Additional Note: I have an event to attend tonight, so I will not be present.
Tuesday, 6:00 pm, Bravos California Fresh at 31722 Rancho Viejo Road in San Juan Capistrano
(in the white tent area at the edge of the parking lot next to the restaurant)
Additional Note: I have an event to attend tonight, so I will not be present.
Tuesday, 6:00 pm, Bravos California Fresh at 31722 Rancho Viejo Road in San Juan Capistrano
(in the white tent area at the edge of the parking lot next to the restaurant)
Constitution Class on YouTube,
Tuesdays, 3:00 pm Pacific
Today: Introduction to the Bill of Rights
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Mr. Constitution Douglas V. Gibbs delivers a speech at Riverview Church in Bonsall, California...
BLM means Because Liberty Matters.
Tuesday Morning, 11:00 am, Fallbrook Constitution Class, Emmanuel Baptist Church, 911 E. Elder Street.
Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in the Month of May honoring and remembering those who died while serving in the U.S. Military. The Day was originally known as Decoration Day, on which the graves of the fallen from the War Between the States in various towns and cities were decorated with flowers and flags and visitors to the cemeteries recited prayers during the springtime tributes. In 1966 the federal government declared the 1866 celebration in Waterloo, New York to be the first, though nobody knows for sure, and May 5, 1868 General John Logan of an organization of Northern Civil War Veterans called for a countrywide designation of the 30th of May for the purpose of placing flowers and flags on the graves of those who died in the War Between the States.
On the first Decoration Day General James Garfield spoke at the Arlington National Cemetery where 5,000 people decorated the graves of the 20,000 War Between the States soldiers buried there.
By 1890 Decoration Day spread throughout the northern states. In the South the date for honoring the dead varied from State to State.
After World War I all of the States celebrated Decoration Day on May 30, and with the addition of more wars and more graves the day became known as Memorial Day. In 1968 Congress moved the day from May 30 to the final Monday in May and in 1971 declared it an official federal holiday.
The Revolutionary War veterans had their own memorials emerge. The Continental Congress authorized the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who died during an assault on December 31, 1775. The memorial was completed in 1778, and intended to be placed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, but instead was sent by Congress to New York City where, in 1788 it was installed beneath the portico of St. Paul’s Chapel, which served as George Washington’s church during his time in New York as President in 1789. The memorial remains on that site to this day. The body of General Montgomery was moved to St. Paul’s in 1818.Eleven veterans of the American Revolutionary War are buried at the Arlington National Cemetery, though they died after the end of the war. In 1905 the remains of 14 unknown soldiers from the War of 1812 were also reinterred at the cemetery in Arlington.
John Adams had his own version of Memorial Day which he described in a letter to his Wife Abigail on April 13, 1777. “I have spent an hour,” he wrote, “this morning in the congregation of the dead. I took a walk into the potter’s field, a burying ground between the new stone prison and the hospital, and I never in my whole life was affected with so much melancholy.” A local told Adams that 2,000 soldiers had been buried in the cemetery. About 6,800 men were killed in action for the cause of American independence. Another 17,000 soldiers died of disease during the war. A tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier stands at Potter’s Field where Adams had spent his day in 1777 honoring the dead. The memorial was created 14 years before Memorial Day became an official holiday. The plaque at the memorial behind the tomb reads, “Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness.”
As for my personal family history, all of my ancestors who fought in war came home alive. Veterans from the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the conflicts in the Middle East dot the landscape of my family history both past and present. I, myself, served in the United States Navy but during peacetime, only experiencing three scuffles with the enemy, twice with the Soviet Union, and once with Iranian gun boats. My Grandfather is buried at the Riverside National Cemetery. He served in the Army-Air Corps in World War II. He was in Europe, having volunteered immediately after Pearl Harbor. While mostly in France, he was once shot down over Italy and survived to tell the tale of working his way across the landscape back to friendly territory. All my life he rode a Greyhound bus. After being shot down he was not much fond of flying, anymore.I visit his grave when I can, and spend time with him on Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day each year.
Remember, Memorial Day is not Veteran’s Day. While veterans like myself appreciate the thank yous we receive for our service, the true meaning of Memorial Day is that we honor and remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for liberty. They paid with their life for the freedoms of people they had never met, and were likely more than willing to do so. For them I provide a respectful thank you, and a prayer from the deepest depths of my soul because I know that a thank you is great, but in truth no words can convey the gratitude I truly feel, and is deserved, for these great men who laid down their lives in the name of liberty.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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951-922-3532Topics on Today's program:
Lesson Two, Legislative Powers
6:00 pm. Wednesday Evening. Siggys Restaurant
26820 Jefferson Ave.
Murrieta
Handouts and Pocket Constitutions will be available on site.
Also, last week, at the end of class, a young "new" communist spent a couple hours debating me. I learned from the experience, and I will share with today's class those epiphanies.
Tuesday, 6:00 pm, Bravos California Fresh at 31722 Rancho Viejo Road in San Juan Capistrano
(in the white tent area at the edge of the parking lot next to the restaurant)
Constitution Class on YouTube,
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Today: Introduction to the Bill of Rights
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by Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
I was asked, "I wonder, if
the Founding Fathers were alive today, what they would think about what is
going on in our country."
After he named a few issues, like
health care, some of the social issues, and federal regulations regarding
banking, environmental issues, and education, I responded, "They would
ask, 'Why is the federal government involved in those issues in the first
place?'"
The federal government was
established to address external issues, and conflicts between the States, and
nothing more. Internal issues are
supposed to be handled by the corresponding local government, be it the State,
County or City (depending on the issue).
There is no constitutional authority expressly enumerated in the United
States Constitution giving to the federal government the power to dictate to
individuals regarding health care, to dictate to the States how they are to
enforce immigration laws internally, to influence in any way the education
standards used by individual communities or individual families, any regulatory
power against private industries or any authority allowing the federal
government to influence the job market in any way outside of the issuance of
the currency.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Chino Constitution Class
Monday Evening, 6:00 pm,
Archibald's, 15421 Fairfield Ranch Rd in Chino Hills (right off Central and the 71 Freeway)
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by Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
Why are the members of my family (wife, son, three grandchildren) sick now for over a week with a respiratory illness but I was over it in two days, and I am now fully functioning again?
Differences:
They wear masks often, I never have.
They have adopted the ritualistic overwashing of hands, I wash as needed (after toilet, prior to handling food, etc.).
They take no supplements. I take supplements including B12, Magnesium, D3, Cinnamon, Ginger Root, Zinc, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, and Apple Cider Vinegar daily (and doubled D3, C, and Zinc when I began to have symptoms).
They have specific places they go, only. I mix up my interactions with people daily, doing more than going to a workplace or school, and then holing up in the house, as do my family members. I am the one who goes to the grocery store, I teach six classes in four counties, I am the one who goes to the credit union, meets with people at restaurants and political events, and I am the one who shakes hands with various people.
The first and last on the list reveals that I allow my immune system to engage in constant combat. It is put out there and I expose myself to various things due to the nature of my interactions with other people and the public in general. Immune systems become stronger in combat, and weak when not used because of one locking down, refusing to interact, and hiding behind masks.
Just my opinion, of course, but I think the fact that I operate in a different way than the rest of my family contributed to me healthy response to the illness that has it our household.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
The move was based on the Enumeration Doctrine. Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does it expressly authorize any agency to handle legislative activities or judicial activities within the agency. According to Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution, all legislative powers (the powers to make law, modify law, and repeal law) belongs to the legislative body of government, which, at the federal level, is the United States Congress. One might argue that the legislatures gave the agency the authority to make rules and to hear any challenges or make rulings regarding rule-breaking. However, in Article I, Section 1 the word used regarding the legal transfer of legislative powers from the States to Congress is "vested," which means the authority cannot be given away by the legislative branch. As per the Separation of Powers doctrine, only the legislature can legislate, and they cannot legally hand those powers off to another branch of government.
The Enumeration Doctrine was also front and center regarding the recent "leak" regarding an abortion case involving the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, located in the City of Jackson. The leak included Justice Samuel Alito's judicial opinion that seemed to suggest that the case would ultimately reverse 1973s Roe v. Wade, the case that is considered as being the one that "legalized abortion" throughout the United States. The Democrats called the leak a dark day in the history of the United States.
The language in Alito's opinion basically says that Roe v. Wade was a mistake in the first place, not because of the moral implications or the religious arguments regarding the "landmark ruling", but because the Enumeration Doctrine didn't give the federal court system the authority to make the ruling in the first place.
"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the document labeled the "Opinion of the Court" for the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives."
Could this mean that the courts, with these two recent decisions, as the Supreme Court and the lower courts are currently judicially populated, are on their way back to a more constitutional foundation?
The Enumeration Doctrine is the basis of the idea of "limited government". Unlike national governments elsewhere in the world, the United States' Federal Government only has powers that are expressly enumerated in the Constitution. Otherwise, a power may be authorized to the States, instead. The concept of "localism" was central to the belief in having the Enumeration Doctrine, which means that local issues may only be legislated by local government. The Federal Government was designed to handle only external issues, such as war and trade with other countries, or issues directly affecting the union such as dispute between the States, or communication between the States (i.e. Post Office); as indicated by James Madison in Federalist Paper #45 and as established by the Tenth Amendment. Since "abortion" nor any health care or medical procedures are not expressly enumerated in the Constitution, whether it be the original seven articles, or any of the amendments, the federal government does not have the authority to legislate regarding abortion, much less allow the federal courts to rule on the issue. "Reproductive" issues belong to the States, and they, individually, may make laws regarding the issue as they see fit. While, as a strict constitutional constructionist, I would remind the States that unborn babies are "persons", and the Fourteenth Amendment specifically disallows any State to deprive any person of "life, liberty or property without due process," in the end just the fact that the Dobbs Case may prove to send the issue of abortion back to the States is a major win for the Enumeration Doctrine, the United States Constitution, and American Liberty in this modern age.
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951-922-3532Cleon Skousen wrote “The Naked Communist”. In that book he listed the 45 goals to destroy the United States of America.
Today's communist claims they are not a part of the past communist movement. They are not authoritarian, and they will even tell you that communists have never been in the U.S. political system and the Democrats are far from being communist.
I had a conversation with one of these "new communists" last Wednesday Night after my Constitution Class in Murrieta. Let's talk about my debate with the young man, and lets talk about how on Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read Skousen's list of 45 Communist goals and had them entered into the Congressional Record.
The List of 45:
1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. [Note: These encapsulate the Kennan Doctrine, which advocated for the "containment" of communism. Establishment figures supporting the amoral containment policy at least implicitly worked with the communists in scaring the wits out of the American people concerning atomic war. President Ronald Reagan undid the doctrine when he took an aggressive stand against the Evil Empire by backing freedom fighters from around the world that were struggling against the left-wing communist jackboot. As a result, the Soviet Union and its satellites imploded, a considerable and unexpected setback to the international communist edifice.]
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength." [Note: The nuclear freeze advocates supported a freeze on American nuclear development only. Rarely were Soviet nukes or those of other nations mentioned in their self-righteous tirades. The same advocates now call for reducing American military might, claiming that there is something immoral about America preserving its military pre-eminence in the world.]
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. [Note: Today, there are calls to end the embargo on the slave island of Cuba, there were complaints about the embargo against Iraq, and the U.S., not Saddam Hussein, was blamed for the suffering of the Iraqi people. Would they have advocated for free trade with Hitler and his National Socialist regime?]
5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. [Note: Such aid and trade over decades contributed greatly to the left-wing communist liquidation of over 100 million people worldwide, according to the well-documented "Black Book of Communism." This aid and trade marks a shameful chapter in American history. Without the aid and trade, the left-wing international communist behemoth would have imploded on its own rot a lot sooner and umpteen millions would have been saved from poverty, misery, starvation and death.]
7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N. [Note: Not only did President Nixon fulfill this goal but he also betrayed America’s allies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Iran, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere.]
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. [Note: There are still American intellectuals, and elected members of Congress, who dream of an eventual one world government and who view the U.N., founded by communists such as Alger Hiss, the first secretary-general, as the instrument to bring this about. World government was also the dream of Adolf Hitler and J.V. Stalin. World government was the dream of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers.]
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. [Note: While the idea of banning any political party runs contrary to notions of American freedom and liberty, notions that are the exact opposite of those held by the left-wing communists themselves, nevertheless these goals sought to undermine the constitutional obligation of Congress to investigate subversion. The weakening of our government’s ability to conduct such investigations led to the attack of 9/11.]
13. Do away with loyalty oaths. [Note: It is entirely proper and appropriate for our government to expect employees, paid by the American taxpayer, to take an oath of loyalty.]
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. [Note: In his book, "Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which communists and communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party. In his book, Schweizer writes about the presidential election of 1979.]
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. [Note: This strategy goes back to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union by Fabian Socialists Roger Baldwin and John Dewey and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn among others.]
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack. [Note:The success of these goals, from a communist perspective, is obvious. Is there any doubt this is so?]
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. [Note: This is the Gramscian agenda of the "long march through the institutions" spelled out explicitly: gradual takeover of the "means of communication" and then using those vehicles to debauch the culture and weaken the will of the individual to resist.]
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy." [Note: Today those few who still have the courage to advocate public morality are denounced and viciously attacked. Most Americans are entirely unwitting regarding the motives behind this agenda.]
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." [Note: This has been largely accomplished through the communist infiltration of the National Council of Churches, Conservative and Reform Judaism, and the Catholic seminaries.]
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. [Note: Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.]
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. [Note: The Soviets used to send "social misfits" and those deemed politically incorrect to massive mental institutions called gulags. The Red Chinese call them lao gai. Hitler called them concentration camps.]
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals. [Note: Psychiatry remains a bulwark of the communist agenda of fostering self-criticism and docility.]
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. [Note: Done! The sovereign family is the single most powerful obstacle to authoritarian control.]
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. [Note: Outcome-based education, values clarification or whatever they’re calling it this year.]
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems. [Note: This describes the dialectical fostering of group consciousness and conflict, which furthers the interests of authoritarianism.]
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.