States of America Primed to Break Apart.

by

       Zeno Potas

      How much longer will the Free Republic states continue in a government that is mirroring NAZI Germany of the 1930’s? The similarities are extremely concerning and if you weren’t fearful of government before this week, you should be now. If you are not, then the western propaganda machine has done it’s job and the reality is that you don’t really know what is going on in the world and in this country.

      We are now a fake democracy. World opinion has now labeled this country as an autocracy. An autocracy is a form of government where one person or one group gets to use government power to punish its opponents. Some are now calling us a “Banana Republic.” A consortium of think tanks from almost 90 countries released their Freedom of the World Report. The United States is no longer among the top ten countries when it comes to size of government, rule of law and property rights, soundness of the money supply, regulation, and free trade. We now rank twelfth, down from second as recently as 2000. For the record, we now trail Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Chile, and Finland. U.S. legal system and our respect for property rights we have fallen to 36th, trailing countries like Malaysia, Namibia, and Cyprus. The report concludes that the United States “experienced a significant move away from rule of law and toward a highly regulated, politicized, and heavily policed state.”

 

                                      - From a member of the European Parliament:

 

                              “The U.S. is getting more UN-recognizable each day.”

            

      Never in our history have we gone after a former president the way the Leftists running the Biden administration’s FBI and Department of Justice just went after Donald Trump. Since 2015 he has been continually hated, defied, subverted and under bogus legal attacks by the permanent Washington establishment, their owned media, and the Democrats (Progressive Socialists) controlling Congress.

                                                 - This from the BBC

           “The American security services have a bad habit of lying. They better have a big disclosure or the world must consider this as an attempt to overthrow a constitutional government.”                                     

      The raid was not just another despicable act of highly publicized cheap political theater, like the FBI’s early-morning arrest of Trump pal Roger Stone, or when Trump advisor Peter Navarro was put in leg irons at the airport for ignoring a congressional subpoena. It was so NAZI-like that even a few Democrats felt they had to decry it. Note: Democrats charged with the same offenses are not arrested and are free to do as they please.

      “A Leftist coup has been conducted, with apparent impunity, in the country that leads the free world. Democracy is dead in the United States of America. It’s difficult to imagine – short of a second revolution – how this is ever going to be resolved in liberty’s favour.”

                    - James Delingpole, English writer, journalist, and columnist

      There are several states that have begin to pull away from this repulsive NAZI-style of federal government. The state of Wisconsin has recalled it’s electoral collage votes as they have found the election of 2020 extremely corrupted within their state. Many areas of other states want to secede from that section of a Progressive state to join with another more American one.

      Big League Politics has reported on how Texas is leading the way in the fight against the Orwellian tyranny that is sweeping over the U.S. The state of Texas has in it’s Republican platform a plank to secede from the United States. “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified,” the platform states in its 65th plank.

ONE PLAN

      “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States should a future president and congress change our political system from a constitutional republic to any other system,” the document states. For reference: Article 1, Section 1 of the Texas state constitution reads: “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States. All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.”

      It’s a very scary time in the U.S. for it’s citizens, and the unprecedented “Raid on Mar-a-Lago” proved it. Demonizing one political party in hopes of eradicating it is a tactic we have only in recent decades from a NAZI, or Communist governments. But our country’s future is even scarier. We, the people, have lost all control over our government. What began after WWII as the “ugly American” in our foreign policy, now our entire country is being controlled by the “men in the shadows” that The American Constitutionalist has been warning about publicly for over a decade. Continuing on this course, and there is no reason to think they won’t, will eventually lead to the end of ballots and the beginning of bullets. We ARE in perilous times.

 

 

 

              THIS SURVEY WAS DONE BEFORE THE RAID ON THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT 

 

If You Love America - You May Be A Terrorist

by

        M. Richard Maxson

 

      At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly. The official definition of terrorism is “The use, or threat, of force with the intention of achieving a political goal.” That makes it pretty clear what sort of people are covered, and for decades it worked well. The government applied the label “terrorist” to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists. Then the Obama regime removed all references to Islam from terror training materials, and government sites. Instead the term “terrorist” was applied to large groups of American citizens who did not fall in line with the New World Order that was unfolding.

      Today, if you a conservative, a libertarian, an originalist, a gun owner, or religious opposed to globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, abortion, the United Nations or the New World Order? YOU are classified by this government as a potential terrorist. Yes, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents. Here is just a partial list of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents.

• Those that talk about “individual liberties.

• Those that advocate for states’ rights.

• "The Patriot Movement.

• Returning veterans.

• Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations.”

• Those that display the Gadsden Flag.” (“Don’t Tread On Me”)

• Those that are against illegal immigration.

• Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner.”

• Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”

• Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21.

• General right-wing extremist.

• Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

• Those that are “anti-global.

• Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority.

• Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack

• Those concerned about “illegal immigration.

• Those that “believe in the right to bear arms.

• Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes.

• Anti-abortion activists.

• Those that want “to make the world a better place.”

• Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists."

• Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or undesirable.

       The list goes on and on but I bet you have already found yourself to be…. a potential terrorist and if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that were being held at Guantanamo Bay. So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please don’t take it as a joke. The FBI has asked Americans to examine their own family members for signs of “homegrown violent extremism,” and report them. Yes, turn in your family. (See:NAZIs) The call for snitches comes as the FBI turns its surveillance powers on regular Americans.

      Now the first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them. And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized. President Joe Biden has spoke of white supremacism,” which he called “the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today” during his first speech to Congress in April. Quite a load of…. Against this supposed “threat,” the Justice Department has asked for new powers of prosecution, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has claimed that right-wingers and conservatives, “inspired by foreign terrorist groups” and “emboldened by the breach of the US Capitol Building,” are “plotting attacks and “threatening violence against critical infrastructure.” Another load.

      Under Communism people who didn’t embrace their agenda were purged, under fascism the nonconformists were sent to re-education/work camps, or killed. Progressives can’t simply murder or imprison people who flee their thought plantation,  so they try to ruin them in the meantime. The groups of people in the list above are considered “problems” that need to be dealt with. In some of the government documents, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups

       “Fascists,” “Brown-shirts,” “jackbooted storm-troopers”— such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst? We are moving into a very dangerous time in American history. You can now be considered a “potential terrorist” just because of your religious or political beliefs. Free speech is becoming a thing of the past, and we are rapidly becoming an Orwellian society that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended.

 

Snowden, Assange, and the Western Elite

by 

       Phillip Todd

      In a surprising decision last September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that “the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and is unconstitutional.” Edward Snowden is a patriot. He is not a traitor. He is a legitimate whistleblower.

      Snowden was somewhat shocked by the outcome. He posted the following on Twitter: “I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. . . . The Supreme Court once said, “It is difficult for the People to accept what they are prohibited from observing.” That’s why I blew the whistle in the first place: the public has a right to know decisions that redefine the territory of their rights.  

      This comes seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records. Snowden exposed the details of a massive NSA program that used the fear of terrorism to trample on the Constitutional rights of American citizens. The U.S. Government is following the same twisted plan in prosecuting American citizens who entered the Capitol on January 6.

      The courts got this one right. The flame of liberty and the fire of freedom have not yet been extinguished in America. It is the ultimate irony that Snowden enjoys more freedom and protection of his civil rights in Russia than in America.

      Then there is Julian Assange. Not an American citizen yet the U.S. government wants to prosecute him. His crime was publishing, not even on U.S. soil, the government’s cover-up of illegal surveillance and probable war crimes. Even after the court’s decision on Edward Snowden apparently the facade must continue.

      Key accusations in the case against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the US, are reportedly based on testimony from a convicted fraudster who admitted to media he was lying.

      Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, an Icelandic citizen and former WikiLeaks volunteer who became an informant, has admitted to Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of the accusations in the indictment against Assange for $5,000 he received from the FBI. In the article Stundin details several parts of his testimony that he now denies, claiming that Assange never instructed him to carry out any hacking

      Thordarson also provided the publication with chat logs from his time volunteering for WikiLeaks in 2010 and 2011, showing his frequent requests for hackers to either attack or get information but none of the logs show that Thordarson was asked to do that by anyone inside WikiLeaks. What they do show, according to the newspaper, are constant attempts by the organization’s volunteer to inflate his position, describing himself as chief of staff or head of communications In 2012, WikiLeaks filed criminal charges against Thordarson over embezzlement and financial fraud. He was later sentenced for both in Iceland.

      Stundin also cites Ogmundur Jonasson, then-Icelandic interior minister, who says US authorities were going out of their way to get Assange. “They were trying to use things here [in Iceland] and use people in our country to spin a web, a cobweb that would catch Julian Assange.”

      The newspaper claims that Thordarson’s testimony is key for the prosecution’s line portraying Assange as a criminal, rather than a journalist publishing material protected by the First Amendment, like the New York Times or other media that shared the same documents as WikiLeaks.

      Reacting to the bombshell article by Stundin, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: “This is the end of the case against Julian Assange.” Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald agreed, saying: “It should be.”

     The truth, whether about  Russia and President Trump or for their plans for World War (*links below) the western elite had to stop Assange and for all intents and purposes - they have.

      Regardless of the truth, the court in London will extradite Assange as it has sided with the US when it came to claims based on Thordarson’s now-denied testimony. Assange has spent more than three years behind bars at Belmarsh Prison in the UK being tortured. The US government has charged the Australian journalist under the Espionage Act, accusing him of leaking classified information in 2010. At the time, WikiLeaks published documents detailing abuses, including possible war crimes, carried out by the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington is currently seeking his extradition, and Assange could be jailed for up to 175 years if found guilty. At the beginning of June, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer called on the UK government to release the journalist, condemning his incarceration as “one of the biggest judicial scandals in history.”

1.  ASSANGE: Trump had no connection to Russia -.https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1493086451692617735
   
2. War...Constant War...It's What they Want

 

**Phillip Todd is the foreign correspondant for The American Constitutionalist