Is Positivism the same as being positive? I have watched the trends of unmoral manipulation in sciences over the last thirty years to the point that Science is Not Science any longer. I have a science background. I speak to the details of my hard science and soft science past on the program. What I discuss in this program is a more simple explanation regarding the politicalization and rationalization of funding for amoral science, especially at the federal level – A hint is: the resurgence of logical positivism.
I open this weeks program with a sincere apologies to Pastor John MacArthur for my program on 8-15-20 titled “John MacArthur – Too Little Too Late.’
Next is the discussion between coherent Rants and those of pundits who strike an emotional note but often do nothing to bring the listener to a means of self-governance, be it personal, family, work, or governing in our Republic.
Lastly in this episode of Apologies, Rants and Reason; Reason is qualified from the point of Founder’s Intent. I bring you to the Introduction of the Epilogue: Securing the Republic in Volume One of The Founders Constitution. Continue reading →
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Lack of Election Integrity, Mandates causing Mental Illness while being sanctioned by Malevolent Law.
Election Integrity
I take a hard jab at the Ohio Secretary of State (SOS) since he has not been as forthcoming as he promised during his campaign for the title. He is a former Special Forces member and should know that his Oath is eternally binding yet, he is a ‘never Trumper’ so he is playing the tune of a quasi-conservative / establishment repudican. I’ve see the data and Ohio is not as pure as he insists it is. The Ohio SOS needs to lead in Integrity, one definition is: internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data, regarding the voting machines in every county. But, does he have ears to hear and act on truth?
Sheepdogs and Prophets came to me as I finished re-enacting Sam Adams at a Liberty Camp for kids and listening to a couple vblogs (see the References) by Doug Wilson. One of the key learning words at Liberty Camp this year is ‘Sheepdogs.’ The intent is to teach the students, during this week long day camp that they are Patriots that walk among those who meander and follow the whims of life while the wolves which despise our Republic are out to devour our Republic.
While facilitating my two Constitutional Classes this week and catching up on some Doug Wilson vblogs, it hit me that there is a correlation between Sheepdogs and Prophets. Now to the most astute Biblical scholar this comparison might seem nonsensical but, to those of us who take a simple direct approach, it makes perfect sense.
I have the great honor to interview Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely. I prefer that he describes his past and present service to our Republic during the first part of the program. But if don’t know who he is and want to read about him, here is the link to the bio of Maj. Gen. Vallely.
When I proposed a topic to Gen Vallely this is what was on my mind, ‘What is going on with commissars in the military (O’Biden CRT training even into special forces as well as continuing the Obama era cultural revolution in the military)?’
This week my focus is on the Subversion that has been occurring for decades in education and is now the full blown Marxist push via CRT. Now CRT is not new, it is right out of the 1930’s Frankfurt School. With that in mind, there are a lot of pundits out there that are loudly blasting CRT for what it is. This program brings it home to Ohio as an example for every State in the Nation.
One key element to understand is that the subversion is insidious by virtue of the vocabulary woven into every subject taught in schools. The acronym CRT is the tip of the iceberg in how the real language has word definition manipulation throughout the educational system. What that means is that your school or board of education may claim no CRT is in the district BUT – ask to see the curriculum and you will find every buzzword of Critical Theory in every subject taught. Continue reading →
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This very day, as over the last one hundred years, Original Intent regarding the interpretation and implementation of the Federal Constitution has been the Federalist Papers. To some extent, like myself, the Anti-federalist Papers are a source for reflection on the predictive pitfalls in human nature that would cause the rise of tyranny and despotism from within execution of the Federal Constitution.
Then the phone call comes last week. It was my friend G. R. Mobley. During the call we discussed my tagline, ‘the Anti-federalist Got It Right,’ to which I ensured G. R. that this tagline is referencing the predictiveness of their writings in relationship to our present time. With that settled, G. R. suggested that I remember the State Ratifying Conventions. Wow, I hadn’t read those in a while.
To have me remember the fact that these debates fundamentally established ‘Original Intent,’ G. R. quoted Madison:
I have recd. yours of the 8th. instant on the subject of the proceedings of the convention of 1787.
It is true as the public has been led to understand, that I possess materials for a pretty ample view of what passed in that Assembly. It is true also that it has not been my intention that they should for ever remain under the veil of secrecy. Of the time when it might be not improper for them to see the light, I had formed no particular determination. In general it had appeared to me that it might be best to let the work be a posthumous one, or at least that its publication should be delayed till the Constitution should be well settled by practice, & till a knowlege of the controversial part of the proceedings of its framers could be turned to no improper account. Delicacy also seemed to require some respect to the rule by which the Convention “prohibited a promulgation without leave of what was spoken in it”; so long as the policy of that rule could be regarded as in any degree unexpired. As a guide in expounding and applying the provisions of the Constitution, the debates and incidental decisions of the Convention can have no authoritative character. However desirable it be that they should be preserved as a gratification to the laudable curiosity felt by every people to trace the origin and progress of their political Institutions, & as a source perhaps of some lights on the Science of Govt. the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd. all the authority which it possesses.
Such being the course of my reflections I have suffered a concurrence & continuance of particular inconveniences for the time past, to prevent me from giving to my notes the fair & full preparation due to the subject of them. Of late, being aware of the growing hazards of postponements, I have taken the incipient steps for executing the task; and the expediency of not risking an ultimate failure is suggested by the Albany publication from the notes of a N. York member of the Convention. I have not seen more of the volume than has been extracted into the newspapers, but it may be inferred from these samples, that it is not only a very mutilated but a very erroneous edition of the matter to which it relates. There must be an entire omission also of the proceedings of the latter period of the Session from which Mr. Yates & Mr. Lansing withdrew in the temper manifested by their report to their Constituents: the period during which the variant & variable opinions, converged & centered in the modifications seen in the final act of the Body.
It is my purpose now to devote a portion of my time to an exact digest of the voluminous materials in my hands. How long a time it will require, under the interruptions & avocations which are probable I can not easily conjecture. Not a little will be necessary for the mere labour of making fair transcripts. By the time I get the whole into a due form for preservation I shall be better able to decide on the question of publication.4 As to the particular place or press, shd. this be the result, I have not as must be presumed, turned a thought to either: nor can I say more now than that your letter will be kept in recollection, & that should any other arrangement prevail over its object, it will not proceed from any want of confidence esteem or friendly dispositions; of all which I tender you sincere assurances.
OK, G. R. did not read the whole quote but had me focus on ‘if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd. all the authority which it possesses.’
Yet Madison knew that Hamilton and Chief Justice Marshall had already turned the Original Intent of the States in Ratification on their heads toward the Federalists desires for a consolidated federal government.
Consider this from a 2006 article in the William and Mary Law Review titled ‘Tucker’s Rule”: St. George Tucker And The Limited Construction Of Federal Power By Kurt T. Lash:
‘…Along the way, Story seemingly dismantled prior states’ rights interpretations of federal power, particularly St. George Tucker’s theory of strict construction from his View of the Constitution of the United States.’ In writing his Commentaries, Story sought to put the final nail in the coffin of the older “compact theory” of the Constitution.71 Under compact theory, which viewed the document as emanating from the several states instead of a unitary “People” of the United States, any grant of power to the federal government should be narrowly construed to preserve the independence of the sovereign states.82 As an alternative theory, Story cited Chief Justice Marshall’s “forcibly stated” opinion in McCulloch93 and his own reasoning in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee,104 which declared “[t]he constitution of the United States … was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by the people of the United States.”115 Instead of strict construction, Story’s reading of the Constitution called for a broad construction of federal powers in order to best serve the (national) purposes of the sovereign people of the United States.126
Fortunately the story does not end with Story. The States began a series of proposed amendments as a backlash. They wanted to check this federal centric court. But we will deal with this more in another Episode.
Economy Over Liberty devalues Original Intent
At our present time we are not just embroiled in the ideological mayhem of socialism and outright communism in the executive branch, courts and the legislature, but more so, the philosophy of ‘commercial republicanism’ is holding the truth of the Original Intent of Constitutionalism by the envy to be like Warren Buffet, except most folks don’t want to support leftist. The point is that Hamilton in his play to force a consolidated government by eliminating the sovereignty of the States, established what we see from the Buffetts, Gates and Sillycon Valley oligarchs. Oh, there are others of the Davos kind that do not want populism of the Jeffersonian republicanism model.
To this I have to slow down and have you listen to the program since I will introduce you to the collaborative efforts of Madison and Jefferson to halt the ‘commercial republicanism’ of Hamilton, Story and Chief Justice Marshall.
Source: Study.com, 19 November 2012, study.com/academy/lesson/hamilton-and-the-federalists-vs-jefferson-and-the-republicans.html
In other words, our present time is not just seeing the implementation of socialism and radical Marxism but the door was open to these political economic ideologies because we allowed ‘commercial republicanism’ to reign in these United States for over 100 years. In the mirrors of history this IS the Hamiltonian philosophy of constitutionalism coming to fruition.
To get the rest of the story, keep coming back as I will unravel the mystery of Original Intent via the States Ratifying Conventions and…. Maybe I can get G. R. Mobley to join me for some intense conversation on how to drain the swamps.
Sam Adams’ Wisdom
TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. JANUARY 16, 1795.
‘…Those who wish to persuade the world to believe, that a free representative Republic cannot be supported, will no doubt make use of every art to injure, and by degrees to alter, and finally to eradicate the principles of our free Constitutions: But the virtuous and enlightened citizens of this Commonwealth, and of all united America, have understanding and firmness, sufficient to support those Constitutions of Civil Government which they have themselves formed, and which have done them so much honor in the estimation of the world.
It is with pain that I mention the insurrection which has lately taken place in a sister state.17 It was pointed more immediately at an act of the Federal Government. An act of that government, as well as of the governments in the Union, is constitutionally an act of the people, and our Constitutions provide a safe and easy method to redress any real grievances. No people can be more free under a Constitution established by their own voluntary compact, and exercised by men appointed by their own frequent suffrages. What excuse then can there be for forcible opposition to the laws? If any law shall prove oppressive in its operation, the future deliberations of a freely elective Representative, will afford a constitutional remedy. But the measures adopted by The President of the United States, supported by the virtue of citizens of every description, in that, and the adjacent states, have prevailed, and there is an end of the insurrection. Let the glory be given to Him, who alone governs all events, while we express the just feelings of respect and gratitude due to all those, whom He honours as instruments to carry into effect his gracious designs.’
Kurt T. Lash, “Tucker’s Rule”: St. George Tucker and the Limited Construction of Federal Power, 47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1343 (2006), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol47/iss4/8
7. Lloyd, Gordon, “The Philosophical Case for the Commercial Republic” (2017). Pepperdine University, School of Public Policy Working Papers. Paper 65. https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/sppworkingpapers/65
2 8. See G. EDWARD WHITE, 3-4 HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: THE MARSHALL COURT AND CULTURAL CHANGE 1815-1835, at 487-90 (1988) (discussing nineteenth-century compact theory); see also H. Jefferson Powell, The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 HARV. L. REv. 885, 927-35 (1985) (describing compact theory and its historical basis).
5 11. 1 STORY, supra note 1, at 400 (quoting Martin, 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.) at 324); see also McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316,404-05 (1819) (“The government of the Union … is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.”).
I have the privilege to interview the Executive Producer/Creator/Writer and two of the actors in a new up and coming TV series titled ‘Declaration.’ It is a delight to speak with Victoria Keffer, the Executive Producer/Creator/Writer of Declaration. She is additionally a script writer and author with 23+ years’ of work including The Vicar Takes A Wife and Purple Sky Woman.
Our engaging conversation delves into the Why – ‘Declaration’ the TV program and What will it do to impact our culture and nation. Continue reading →
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I have now been searching for mechanisms for the Legal Restoration of Constitutionalism and True Federalism. I have yet to find an easy answer.
Frankly, Legal Restoration requires the Madison and J. Adams comment regarding Constitutionalism being ‘only for a moral and virtuous/religious people.’ And the village idiot can see that we are grossly in a far cry from moral or virtuous, let alone religious as a people. More so, throw 90% of the bureaucrats into the immoral oath breaking category and I’ll be kind, 87% of the politicians lumped in with the majority.
The Legal Restoration of Constitutionalism and True Federalism is your and my challenge. In this program I introduce you to the various writings in the references below that give background to everything in this program.
Quartering Troops for A Vile Congressional Oligarchy
Thank You and Introduction
Before delving into the mirrors of history regarding our present Vile Congressional Oligarchy, I want to thank all the great Patriots from the Ohio Freedom Fighters in Medina that had me speaking this past Wednesday. I look forward to another opportunity to visit with them in the future
As way of introduction to this weeks program regarding the Quartering of Troops for A Vile Congressional Oligarchy, I had intended to discuss De-Valued American Virtue – Vile Bile and Putrid Vomit. In this program I give the opening salvo of this being what the national virtue is. Continue reading →
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