HALF-FULL REPORT 07/10/15

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive insane. It was a proverb in Ancient Greece, so old no one knew who first said it. In Antigone, Sophocles (496-406 BC) has his Chorus put it this way: Evil seems good to a man whose mind a god leads to destruction.

Sure seems like they were talking about America today. The same with historian Will Durant. In his Epilogue to Caesar and Christ (Volume III of his monumental The Story of Civilization) entitled “Why Rome Fell,” he points with shuddering accuracy to what’s happening to our country:

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.

You can be quite confident that both Sophocles and Will Durant would wearily respond with “What did I tell you?” if they were told of this headline yesterday (7/09):

Oregon Allowing 15 Year-Olds To Get State-Subsidized Sex-Change Operations

This is not only insanity, it is criminal insanity. Note than on top of criminal child abuse being paid for by taxpayers, it can be performed without parental notification.

All members of the Oregon state government who permit this – specifically those on the Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) who voted for it – and all doctors who perform such criminal surgery, need to be in prison.

How is it possible that America got itself in such a morass of lunacy? Another observation of Will Durant applies: “It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”

America elected an evil madman to lead it in order to appease guilt-mongering anti-white racists. He proceeded to drive the entire country insane enough to reelect him, and is now determined to drive it so fully insane it will destroy itself from within.

Further, he has discovered the key of how to do so. Perversely, he learned it from Will Durant. For it was Durant who explained, “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” Destroy the family and you destroy a civilization, in this case America’s. The Madman in the White House has learned this lesson well.

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For Zero is simply acting on the Marxist teachings of his Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. That’s why it’s critically important for all conservatives and anyone concerned about America’s future to read Paul Kengor’s new book: Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.

Not only how but why. By destroying the family, atomized individuals can be more easily controlled by the State.

This is the core reason why anyone pro-freedom must oppose homosexual “marriage.” The same reason applies to Warmism. Both are political agendas of the Left. They are rationales for power. Nothing more, simply means to an end, the end being State control over the individual, culturally, morally, and economically. And as we know, for Leftists, that end always justifies any means.

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With the Left on a roll now, you can expect more fascism constantly from now on. It won’t stop, it will be a never-ending nightmare until enough Americans wake up and put an end to it.

A perfect example came Wednesday (7/08) with the Massive Government Overreach of Obama’s AFFH Rule.

AFFH stands for its exact political opposite, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. Whenever, as in always, you see Lefties use the word “fair,” it means “fascist.” Thus we should always refer to this AFFH as Affirmatively Furthering Fascist Housing.

Read Stanley Kurtz’s article in the link above and you’ll see why. It’s the federalie takeover of every neighborhood – meaning yours – in the country.

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The DemFascist goal to increase unemployment in order to make people wards of the state who vote DemFascist continues unabated. 100 million Americans over 16 are not working. This is no accident, Comrades. By November 2016, there’ll be lots more.

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But wait – there’s more! The worst news of the week – far worse than anything else you can imagine – is this headline: Voting-Fraud Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court.

OK, the Roll Call headline actually read “Voting-Rights” but just as fair=fascist in Demspeak, so voter-rights=voter-fraud. SCOTUS upheld a lower court ruling that proof of citizenship is not required to register to vote in federal elections. Read that sentence again and let it sink in.

Full-on voter fraud allowing every illegal alien in the country to vote Dem for President in 2016 is now the law of the land. Voter fraud has been ruled by the Supreme Court to be constitutional. Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of America, where elections, like in all other totalitarian states, are a fraudulent formality for the ruling party.

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Okay, okay, enough with the bummers. Let’s hunt for some bright spots. Over at AT, Bruce Walker in The New Roe v. Wade notes that it was the same kind of invented rights decision of 1972 Roe that created the Right-to-Life movement. Abortion is on the run now with pro-lifers winning in state after state. Walker sees a similar creation of a Right-to-Traditional Family movement (although he doesn’t use that term).

One option he predicts is that state governments will simply abolish the civil institution of marriage in their states. Marriage will simply be a private sacramental ceremony according to the faiths of the couple.

Just as in response to Roe, based as it was on a pure legal fiction of a nonexistent constitutional “right to privacy,” the pure legal fiction of a nonexistent constitutional “right to dignity” upon which Obergefell v. Hodges was based will generate a plethora of ways to circumvent it.

An extremely instructive example occurred on Monday (7/06), with a Brief filed with the Alabama Supreme Court. It will get a very sympathetic hearing from Chief Justice Ray Moore, an arch opponent of homosexual “marriage.”

Essentially, the brief argues for the constitutional authority of Alabama to refuse to implement Obergefell based on what happened in Wisconsin regarding an 1859 SCOTUS decision called Ableman v. Booth. Yes, 1859.

I strongly suspect the writers of the brief got their argument from my Revolutionary Constitutionalism and Declarations of Defiance (December 2014).

The concept of Revolutionary Constitutionalism is an idea whose time has come. I could not urge you more emphatically to read it and send it (it’s Free Access) to everyone you know. It cites the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s rejection of SCOTUS upholding the Fugitive Slave Act in Abelman, resulting in the state government issuing the Wisconsin Declaration of Defiance.

This document needs to be read and studied by all those who call themselves “constitutionalists.”  Look at its 440 words, issued by a state government wanting to free slaves to a federal government that wanted to impose slavery, very carefully. (For your convenience, they are appended at the end.)

This is what we need today – Declarations of Defiance with exactly this wording by states asserting their Constitutional right to nullify unconstitutional laws – regardless of any US Supreme Court ultra vires decision.

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In keeping with this, Rasmussen has issued a poll (7/03) showing that 50% of Republican and conservative voters (and 1/3^rd of all voters) believe states have the right to ignore federal court rulings.

This is not just in response to recent court decisions. “Only 20% of likely voters now consider the federal government a protector of individual liberty,” the Rasmussen Poll finds. “60% see the government as a threat to individual liberty instead.”

And how about this? Breitbart points out that Justice Scalia, in his fiery dissent of Obergefell proclaimed that his fellow Justices who voted for it are more destructive of American liberty than were the British in 1776!

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A last note on this issue. My suggestion to all conservative media outlets is to take control of the language away from the Left. “Gay” is a pro-homosexual affirmatively prejudicial term, just as “fag” is an anti-homosexual negatively prejudicial term. I propose we avoid the former just as we avoid the latter. While “homo” is also a slur, “homosexual” is a neutral term, simply describing someone attracted to his or her own sex.

Thus, the conservative media and blogosphere should simply replace the words “gay” and “same-sex” with “homosexual” from now on. “Gay” means “happy, joyful, carefree,” not homosexual. It’s time to take our language back.

There’s one exception. Gaystapo is just too good and accurate a term to pass up. It makes too good a protest mantra at a demonstration, Just say No to the Gaystapo! So we’ll keep that.

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The IBD asks a good question this week (7/09): Why Does It Take A Donald Trump To Rouse Republicans On Sanctuary Cities?

Turns out that The Donald was exactly right on his hyper-maligned accusation that Mexico was sending its worst, not its best to America as illegals. As reported today (7/10), Illegal Alien Crime is Staggering in Scope and Savagery.

The traitor-tragedy is that the Republican Elite are beholden to the US Chamber of Commerce which could care less about Kathryn Steinle or any other victim of illegals as long as they get the cheap labor illegals provide.

Yet while we desperately need an alternative to the Pub Elite’s anointed leader, Jeb Bush with $114 million in crony capitalist contributions, it cannot be Trump.

As my long-time friend John Fund points out, “Trump is one of America’s premier crony capitalists.” John looks on him as a “P.T. Barnum” huckster, albeit extremely smart and serious, obsessed with gaining attention.

Erick Erickson encapsulates why he’s no Republican, less a conservative: “He has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes, including a good bit of money to Hillary Clinton. He previously has been in favor of abortion rights and told MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts that he is ‘evolving’ on the issue of gay marriage.”

Yet Trump is suddenly at the top of the polls now, because he has the brass to say politically incorrect things that other contenders don’t. Many, like Bush and Rubio are even craven enough to condemn him for speaking truth. We don’t want craven, we want courage, brass, moxie, cojones. Erick says Trump should be welcomed on the debate stage by his Pub competitors, as it gives them the chance to show they’ve got what it takes. Good advice.

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That debate, however, regards an election 16 months away. At the pace Zero and the DemFascists are going, we can’t wait that long – for openers, if we do, the election will be rigged for sure. We need Revolutionary Constitutionalism and Declarations of Defiance. We need mass civil disobedience, the willful refusal of peaceful citizens to obey unjust laws.

TTP has been calling for this since 2009 – a Revolution of Disobedience, “A Mass Movement of Conservative Civil Disobedience that empowers every participant who knows he or she is actually doing something specific and concrete to bring down Fedzilla.”

Now, Obergefell may prove to be the catalyst sparking such a movement. Pat Buchanan thinks so, predicting today (7/10) The Coming Era of Civil Disobedience.

Pat asks the Lefties of the Sixties, “who, when young, rejected the views, values and laws of Eisenhower’s America, what makes them think that dissenting Americans in this post-Christian and anti-Christian era will accept their laws, beliefs, values? Why should they?”

No reason at all, Pat. Yes, it’s time to disobey.

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We’ll close with another historical observation of Will Durant. Take it to heart in those moments when you despair for America. Remember that it seemed just as dark when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. He never despaired, confidant that America’s best days lay in her future, not her past.

Durant ends Caesar and Christ with these words:

“There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.”

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APPENDIX: The 1859 Wisconsin Declaration of Defiance

Whereas, The Supreme Court of the United States has assumed appellate jurisdiction in the matter of the petition of Sherman M. Booth for a writ of habeas corpus, presented and prosecuted to final judgment in the Supreme Court of this State, and has, without process, or any of the forms recognized by law, assumed the power to reverse that judgment in a matter involving the personal liberty of the citizen, asserted by and adjusted to him by the regular course of judicial proceedings upon the great writ of liberty secured to the people of each State by the Constitution of the United States:

And, whereas, Such assumption of power and authority by the Supreme Court of the United States, to become the final arbiter of the liberty of the citizen, and to override and nullify the judgments of the state courts’ declaration thereof, is in a direct conflict with that provision of the Constitution of the United States which secures to the people the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus:

Therefore, Resolved, The Senate concurring, That we regard the action of the Supreme Court of the United States, in assuming jurisdiction in the case before mentioned, as an arbitrary act of power, unauthorized by the Constitution, and virtually superseding the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus and prostrating the rights and liberties of the people at the foot of unlimited power.

Resolved, That this assumption of jurisdiction by the federal judiciary, in the said case, and without process, is an act of undelegated power, and therefore without authority, void, and of no force.

Resolved, That the government, formed by the Constitution of the United States was not the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

Resolved, That the principle and construction contended for by the party which now rules in the councils of the nation, that the general government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers; that the several states which formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a positive defiance of those sovereignties, of all Unauthorized acts done or attempted to be done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.