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In April of 2024, public functionaries from both political parties used over 12,000 unreadable words to put restrictions, requirements, certifications, prohibitions, limitations and then exceptions on FISA.

Why can’t these temporarily-seated public functionaries understand that this doesn’t “Reform Intelligence and Secure America,” as its name implies, it rather expands their usurpation of our Fourth Amendment right to security of person and papers and represents a violation of their limited delegated authorities granted to them by We the People?

Has anyone actually read the original FISA legislation introduced on May 18, 1977, by the late Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 that includes approximately 49,000 words?

I didn’t think so.

When I tried to read it, the first thing that jumped out at me, as my eyes were glossing over the “Definitions” outlined on page 1 of this “Act” (that includes 804 Sections), was that “Foreign power” includes being “a faction of a foreign nation or nations, not substantially composed of United States persons.”

Not substantially composed of United States persons (So, in other words, there can be a couple of U. S. “persons,” that “compose” a foreign power)? I don’t get it, and I don’t like it.

United States persons?  According to the definition found on Page 1,443 of 22 USC 6010, a United States person includes: “any United States citizen or alien admitted for permanent residence in the United States, and any corporation, partnership, or other organization organized under the laws of the United States.”

I wonder if the definition of alien admitted for permanent residence in the United States includes the 2014 estimated 12 million illegal aliens who have “unlawfully” admitted themselves “for permanent residence in the United States?” (this original commentary pointed to a 2014 Homeland Security data analysis that is no longer available, which, by the way, excluded refugees, asylum seekers and non-immigrants). A Report from 2014 published on the Federation for American Immigration Reform website confirms that same 12 million illegal alien estimate.

The more recent numbers, according to FAIR, states that as of 2023 that number has increased to 16.8 million illegal aliens living in the United States.

So, what are our public functionaries doing to uphold their Oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution that was written to Secure the Rights of the lawful residents of these United States? 

Well, on January 17, 2024, they passed House Resolution 957 that “denounced” the White House occupier (usurper) Joe Biden’s administration’s “open-border policies.” HR 957 also “condemns” the “national security and public safety crisis” created by White House vice-occupier usurper (Comrade) Kamala and her co-horts in the DHS and other departments, and HR 957 “urges” Biden to “end his open-border policies.”

Urges? Condemns? Denounces?

How about using delegated authority to throw the bums out of office and into prison for aiding and abetting enemies of our Republic?

The words of these elected and appointed government workers ring hollow when they don’t use their constitutionally provided tools to put a stop to this invasion of our country and to remove this treasonous regime of usurpers and their invading marauders from the bowels of our Republic.

I also find it interesting that the mammoth United States Code is listed on a U. S. Government Publishing website with the byline: Keeping America Informed.  Indeed. Informed of what? The growing Behemoth of Big Government?

The task of attempting to “be informed” about the myriad legalese and loopholes that comprise the revolutionization of our Rule of Law is monumental and, quite frankly, impossible to accomplish (there is little doubt that is the usurpers’ goal).

It would do us well to examine some of the additional myriad words, acronyms, clamps, bells and whistles relative to the groundbreaking (or earth shattering) legislation known as FISA written by the so-called “Lion” of the Senate (or was that “Lyin” - as in what I thought about his cowardly, self-serving self-defense regarding his culpability in the untimely, tragic death of Mary Jo Kopechne at the bottom of Poucha Pond on July 18, 1969). But, I digress.

What is FISA, and what are some of the many ways that our public functionaries have usurped our Fourth Amendment cast-in-stone protection against unwarranted searches and seizures?

Well, there is the Terrorist Surveillance Actions developed during the G.W. Bush administration (2001-2009) that are detailed in a New York Times article entitled Bush Let’s U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts written by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, both with extensive backgrounds in writing about U.S. National Security issues.

This Administrative-State-beauty-of-countless-words identified as Terrorist Surveillance Actions was a part of The President’s Surveillance Program which included the warrantless surveillance program with the code name Stellar Wind.

Apparently, at the time, the GWB administration joined the late Senator Kennedy in ignoring the Supreme court majority decision in Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967).

And they all ignored the Supreme court (8-0) unanimous decision in United States v. United States District Court, No. 70-153 (known as Keith) (1972).

NOTE: For reasons unknown, “Mr. Justice Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of (Keith).” Why aren’t the American people informed of the rationale behind Mr. Rehnquist being MIA?  I'm just askin.'

It is more important to NOTE that both of these cases concurred that wiretapping was indeed included as a violation of our Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless searches and seizures.

Then there’s

1. The Privacy Act of 1974 (which is 8,253 words long);
2. The Protect America Act of 2007 (2,557 words); 
3. The USA Patriot Act which is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (doncha know). (61,154 words); and 
4. The USA Freedom Act which of course is an acronym for ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015’ (20,950 words).

This is name only a few examples of the on-going usurpation of our Fourth Amendment.

All numbers shown in this commentary are approximate, but, I would bet a huge amount of taxpayers’ fiat currency that nobody has read any of these so-called “laws” in their entirety!

I am also beginning to wonder if any of our temporarily-seated public functionaries have read the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution.  If you, yourself, haven’t looked at our Constitution lately, here are those 54 specific words that comprise the Fourth Amendment:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

What’s that old advertising campaign slogan?  You’ve come a long way, baby? Indeed we have, and if I remember correctly, that ad campaign was about women smoking. Oh, great. You know that the devil is always in the details (sort of like Alexander Hamilton’s unheeded warning in Federalist 84 about adding a Bill of Rights to our Constitution at all, for fear of the usurpers regulating that which is written but never granted to the federal government in the first place).

Alas, it seems that buggy has left the station, probably never to be seen again. In fact, considering the current cache of usurpers posing as public functionaires in this country, if we were to try to eliminate the Bill of Rights in 2024 (God forbid), it would, no doubt, be couched in some big government takeover of even more aspects of our Lives and Liberty.

I wouldn’t doubt that for one big fat legislative minute.

So, as the story goes, the people continue to ratify these actions by complying with them, while our government takes our very specific 54 word limitation upon their power to violate our private domain, and they strip the very essence of our constitutionally-sound protection rug right out from under our feet.

Many people in this country believe that this type of lawless usurpation of our individual Liberty must be stopped. You can check out for yourself the myriad (also unreadable) online opinion pieces that have been written through the years since The battle of FISA Vs the Fourth first began its fateful journey in 1978 (not to mention the grief our de jure President Donald J. Trump is experiencing even today as a result of the lawfare that branches ever outward when we don't protect our rights).

We the People can yet restore constitutional limitations built in to our “republican form of government guaranteed to each State” under Article 4 Section 4 of our Constitution that was written by men who were much more keenly aware of the potential tyranny of the Deep State than we seem to be … the key word here is yet … It’s FISA (153,914 words and counting) versus the Fourth Amendment (54 specific fixed words).

Team Republic is advocating for the underdog Fourth. Our Magnificent Republic already has the legal and lawful tools to demand that our public functionaries adhere to our Founding Principles.

You should join us and help us educate the American populace on the simple truth that The Law Is On Our Side (TLIOOS – here's an acronym for the government bureaucrat busy-bodies who might find their way to the Magnificent Republic).  All are welcome.

 

Janice Daniels (commentary first written in 2014; updated to present form in 2024 because the situation has only gotten worse).

 

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Congress shall make no law abridging the right to FREE SPEECH - Period.

A modern day heroine from The Great State of Tennessee has posted a brilliant expose that clarifies the strict constitutional requirements for a person to be eligible for the office of The US Presidency called ...

HERE WE GO AGAIN.....Kamala IS NOT A Natural Born Citizen and therefore not eligible no matter how the constitutionally illiterate wants to distort the facts; the fact are the facts

Magnificent Republic has reprinted her article in it's entirety, unedited, as written with links intact:

“On every question of construction, (Let us) carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson obviously knew people would stray from the original intent in order to fit a political narrative)

Well the Kamala supporters are running damage control for Kamala Harris as they did for Obama and their arguments do not hold up to the facts. The fact that Kamala is not a natural born citizen is starting to circulate and the left must shut down the truth and of course they are calling anyone that says she is not eligible is a “racist.” That is the lefts favorite word to shut people up even when speaking the truth. So the left is using 2 parts of the Constitution to “prove” that Kamala is eligible for the offices of VP and President. But there is a bit of a reading comprehension issue among the constitutionally illiterate. Plus they do not know the history of the Constitution and have obviously never read the Federalist Papers (which explain the Amendments) or the debates that took place back during the formation of the Constitution.

1. They claim Article II Sec. 1 of the Constitution which says: Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President” proves that Kamala is eligible due to the word CITIZEN in Article II, Section 1. But they conveniently fail to recognize 9 little words that follow: “at the time of the adoption of this Constitution” it does not say AFTER the adoption of the Constitution. This was a grandfather clause for our founders.

Quote from Joanna Martin, J.D (pen name Publius Huldah).: Remember! None of our early Presidents were “natural born Citizens”, even though they were all born here. They were all born as subjects of the British Crown. They became naturalized citizens with the Declaration of Independence. That is why it was necessary to provide a grandfather clause for them. The eligible citizens they speak of in Art. II Sec. 1 were our founding fathers and it pertains to no one else.

2. Then they cite the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment has 2 parts in the meaning of citizen and it is the 2nd part people conveniently elect to ignore (“and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” which will be covered later in this post) Do you see the words NATURAL BORN CITIZEN in the 14th Amendment? No, you do not. It clearly says CITIZEN. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War to give citizenship to the recently freed slaves. There is clearly a difference between being a citizen and being a natural born citizen because our Constitution makes it obvious. To be a member of Congress one of the requirements is that you only need to be a CITIZEN but in Article. II Sec. 1 in order to be VP or President you must be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. The Constitution is a COMPACT/CONTRACT between the federal government and the states and the people of the states. It is NOT a living document that changes with the times. It is today what it was when it was originally written as are all contracts. Except for those that wish to make it fit an agenda by ignoring the original intent. SO, lets look at the meaning of NBC at the time of our founders.

In respect to the facts below... two legal conditions are critical to the matter

1. The meaning of a word or term that appears in any legal document, in this case, the US Constitution Article II, is the meaning at the time of the adoption, not the meaning 248 years later after decades of word-smithing by "experts" intent upon undermining the meaning and purpose of the term via politically motivated opinions.

2. The true meaning must be consistent with the true intent of the word or term, as it existed at the time of the adoption. The NBC term was placed in Article II for a very specific reason and purpose, which is known due to the recording of history at the time the term was placed in Article II as a condition for the highest political office in our land. The source of the term as it was added to Article II is also clearly recorded in history, The Law of Nations.

All three of the definitions below are "natural born Citizens" under The Law of Nations (a book used by our founders to help in the construction of our founding documents)

1. The natural offspring of a legal U.S. Citizen Father.

2. The natural offspring of a legal U.S. Citizen Father and Mother.

3. The natural offspring of a legal U.S. Citizen Father and Mother, born on American soil.

While all three of the above birth circumstances qualify as a "natural born Citizen" in the USA, they all meet the definition and purpose of the Article II NBC clause because in all three cases, the child is born to a legal U.S. Citizen Father.

1. “As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.” – Section 212

2. “The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent.” – Section 212

3. “I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.” – Section 212

4. “These are a kind of citizens of an inferior order, and are united to the society without participating in all its advantages. Their children follow the condition of their fathers;” Section 213 pertaining to “inhabitants” or foreigners allowed by the state to settle and stay in the country. - END

As you can see in the days of our founders natural born citizenship was conveyed from FATHER to the children regardless of place of birth.

People can have their own opinion or lies but they cannot make up the own truth. Again, the constitutionally illiterate have not done their historical research. They are passing on the lies TOLD to them about the Constitution in order to push an agenda. Some members of Congress have tried 8 times to have the NBC requirement removed from the Constitution. The last time was when Obama was a Senator and of course he voted for the removal. Gee, I wonder why? He knew and those that supported the attempt to remove that requirement knew Obama was not a NBC and where he was born (if they truly understood the Constitution) was not the issue. The REAL issue was his father was a British subject. Both of Kamala’s parents were in the US on TEMPORARY foreign student Visa’s when Kamala was born. She is not eligible, nor was Obama, Haley, Ramaswamy, Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, Shiva.

HERE (Babies Don’t Provide Anchors) is a short article which includes a link to the US Senate debates of 1866 (go to the center column and start reading under the subheading of RECONSTRUCTION to the end of the 3rd column. The US Senate debate of 1866 explains the meaning of citizen very clearly. As Joanna Martin (retired JAG lawyer and a REAL constitutional expert) stated it is “fascinating.” You see you cannot understand the Constitution unless you learn the history of its creation and the meaning of the contract at the time the contract was written. A contract is NOT a living document and that pertains to all contracts. Read and comprehend clearly.

If you are truly interested in the truth PLEASE also read the article below that was linked in the article above. LINKED ARTICLE 1 (Birthright Citizenship and Dual Citizenship: Harbingers of Administrative Tyranny) by Edward Erler of Hillsdale College.

Here is an important excerpt from that article which refers to the US Senate Debate of 1866

Senator Lyman Trumbull, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, rose to support his colleague, arguing that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else and being subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States.” Jurisdiction understood as allegiance, Senator Howard interjected, excludes not only Indians but “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” Thus “subject to the jurisdiction” does not simply mean, as is commonly thought today, subject to American laws or American courts. It means owing exclusive political allegiance to the U.S. PLEASE take the time to read the US Senate Debate of 1866 above. This is just an excerpt.

Here is an excerpt from another article written by Joanna Martin (The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew which is also included as a link in Babies Don't Provide Anchors) regarding definitions:

Word Definitions:

Like clouds, word meanings change throughout time.  “Awful” once meant “full of wonder and reverence”; “cute” meant “bowlegged”; “gay” meant “jovial”; and “nice” meant “precise”.

Accordingly, if someone from an earlier time wrote of a “cute gay man”, he was not referring to an adorable homosexual, but to a cheerful bowlegged man.

So!  In order to understand the genuine meaning of a text, we must use the definitions the authors used when they wrote it.  Otherwise, written texts become as shifting and impermanent as the clouds – blown hither and yon throughout the years by those who unthinkingly read in their own uninformed understandings, or deliberately pervert the text to further their own agenda.

So!  Is Our Constitution built on the Rock of Fixed Definitions – those our Framers used?  Or are its Words mere clouds to be blown about by Acts of Congress, whims of federal judges, and the idiotic notions of every ignoramus who writes about it?

PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE THAT YOU CONSIDER IS CONSTITUTIONALLY ILLITERATE - Help them learn the truth and dispel the lies.

The End

NOTE: 

Our fundamental right to free speech cannot be abridged PERIOD 

 

One of the greatest Whistleblowers of our time is James O'Keefe, but there seems to be a growing trend to spill the beans on the Deep State.  We thank each and every person who stands up and boldly proclaims the truth against all odds.  We salute some publicized Whistleblowers in the month of September of 2024. May God continue to bless our Magnificent Republic.

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On January 10, 1776, a pamphlet called "Common Sense" was anonymously published in Philadelphia.  Written by Thomas Paine, it argued the reasons why the American colonists should govern themselves. The time has arrived for "Common Sense II" and it has been written. 

America is based upon the world’s greatest success formula. In 120 years, this formula allowed six percent of the human family to become the richest industrial nation on earth. They created more than half the world’s production and enjoyed the highest standard of living in history. Americans became a generous people. No nation ever shared so much. Even when money was loaned to other countries, we often forgave the debt. The Founders found no government giving its people freedom, prosperity and peace. So they invented one. The American formula was a restoration of what Jefferson called the “Ancient Principles.”

See Founding Principles and Civic Virtues and Vices.

Even so, it was difficult to fit into a constitution. They swept away centuries of bad government to formulate a new structure based upon principles of human freedom. After several thousand years, the American charter of Liberty became the first successful attempt to build a whole civilization on the principles of freedom. Many of the Founders described the result a “miracle.” They agreed it required a number of coinciding circumstances. A homogenous population, a common language, a common set of basic beliefs, a number of remarkable leaders. All of these together produced the miracle which became America. Americans became the first free people in modern times. And Now After the first 120 years (1896) things began to change.

Government became larger and freedom smaller. Perhaps life was too easy. And perhaps, the American People were being misled by the FAKE NEWS of the Day

After the second 120 years (2016), the country is heading towards calculated and manufactured failure. If the destroyers of Liberty succeed then freedom will be lost. At the moment of this writing, Donald Trump claims to understand the problem and insists he can fix it. What do you think? Can he do it? Quickly enough?

The United States government …

• has 22 million employees (as of 2022) See Number of Governmental Employees In the US 

• has a budget of 7 trillion dollars (as of 2020) See Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go?

• has our National Debt at at astronomically obscene 35 trillion (2024) and counting 

BUT, We the People need a license to own a dog, drive a car, work, fish or hunt.

Can we call that Freedom?

Our Founding Fathers expected the Constitution to be strictly interpreted. They knew it would adapt itself to changing times. The Constitution that they gave us dispersed power among the people and put chains on the excessive ambition and frailties of human nature. The Founding Fathers were committed to building a civilization that could become a model for the rest of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson said, “ . . . even when government shall tend to degeneracy, do not despair, . . . the watchfulness of its sounder parts will reform its aberrations, recall it to original principles, and restrain it within the rightful limits of self government.” Quote from "The solemn Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the principles of the Constitution of the US. of America & on the violations of them, December 24, 1825.

America breathed hope into the restless and oppressed in Europe. As the new country was beginning, people of all classes and nationalities were beginning to anticipate great possibilities in the new and exciting future of America. One such person was the French judge and political writer, Alexis de Tocqueville. He had spent two years in America. In 1848, he said, “For 60 years, they have increased in opulence. It is found to have been, not only the most prosperous, but the most stable of all the nations on the earth.” “ . . . the principles on which American constitutions rest, principles of order, of the balance of powers, of true liberty, of deep and sincere respect for right, are indispensable to all republics.” NOTE: Tocqueville did the American Republic a great disservice by naming his book "Democracy in America." By doing so, he completely ignored the Founding Fathers intent to "form a more perfect Union" by clearly stating that "Every State Shall Be Guaranteed a REPUBLICAN Form of Government in Article 4, Section 4 of the United States Constitution."

William E. Gladstone, Prime Minster of England said, “It is the greatest piece of work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man”. 

Since the government was to be of the People, by the People and for the People, it will be up to the People to preserve it. It will be essential to be an “informed electorate.” Nothing is more remarkable about the early leaders than the breadth of reading and depth of knowledge concerning the essential elements of sound nation building.

Why should we study the Founders’ success formula? Because our ship of state is far out to sea, being tossed about in stormy waters. They thought we had all the tools needed for success. They would be alarmed to see how many of those tools have been usurped. The leap in modern technology is thrilling, but if humans get too far from basic cultural and spiritual moorings, our promising future could end badly. We must regain our footing, and begin exporting our formula for freedom, prosperity and peace to the rest of the world. It is what the Founders expected of us.

Discovery of the Ancient Principles Although Jefferson may have been the first to mention the Ancient Principles, many others were searching also. James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and others, were profound scholars and widely read. They all tried to put it together in the Constitution. They all felt their challenge was to find some method of structuring government which could eliminate usurpation and public functionaries who operate outside their limited delegated authority. Enough government to ensure order and justice, but not so much it would abuse the people. They had to set up a system where there was enough government, but not too much.

The American Founders knew they were pioneering new territory. In the past, 99% of humans had lived under a Ruler’s Law. We The People Must Continue This Work So That We The People Can Keep The Republic That Has Been Given Us.

MAKE JUSTICE BE DONE SO LIBERTY REIGNS FOREVER

"The power under the constitution will always be in the people. It is intrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and, whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can and undoubtedly will be recalled." - Letter to Bushrod Washington, November 10, 1787."  -George Washington.

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controuls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controul the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to controul itself. A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary controul on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” Federalist Paper No. 51 6 February 1788 James Madison with Alexander Hamilton. 

"I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ...should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being". NOTE: Although unable to find exact source of this quote, here is a complete list of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.

"Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes;"  Thomas Jefferson: Bill 79, "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge."  circa 1778 

Our History In the Beginning According to Barlett's Familiar Quotations, Sir Edmond Burke said "People will not look forward to prosperity who never look backward to their ancestors" From Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790.