We the People

The Preamble: “We (the) People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

These three words establish the intended use and definition of the phrase the People as a very specific subset of humanity, ie, “of the United States”, ie, citizens rather than the painfully stretched definition the Left contends to include all those who find themselves here as permissive guests or by surreptitious entry.

Those words also begin laying out the unified vision for a brand-new Nation, raised up from the ashes of an armed Revolt of a People from their rightful if not oppressive government. Three words, the meaning of which, for most of our history were taken for granted; recently questioned for its founding intent as either too narrowly focused or intended to be globally applied.

The Founders relied on contemporaries like Burke, Locke, Hobbes, Coke, Montesquieu and Rousseau as well as Philosophers in Antiquity like Plato and Socrates to build on the concept of the social contract emanating from the agreement between free men for there can be no other legitimate expression of a free, deliberative, protective government unless it is first established by the very free men whom that government is established to protect.

When they first convened in May of 1787, to establish the framework for governance, its responsibilities and limitations, they determined to start with whole cloth versus simply cutting and pasting from established works like the Articles of Confederation like some had proposed. Their approach was simple, time honored and built using accepted rhetorical tools; Logic, Progression, Redundancy where needed, Concise Language. They approached the document as if building upon precepts established in documents and from language they had already used and accepted like in the Articles and the Declaration of Independence.

The Preamble identifies the purpose, establishes the source of authority, the principle duties of the new government and one narrow definition: the People. Considering they had just engaged in a Revolt to secure for themselves the Right to chart their own destiny and to establish themselves as a new Nation, it would be entirely illogical, arrogant and presumptuous to use a universal definition of People even while the philosophy underpinning their claim, is a universal one. The US Constitution then, is for the governance and the limitations of that government delegated by an uniquely American People/Citizenry, for the Establishment, Tranquility, Defense and Security of the newly formed United States of America.

Each of the Articles and Amendments to the Constitution use progression and redundancy as tools to emphasize their intent and to revisit their definitions when reusing certain words and phrases which show up earlier in the document. The word “People” has been bandied about to muddy clarity and win converts to the idea that the word is pluralistic in its use and applies to the entirety of the global population to justify all of whom might breach our borders and squat here, without deliberative permission.

From that first sentence of the Preamble, the definition of the word People, is clearly narrow in scope and refers only to those establishing the Nation and their Posterity. Section I of the 14th Amendment then expands that definition to include those Immigrants who are also Naturalized as citizens by Legal Process. Thus the contextual meaning of the phrase “The People” equals Citizenry. Nowhere does the context change in Section I, either linguistically, stated expansion of the definition or omission.

The past three generations of youth having been fed a steady diet of the Gene Roddenberry science fiction construct of an altruistic, utopian, United Federation of Planets reinforced with Academia’s teaching that the essence of Socialism and even Communism are the manifestations of that fantasy; suggesting not only of it being possible, but anyone being of low moral character for not being willing to sacrifice your essential Liberty (Rights and Private Ownership of Property) to help bring the Star Trek fantasy/global Utopia to fruition. This, despite the entire breadth and depth of history, revealing precisely the opposite. It is astonishing that any Nation has survived the 200-year mark much less our approaching 250 given man’s capacity to self-destruct and even to demand his own enslavement. Even the Bible’s core message is the almost comical inability of mankind to keep 10, basic rules much less the 700 that the Israelites heaped onto themselves.

In fact, the entire Old Testament can be summed up in two words: continual failure. There is no historical evidence of people evolving or of a maintained Altruistic spirit, no Utopia and surely no evidence of men – or women who didn’t succumb to the base desires of the heart; Lust, Jealousy, Depravity, Self-aggrandizement, Power Mongering, Envy, Murder, etc. Even IF Communism or its little sister, Socialism could be justified, where are the men and women, pure of heart that would be assigned to guide it and guard against abuse? Pelosi, Schumer, Waltz, Harris, Schiff, Obama, Biden, Bill or Hillary (to name a few) none of whom ever held a job in the private sector or contributed one once of personal effort to the GDP having leeched off the Taxpayer teat their entire lives and who are all, mysteriously multi-millionaires? They are not unique in their self-concern, they are in fact reminders of the unquenchable, uncontrollable, universal affliction of all men and women spanning the entire history of mankind; past, present and future.

Its unfortunate that the Academics don’t spend at least as much time teaching English Grammar much less history. If they did, NYC might not be poised to vote for their first Constitutionally antithetical Muslim/Shiite/Twelver/Communist and there might be more support for ICE and outrage toward the Democrats for causing the problem ICE Agents are now saddled with correcting. But then those teachers and professors were once students having been fed a steady diet of freedom ending indoc diatribe from their first mentors/professors who were also fed in kind.

This problem we have been witnessing is neither new nor recent. It has been simmering for our entire existence as a Nation as evidenced by the disagreements amongst the Founders and the final battle of the Revolution fought a scant 84 years later in the Civil War. While the North used Slavery as the battle cry to energize an entire generation to fight, the South focused on the Sanctity of State Sovereignty.

That war laid to rest the argument as to whether the State or a Federal, centralized government would be the supreme authority even while maintaining those pesky definitions including that of the use of the word People.

Semper Fidelis;

John Bernard

The Immutable Right

The Left has challenged the very definition of a Right since before the signing of the Constitution in 1789. The origin of the concept of the Individual’s Right is as old as humanity. The philosophy underpinning the declarations of the preeminence and immutability of Rights has certainly evolved over time but only in the way the subject is presented - not the substance.

The rhetoric has been honed during the build up to every major Revolution in modern history and the establishment of lists of Rights have been drafted reflecting the recent experiences of the Authors, Friction between Government and the Citizenry, Proliferation of Biblical Truth and Strife.

Our unique US experience with Rights, predates our Revolution as several of the Founders studied the Concept, History and the academic works of people like John Locke, Edmund Burke (both contemporaries), Greek Philosophy etc. They drew up and embedded a type of headed outline in the Declaration of Independence (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) from which the Bill of Rights is naturally derived.

The tension between the Individual and the State has existed for all of human history. It stems from Man's sinful nature and the divergence in natural inclinations that we live with every day. In school it manifests in a migration toward the Arts and a desire to control versus building the Individual and his naturally occurring Gifts and Talents.

This Tension first manifests in innocuous settings but quickly seeks established venues where the desire can be nurtured and a herd affected. Our Founders had learned of this divergence, saw it in one historical example after another, lived with it and were determined to extract themselves from it; establish a new model with a new Guard and a new Hierarchy placing the Individual at the Apex.

The Constitution established three co-equal branches of Government with the expressed intent of self-scrutiny and ultimately, protection of the individual, his unhindered access to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the limits of government in this regard.

The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the extraneous, prolific writings of the Founders explain in detail their viewpoint, intent and desire to identify a list of Basic, naturally occurring Rights which allow the Individual to establish his life, maintain his liberty/freedom and to pursue ventures in life that are both fulfilling and allow him to sustain and enrich his life.

Rights therefore, are philosophically acknowledged to be as much a component of the Individual as his Eyes, Ears, Hands, Feet, Tongue, Heart, Brain and the very God-Breathed Life within us as opposed to Privileges which are granted by men, require prerequisites and are finite in duration.

Leftists have for years sought to diminish the immutability characteristic of a Right to justify the insinuation of government control of Rights starting with the Second Amendment. It is ironic that while they zealously pursue government control over the engagement of the Second Amendment, they simultaneously demand the establishment of a new Right - from new cloth, i.e., unregulated use of abortion.

It is ironic because their precedent setting attempts to negate a well-established acknowledgement of the Keeping and Bearing of Arms as a Natural, God-Given, Appendage to each individual and with it the very concept of the existence of the Uninfringeable Right makes their demands of no affect.

As to the Founder's Intent, Meaning and understanding of the Rights concept and how the second fits the other nine, you only must revisit the clause..."that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Life requires certain Basics; food, clothing, shelter, freedom of thought and expression; to choose supplication to, worship of and communing with God; selecting like-minded fellow citizens who swear to defend the Constitution and the Nation, the freedom to improve your lot in life and the ability to defend against all threats to those basics.

In order to decipher the clear intent of the Second Amendment, it requires just a very little history, etymology of a few words, the future expectations of the Founders and their dedication to arming the Citizenry with every tool required to establish, maintain and defend the society at large.

The Second Amendment: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Well Regulated - the phrase itself has never been argued. However, what is being regulated has. Punctuation is important and clearly it is the organization/Militia being described as "well regulated", i.e., trained, disciplined...even answerable.

Militia - in the absence of any other Martial terms in language, Militia could be used to describe any number of assembled individuals, gathered for defensive action. HOWEVER, given the context, the document and the historical period during which this is rendered, the Writers, Signers and their recent history, clearly, Militia refers to an extra-governmental assembly. Additionally, it defies logic to think the Founders would take the time to essentially plead with the world that they had the Right to establish an Army.

It also would be inconsistent for them to include collectivist language in a list of Individual Rights.

History, etymology and language clearly indicate that the American Militia is manned, armed, trained, fielded, led by civilians without government sanction and in spite of it.

Keeping - Individual Ownership

Bearing - Keeping on your person, i.e., carrying

Shall not be infringed - Cannot be cordoned, denied, categorized, interfered with, legislated.

Arms - one of a few words in use today as it was in antiquity. In fact, so much so that the Leftist argument against private ownership of the Leftist conjured classification of Assault Weapon is made anathema.

Arms, militarily, historically, traditionally, culturally, and in literature define a category of weaponry carried and employed by a single Warrior - without qualification. Interestingly, civilian weapons used for hunting, sport, personal protection or even Law Enforcement are not categorized as Arms.

Arms can include but are not limited to, daggers, swords, bow and arrow, match lock, flint lock, cap lock, breech loaded, bolt action, trapdoor, semi-auto, select-fire, internally fed or magazine fed rifles, handguns etc. that are or have been issued to Soldiers, Militiamen, Hoplites etc. Ironically, an argument could be made that only "Weapons of War" are covered by the Second Amendment.

What is missing from the text in the Second Amendment is the unregulated use of/discharging of those Arms. Legislation detailing when and where you can shoot is reasonable being as fellow citizens, in some instances could be endangered, i.e., on city streets, inside buildings not having a range, near schools, etc.

In summary, the Founder's personal studies coupled with their recent, shared history fueled their debate and the resultant Constitution with its delineated, protected and preeminent Bill of Rights all of which was designed to afford the Individual guidance for and protection from Government.

SF

jb

On Juneteenth

 Are Holidays aimed at ANY subset of society, the best way to Unify a Society and do they tell the whole story?

While Juneteenth has been established to celebrate the last gasp of Slavery in the USA, It is equally important to remind people that Americans didn't originate even the concept of slavery, but we paid a considerable price ending it here.

Those same Black Slavers who captured their fellow countrymen in the Med and Western Africa and then sold them around the world, also sent out Corsairs to loot shipping and enslaving the crews. They also raided the Coastline from Gibraltar to the North Sea; Iceland and Greenland taking slaves and reselling them throughout the Med. It has been recorded that entire villages along that western coast completely disappeared without any record.

The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites, the Mongols, the Slavs, Alexander took slaves as well as the Romans, the English enslaved and sold the Irish.

We have developed a seriously bad habit here of acting on the misguided notion that we as Americans spawned every single sin and aberrant behavior plaguing all of mankind while apparently believing the rest of the world's population was anesthetized; living oblivious and tranquil existences.

I saw some stats not long ago that showed the number of Irish and Asian deaths here, attributed to abuses committed on those populations via Indentured Servitude, being "shanghaied" ( At least one of my wife's relatives fell victim to being taken - never to be heard from again )and enslaved dwarfed the deaths of African-Americans living in chains here. At the height of the slave years here, it is recorded as many as 1.25 million "white" slaves were sold to the British/American colonies.

Lastly, a little known and inconvenient fact that dilutes the Black/White stigma the Left insists on emphasizing; an 1830 record lists 3,775 Slave Holders of mixed and/or African ethnicity. (see attributes in the comments)

My point being, mankind of all shades has had a penchant for abusing his fellows, of all shades ever since Cain killed Abel. Our damnable skewed fixation on the abuses here has raised several generations of kids who have then wound up in protests spitting on returning War Fighters in the 60's or demanding the extermination of Jews, today; demanding that people who never owned a slave or whose lineage doesn't hold that history pay a reparation to people who were never slaves all because of a heavily slanted Academia which seeks first to sow discord with the ultimate goal of dissolution.

Every single Historical example of a societal shifting disassembly/reconstitution of governmental philosophy has had its own form of an intelligentsia fueling the street-thug protest movement manned by those indoctrinated in what to think versus how to Reason. This current crescendo of race-baiting voices is not the tip of the spear, rather it is just one spear in a phalanx of spears, insinuated upon American society aimed at increasing emotional responses among the Right-brained and keeping the Left-brained on the defense.

It is impossible to predict the final resolution to this latest example of social decay but it is clear we are in the third stage of the three-generation rule having failed to properly teach kids in the past 70 years; raising an entitled, shiftless, unappreciative, historically ignorant and Godless segment of the population that thinks setting a form of IED is preferable to conversation. That seeking to eliminate certain unalienable Rights and thus the philosophical premise of the pre-existence and pre-eminence of the uninfringeable Right while, ironically demanding new "Rights" which include codifying Infanticide is somehow congruent.

Make no mistake, these things are in fact interrelated with one end goal; 

The dissolution of a Nation.

SF

John Bernard

Attributes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners

https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners

https://theconversation.com/american-slavery-separating-fact-from-myth-79620

“To Hell or Barbados”, Sean O’Callaghan, 2000

Guilty on All 34 Counts; Will it Make a Difference?

 

Guilty on all 34 counts.

 A couple of Givens;

 1. This was inevitable given it was held in Manhattan that is 85% + Democrat.

 2. There was virtually zero chance of assembling 12 unbiased Jurors in Manhattan.

 3. The entire Prosecutorial team are not only registered Dems but have an entrenched history with the DNC.

 4. The Judge is a Dem and has donated to the DNC.

 5. The Judge's Wife and Daughter are paid, DNC Operatives.

 6. The Judge unabashedly showed prejudicial deference toward the Prosecution while displaying contempt for the Defense.

 7. The Judge's allowing salacious, irrelevant testimony from a Porn Actress in a he said/she said, accusation of consensual sex; where she extorted money to stay silent.

 8. That the entire Democrat/Socialist movement and power mongers would yell/cheer/demand the testimony of a known, convicted liar, Michael Cohen and the Judge reject the expert testimony of someone who works Federal Election Law.

 9. The Judge's instruction to the Jury gave them Carte Blanche including no requirement for a unanimous decision effectively negating requirements to the contrary in the 6th and 7th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

 Ironically, this shameless, seditious, concerted effort by the DNC, the entire 3 letter gaggle, the White House, Media, Intelligentsia and half of our "fellow" citizens will not move the needle in this election cycle 1 point in their favor while it might energize and coalesce the GOP and possibly increase defection amongst certain Dem demographics.

 There is a possibility the Supreme Court will act on a defense request for an expedited appeal to settle this before November, BUT for certain the Dems have what they wanted; flaunting the battle between the convicted Felon and Saint Biden. This also gives Biden his much needed opt-out of all debates being as it wouldn't be "dignified" to give a Felon equal standing with "Honest Joe".

 Also Ironic is the obliviousness with which the Dems decry election interference, dishonesty, rigged Judicial System, Disenfranchisement, etc while wielding them to not just gain advantage but to destroy the opposing candidate and disenfranchise half the Citizenry of their Constitutional Right to cast a vote for their choice.

We could have easily called this inevitability two months ago being as the Scales of justice in this case were modified to contain just one half of a Beam and just one Pan.

In the final analysis it was "unanimously" decided;

 " We hate Trump and he deserves whatever we can conjure for an allegation, charge, conviction and we'll install a Prosecutor to LIE, and an assemblage of NYC Comrads to SWEAR to it; using the testimony of a woman who is an established extortionist and paid to have sex for entertainment and a convicted, imprisoned, LIAR and disbarred New York Lawyer. "

 ... both of whom will make money from this.

 I seem to recall another historical trial where the entire system and relevant Citizenry screamed for the release of a thief, liar, murderer and debaucherous man while denying a man innocent of the charges, justice. The only difference is, that Trump is by no measure perfect; he's just a sinful man.

 Like all of us.

 SF

 John Bernard

The Art of Polishing the Turd

 So after several years of listening to the faint of heart and the lowly in character sob over the use of wrong pronouns, the meritless claims of institutional racism, continual cries of inequity, inequality, privilege and oh yeah, mean tweets, we arrive at today’s latest fruit of globalist clap-trap; 13 dead American Service members and another 15 wounded by some as yet unnamed cabal of Satan worshipping cretins in Kabul. 

This follows a week of watching one of the most disgraceful egress operations in the annals of Military History. And it is an easily foretold ending to an historically ill-advised military doctrine which supplanted the hunt-kill strategy in place in Afghanistan until June of 2009. I “predicted” this, that same fateful month and reiterated my prescient claim many times over this past decade. 

I will remind those who forgot and the rest who have been too self-absorbed to know, that in June of 2009 Stanley McChrystal brought to light the fruit of a year of positing, posturing, submitting and frankly, undermining the probability of any kind of favorable outcome in what has been called, the Graveyard of Empires.

But make no mistake, the genesis of this horrific turn in Afghanistan rests with the then newly Minted/Corronated/Sainted, Barrack Hussein Obama 6 months earlier. Obama had been very clear in his narcissistic “memoir”, Audacity of Hope, pg 261 …” I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction… 

He backed those words with his Commander’s Intent statement regarding Afghanistan by voicing concern for the safety of the average Afghan; supplanting his sworn duty and associated responsibility for the Constitution, National Security and his War Fighters. His voiced concern instructed his bevy of Leftist Politruk and the machinery of Leftist Bureaucrats at the Pentagon who felt legitimized in dragging down the sullied book, from the dusty shelf in the Library of Horrible Ideas to one more time apply the doctrine of the Counter Insurgency with its impossible ROE, to Afghanistan.

Given COIN’s 76 year history of 100% abysmal failure, it was nothing short of malfeasance and even justifying a charge of Negligent Homicide for those who recommended COIN with the same charge placed against the one man who chose security for a foreign people over the security of the Nation and its War Fighters he was Oathbound to Defend.

Given the catastrophic endings for the Brits in Malay, the French in Indochina, the US in Vietnam, Somalia and the questionable conditions in Iraq; the predictable consequences in the entire Middle East from 2010-2012 including the attack on the CIA safe house in Benghazi where four Americans were killed and no rescue mission was launched, it was not only predictable that ANY egress from Afghanistan would be catastrophic, but in fact, a given!

With this history as backdrop, we can now discuss Biden’s Saigon or potential Dien Bien Phu through the lens of an historically accurate understanding that COIN in Afghanistan was doomed to fail even before McChrystal opened his mouth publicly in June of 2009.

What makes what we are witnessing in real time all the more frustrating is knowing his not too bright advisors had at least, warned him of the probability of failure a full 6 months before they pulled the metaphorical trigger on the egress.

It is also appalling and frustrating to have to listen to Biden and his underlings parade out rhetorical effort after lie after garbled statement in an effort to put a smiley face – even to take credit for some kind of tactical mastery in this entirely preventable episode.

Again, predictably, the White House Press Corps seems incapable or unwilling to ask the most obvious questions;

“Why didn’t you keep Bagram open until every single American Citizen and Afghan Collaborator were safe”… 

“Why didn’t you secure the several billion dollars in US War Materiel and Weaponry before pulling out the last of the troops and contractors?”

“Why didn’t you immediately launch a massive extraction effort to safeguard and remove American citizens when it became undeniably apparent on August 14th?” 

“Why in the name of all that is right and just did you give any sway to the Terrorists “Teachers” known as the Taliban?” 

Instead we have been treated to that age old political witchcraft, enjoined by both politician, bureaucrat, politruk and media entertainer alike; the effort to polish a turd. Somewhere along the line it became knee-jerk to spin a story, create a tale, redirect the public gaze and basically, lie, rather than own up to the mistake. 

Unfortunately, a full 50% of this population is more than happy to play along and even gleeful at the prospect of actively participating as long as it props up their questionable selection for the Presidency. 

Obama may have started us down this path.

Obama’s Politruk may have sullied themselves in the name of relevancy.

But it is Biden and his corral of miscreants who own this astoundingly shameful excuse for an egress.

And now he can add the names of at least 27 United States Marines; dead and wounded who were tasked with nothing short of a cleanup operation in a vain attempt to help a feckless “president” save face.

Democrats and their legion of facilitators would do well to learn at least one lesson;

Sometimes, a Turd is simply a Turd.

I pray for the families of those 12 Marines whose lives were sacrificed for the sake of politics. It is doubly infuriating for our family being as this debacle began to take shape on the Anniversary of our Marine Son's death in Afghanistan 08/14/2009.

I pray for the families of the thousands whose lives were sacrificed for the misplaced interest of a president who sullied his oath, 12 years ago.

I hope although very likely in vain, that those who selected the current figurehead will see the fruit of that ill-conceived choice even if it required the unnecessary deaths of yet more American Service members, this day, 26 August 2021. 

Semper Fidelis 

John Bernard

Concerning the New York Post Piece; “Does Trump even want to win this Race?”

The deck has been stacked against Trump from the very beginning. The media is undeniably and eternally left-leaning.

Nothing is ever going to change that.

The true question is, are they against him because of his demeanor or because he is truly an outsider unwilling to play ball in their court, by their rules and yield to their masters?
Society continues its sluice ride toward totalitarianism/socialism/communism. It is the inevitable destination of an entitled, lazy, shiftless gaggle of cretins who choose "comfortable" slavery born of jealousy and covetousness over uncertain and thus dangerous Individualism; it is as certain as it is unfortunate;

History bears this out.

The only unknown is when the population will have gathered enough self-destructive steam to power this locomotive into the mountainside of obliteration.

The key component in this age old effort to destroy this Nation as enshrined in our founding documents, is the Education Establishment. Whether knowingly or unwittingly, Teachers and Professors have guided generations of students onto this self-destructive ride and made them soldiers in the effort - and those numbers are now past the tipping point. The Education system stopped teaching students “how” to think determining instead to teach them “what” to think, multiple decades ago. Anyone who sent their kids to college knows of what I speak, as they found out that the kids they sent, came back adults they hardly recognize sporting ideals they never learned at home.

Given that all Leftists show up at the Polls and that "Conservatives" have never been willing to circle-the-wagons and do likewise, there is apparently no way to civilly stop the transition from a society of Free Men, to a Gulag of Serfs governed by well-heeled Overlords.

This election is consequential because for the first time in my lifetime, the players on the Left have pulled back the curtain and made the details of their draconian plans known and laid bare their future vision. It is also consequential because for the first time, there is a preponderance of evidence indicating a majority of the electorate seems elated at the prospect of destroying what the Founders created 300 years ago.

We have been witnessing the entire machine of the movement in action; unfettered protests/riots, the full weight of the media, a virtual Gag on the Free Speech of those who oppose, the gaming of Presidential Debates by consistent use of Partisan "Moderators", the hijacking of Congress and it’s use as a bludgeon to destroy a sitting President, the infiltration of the Military O-Zone by Leftist Ideologues who are first trained in Leftist Colleges now openly seeking to unseat a duly elected President, et al, ad infinitum!!!
That American society is fractured, maybe irreparably so, is a given as we see families “torn asunder”, once again; the razing of civil discourse, the intolerance to competing ideas, the annihilation of customary societal mores, the unprovoked attacks on individuals in the street, the complete loss of fear/respect for Law enforcement, the lack of recognition of the sanctity of the Family and Life at all stages starting with the most vulnerable.

I have engaged in political commentary for decades, but not until these past 12 years have I become increasingly more concerned about the Voter, than the Candidates. We have arrived at a time when we can no longer assume the Voter(s) will display wisdom and good sense to arrive at the best Candidate to carry out the Oath of Office which first, demands they Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States.

Those days are apparently, gone.

The new Majority Voter Vision seems to be a rush to demolish the entirety of the Constitution and astonishingly, to their own peril.

So as I consider the New York Post piece entitled, “Does Trump even want to win this Race?”, I am keenly aware of two things; First, that the writer, editor and the paper, all lack any sense of reverence or respect for the Office of the Presidency and, Second, that I can’t help but think President Trump is fully aware of the insurmountable odds he is facing.
I wonder if Conservatives – of all stripes are yet ready to lay aside differences of opinion to join a united effort to delay what seems inevitable, and gain us a few more years living under the umbrella of Individual protection granted us by the men who preceded us; who sacrificed their families, their lives, their fortunes that their progeny might live as Free Men with the Divine Right to Self-Determination?

Elections past and conversations present do not give me any comfort as the divisions amongst us seem as unhealing as the division between Constitutionalists, and the Anarchists.

November 3rd and 4th, will be very telling. In the meantime I pray for that Businessman from New York with the crass manner and bully personality who thus far has thwarted the efforts of the DC machine to own him.

After all; that is why we voted for him to begin with!

Semper Fi;

John Bernard

Obama's COIN War on Americans versus Russia's Alleged Bounty

On the question of whether or not the Russians may have in effect paid a bounty to Afghans to kill American Troops; I find it incredibly convenient that Democrats in Congress have found a sudden sense of righteous indignation for the abuse, mistreatment and killing of American War Fighters that was entirely absent under the Obama Administration.

For his entire 8 years as President, Obama abdicated as CiC over our entire War Fighting community having forced the hand of his complicit Pentagon and Joint Chiefs; placing a priority on the lives of foreign mus-lims in the battle space while placing American War Fighters at undo risk to the point of death - and incarceration due to the unrealistic and suicidal application of the historically failed COIN Doctrine.

1.      COIN, is a self inflicted, fatal wound ordered by President Obama.

2.      Russian bounties, is an act by foreign actors not precipitated by President Trump.

3.      The former is an act of Treachery or even Treason committed by a sitting President;

4.      The latter is a hostile act perpetrated by foreign actors.

Democrats in Congress have once again proven their only concern is for the regaining of absolute political power - not the well-being of the American War Fighter - or that of the security of the Nation!

Anyone buying into this newest narrative is either astoundingly ignorant of recent history - or complicit in this latest act by Congressional Democrats to turn public opinion in favor of a full-blown Socialist take over of government.

But make no mistake; concern for the US Marine, Soldier, Sailor and Airman, is NOT part of this latest Democrat narrative!

History and a long list of people like me who wrote incessantly on the subject of COIN's unmitigated, colossal, absolute failure as a battle space strategy; our meetings with Congressional actors, attendance on radio shows, speeches, travels and endless efforts afforded these same treacherous, Democrat plants the opportunity to understand the horror and historical failures of this satanic and homicidal strategy but they remained silent;

Because they, did, not, care; in the same way they do not care by this sudden seeming concern, for the American War Fighter.

This is not even about using the lives of War Fighters as pawns - we do not even factor into any vile equation they have assembled to further their goals....it is only about spewing a narrative in an effort to raise a furor amongst the equally ignorant Electorate and turn voting efforts to their demonic and treacherous goal of obtaining absolute power; given to them by an all too easily manipulated voting base.

I do not know if the Russian government or some rogue element within Russian government orchestrated or indeed promoted the killing of Americans by way of a Bounty; time will tell.

But I do know that President Obama, with his Democratic Congressional allies coerced the Spineless Joint Chiefs and G-Grade community into relenting to his twisted loyalties to foreigners, to then implement a Battlefield Strategy that has failed every single time it has been employed and has as a bonus, increased the American body count, and lost us anything resembling a Victory - or Resolution!

If you vote for a Democrat, you are a part of the problem - and no friend to the American War Fighter.

It is time to consider exactly what it is you believe in and what it is you hope to achieve by the casting of your vote.

To all those self-righteous "Conservatives" who intend to not vote or write in some other name as some kind of perverse form of political protest; you too are contributing to the probable future destruction of the lives of American War Fighters.

The Political, Moral and Constitutional battle lines could not be more clearly defined than they are this year; there is no ambiguity. There is only clarity of vision. Lives and the continuation of this Nation as a Constitutional Republic lay in the balance. 

Congressional Democrats with their situational ethics on full display this week with this latest accusation have most clearly established the battle line.

Which side are you on?

Semper Fidelis

John Bernard