The Slippery Slope to a Constitution-Free America by John W. Whitehead April 13, 2018 “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”—Benjamin Franklin The ease with which Americans are prepared to welcome boots on the ground, regional lockdowns, routine invasions of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses is beyond unnerving. I am referring at this particular moment in time to President Trump’s decision to deploy military forces to the border in a supposed bid to protect the country from invading bands of illegal immigrants. This latest attempt to bamboozle the citizenry into relinquishing even more of their rights is commonly referred to as letting the wolves guard the henhouse. Never mind that using the U.S. military as a police force constitutes a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Never mind that America’s police have already been transformed into a standing army. Never mind that the borders ...
Korea Remains None of the U.S. Government’s Business by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2018 While pundits can engage in endless debate over whether President Trump’s sanctions forced North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un to the negotiating table or whether Kim’s threat of firing nuclear weapons at the United States forced Trump to the negotiating table, one thing that the mainstream commentators are ignoring is the discomforting fact that Korea remains none of the U.S. government’s business. Let’s keep in mind that this is a civil war we are dealing with, no different in principle from America’s civil war. The Korean civil war is no more the business of the U.S. government than the U.S. civil war was the business of the Korean government. There is another discomforting fact that the pundits seem to ignore: The original U.S. intervention into the Korean civil war was illegal under our form of government. That’s because under the U.S. form of constitutional government, the president and the Pentagon are prohibited by law from waging war against another nation-state without first ...
JFK and the Inconceivable Doctrine, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 4, 2018 Three years ago, I wrote an article entitled “JFK and the Inconceivable Doctrine,” in which I pointed how many lone-nut theorists in the JFK assassination have reached their conclusion based not on an examination of the circumstantial evidence in the case but instead simply on the notion that it is inconceivable that the U.S. national-security establishment would have carried out a domestic regime-change operation by assassinating an American president. I would invite readers to read or review that article. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on this theme. A lone-theorist might say, “Jacob, it is just inconceivable that the CIA and the Pentagon would engage in assassination.” Yet, the evidence is overwhelming that both the Pentagon and the CIA have assassinated people and, in fact, continue to assassinate people. The circumstantial evidence indicates that as far back as 1953 the CIA was specializing in the art of assassination. That fact is demonstrated by the discovery in the 1990s of a ...
The Tyranny of Immigration Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2018 Imagine the following conversation: John: Oh, my head hurts so bad. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Jack: If you stopped beating your head against that wall, your headache would go away. John: You libertarians are always so impractical and extreme. My headache has nothing to do with the fact that I am beating my head against this wall. I ...
Bush’s Wrong-Headed View on Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2018 Like other conservatives, former President George W. Bush has a muddled understanding of the foreign-policy principles of "interventionism" and "isolationism." In a recent speech to a group in Washington, D.C., called the Atlantic Council, Bush decried President Trump’s foreign policy of “isolationism,” which Bush said was dangerous. Invoking Winston Churchill to explain his foreign-policy philosophy, Bush stated: America is indispensable for ...
Why the Silence from Libertarian Immigration Controllers? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2018 Let’s recap some of the recent events in the federal government’s decades-long war on illegal immigrants, a war that is part and parcel of a system of immigration controls, which a small segment of conservative-oriented libertarians have supported in the past. A couple of months ago, a team of well-armed ICE agents raided a privately owned slaughterhouse in Tennessee. According ...
Could a U.S. Domestic Coup Ever Be Justified? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2018 Even though he undoubtedly doesn’t realize it, a man named Jose Cardenas, a former acting assistant administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush administration, has indirectly weighed in on the John Kennedy assassination. That’s because foreignpolicy.com has just published an article by him endorsing a military coup against Venezuelan ...
The Best Answer to Trump’s Tariffs: Free Trade by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2018 In the Bible it says, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone . . .” It also has been said that the one who strikes the second blow starts any fight. If the world is to avoid trade wars due to tariffs being imposed by the Trump Administration, both the United States and ...
We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2018 “We’re run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy… We all live in a little Village. ...
Lee Harvey Oswald and Spenser Rapone by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2018 The U.S. military’s treatment of Army Lt. Spenser Rapone provides additional circumstantial evidence that the official story about accused lone-nut presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is pure bunk. Rapone is a West Point graduate who was admitted to West Point after serving as an enlisted man in Afghanistan. Recently, the army brass gave him a less-than-honorable discharge. The reason? Rapone ...
The Constitution Is Not Neutral by John W. Whitehead July 6, 2018 “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are ...
Constitutional Conservatives Fail the Drug Test by Laurence M. Vance July 13, 2018 The announced retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court (effective July 31, 2018) has conservatives salivating over the prospects of Donald Trump’s nominating a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court. Although Kennedy was nominated to the High Court by Ronald Reagan, he has at times disappointed conservatives with some of his votes, especially ...
