Author: Publius

  • Birth Right Citizenship

    Amendment 14 to the Constitution Article 1 states:

    “Section 1.
    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

    EVERY person born in this Country after 1868 is covered by this amendment. No matter who your parents are or where they came from. Whether your ancestor were Native American, Hispanic, African, Irish, Scottish, English, Slavic, German, French or whatever your genetic heritage may be. And all of your civil rights come from this amendment because it accurately and succinctly states who is a citizen and they have the rights stated within Our Constitution.

    Our current President has decided to do away with this by Executive Order. A lower court ruling the Executive Order was not constitutional and that ruling was appealed, the ruling was upheld and now the Trump Administration has an appeal that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear. Should the Supreme Court rule in favor of the Trump Administration overturning over 150 years of interpretation and Supreme Court precedent then that would give our president the right make away ANY PERSON BORN OR NATURALIZED citizen, essentially, an illegal immigrant. What a way to deal with all of your enemies! No right to due process, you can’t vote, you can’t travel anywhere, don’t matter you if were or are in the military, no rights at all, at least according to our new version of the Gestapo – ICE. And then they have total control of you. All of material assets are now government property and if you are lucky you might get deported to Sudan or more likely you will be put in an ICE controlled work camp and used for slave labor. Don’t buy the snake oil that it will only apply to present illegal immigrants, or to Foreign women who happen to be in the United States when they give birth. IT WILL APPLY TO ANYONE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO SUPPRESS !!!!

    But that is not all if the Supreme Court decides in favor of the Trump Administration they will have held that these six justices, the same ones who gave the President Total Lifetime Immunity from prosecution no matter what type transgression is committed, will solidify their power to declare any part of the Constitution is unconstitutional, As logically absurd that is. The Framers gave us a two ways to change the Constitution; Congress can propose an Amendment and send it to the States for ratification or for the States to call for a constitutional convention to hammer out they changes that all of them can agree on.

    The Supreme Court may have made some bad judgements in the past but the Court has never given anything close to the power this court has given to this President. All in the name of the Federalist Society and Project 2025. Let them know that we are watching them and their puppeteers that they are still accountable to We the People.

  • Illegal Orders and Military Justice

    Recently 6 six members of the Congress, five military veterans and one CIA veteran posted a video reminding the members of our military that they have a right and and an obligation to refuse an Illegal Order. They stated truth there is a body of military law that defines that right and potential consequences for NOT refusing an illegal, refusing orders that are legal, and the difference between them and the procedures to follow. Every person now serving in our military has had training in this area of military law, Including Pete Hegseth our “Secretary of War”. The actions the fleet that is now sitting off the coast of a sovereign nation, Venezuela, in international waters striking “Narco-Terrorist boats” sinking them, killing all on board and making sure there are no survivors are EXTREMELY sketchy. What is the intelligence used to identify these boats? Why is such information being withheld from Congress? And why are we ordering our military to KILL survivors which if they were indeed drug runners could provide more information on their operations which could result more interdiction of drugs? Without answers to these questions that are truthful, at best our Navy is being used as a pirate fleet, no better than the Somali pirates that terrorize lawful users of international water. At worst this is an extreme violation of the Geneva Convention, and are classed as war crimes. I can only hope the Pete Hegseth is the one that gets charged in the international courts and eventually suffers ALL the consequences for HE is the one who is orchestrating the operations and if those being hit start fighting back that he will be held responsible for lives of our military personnel when they become subject to the same treatment as the survivors of his attacks. This is not the Warrior Ethos it is criminal behavior.

  • Stoppimg Government Shutdowns

    James Madison in The Federalist Number 10 November 22, 1787, about Factions in that Large Factions in our elected representative would tend suppress the rights of those factions in the minority. Today our Factions are Republicans and Democrats in the large category with independents in the minority. Madison saw as one possible outcome of a faction who had a majority in the government would tend support the Faction’s supporters above all else and suppress the factions in the minority. In this scenario the republic would fall.

    Keep this mind as we after 43 days of factional bickering and blame laying with a government that was shut down. Now that is ironic timing between the writing of the Federalist 10 and the reopening of the government from it’s longest shut down ever. We the people suffered while there were Gatsby Parties, Retreats for representatives and nobody wanting to do the job they were elected to do and refusing to compromise.

    I believe it is time for a constitutional Amendment to prevent this. I would propose:

    Congress MUST pass a COMPLETE budget funding ALL operations of the government and the President must sign said bill by October 1st of each year. Should the Congress and President fail to enact a COMPLETE Budget, Then the Government will continue to operate on the previous year’s Budget with no interference, such as funds redirection or reduction with the following exceptions: Any elected person, President, Senator, or Representative of the government shall lose their entire pay for the coming year. Further all of their support staff at any level from janitorial staff to aides and Cabinet Secretaries will be furloughed with full pay and benefits with the exception of Cabinet Secretaries until the new budget is passed and signed. The aforementioned elected persons will not be allowed to leave the capitol during this period or conduct any other business except for the budget. Congress shall be in Session for a minimum of 8 hours each and every day. If the Budget Bill is not passed by October 15th of the new budget year then Congress will be in session for 16 hours each and every day until a Budget Bill is passed.

    Should the elected Officials not meet the October 1st deadline any Budget Bill MUST pass the House of Representatives and Senate by a two thirds majority in each. The President shall sign the new duly passed budget bill within one hour of its passage. Should the President fail to do so, the new Budget Bill will become law without the President’s signature and extend the President’s loss of support staff, travel authority, and other privileges for an additional 30 days is mandatory.

    For the purposes of this amendment the Term “President” shall include the Vice-President except for signing unless the President is unable to perform his duty,