A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF GREG KELLY’S “JUSTICE FOR ALL”: PREFATORY REMARKS
A MULTIPART ESSAY, PREPARED BY STEPHEN L. D’ANDRILLI, PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE ARBALEST GROUP, LLC., CREATOR OF THE ARBALEST QUARREL WEBSITE
PART ONE (UPDATED)
PREFATORY REMARKS
Kelly’s enthralling “Justice For All” has given me food for thought—and that is why I felt the need to review it.
I completed the book review and published it on my website, the Arbalest Quarrel (“AQ”), on October 29, 2023. My review is found at this link. https://arbalestquarrel.com/blog/greg-kellys-justice-for-alla-book-review-by-stephen-l-dandrilli
I expected the review of the book to be conventional and brief. I would explain the salient purpose and timeliness of it, assiduously remarking on the comprehensiveness, clarity, and cogency of the material in it. And I did this.
I worked a long time on it, giving it much thought, and I am pleased with the result. But was it enough? Was there not more I could and should have done concerning my review of Kelly’s book?
Why do I think I am not done with Kelly’s important work? It is for this reason——
We live in perilous times. Our Nation—in form, a Free Constitutional Republic—is teetering, hanging on by a thread. “Justice For All” is directed at discussing the stakes involved for our Nation, our Constitution, and our people. That came across as loud and clear.
This year, 2024, is unlike any other before it, apart from the year America’s Patriots went to war against TYRANNY.
AND——
THROUGH THE BRAVERY, NOBLE SELFLESSNESS, AND SACRIFICES OF AMERICA’S FIRST PATRIOTS, THEY DID SOMETHING TRULY REMARKABLE: THEY DEFEATED A POTENT FOE—THE BRITISH EMPIRE—THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME AND A MIGHTY EMPIRE.
BEFORE THIS NEW YEAR IS OUT, we Americans will face the possibility of the demise of our REPUBLIC, a remarkable achievement that AMERICA’S PATRIOTS GIFTED US AT NO SMALL COST AND RISK TO THEIR OWN LIFE AND WELL-BEING.
Given this inescapable and frightening fact, I delved into Kelly’s book for clues on how the forces that crush may bring down a TRULY Free Republic—unlike any other existing before or since.
THERE ARE FORCES INTENT ON OUR NATION’S DESTRUCTION.
Kelly knows this and I and my business partners at AQ know this.
This fact is known to most Americans if they bother to reflect on it. It is no secret except to those dense or naïve.
These forces are powerful, defiant, undeterred, intractable, and emboldened. This is reflected in the extent and intensity of the unconstitutional actions they have carried out against average Americans and against the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, both during the Trump Presidency and in the years since.
The RADICAL LEFT and their PROPAGANDISTS say Trump “Lost” the 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. BUT TRUMP DIDN’T LOSE THE ELECTION. IT WAS STOLEN.
Trump was well ahead of Biden AT AND JUST BEFORE 12:00 midnight DURING THE DAY OF THE ELECTION.
Yet, in the morning, news accounts say Biden squeaked ahead of Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and others.
What explains this—a delay in voting? If so, why?
The politically (and unabashedly) “LEFTIST” NPR admitted this is strange.
In an election day report, NPR said this BEFORE A FINAL RESULT [note: substantial annotations]:
Well, we still don't know who the president-elect is.
Is there a less-surprising outcome for 2020?
Here are six takeaways from one of the strangest election nights in recent history:
1. This is going to go on a while
This election is now coming down to the former Blue Wall states that President Trump toppled in 2016 — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. We won't know results perhaps for days, because Wisconsin and Pennsylvania couldn't start processing mail-in votes until Election Day, and Michigan could only start Monday. [See, articles in the Wisconsin Law Journal, La Prensa Bilingual Media, and the Boston Herald].
Philadelphia is expected to report more results at 9 a.m. Wednesday, but it isn't expected to be able to finish counting all of its votes for days. In Detroit, which is expected to hit a 20-year turnout high, officials say they believe they won't be able to finish counting the backlog of absentee ballots until Wednesday night.
Be Patient: Vote Counting Continues, Key States Remain Outstanding
But, wait, there's even more to count. While all eyes focus on the Upper Midwest and Pennsylvania, there are still many votes to count in North Carolina and Georgia, which looked like healthy Trump wins and then started to shift after midnight.
As of 4:05 a.m. ET, Trump was ahead of Democrat Joe Biden in North Carolina by just 1.4 percentage points or fewer than 77,000 votes out of 5 million with 6% of the vote left to count. As the result of a court ruling, North Carolina will be able to count mail-in votes that were postmarked on Election Day until Friday.
The candidates are separated by 2.5 percentage points in Georgia, or about 117,000 votes. There is still 7% of the vote to count.
This election has taken lots of twists and turns. What's one or two more? [emphasis my own]
[HOW ABOUT A MORASS OF DELIBERATE PROCEDURAL IRREGULARITIES?]
2. Trump will pull out all the stops
It couldn't have been more predictable for Trump to attempt to prematurely declare victory and falsely claim the election is being stolen — even as legally cast votes are still being counted. [emphasis my own']
[FALSELY? AND ECHOED, AD NAUSEUM, DOWN TO THE PRESENT DAY BY THE RADICAL LEFT’S STRANGLEHOLD ON THE MAINSTREAM NEWS ORGANIZATIONS]
There were numerous falsehoods the president told early Wednesday morning during a speech from the White House. He declared that millions had voted for him (a fact) and added "a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people, and we won't stand for it." [emphasis omy own]
But the fact is: some states allow ballots mailed in and postmarked by Election Day to be counted. No one is voting any longer.
[WELL, MILLIONS ARE VOTING ABSENTEE, AND WHY IS THAT, AND WHO ARE THOSE MILLIONS? [50 MILLION QUASI-LEGAL “AMERICANS,” ALONG WITH MILLIONS MORE OUTRIGHT ILLEGAL ALIENS—ALL COURTESY OF THE BIDEN PUPPET AND THE PUPPET-MASTERS’ CAREFULLY SELECTED ADMINSTRATION FLUNKIES LIKE ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS].
The only disenfranchisement is not counting legally cast ballots — and Trump vowed to go to the Supreme Court to get them to stop what he sees as illegal vote counting, even though that is not what's happening. [emphasis my own]
[DISENFRANCHISMENT CUTS TWO WAYS: I.E., COUNTING ILLEGALLY CAST BALLOTS, YET NPR SAYS THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. REALLY? AND HOW DOES NPR KNOW THAT? WHERE IS THE CITATION FOR NPR’S PROPOSITION? NPR PROVIDES NOTHING. VOTING INTEGRITY HERE IS COMPROMISED BY NONCITIZEN VOTING FRAUD. SEE, E.G., THE ARTICLE POSTED BY “FAIR.” ILLEGAL ALIENS CANNOT VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS; AND SEE THE POST IN BALLOTOPEDIA. BUT WHAT IS TO STOP ILLEGAL VOTING, INCLUDING VOTING BY ILLEGAL ALIENS; CONVICTED FELONS (WHO HAVE NOT RECEIVED A COURT-ORDERED RELIEF FROM DISABILITY); UNDERAGE INDIVIDUALS; AND DOUBLE VOTING, AND SO FORTH? GIVEN THE ABSENCE OF PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS SUCH AS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FOLLOWING ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF ONE DAY VOTING (ELECTION DAY ONLY, EXCEPT IN SPECIFICALLY PRESCRIBED CIRCUMSTANCES, AS SEVERE HEALTH RELATED PROBLEMS; WORKERS WHO, DUE TO WORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE OUT-OF-TOWN ON THE DAY OF ELECTION; AND THE MANY MILITARY PERSONNEL OVERSEAS; THE SHOWING OF PROPER IDENTIFICATION PRIOR TO VOTING, USE OF PAPER BALLOTS (NO INTERNET ELECTRONIC VOTING PERMITTED); ONE-DAY ELECTION RESULTS, EXCEPT IN VERIFIED EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, ASSIDUOUSLY DOCUMENTED BY THE STATE OR STATES); AND USE OF HAND-COUNTING (PREFERRED) METICULOUSLY SUPERVISED BY OFFICIAL RESPRESENTATIVES OF THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS (OR USE OF NON-PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT TABULATING MACHINES (NO PRIVATE PARTIES INVOLVED); AND THERE ARE OTHERS—SEE E.G., HARVARD LAW REVIEW ARTICLE, BY RICHARD L. HASAN TITLED, “IDENTIFYING AND MINIMIZING THE RISK OF ELECTION SUBVERSION AND STOLEN ELECTIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES (PDF), 135 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 265 (APRIL 2022) (CITED BY THE UCLA NEWSROOM) ). A QUESTION CONCERNING PROBLEMS WITH DOMINION VOTING MACHINES IN THE 2020 ELECTION LED TO A LAWSUIT IN GEORGIA. SEE THE COMPREHENSIVE ARTICLE IN YORK DISPATCH, ABOUT THIS].
3. No matter what happens, this isn't the blowout Democrats were looking for
Trump is ahead, but Biden said he expects that when all the votes are counted, including those mail-in ballots, he will prevail. [emphasis my own]
[YES, THOSE MAIL-IN BALLOTS, OF COURSE! BIDEN WOULD NEED THOSE WOULDN’T HE. OH! AND PATIENCE TO COUNT THEM ALL. SEE AP ARTICLE, REFERENCING A “BLUE SHIFT.” WHAT IS THAT “BLUE SHIFT”? SEE COMPREHENSIVE REPORT, TITLED, “THE BLUE SHIFT IN THE 2020 ELECTION,” BY John Curiel, Charles Stewart III, and Jack Williams (PDF)]
"I believe we are on track to win this election," he said, adding, "It ain't over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted."
[SO SAYS BIDEN. DOES HE KNOW SOMETHING THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE DOESN’T—THAT THE OUTCOME OF THE 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS IN THE BAG FOR HIM?]
As of 4:50 a.m. ET, Biden had a slight lead in Wisconsin with 95% of the vote estimated to be in, but was down almost 6 points in Michigan with 77% in and almost 13 points in Pennsylvania with 64% in.
Even if Biden were to win all three — and he doesn't need to given he won Arizona — and win the presidency, this wasn't the definitive rebuke of Trump that Democrats were looking for. [emphasis my own]
[BUT DID BIDEN REALLY WIN ARIZONA?]
A win is a win [AND “A HORSE IS A HORSE OF COURSE OF COURSE”] if Biden is able to pull it off. But the country remains hotly divided and polarized, and given Democrats are unlikely to take back the Senate and their unexpected losses in the House, he would hardly have the ability to get much through Congress.
[BUT THE RADICAL LEFTIST SCHUMER HAD BIG PLANS FOR 2022. SEE THE ARTICLE, IN THE FEDERALIST POINTING TO A LEAKED CALL: “Now we take Georgia, then we change America,” the New York Democrat said at what appeared to be a mass celebration in New York City. . . holding a black 2020 flag with a “no” symbol over a 45, denoting Donald Trump, the 45th president, and the words ‘Reclaiming my country.’”
[Schumer’s commitment to ‘change the world’ comes after a leaked call on Thursday in which Democratic leaders admitted that campaigns based on revolutionary, far-left social agendas hurt them badly in 2020, reversing their expectations of a ‘blue wave.’” [EMPHASIS MY OWN] [ISN’T WONDROUS STRANGE, NO, THAT TRUMP AND LAWYERS ON HIS LEGAL TEAM THAT SOUGHT COURT ACTION FOR A HOST OF ILLEGAL ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN GEORGIA WOULD WIND UP AS PARTY DEFENDANTS IN A DECIDEDLY BIZARRE RICO ACTION PSEUDO-ELECTION TAMPERING CASE, AFTER THE FACT, AS NO NEWS ORGANIZATION, TO OUR (AQ’S) KNOWLEDGE, HAD SUGGESTED AT THE TIME THAT GEORGIA WAS OF MAJOR CONCERN TO DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN BOTH THE 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND 2022 MIDTERMS. AND NONE MADE THE POINT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY IMPORTANCE OF GEORGIA TO THE RADICAL LEFT PLAN TO TRANSFORM THE NATION INTO A COLLECTIVIST TYRANNY THAN THE CONTEMPTIBLE HARLEQUIN, AND RADICAL LEFT PUPPET, “CHUCK” (“NOW WE TAKE GEORGIA, THEN WE CHANGE AMERICA”) SCHUMER].
4. The realignment is happening
The old coalitions are fraying, and it's not at all clear how that translates into presidential elections in the coming years.
One thing is clear — 2016 wasn't a fluke. With the swing of white voters without college degrees firmly to Trump's camp, the Blue Wall that Democrats have relied on for decades — and that Trump knocked down in 2016 — is far too fragile to rely on. [emphasis my own]
[IS THIS TO SUGGEST THAT COLLEGE GRADUATES AND POST-COLLEGE GRADUATES (MASTERS, PH.D. AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREE CANDIDATES) DIDN’T VOTE FOR TRUMP? THAT IS RIDICULOUS BUT AN ASPECT OF THE ODD THINKING PROCESSES OF THE RADICAL LEFT THAT, ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO HARMONIZE, LEGALLY OR LOGICALLY, WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS OF INDIVIDUALISM UPON WHICH THIS NATION, A FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, WAS CREATED AND UPON WHICH A FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC DEPENDS IF IT IS TO PERSIST.
Meanwhile, the diversifying Sun Belt states are changing the map. Biden won Arizona after Clinton came up short in 2016, and Georgia and North Carolina continue to be competitive. (Texas appears to still be a stretch for Democrats).
[BUT, WAS THE ELECTION FAIRLY DECIDED? MOST NEWS ACCOUNTS OF COURSE SAY IT WAS. SEE THE ARTICLES IN MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLETS, REUTERS AND AP. And, a local newspaper, the Austin says, “A GOP-led review of 2 million ballots in Maricopa County, Ariz., confirmed on Friday what official election results showed months ago: Joe Biden won the county in the 2020 election. . . . The review found that Biden won Maricopa by 45,469 votes — a slightly larger margin than the county’s official canvass.”]
[BUT, THIS NEWS REPORT ASSUMES THAT THE VOTES TABULATED WERE LAWFULLY CAST. BUT, WERE THEY? THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION SAYS, “There were 23,344 mail-in ballots that voted from a prior address; 10,342 potential voters that voted in multiple counties; there were 9,041 more ballots returned by voters than received; 3,432 official results that do not match who voted; and there were 2,592 more duplicates than original ballots; and the margin of victory was 10,457.” DOES THIS NOT SUGGEST OTHER ERRORS].
Politics is never static, and the reshaping can be disorienting.
[THAT MAY BE, BUT ELECTION INTEGRITY SHOULD BE A CONSTANT. MANY AMERICANS—PERHAPS HALF OF THE ELECTORATE, OR MORE—HAS ITS DOUBTS. AND RADICAL LEFT POLITICIANS HAVE DONE NOTHING TO ASSUAGE THAT DOUBT, BUT, RATHER REINFORCE AND INTENSIFY THAT DOUBT. RECALL THE RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS’ ATTEMPT TO ENACT THE LUDICROUS “FOR THE PEOPLE ACT OF 2021, H.R. 1”. FORTUNATELY, IT FAILED, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF DEMOCRAT CENTRIST JOE MANCHIN, WHO TORPEDOED IT.
5. The popular vote and the Electoral College clash . . . again
For the seventh time in the past eight presidential elections, a Democrat will likely win the popular vote. [emphasis my own]
As of 4:15 a.m. ET, Biden was ahead of Trump 67.1 million to 65.2 million. Biden's total is the second most votes any presidential candidate has ever gotten, behind the 69.5 million Barack Obama got in 2008.
And yet, if Biden loses, it would be the third time in 20 years that a Democrat would have won the popular vote but lost the presidency.
It's unlikely that the process could be changed. Some have argued doing away with it, but it would require a constitutional amendment to change it, and since one side, the Republican Party, has benefitted from it, it's very unlikely to change.
[WHY WOULD THE RADICAL LEFT WISH TO DO AWAY WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? SIMPLE. THAT ALLLOWS FOR MASS DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF THE ELECTORATE RESIDING IN THOSE “BLUE” JURISDICTIONS THE RADICAL LEFT (AND THOSE THAT HAPPENED TO BE ALIGNED WITH IT) THAT THE RADICAL LEFT CONTROLS, INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA, DETROIT, AND THE WEST COAST STATES, NOTABLY, CALIFORNIA]. THE RADICAL LEFT’S ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MAY HELP TO ELUCIDATE THEIR NOTION OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ AND THEIR CONSTANT REFRAIN ABOUT A DESIRE TO SAVE IT. THE RADICAL LEFT EQUATES “DEMOCRACY” WITH POPULAR VOTE—MAJORITARIAN RULE OF THE PEOPLE—BUT THAT IS A MISNOMER BECAUSE IT FAILS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS DO NOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES. SEE THE CLASSIC BOOK ON MANIPULATION OF THE PUBLIC PSYCHE: “MANUFACTURING CONSENT,” BY EDWARD S. HERMAN AND NOAM CHOMSKY. SEE ALSO, THE ESSAY BY EDWARD L. BERNAYS, “MANIPULATING PUBLIC OPINION, THE WHY AND THE HOW” AND HIS BOOK, APTLY AND SIMPLY TITLED, “PROPAGANDA.” EXTRAPOLATING FROM THESE WORKS TO THE PRESENT DAY, AQ ARGUES THAT THE RADICAL LEFT USES THE POWER OF PERSUASION, THROUGH ITS CONTROL OF MASS MEDIA AND ITS CONTROL OVER THE DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA, TO CAPTURE THE THOUGHT PROCESSES OF THE MASSES, FILLING THEIR MINDS WITH A HOST OF FANCIFUL IDEAS AND NARRATIVES. IT ISN’T “DIRECT DEMOCRACY” THE RADICAL LEFT WANTS, IF THAT MEANS TENS OF MILLIONS OF INDEPENDENT-MINDED AMERICANS, ASTUTE AND INTELLIGENT, THINKING FOR THEMSELVES AS THEY ANALYZE RAW DATA AND WELL ARGUED AND WELL-ARTICULATED POLICY POSITIONS. NO! WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT WANTS, WHAT IT INTENDS TO DO, AND WHAT IT IS SUCCESSFULLY DOING, IS MANIPULATING THE MINDS OF BROAD SWATHS OF AMERICANS, MOST OF THEM RESIDING IN THE MAJOR URBAN AREAS. VIEWING ALL AMERICANS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MEMBERSHIP IN GROUPS, AND TARGETING THOSE GROUPS, IT SEEKS TO CONTROL THE THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS, INCLUDING THEIR VOTING HABITS. THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE GETS IN THE WAY OF THIS. AS LONG AS THEY CAN CONTROL THE LARGE POPULAR VOTE AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS, VOTING IS REDUCED TO A MERE FORMALITY. THE RADICAL LEFT SEES THE AMERICAN POLITY AS A MOB—A MINDLESS BLOB OF UNTHINKING ROBOTS WHOM THEY MANIPULATE TO THINK IN SPECIFIC WAYS AND TO VOTE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IDEAS THEY PLANT IN THE POLITY’S MIND. TYRANNY OF THE MASSES OR MOBOCRACY MAY COME TO MIND. BUT WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT ENVISIONS IS AN OLIGARCHY OF THE VERY POWERFUL (WHICH IS COMING TO FRUITION), AND THIS OLIGARCHY PROVIDES THE PUBLIC WITH THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT. BUT AS THIS MASS OF PEOPLE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN THOUGHT PROCESSES AND THEIR OWN CONDUCT, THEY CLEARLY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER GOVERNMENT].
6. The polls were wrong . . . again
After all is said and done with this election, there is going to be a reckoning over polls.
After 2016, when polls in key states underestimated Trump's support, pollsters said they had adjusted. But, it appears, while polls in some places were right, lots were off and misleading.
Biden appeared to have slim but consistent leads heading into Election Day, and many of those dissipated. [emphasis my own] Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Texas were all polling very close for months, and wound up not close at all. And, unlike 2016, this year even the national polls appear to have been far off.
[AND, THEN, THE DOMINION TABULATING MACHINES INEXPLICABLY STOPPED. AND A PLETHORA OF NEWS STORIES SAYS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MACHINES. OKAY. THEN WHY DID THEY GRIND TO A HALT SEVERAL TIMES DURING TABULATION OF THE RESULTS?]
If someone were to say a year ago, create an electoral map for a race between Trump and a generic Democrat, it would look, well, very much like this one based on voting history and demography.
There is going to have to be a better understanding of what went wrong. Do Trump voters not pick up the phone or answer polls because they don't trust the media or pollsters? Is there some other reason why pollsters underestimated Trump's support?
Being wrong is never a position that a survey researcher or a nonpartisan analyst who uses the data wants to be in.
Trump needed an even bigger polling error than 2016 to pull off what he's pulled off, and that's exactly what happened.
NPR says the 2020 Presidential election night was among the strangest in recent history. That’s an understatement, implying if obliquely a problem with the conduct of the election—BUT IT WAS PRECISELY WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT ENVISIONED, AND THE RESULT WAS FOREORDAINED AGAINST A TRUMP VICTORY.
Trump took legal action for recounts in closely fought States, including those he had won in 2016. This action is normal, understandable, and legal. There is nothing unusual or illegal about this. But Biden’s lawyers fought the recount efforts. See, e.g., the articles in Forbes, Fox 4 News, and USA Today. Trump was invariably rebuffed by the Courts. See, e.g., the article in The Washington Post.
Why is that? The allegations of election fraud were reasonable, as pointed out supra.
That Trump’s challenges were denied at every turn smacks of a well-orchestrated coverup. Even the AG, William Barr, appeared tied to this effort to prevent an accounting. The BBC reported,
"‘To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,’ he [Barr] said.”
But beyond the perfunctory statement, Barr had nothing further to add. AQ would like to know:
Who did the investigation? How many Government agents were involved? What was investigated? When did the investigation occur? How long was the investigation? What was found? What factors led Barr to infer the absence of fraud “on a scale” that would otherwise suggest the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was stolen?
BARR SAYS NOTHING! AND WORSE, THE MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA DOESN’T TROUBLE ITSELF TO POSE THESE QUESTIONS TO BARR.
The coverup extends well beyond all efforts to prevent an accounting. The events of January 6, 2021, point to massive efforts to silence and to PERSECUTE AND PROSECUTE anyone, including Trump himself, for fostering any idea of a “stolen election.”
THIS SMACKS OF VIOLATION OF A CITIZEN‘S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DISSENT.
THE RADICAL LEFT INSISTS the Electorate accepts as Gospel that the 2020 Election was fair and aboveboard. IT WASN’T.
THIS IS ALL ORCHESTRATED DECEPTION AND ILLUSION BY A DESPERATE TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT DELIBERATELY TARGETING TRUMP AND THOSE AMERICANS WHO SUPPORTED HIS ELECTION IN 2020—THE ELECTION THAT WAS ILLEGALLY DENIED HIM—AND WHO SUPPORT HIM IN THE ATTEMPT TO RECTIFY THE STOLEN ELECTION OF 2020.
AND, THE SAME RADICAL LEFT FORCES THAT HAVE UNLAWFULLY PREVENTED DONALD TRUMP FROM SERVING A SECOND TERM AS U.S. PRESIDENT BY MANIPULATING THE ELECTORAL PROCESS IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAVE CREATED NEW OBSTACLES TO PREVENT TRUMP FROM RUNNING IN 2024.
Trump SHOULD BE in the OVAL OFFICE, NOT Joe Biden.
AT LEAST ONE-HALF OF THE ELECTORATE KNOWS THIS.
The Electorate knows, through intuition and observation, that the Biden Administration is a gangster operation and a fraud perpetrated on the Country. The most recent Zogby Polls illustrate this. More Americans are waking up from the propagandist-induced slumber thrust on them. THE RADICAL LEFT WANTS TO KEEP THE ELECTORATE ASLEEP. AND THOSE THEY CANNOT CONTROL THEY INTEND TO SILENCE, AND THEY ARE DOING THAT WITH THE HELP OF BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, MERRICK GARLAND.
On January 5, 2024, Merrick Garland addressed the Nation.
Three years after the January 6, 2021 incident, Garland is still at it, making clear the Government will continue to target Americans. On the face of it, his speech suggests that this is ALL FOR THE GOOD, “TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” and “TO UPHOLD THE RULE OF LAW.” It is all an absurd lie.
GARLAND’S ACTIONS TARGETING AMERICANS FOR THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH "PROTECTION” AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH COMPULSION AND PROMOTION OF FEAR. GARLAND ISN’T UPHOLDING THE “RULE OF LAW” (WHICH, BY THE WAY IS AN ARCANE LEGAL CONCEPT). HE HAS ABUSED HIS AUTHORITY AND CONTINUES TO ABUSE THAT AUTHORITY. UNDER ANY FAIR ANALYSIS OF THE DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION OF “RULE OF LAW,” MERRICK GARLAND AND HIS ATTACK DOG, JACK SMITH, HAVE NOT OPERATED WITHIN THE STRICTURES OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL STATUTE BUT HAVE TINKERED WITH CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL STATUTE, MAKING A PRETENSE OF COMPLYING WITH BOTH, CLOAKING ILLEGAL AND UNETHICAL ACTIONS UNDER THE GUISE OF ADHERENCE. The DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs released Garland’s speech on January 5, 2024.
Good morning everyone. The Deputy Attorney General and I are joined today by leaders from each of the Justice Department’s law enforcement components — the FBI, ATF, DEA U.S. Marshals — as well as leaders of other Department components.
I have convened this group to discuss two areas of continuing concern to the Department:
First, combatting violent crime; and second, prosecuting and deterring those who would criminally threaten public servants, including law enforcement personnel, members of Congress, judges, and election workers.
First, with respect to violent crime.
We know that hard fought progress can easily slip away, and we must remain focused and vigilant. That said, we are encouraged by the data we are seeing indicating a decline in homicides.
The FBI has reported that the number of homicides fell over 6% nationally between 2021 and 2022.
And the Major Cities Chiefs Association has reported a double-digit decrease in the number of murders across 69 major cities through September 2023, as compared to the same time period during 2022.
This is not a time to relax our efforts. We have so much more to do.
In May 2021, we launched our violent crime reduction strategy aimed at addressing the spike in violent crime that occurred during the pandemic.
Central to that strategy has been the importance of our partnerships: partnerships among federal law enforcement agencies who are assisting in the fight against violent crime; partnerships with the state and local law enforcement agencies tasked with protecting their local communities; and partnerships with the local communities themselves.
As part of that strategy, we have been bringing to bear our technological tools — including advanced ballistics analysis, firearms tracing, crime gun intelligence centers, and local fusion cells — to support joint law enforcement investigations to identify the principal sources of violent crime in specific local communities.
We have also been bringing to bear our federal statutes and prosecutorial tools to arrest and convict the repeat offenders and criminal organizations that are the principal drivers of violent crime.
In addition, we are making good use of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022, known as BSCA, which expanded our authority to prosecute firearms traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns for those barred by the law from possessing them. We have already charged over 300 defendants under that authority.
And we are continuing to implement the enhanced background check requirements of BSCA for purchasers under the age of 21.
Today, we are announcing that in the 19 months since the Act’s passage, those checks have already kept 527 firearms out of the hands of young people who are prohibited from having them.
We have also been utilizing our grantmaking authorities to support the local anti-violence initiatives being led by both our law enforcement and our community partners.
In this regard, we have focused on strengthening Project Safe Neighborhoods, which puts community partnerships, community trust, and violence prevention at the center of anti-violent crime efforts.
We are also funding community violence intervention initiatives that we know save lives.
In light of the encouraging results we have seen in many parts of the country in 2022 and 2023, we are meeting today to build on those efforts.
We will evaluate which local initiatives are working, how we can reinforce them, and how we can replicate those successful initiatives in places that have not yet seen the same improvements.
One such place is Washington, D.C., and we will be sharing more about our additional efforts here very soon.
As I said at the outset, we have so much more work to do.
Violent crime is not just a threat to people’s physical safety. It is a threat to their ability to freely go about their daily lives.
Violent crime isolates people and their communities. It deepens the fractures in our public life.
And when it is not addressed, it can undermine people’s trust in the government and in each other.
This Department, and our state and local partners, will not rest until every community in our country is safe from the scourge of violent crime.
At the same time that we are seeing an encouraging downward trend in violent crime, we are also witnessing a deeply disturbing spike in threats against those who serve the public.
In just the final months of 2023, the Department investigated and charged individuals with making violent threats against FBI agents, federal judges, including a Supreme Court Justice, presidential candidates, members of Congress, members of the military, and election workers.
Just this week, several bomb threats were made against courthouses across the country.
The U.S. Marshals Service, FBI, and our state and local partners are aggressively investigating those bomb threats, which constitute serious offenses.
And just yesterday, we arrested and charged an individual with threatening to kill a member of Congress and his children.
This is just a small snapshot of a larger trend that has included threats of violence against those who administer our elections, ensure our safe travel, teach our children, report the news, represent their constituents, and keep our communities safe.
These threats of violence are unacceptable.
They threaten the fabric of our democracy.
Over the past several years, the Justice Department has dedicated itself to combating these threats.
We are meeting today to determine how we can double down on those efforts in the new year.
Before beginning our meeting, I want to take a moment to recognize that tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
For our country, January 6 was an unprecedented attack on the cornerstone of our system of government — the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.
For many of the law enforcement officers defending the Capitol on that day, January 6 was also dangerous, painful, and personal.
On that day, officers were punched, tackled, and tased as they defended the Capitol and those inside. One officer was crushed in a door, and another was dragged down a flight of stairs.
Officers were attacked with chemical agents that burned their eyes and skin.
They were assaulted with pipes, poles, and other dangerous and deadly weapons.
Over the course of several hours, law enforcement officers defending the Capitol sustained a barrage of repeated, violent attacks.
140 officers were assaulted.
We honor the officers who selflessly defended members of Congress and others inside the Capitol that day.
Our efforts are with the loved ones who are grieving for the five officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6.
We must never forget the terrible violence inflicted on law enforcement officers on January 6.
Since the January 6 attack, the Justice Department has engaged in what has become one of the largest and most complex and resource-intensive investigations in our history.
We have initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a wide range of criminal conduct on January 6, as well as in the days and weeks leading up to the attack.
We have secured convictions of those who brutally assaulted officers at the Capitol.
We have secured convictions against those who obstructed the certification of the presidential election.
We have secured convictions of leaders of both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers for seditious conspiracy.
So far, we have charged over 1250 individuals and obtained over 890 convictions in connection with the January 6 attack.
Our work continues.
As I said before, the Justice Department will hold all January 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable under the law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.
In the ongoing January 6 investigations and prosecutions led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matt Graves and Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Justice Department is abiding by the long-standing norms that ensure our independence and the integrity of our investigations.
We are following the facts and the law, wherever they lead.
We are enforcing the law, without fear or favor.
We are honoring our obligation to protect the civil rights and civil liberties of everyone in our country.
We are upholding the rule of law.
And we are protecting the American people.
Trump is ahead of Biden and rapidly pulling away from him. Maybe that is the impetus for Garland’s speech: TO FRIGHTEN THE DICKENS OUT OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS: “TOE THE LINE” OR ELSE!
“SHOW ME THE MAN, AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE CRIME.”
The criminal indictments brought against Trump and the civil lawsuits filed against him DO NOT POINT TO civil misconduct and crime. Rather, they demonstrate State and Federal prosecutorial misconduct. These actions exasperate the insult perpetrated on the American people and disparage our Constitution. It is all a sign of the Radical Left’s rashness, leading to acute desperation and further injury to our legal system and to our Judeo-Christian ethical system.
These forces have ensconced a Grand Imposter in the Highest Office in the Land: the emotionally weak, physically frail, innately corrupt, clearly demented, and dementia-riddled Joe Biden—a man perfect for the role DESIGNED FOR HIM and ASSIGNED TO HIM: “MESSENGER BOY” and “ERRAND RUNNER.”
Here, one sees a man the RADICAL LEFT finds easy to manipulate and control.
Biden had no problem PLAYING HIS PART IN A COMEDIC TRAGEDY—ASSUMING, HE IS AWARE, if only dimly, OF THAT FACT AT ALL.
Biden would be the public face of the Nation, fittingly emblematic of the ruination of a once great independent, sovereign Nation-State—a buffoon who, in his speech and in his conduct, looks and acts the part. And that is the point. He is expected to play the part of a Buffoon.
And, denigrating the United States through installing an ABJECT DOLT in the Oval Office would constitute A GRATUITOUS BONUS for those machinating the Nation’s downfall.
Yet, of late, these forces have grown concerned. Most Americans “are onto them.” Americans have pushed back against the worst and most blatant excesses of these forces.
The U.S. Presidency is up for grabs in 2024.
Donald Trump WILL BE the Republican Party Nominee. That isn’t a guess.
The forces that seek to crush him don’t want to see this. They are deathly afraid of this. They have thrown everything they have at Trump and at his supporters in the hope of preventing this. They fail at every turn.
Nothing they do can prevent Donald Trump from securing the Republican Party nomination. And they know it. Still, they try.
The absurdity of the efforts to constrain and contain Trump bespeak their distress at their failure.
While some Americans don’t mask their ire at Trump, few there are who want another four years of Biden.
And of those who prefer another four years of Biden to a Second Term with Trump, all fret over whether Biden’s increasing physical decrepitude and decay remain manageable and that his attempt at “Presidential” comportment remains even remotely convincing.
Although Kelly doesn’t discuss these matters in his book, this is the backdrop for important matters he does discuss.
Kelly exposes the omnipresent, insistent, and incessant dangers Americans face in securing for themselves and for generations of Americans to come, the vitality of, and, in fact, the continued existence of our Country as a truly Free Constitutional Republic—the only one of its kind in the world—free from Tyranny.
And that means a Country free from the depredations of ruthless, innately amoral or outright immoral, perverse forces and influences that care not of the destruction they inflict on the people and on the Nation if, by their actions, they amply reward themselves.
I have returned several times to Kelly’s book as I continue to draft content for my website detailing “the rape” of our Country. I realized I would need to do a more detailed examination of “Justice For All,” for it has become a springboard to flush out, expand upon, and refine my own ideas, especially now in light of what has emerged as an increasingly dour outlook for our Country and a truly dire state of affairs.
I wish to thank Greg Kelly for having the strength of character and fortitude to express his concerns for the Country in the face of so many who would keep the Truth veiled. Kelly removes the veil, grounding his remarks on irrefutable facts.
This ESSAY complements my previously published review but expands substantially upon it as I juxtapose my ideas with Kelly’s insightful exposition.
It is a comprehensive explication and elucidation of major points raised in Kelly’s book as perceived through a substantial body of work I and my business partner, Roger J. Katz, a licensed attorney, have prepared and published on AQ since the site’s founding in early 2013.
Yet, as I began my draft, the ESSAY grew more expansive than I had envisioned.
The extent of the ESSAY necessitated dividing it into several segments.
Each segment (“PART”) involves a distinct subject matter with some unavoidable overlap.
My motivation for preparing this ESSAY, however, stretches beyond a simple desire to expand on ideas generated from points raised in Kelly’s book.
As we head into the next U.S. Presidential cycle, as alluded to above, this Country faces a dire threat. It is one Greg Kelly undoubtedly feels as well, and may, in part, explain his motivation for penning “Justice For All.”
Explicating the nature of that threat and its import underpins this ESSAY and is the central theme of it.
THE FOCUS OF KELLY’S BOOK
Kelly’s “Justice For All” focuses primarily on the “RADICAL LEFT.”
AQ expands on the all-encompassing threat to the Republic posed by the “RADICAL LEFT.” That is the salient theme of this Essay—a springboard for AQ that commences through a detailed examination of Kelly’s book, “Justice For All.”
Kelly explores and explains the ideology and goals and the negative effects of the RADICAL LEFT agenda.
As a native New Yorker, Kelly is well aware of and sensitive to the negative impact that Radical Left policies, aims, and actions—as manifestations of the Left’s ideology—have had on the Country, particularly on New York City and its residents.
Unscrupulous City and State leaders both in New York and across the Country have taken this ideology to heart and have devised and implemented policies that further the agenda.
Through decades of intentional, incessant, unlawful, calculated, and callous use of propaganda targeting Americans, many Americans have succumbed to it, seduced by the vacuous, insipid nonsense presented to them through the mainstream media (MSM), social media, and Government.
Many Americans are blind to the devastation that municipal, State, and Federal Regulatory rules, legislative enactments, and executive actions have wrought on their life, safety, and well-being, and on the health, well-being, and security of their respective cities, states, and the Country.
Ample evidence of this blindness to the TRUTH rests before all Americans if they would but pay attention to it and reflect upon it.
New York City and New York State are prime examples of “BLINDNESS TO THE TRUTH.”
A plurality of New Yorkers continue to elect the same people, or the same kinds of people, to high office and continue to profess support for them, bordering on mindless reverence, oblivious to the devastation such legislation and policies have had on the social and economic vitality of the City and State and the health and well-being of the residents these political leaders pompously, but disingenuously, claim to serve.
These damaged New Yorkers and other Americans around the Country either deny outright the harm wrong-headed public policy and legislation have wrought, or they blame others for the rot and contagion infecting their communities and the Country and for the concomitant economic and societal misfortunes that befall them, personally.
Incessant brainwashing has convinced them that, as bad as things are, matters would be worse if Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans were once again to take control of Government at all levels.
But ask those people, if Trump were so terrible, what is it that he did during his four-year tenure as U.S. President that they find objectionable? I have asked this question of many people.
A few don’t respond. They just walk away, apparently presuming the question is rhetorical or foolish or that there must be something wrong with me that I would pose such a question to them.
Some become visibly angry or giggle uncontrollably but remain uncommunicative in any rational sense.
Others look at me poleaxed, and then, visibly confused, or, perhaps, embarrassed, feeling they should attempt a logical, rational reply, blurt out something tepid, using epithets such as: “he is an awful person” and “he is an autocrat.” They call him “HITLER.” They say he is a “Racist,” a “Misogynist,” a “Xenophobe,” a “Serious Threat to Democracy.”
They internalize and then mindlessly recite the same idiotic nonsense and chatter they hear endlessly over the airwaves. These people refuse to debate, to argue logically, to explain to me what they mean by the abusive language they employ against Trump. They simply resort to childish name-calling and leave the matter at that.
But does the problem rest with Trump and with those Americans who support him, or does the infirmity rest in the mindset of the Americans?
Does the problem not rest in those who, having inculcated messaging from all the wrong sources and not troubling themselves to reflect on and critique the accuracy of that messaging, take it as self-evident true even as their life and well-being and that of the Country collapses in upon them and all around them?
Back in 2022, the Messenger Boy Biden said this about Trump and his supporters, as reported by NPR:
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards" . . . backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love."
Biden’s omissions are curious. He doesn’t recite fundamental, eternal rights such as the right to armed self-defense, the right of free speech, and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Apparently, THE BIDEN PUPPET and his RADICAL LEFT CONTROLLERS feel that exercising these fundamental, eternal rights would only serve to take the Nation “backward” to a time when THE AMERICAN PEOPLE were SOVEREIGN OVER GOVERNMENT and the Country was TRULY a FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
This same PATHETIC IMPOSTER rails endlessly against America’s modern Patriots.
Biden has the gall to make his first 2024 campaign speech at Valley Forge.
The RADICAL LEFT BIDEN administration that arranged for that must have had a good laugh over the irony of it: exploiting the American Revolution TO REVERSE IT, RETURNING the Country and its people to a STATE OF TYRANNY—UNDERTAKING a RADICAL LEFT COLLECTIVIST COUNTERREVOLUTION.
The AP provides a transcript of Biden’s speech, delivered on January 5, 2024.
THE TRUTH IS IN THE PUDDING
Through his words, Kelly provides ample evidence of the degradation of our Country, generally, and of New York City in particular, and of the responsible parties for this ruination.
His remarkable prose succeeds in that it impresses a host of unsettling, disturbing imagery upon the reader’s mind. His book is an honest assessment of a horrific reality inexorably materializing.
He compels the reader to face the ugly truth even if that reader is not inclined to do so.
And in that, Kelly’s work succeeds in fracturing a false and corrosive belief system—its application in a society grounded in an insufferable pseudo-morality.
Kelly’s book and those of several others I have read complement and support well that of AQ.
For well over a decade, through dozens of articles published on our website and reposted on several others, AQ, too, has pursued the truth, setting forth the nature, the details of, and the intensity and magnitude of the threat posed to our Country.
Both Kelly and AQ wash away the mask cloaked over the grand design of those who seek our Nation’s destruction, THIS “Radical Left.” Yet, if their grand design materializes, the consequences to our Nation and its people would be catastrophic and irreparable.
In that event, there would be no turning back. There would be no means to do so.
But to understand THE NATURE of the Radical Left’s GRAND DESIGN, we ought first to consider this THING that goes by the catch-all short descriptor, the “RADICAL LEFT,” that conservative writers and commentators, including Kelly and AQ, refer to by the expression and regularly discuss, but that many others (the “RADICAL LEFT” itself?) disdain use of and never make mention of.
Yet, it is real enough. But WHAT IS IT?
What is this THING that has become such a formidable force, an obdurate foe of America’s Patriots, intent on destroying the Republic, claiming all the while to be its protector (or, rather, the protector of a simulacrum of it)?
Curiously, this antagonist eschews the use of the term ‘Republic’ preferring to use the term ‘Democracy,’ yet never bothering to explain what they mean by it. And why is that? America’s True Patriots can only wonder.
THE “RADICAL LEFT”: WHO THEY ARE AND THE NATURE OF THEIR AGENDA
THREE POWERFUL COMPONENTS or CONTINGENTS— operating at times singly, and often jointly—comprise the “RADICAL LEFT”:
Neo-Marxist (Racialist) Globalist Idealogues,’’ Classical Marxist Idealogues, and Gender Idealogues
These are the “TRUE BELIEVERS” (Cultists).
These “TRUE BELIEVERS” include militant Marxist-Anarchist organizations and their members: “THE ACTION ARM.”
They infest the social media sphere and tech companies
Substantial numbers are found in higher-tier academia and lower-tier education: “THE PSEUDO-RELIGIOUS ARM.”
They include major NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, CABLE and BROADCAST NEWS ORGANIZATIONS, and RADIO.
There is an expansive “CONTENT DELIVERY ARM,” which includes: Major PUBLISHING HOUSES, large-scale and small-scale WEBSITES and PODCASTS, and
OPINION WRITERS for newspapers and periodicals or commentators in Cable and Broadcast news (the “mainstream media”).
These Neo-Marxist Cultists also proliferate in mid-level management positions in the private sector and mid-level management positions in the public sector (Federal, State, and local bureaucracies). They populate Congress, the Federal Bureaucracy, and state, county, and municipal governmental offices.
They include individuals who work for powerful NGOs, the UN, and the EU, and many are staffers for Congress.
They are also found in the vast Entertainment and Sports industries.
Neoliberal Globalist “Elites”—the Billionaire Industrialists and Financiers. These people control the vast corporate sectors. Their acumen, political interests, and influence extend to the U.S., EU, and the British Commonwealth Nations—essentially over all of Western Civilization.
Political Leaders, Policy Makers, and other High-ranking Bureaucratic Functionaries at all levels and Branches of Government (Federal and State)
These people populate much of Congress. Many are crass opportunists who, for personal gain, espouse loyalty to those orchestrating the destruction of the Republic, and do their part to effectuate its dissolution.
Many are proponents of “Democratic Socialism,” also referred to as “Political Progressivism”—benign verbiage for ‘Communism’ or ‘Leninism’).
They include Political “Moderates” (sometimes referred to as “Centrists”) and “Liberals.” Many Republicans also fall into this camp as well (chameleons?)
Operating often in unison, they bear responsibility for the calamity affecting and negatively impacting our Nation, our Constitution, and our people.
These three components have formed an informal confederation or coalition of sorts, often operating in unison.
They draw many of the hoi polloi to their cause—assisting, if unconsciously, in the ruin of a Free, Independent, Sovereign Nation-State.
Inexorably and with increasing swiftness, a transformation of our Free Republic has occurred.
This transformation is antithetical to, incompatible with, and alien to the social, political, economic, cultural, ethical, and jurisprudential underpinnings of our Republic, as conceived by the Founders of it.
The motivations of each component of the “RADICAL LEFT” may differ, and there is likely overlap in belief systems. But their agendas cohere, centering around a commonality of ultimate purpose, the accomplishment of a singular aim:
DISSOLUTION OF THE REPUBLIC AND EROSION OF THE CONCEPTS OF ‘NATION-STATE’, ‘CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES,’ AND ‘NATURAL LAW RIGHTS,’ ALONG WITH THE EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE APPLICATION OF THESE CONCEPTS.
This commonality of purpose involves an all-out Assault on “THE COMMON MAN” and on the ideas of ‘FREEDOM’ and ‘LIBERTY.’
But what does that mean? What would the realization of it entail? And what would the effects on the Nation and people look like?
The aims to be achieved and the mechanisms employed to achieve them as applied to our Country include——
ERADICATION of the U.S. Constitution
ANNIHILATION of American Culture, including its History, Heritage, National Ethos, Core values, and American Identity,
REPUDIATION of the Judeo-Christian Ethical System and of our Normative Ethical Theory Grounded on DEONTOLOGICAL precepts, to be replaced by UTILITARIANISM’, specifically “UTILITARIAN CONSEQUENTIALISM,”
EXTIRPATION of the notion of “NATURAL LAW” and, concomitantly, of “NATURAL LAW RIGHTS OF MAN,”
SUPPRESSION of the notion of the “DIVINE BEING” and of the Nature of This Singular DIVINITY of THE GODHEAD as——Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omni-Benevolent, and Morally Perfect,
ELIMINATION of the concept of ‘Citizenship’ and, especially, of the concept of ‘CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES
COMPELLED Uniformity And Conformity Of Thought And Action through Utilization of Psychological Conditioning
DESTRUCTION of the Elemental Family Unit as understood by Classical Sociology and Cultural Anthropology,
INSINUATION OF MILLIONS OF UNASSIMILABLE ILLEGAL ALIENS into and Throughout the Heart of the Country,
RELOCATION of the Population (Citizens and Illegals) into Constricted Population Centers,
REDUCTION OF LIVING STANDARDS, through Deliberate Implementation of Disastrous Economic Policies, resulting in the Population’s Dependence on Government Largess for All Its Needs and Comforts,
COMPELLED DETENTION of all “Malcontents,”
OBLITERATION of the SANCTITY, INVIOLABILITY, INVINCIBILITY, AND IRREDUCIBILITY OF ONE’S INNATE BEING, requiring
SUPPRESSION of the UNITY and AUTONOMY OF SOUL, SPIRIT, and MIND.
These are ambitious aims—the accomplishment of them far-reaching, to be sure—matched only by their insidiousness and vileness.
The RADICAL LEFT intends, then, not simply to make a few changes to our Nation’s laws, ethical system, and culture. It intends to obliterate every vestige, REPLACING THEM WITH A TRULY HORRIBLE, HORRIFIC NEW SOCIO-POLITICAL and ECONOMIC REALITY, centering around a GARGANTUAN and PERFIDIDIOUS CONTRIVANCE, euphemistically described as
—A WORLD ADHERING TO AND OPERATING UNDER “THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA 2030” PROMULGATED BY THE UN.
The UN unsurprisingly describes its project in glowing terms. The Heritage Foundation, for one, observes this Agenda a bit differently.
Just two decades ago, most Americans would have seen the RADICAL LEFT’s ideas and agenda, its proposals and aims, as crude, profane, and ludicrous.
RADICAL LEFT’S IDEAS GO MAINSTREAM
MOST AMERICANS WOULD HAVE PERCEIVED SUCH AIMS AS THESE AS DIABOLICAL AND MONSTROUS, OF COURSE, BUT ALSO SO FAR BEYOND THE PALE AS TO BE INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
The DESTRUCTION of THE REPUBLIC? Who in their right mind would dare such a thing? Who, in their right mind, would even conceive of such a thing?
Even if conceivable, what sane person would want such a thing for themselves or for their offspring, for their fellow countrymen, and for the Country?
Why would a rational mind work with such ferocity and tenacity toward an end that means subjugation and tyranny?
HOW FAR WE HAVE COME. THE NATION IS INSANE.
Many THERE ARE, unfortunately, who would want this, who strongly desire this, and who would work to accomplish this, or, at least, see no problem with the fact of it, even as they, outwardly at least, decry tyranny and the thought of subjugation of the masses.
Yet, the fact that so many Americans are onboard with the Radical Left or are otherwise oblivious to the threat means this Nation is at a proverbial “Tipping Point.”
The Radical Left has the means, or access to the means, necessary to achieve its unholy aims.
That the destroyers of our Country have seduced so many Americans to adopt the righteousness of their cause should, therefore, give one pause.
Major advances in both psychological conditioning and technology have now provided a mechanism for disseminating the Radical Left’s bizarre and logically fatuous Dogmas with ease across the Country.
This is cause for serious reflection by America’s true Patriots, who are fortunately inured to the proselytizing of the powerful forces seeking our Nation’s demise.
This is our last chance, short of a civil war that I fear is on the horizon—given the dire nature of the threat posed by the Radical Left—if we don’t secure for us and our young today and for generations of Americans yet to come: the promise born from American Revolution of 1776——
A COUNTRY GROUNDED ON FREEDOM AND LIBERTY—A COUNTRY WHERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE COMMON MAN, IS LORD AND MASTER OF HIS LIFE—A COUNTRY WHERE THE COMMON MAN IS AND REMAINS SOLE SOVEREIGN OVER GOVERNMENT.
Without the American Revolution, WE, as an independent sovereign Nation-State and Free Constitutional Republic, would not exist.
And if we, Americans, fail to secure the success brought about by the American Revolution of 1776, our Nation, in the form of a free Constitutional Republic, as envisioned and constructed by the Framers, will fail to persist.
THE RADICAL LEFT’S AGENDA IS MEANT TO REVERSE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF 1776
The Radical Left intends to return us to A STATE OF TYRANNY.
But the TYRANNY facing us TODAY is worse even than that TYRANNY that caused such consternation among America’s First Patriots and compelled them to revolt against the British Monarch, George III, and, by implication, caused them to revolt against the power behind the throne: The Central Banking system.
The artifice of the central banking system has since spread to every major Nation on Earth.
It sits like a “Black Hole,” a sinister object at the center of every major country with few, if any, remaining exceptions, gobbling up every bit of matter and energy.
The central banking system is an ominous presence: Its appetite is insatiable; its lust for the accumulation of monetary wealth voracious; Its effect on a country is acute and pernicious; its inner workings are secretive; its collective powers are unimaginable.
For those who treasure LIBERTY and FREEDOM, the central banking system persists as an implacable, unendurable foe, a vortex that threatens to swallow all of America and other nations.
Those who wield control over the central banking system—Globalist financial “elites,” as a component of the “Radical Left”—have at their disposal technology and mechanisms enabling them to strangle and crush Freedom and Liberty and to subjugate the masses to an extent the Founders of our Republic could not likely have imagined and would be horrified to contemplate.
But what they did observe of Tyranny was horrific enough to risk all to defeat it.
HOW AND WHY THE ARBALEST QUARREL CAME INTO BEING
My business partners and I had decided, after months of careful thought, to create our site, the Arbalest Quarrel—which came online in early 2013—to deal with our Nation’s Bill of Rights and, more specifically, with the importance of the fundamental natural law right to self-defense.
We take as axiomatic the idea of armed self-defense—codified in the Second Amendment to our Constitution—as a fundamental right that does not stand apart from but is simply a reaffirmation of the most basic right a human being has within him—the right of Personal Survival, Physical Existence and Freedom of Conscience.
This right of Physical Existence is instinctual, true of any animal on God’s Green Earth, of course. But for man as a thinking creation of the Divine Creator, it is something more. It is tied to Freedom of Conscience—the result of the ability to reflect on one’s selfhood.
The fundamental, unalienable “RIGHT” to PERSONAL SURVIVAL PLUS FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE also points to something more: A RESPONSIBILITY, that is to say, a PERFORMATIVE DUTY one person has, in certain instances, to another, quite apart from the CONSTITUTIVE RIGHT to protect oneself from physical harm and to protect the INTEGRITY of one’s OWN SOUL, SPIRIT, and MIND from outside destructive influence or outright coercion.
As a PERFORMATIVE DUTY apart from a PERSONAL CONSTITUTIVE RIGHT, I am referring to the duty of a parent to protect his children from predatory attack from man or animal and the duty of the citizen to protect his Country and his fellow countrymen from foreign enemies and the Tyranny of the man-beast, GOVERNMENT.
Constitutional law expert David B. Kopel discusses this concept of performative duty, specifically in his book, “The Truth About Gun Control,” on page 7.
A firearm in the hands of the responsible person who is well-versed in the proper use of that firearm and prepared to use it when necessary to protect his life and the life of those near and dear to him is the most effective means by which a human being can protect self and well-being and the life and well-being of others. That fact was true in the time of the American Revolution and well before, and that fact is no less true today.
THE RIGHT TO ARMED SELF-DEFENSE is then a NATURAL LAW RIGHT. It is NO DIFFERENT IN KIND FROM THE BASIC NATURAL LAW RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE and is SUBSUMED IN IT.
But, for the force of arms, our Nation would not have come into being. And, but for the continued presence of our armed citizenry—this Free Republic of ours would not, could not, continue to exist and persist for decades and centuries.
All these points, AQ takes as AXIOMATIC, i.e., AS SELF-EVIDENT, TRUE.
The Framers took these points as SELF-EVIDENT, TRUE.
THE CONSTITUTION THEY DRAFTED THAT THE STATES RATIFIED EMBODY THESE POINTS AS SACRED PRINCIPLES, TENETS WITHOUT WHICH THE PERPETURATION OF A FREE REPUBLIC IS IMPOSSIBLE.
But many Americans today fail to recognize this and fail to reflect on it.
It is difficult for them to do so. The Federal Government—under the current Biden Administration and its propagandists—tries to short-circuit and disrupt rational, logical, coherent thought. The corrupt, unconscionable actions and antics of this Administration are directed to deliberate, unjustifiable interference with a person’s very Selfhood.
THIS PERVERSE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO CONTROL A PERSON’S THOUGHT PROCESSES, THEREBY PREVENTING CONSCIOUS, SERIOUS, INDEPENDENT, ROBUST, REFLECTIVE DISCERNMENT, AND TOWARD SIMPLE, AUTONOMIC, REFLEXIVE, EMOTIONAL RESPONSE, INDICATIVE OF THE SIMPLIST OF ONE-CELLED CREATURES.
Many Americans—through the power of technology that enables the broadcasting of simple, simplistic propagandist messaging to the masses on an industrial scale—buy into the idiocy projected by the Administration’s propaganda arm.
They either choose not to recognize and acknowledge this fact or otherwise are incapable of realizing or recognizing the sanctity and of inviolability of their own PERSONHOOD.
And there are fewer Americans yet who are inured to the Government’s mass and massive, non-stop and lethal campaign of psychological conditioning and ongoing surveillance of Americans’ thought processes, as their machinery gobbles up all of electronic and digital information.
Few there are of us who have the will to acknowledge this, expound upon it, and warn Americans of what would befall them if they sacrifice their ability and will to think for themselves.
Greg Kelly is one of the very few who have the intellect, the ability, and the fortitude to see through the deception of powerful, evil influences at work in our society that intend to disrupt and ultimately destroy a Country that has served as a beacon of liberty for such people who recognize the sanctity of selfhood and choose to reside in one Country that not only provides for this but truly allows for this beyond superficial and false rhetoric.
My business partners and I at AQ share a commonality with Kelly here.
That is why I proposed to my business partners that we draw upon and harness Kelly’s “Justice For All” as a springboard for further useful discussion and analysis. They concurred.
They saw this would be a worthy and worthwhile endeavor.
THIS PROJECT WOULD SERVE THE INTERESTS OF OUR REPUBLIC, THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY, AND OUR GREAT CONSTITUTION.
No other constitution in any other country has endured as long as ours. This, too, is a testament to its Greatness. It has stood the test of time.
However, on one matter alone, Kelly’s book has caused us concern.
There is a passage in Kelly’s book where he discusses guns and crime.
This is found on pages 102 through 103 in Chapter Five of “Justice For All.”
Kelly writes,
WHY DOES THE U.S. HAVE SO MUCH CRIME? GUNS MAY BE PART OF THE REASON. CERTAINLY OUR COUNTRY IS ALMOST UNIQUE IN THE WORLD IN CODIFYING THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS IN ITS MOST BASIC FRAMEWORK OF LAWS. A SIDE EFFECT OF LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP IS THAT CRIMINALS HAVE EASIER ACCESS TO GUNS HERE THAN THEY MIGHT IN COUNTRIES THAT RESTRICT GUNS [CCP China is one but then China is an unapologetic, unabashed Collectivist Dictatorship (controlled by the Communist Party) and Singapore is a second, which, although Singapore describes itself as “A Sovereign Republic” in Part 2 of Singapore’s Constitution (if the Translation into English is accurate), it IS a Dictatorship but one that some scholars and journalists might describe as a “Benevolent Dictatorship,” but use of that terminology strikes me as a prime example of an oxymoron]. [Use of upper-case lettering for emphasis in quoting Kelly, my own]
This passage would seem to suggest that the author is discounting this Nation’s MORAL, LEGAL, HISTORICAL, and NATURAL LAW imperative pertaining to gun ownership.
AQ’s Roger Katz will deal at length with Kelly’s remarks on “GUNS AND CRIME” in a forthcoming segment of this Multipart Essay.
But I would be remiss if I didn’t point to an important matter at this juncture, for Kelly’s remark about “guns” troubles me. The remark does not, to my mind, serve the book's rationale, lessens its impact, and undermines the import and purport of it.
If the issue of “CRIME and GUNS” has any logical application to, or bearing on, ONE’S NATURAL LAW RIGHT TO ARMED SELF-DEFENSE, then it is to add another supporting argument FOR IT, NOT AGAINST IT, namely——
A PRAGMATIC argument for securing the NATURAL LAW RIGHT TO ARMED SELF-DEFENSE in a Country awash in violent crime and for the reason that Kelly asserts and supports with hard facts and which we infer from those facts:
The U.S. has a disproportionately high crime rate—one rapidly accelerating—in relation to other countries, precisely because the Radical Left policymakers have taken over control of the Federal Government through the Biden Administration. And they have bought off many in Congress and, further, wield extraordinary power and influence in some jurisdictions.
These jurisdictions have demonstrated a disturbing tolerance for crime and criminals to an extent one might surmise the political leaders and officials of these States actively, even avidly, enable lawlessness. They have shackled both their police and their criminal justice systems.
See, e.g., New York Post article published on December 16, 2022, titled, “NYPD cops can no longer detain people while checking for warrants”; New York Post article published on July 19, 2022, titled “Chicago cops making record-low numbers of arrests as violent crime soars”; the article in Townhall published on June 27, 2022, titled, “Chicago Police Officers No Longer Allowed to Pursue All Criminal Suspects”
Implementation of the “RADICAL LEFT” agenda has created a malaise impacting police work, not only in Cities one would expect, like New York and Chicago, but across the Country. See the USA Today article published on December 18, 2014, titled “Police Stop Pursuing Nearly 79,000 Fugitives”.
USA Today writes,
Nationwide, police and prosecutors quietly told the FBI they had abandoned their pursuit of nearly 79,000 accused felons during the past year and a half, a USA TODAY investigation found. They have given up chasing people charged with armed robbery and raping children, usually without informing their victims. Police in one county in California reported they would no longer pursue three of their most-wanted fugitives and a man charged with a murder for which prosecutors have sought the death penalty.
The authorities had previously told the FBI – which maintains a vast index of the nation's fugitives – that they would arrest each of those suspects if police anywhere else in the United States happened to find them, a process known as extradition. But in each case, police and prosecutors have since indicated they will no longer fetch the fugitives if they flee.
So each can now escape the charges simply by crossing state lines. And FBI records suggest many do.
Kelly points to the need for a strong criminal justice system, asserting explicitly that criminals belong in prison. Radical Left States and municipalities shouldn’t be mollycoddling criminals, but they do. The Radical Left Agenda has infected the entire Country.
Kelly writes,
Even to say that America ‘over-incarcerates’ people is a matter up for debate. ‘Over compared to what? There’s a lot of crime in America, and it’s gone up sharply since the glorious summer of 2020, when so many marched in honor of black lives. The United States puts a lot of people in prison, but we also have a high crime rate compared to other advanced nations. . . . But when it comes to the question of American overincarceration, consider the fact that, according to the FBI between 2010 and 2018 the United States averaged about 1.2 million violent ‘index crimes’ (murder and manslaughter, robbery, rape and assault) and vehicle theft, and arson) annually. But less than half of all violent crimes, and fewer than 20 percent of property crimes, are ‘cleared,’ meaning that most of these crimes go completely unpunished. Many crimes may have been committed by malefactors who were arrested and jailed for something else they did, but it’s not unreasonable to look at the data and realize that there are millions of people who ought to be in prison but aren’t. There is a solid argument to be made that we under-incarcerate.
BUT ARE GUNS A FACTOR FOR SOARING CRIME?
When Kelly asserts that “guns may be part of the reason” for high crime, he draws the tacit conclusion that New York’s constraints on the exercise of the right to armed self-defense are justified. But there is a missing premise in that argument.
The missing premise is: “Reduction of guns overall—in the hands of the law-abiding and criminal alike—will lead to lower crime rates.” But is that true?
If so, how is it that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens CAUSE or, at least, “CORRELATE” with a higher crime rate in New York City?
To my mind, and my business partners concur, this means either that law-abiding gun owners themselves happen to commit a statistically significant number of crimes, lending to the overall high crime rate, or that, for some unknown, mysterious, inexplicable reason, the total number of guns in the hands of both the non-criminal (law-abiding citizen) and criminal alike, accounts for the high crime rate.
The former proposition is demonstrably false. The latter is inherently vague and impossible to verify because no meaningful testable hypothesis can be generated from it.
While the U.S. does have extraordinarily large numbers of guns in circulation, it does not follow, logically or empirically, that this explains the high crime rate.
See the article, plus extensive use of graphs, published by the Crime Prevention Research Center on January 13, 2019, titled “UPDATED: Correcting Gun Control False Claims About ‘America’s Unique Gun Violence Problem’ And ‘How to Reduce Shootings.’”
The article is insightful.
Updated, originally Posted April 3, 2018: An article at Vox has gained attention for illustrating America’s ‘unique gun violence problem’ in 17 maps and charts. A similar New York Times opinion piece by Nicolas Kristof on ‘How to Reduce Shootings’ and another at the BBC titled ‘America’s gun culture in 10 charts’ have gained attention. Below, we will respond to the individual graphs on Vox’s and then on Kristof’s terms. But there are a lot of assumptions behind their graphs. Often, just one or two public health studies are cited to make a particular point, without discussing any of the known weaknesses with these studies. It would also be valuable for both to acknowledge and critique research that reaches the opposite conclusions.
There are many countries that have higher gun homicide rates than the United States, but simply don’t report firearm homicide data. Many of these meet the criteria to be members of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). While 192 countries report total homicides, only 116 countries report firearm homicides. The average homicide rate among countries that don’t have firearm homicide data is 11.1 per 100,000. The US rank based on firearm homicides looks higher than it actually is because the high homicide countries don’t report their firearm homicide rates.
Homicide is not synonymous with murder. Homicides count both murders and justifiable homicides (when a police officer or a civilian kills someone in self-defense). In the five years from 2011 to 2015, the US experienced 11,577 firearm homicides and 8,786.4 firearm murders. This gap is much larger in the US than in other countries, so comparing homicide rates gives a more unfavorable impression of the US than if we looked only at murder rates.
Murder isn’t a nationwide problem in the United States; there are vast swathes of the country that don’t experience any murders. It’s only a big problem in certain urban areas. In 2014, the worst 2 percent of counties accounted for 52 percent of the murders. Five percent of counties accounted for 68 percent of the murders. Even within these counties, there are large regions without any murders.
Clearly, drug gangs have contributed a lot to the violent crime problems in America’s cities. Drug dealers use guns to protect their very valuable property, and they supply guns just like they sell drugs. Unfortunately, it is just as difficult to stop drug dealers from getting a hold of guns as it is to stop them from getting a hold of illegal drugs.
The popular press likes to compare crime rates in different places at the same point in time. But academics are aware of the limitations of this simple, cross-sectional comparison. Gun control advocates often compare the US and the UK, pointing out that the UK has stricter gun control and lower homicide rates than the US. Omitted is the fact that the UK’s homicide rate went up relative to the US after its gun control laws were enacted.
The UK’s homicide rate was still lower than the US’s, but it was despite the country’s counterproductive gun control laws, not because of them. The homicide rate was very low even before the UK had any gun control laws. To understand the effects of the laws, we have to see how homicide rates change before and after their implementation. Then, we can compare these changes in crime rates with the changes in places that didn’t reform their laws.
One thing gun control advocates such as Vox would never mention is that every single time that guns are banned — either all guns or all handguns — homicide/murder rates rise. This is a remarkable fact. One would think that just due to random chance, one or two countries would have a drop in homicides after banning guns.
Vox begins its discussion on mass public shootings using data collected by Jaclyn Schildkraut of the State University of New York-Oswego and H. Jaymi Elsass, a researcher at Texas State University. Unfortunately, in December 2015, when it was pointed out that their list was missing a lot of cases, Washington Post ‘Fact Checker’ reporter Michelle Lee wrote Dr. Lott: ‘[Schilkraut] said they are still adding cases, and that it’s not a complete database.’ However, Schilkraut and Elsass had already gone public with their findings about how the U.S. compared to other countries. They did so with full knowledge that they were missing many shootings in foreign countries. Not only did they miss cases, but Vox also doesn’t present the numbers for different countries on a per capita basis. It is startling that Vox puts other numbers in per capita terms, but not these numbers. . . .
Vox offers no explanation for why it compares only these 14 countries or why the New York Times looks at just 11. The New York Times graph is also mislabeled, as it clearly concerns firearm homicides, not murders. OECD, the organization of developed countries, has 34 member nations. But 192 countries worldwide provide homicide data.
The US rate looks much higher relative to other countries, but that is primarily because the countries with the highest homicide rates are the ones that don’t report their firearm homicide rates. Indeed, about 45% of the countries that report homicide numbers don’t report firearm homicide data.
Excluding the US, it’s not true that there is an association between more guns and more gun deaths. In fact, higher gun ownership rates are associated with lower homicide rates.”
The problem of high crime rate, that Kelly discusses, is grounded on THE TRUTH OF THE PROPOSITION THAT THE U.S. DOES IN FACT “UNDER-INCARCERATE,” as Kelly says. But that high crime rate has nothing to do with guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens in New York City or anywhere else in the Country.
More handguns in the hands of the law-abiding citizen prevent the dire impact of crime since the armed citizen is in a position to protect both his life and that of others, as the Crime Prevention Research Center points out, supra.
Kelly is now aware of this and has since corrected the error in his book, albeit without referencing it.
I refer to Kelly’s remarks on Newsmax TV, “Greg Kelly Reports,” replayed on YouTube.
Kelly titled that story, “Mass shootings wouldn't happen if people had guns”.
Commenting on the horrific shooting incident in Maine on October 28, 2023, Kelly was spot on when he stated that, had one or more citizens been armed, the number of casualties would have been significantly fewer. He also mentioned that people could not rely on the police because they were nowhere in the vicinity to engage the maniac.
In that commentary, Kelly added something one would think need not require mentioning and should not need mentioning, namely that “to keep and bear arms, it’s in the Constitution.” What could be more plain?
But many people take their cue from Joe Biden and other dangerous imbeciles like him. Biden and other members of the “Radical Left” presume, wrongly, that the Second Amendment doesn’t mean what it says but denotes something less than THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE it is.
“THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS” OPERATES AS A CONSTRAINT ON GOVERNMENT ACTION AGAINST IT.
THE RIGHT IS PREEXISTENT IN MAN.
IT IS NOT A THING CREATED BY THE GOVERNMENT. FOR, IF THE GOVERNMENT WERE THE CREATOR OF THE RIGHT, THAT WOULD MEAN THE RIGHT REMAINS NONEXISTENT UNLESS OR UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT CREATES IT. THE RADICAL LEFT WRONGLY BELIEVES THIS TO BE THE CASE.
ALONG WITH THAT ERRONEOUS ASSUMPTION IS THE IDEA THAT THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IS PROTECTED BY AND ENFORCED BY THE GOVERNMENT. THAT IS ALL PATENTLY UNTRUE. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT NEED NOR DO THEY WANT THE GOVERNMENT’S PROTECTION OF OR ENFORCEMENT OF IT.
FOR, THROUGH THE PEOPLES’ EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT, THEY PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT THEIR FRIEND IF THE PUBLIC SHOULD HAVE NEED OF FEDERAL OR STATE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THEIR LIBERTY INTERESTS. THE PEOPLE ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF PROTECTING THEIR LIBERTY INTERESTS WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
WERE THAT OTHERWISE, IT WOULD MEAN THAT THE GOVERNMENT, AS THE CREATOR OF THE RIGHT, WOULD HAVE THE SOLE POWER TO ENFORCE IT AND “PROTECT IT” (WHATEVER THAT MEANS) AND, IF IT SO CHOSE, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD RETAIN SOLE POWER TO REVOKE THE COMMON MAN’S EXERCISE OF IT AND TO MODIFY IT, OR ABROGATE IT; REJECT OR JETISON IT, OR ENCROACH ON THE CORE OF IT WHENEVER THE GOVERNMENT SO WISHED. NONE OF THAT IS TRUE.
So, to say that the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IS IN THE CONSTITUTION IS TRUE acknowledges the OBVIOUS, TRIVIALLY TRUE FACT, which may not, unfortunately, be recognized by many Americans, WHO may not be AWARE THAT OUR NATION HAS A BILL OF RIGHTS.
AND, IF THEY ARE AWARE OF THIS, THEY MAY, NONETHELESS, NOT BE AWARE OF THE IMPORT AND PURPORT OF OUR BILL OF RIGHTS.
THE IMPORT OF OUR FUNDAMENTAL, UNALIENABLE RIGHTS IS THAT THE RIGHTS ARE NOT CREATIONS OF MAN OR OF HIS ARTIFICES (SUCH AS GOVERNMENT).
THE RIGHT EXISTS INHERENTLY IN MAN, AND PREEXISTS CREATION OF ALL GOVERNMENT.
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL FUNDAMENTAL, UNALIENABLE, ETERNAL, AND ILLIMITABLE RIGHTS, FOR IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS NECESSARY TO KEEP TYRANNY AT BAY—THAT IS TO SAY, ESSENTIAL TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM.
THEREFORE, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS DOES NOT DERIVE ITS EFFICACY FROM A WRITTEN EXPRESSION OF IT. THE LANGUAGE MERELY CODIFIES THE RIGHT.
THE EXISTENCE OF THE RIGHT DOES NOT, THEN, PROCEED FROM NOR IS IT DEPENDENT ON OVERT DESCRIPTION SET DOWN IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
AQ takes as axiomatic—and consistent with the position held by the Framers of our Constitution——THAT “THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS” IS NATURAL LAW, BESTOWED IN MAN BY THE DIVINE CREATOR.
THE RIGHT IS NOT BORN OF, NOR DOES IT EMANATE FROM, OR SPRING FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT ITSELF—WHICH WOULD SUGGEST THAT IT IS SIMPLY A CREATURE OF GOVERNMENT. IT IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN SO CONCEIVED BY THE FRAMERS.
The SECOND AMENDMENT simply CODIFIES what PREEXISTS IN MAN.
HAD THE SECOND AMENDMENT NEVER BEEN SET DOWN IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS, THE RIGHT WOULD STILL EXIST IN MAN, BEYOND THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT TO DENY OR TO TOY WITH IN ANY MANNER.
THESE ARE SIGNIFICANT, SEMINAL POINTS.
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, i.e., THE RIGHT TO ARMED SELF-DEFENSE, ALONG WITH OTHER NATURAL LAW RIGHTS, ARE PRECISELY THE SORTS OF THINGS THE RADICAL LEFT REFUSES TO ACCEPT.
THE RADICAL LEFT ABHORS THE VERY CONCEPT OF NATURAL LAW THEORY AND OUR NATION’S NATURAL LAW JURISPRUDENCE THAT UNDERPIN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
OUR FUNDAMENTAL, UNALIENABLE, ETERNAL RIGHTS ARE SACROSANCT AND INVIOLATE. THEY ARE BESTOWED ON AND IN MAN BY THE DIVINE CREATOR.
IF ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT HAPPENS TO ACCEPT THIS ONLY IN THEORY, YOU WON’T SEE ANYTHING MADE OF IT IN PRACTICE. THAT GOVERNMENT TREATS ALL RIGHTS—EVEN “FUNDAMENTAL” RIGHTS—SIMPLY AS MAN-MADE CREATIONS, SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION OR ABROGATION OR AD HOC TAMPERING.
OUR BILL OF RIGHTS IS DIFFERENT. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CREATE THESE RIGHTS AND IS NOT THE ENFORCER OF THEM. RATHER, THE AMERICAN CITIZEN ENFORCES HIS FUNDAMENTAL, UNALIENABLE, UNMODIFIABLE, ETERNAL, AND ILLIMITABLE GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS—RIGHTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT LAWFULLY ABROGATE, IGNORE, REPEAL, OR TAMPER WITH OR TOY WITH IN ANY MANNER—AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
NO OTHER CITIZEN (OR “SUBJECT) OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY OR POLITICAL SYSTEM CAN LEGITIMATELY MAKE SUCH A CLAIM. THIS IS WHAT SERVES TO DIFFERENTIATE OUR COUNTRY AND OUR PEOPLE FROM ALL OTHER COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES ON THIS EARTH, AND IT IS WHAT MAKES AMERICANS UNIQUELY AND TRULY “AMERICAN.”
IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE FREE EXERCISE OF THESE SACRED RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES THAT WE, AMERICANS, ARE ABLE TO KEEP TYRANNY AT BAY. PEOPLE OF NO OTHER NATION CAN EVER HOPE TO DO SO BUT MUST EVER DEPEND ON THE SOVEREIGN STATE TO TEMPER ITS PROCLIVITY AND INCLINATION TO TYRANNY.
THUS, THE RADICAL LEFT IN OUR COUNTRY SEEKS, AS A MAJOR GOAL, TO ERASE FROM THE MIND AND HEART OF AMERICANS ANY NOTION OF NATURAL LAW RIGHTS THAT REST WELL BEYOND THE LAWFUL POWER OF THE STATE TO WEAKEN AND EVENTUALLY ELIMINATE.
IF THE RADICAL LEFT COULD ERASE OUR NATURAL LAW RIGHTS—ESPECIALLY THE RIGHT TO ARMED SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF GOVERNMENT, IT WOULD DO SO.
DOING SO WOULD MAKE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THEIR AIM TO IMPOSE TOTALITARIANISM (UNABASHED TYRANNY) ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO MUCH EASIER.
I will explore this matter in depth in the next segment.
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*AQ is aware that the expression ‘RADICAL LEFT’ is, grammatically, a singular noun and pronoun usage should reflect that. However, we will take poetic liberty when using pronouns to describe it, substituting the plural, ‘THEY,’ or ‘THEIR,’ and ‘THEM’ for the usual ‘IT’ and ‘ITS.’ On that score, the RADICAL LEFT should have little to quibble about, given the much greater liberties they take, having MULTIPLIED ENTITIES UNNECESSARILY with all the nonsense centering around the idea of a multiplicity of “genders” they have conjured up.
Some readers may find all this amusing. Others may find this hypocritical and not amusing, as we seem to be doing something akin to the similar mauling and pummeling of the English language demanded by the RADICAL LEFT, requiring that the public embrace the politically correct gender-neutral terminology and a hodge-podge of newly constructed “gender-specific“ terminology of a purported “victimized” class lest those suffering from Gender Dysphoria, a mental aberration recognized by Psychiatry that appears in the DSM-5-TR, become annoyed.
See, e.g., the AP article published March 24, 2017, by Lauren Easton, regarding the use of pronouns in a radically transformed America.
We are aware of the allusion, so we make note of it and strongly object to it, for this is but one more instance of the RADICAL LEFT intention to confound the American Psyche through a deceitful, wholly uncalled-for, artificial alteration of the English language.
Contrariwise, our intentions are wholly innocuous in utilizing the plural ‘THEY’ for the singular ‘IT’ when we mention and discuss the “RADICAL LEFT” THROUGH USE OF PLURAL PRONOUNS.
We will do this to make clear we are referencing and emphasizing the salient components of this powerful, ruthless, and dangerous force that has captured both the major institutions of our Country and the psyche of the American people.
On the way to transforming the Nation out of all semblance of its natural form as a TRULY FREE Republic—THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD—THIS “RADICAL LEFT” is coldly, callously sucking the very life and vitality out of our Nation and its people.
This isn’t an unplanned, unintended consequence of the Radical Left’s agenda and aims, and one would be sorely mistaken to think it so and to dismiss it as such. It is all “part and parcel” with their agenda and aims.
The Radical Left would have a difficult time of it, accomplishing its far-reach aim of instituting a ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT, if it were unable to annihilate the singularly most powerful Independent, Sovereign State IN ALL OF Western Civilization today, the United States of America, IF IT IS UNABLE TO BRING A ONCE PROUD NATION AND ITS PEOPLE TO ITS KNEES.
Brainwashing the American people—turning many of them into, a barely conscious, amorphous, incoherent, blubbering mob, inculcated with the precepts of Herbert Marcuse Marxism and Mao Zedong Collectivism, and then detaining and imprisoning those inured to the sophisticated, all-encompassing indoctrination program thrust on the populace, and unwilling to pretend to conform to it—is the primary vehicle utilized BY THE RADICAL LEFT TO DESTROY the SOUL, SPIRIT, AND MIND OF THE CITIZENRY.