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Judy Kaplan Warner's avatar

Yes, less government. But remember what John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For a long time the majority of Americans fit the bill, including most immigrants. But two things have changed this. First, Roosevelt's New Deal led the way to big government that gave too many people the idea that the government should take care of them. And second, we have admitted hordes of people who didn't come here for freedom. They don't think the way we do and don't want to learn our ways. They are not suited to self-government (which means less government), to say the least. A considerable number think the government is their sugar daddy who owes them a lot of money. What to do except send them back to where they won't have self-government, of course.

Maha's avatar

The nation's--and the State's--law enforcement agencies need to get back to the task of culling the amoral from the herd. Of course, some in law enforcement, who haven't been removed already, will need to be removed to allow improvement in the general population.

Elwood R. Bernat's avatar

Who are the amoral of the Nation and States law enforcement agencies?

And what is meant by “get back to culling the amoral herd”?

I think I know what you mean but it can be misconstrued without specifics.

Unfortunately the “likes” system we have been given to communicate relegates long paragraphs with receipts to explain are naturally less read and sent to the bottom, encouraging responses of a few lines that do not say much accept agreement.

Please take the time to be more specific.

Michael Heath's avatar

Thank you, Patriot John Leake~!

This is an absolutely perfect article for today~!

Happy 4th of July~!

Sincerely, Mike

John Leake's avatar

Thank you! Happy 4th to you!

Jason's avatar
3hEdited

The problem is our government is not just influenced, but controlled by the strongest foreign lobby in the world. We are humiliated on a global level for funding and participating in Israel’s war crimes. But it goes far beyond that, they control our financial institutions, 94% of mainstream media, social media and every version of Media globally, Hollywood, our immigration system and a large share of big Pharma. They use these institutions to shape our political landscape, and when that isn’t enough and the bribery of AIPAC isn’t getting them everything they want, they set up an island where they used their military intelligence to abduct children around the world to be raped and tortured so they could blackmail our politicians.

Until this root cause is addressed, no amount of elections or activism will make a dent in our collective suffering. There is literally no other topic of equal importance on earth.

Maha's avatar

John, as a well read scholar of history, you would be perfect to describe the history of fraud and corruption in our government. When did we first veer from the Founding Father's vision and the constraints of the Constitution to reach a point where government malfeasance and graft are axiomatic? As a article it would be fascinating, and as a book it could be foundational for historians.

Happy 4th of July!

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

It has sure been going on for a Loooong time. You can read Mark Twain's book to get an idea of this same crapp: "The Gilded Age, a Tale of Today"

and, HOW ironic the name, huh?!

evergreen's avatar

Government was principally organized defense against external invasion and a judicial system to keep order among the organized. Period.

Otherwise, self interest, natural commerce, and goodwill among men takes care of the rest.

Note that lack of common culture undercuts goodwill or goes so far as to become a de facto invasion.

Translation: the current diversity has thrown the govt into full, official, mandatory incompetence.

David Weiner's avatar

That is a very questionable assertion. Research into the origins of the State suggest that it originated in conquest and its goal was to exploit the vanquished. Ongoing taxation was more profitable than wholesale one-time looting. Some form of justice and protection were only thrown in to mitigate resistance.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

Let's not forget the incredible achievement of Operation Warp Speed which POTUS Trump says has saved millions of lives. I guess that if it removes future warmongers from the gene pool it will have done that. When will RFK Jr be rolling out the next booster?

Michael Heath's avatar

There actually are some of us who have for MANY decades understood that the criminals of humanity (AKA; "The Swamp") have been plotting to dramatically depopulate America and the world via numerous methods. Research the now destroyed "Georgia Guidestones". Americans who were actually awake and paying attention know that President Trump's FIRST response to the supposed COVID outbreak was to attempt to warn everyone that it was a "hoax" (A lethal false flag attack). Upon doing so, President Trump was IMMEDIATELY attacked by the criminals of humanity and every lunatic fool in the country, all driven by the criminals of humanities completely owned and controlled corrupt mainstream media. So, President Trump did his best, but as he could not stop the largest scale mass murder democide in history that the criminals of humanity (basically the so-called "socialists" = communists = satanists & Luciferians) had unleashed, he moved forward with the white hats already planned Military counter strategy "Operation Warp Speed" which was intended to minimize the dangerous and deadly vaccine injuries and deaths~! Therefore, Operation Warp Speed was highly successful, because the criminals of humanity were not prepared with enough deadly mRNA laced vaccines and political/governmental power to follow through with their evil depopulation agenda. RFK Jr. is also an American hero, who has also been working to destroy the plans of the criminals of humanity from a medical & healthcare aspect, as was JUST announced when it was specifically revealed that "Bill Gates would not get another nickel of funding" from the US government~! Tragically, most Americans are completely ignorant of the fact that not all vaccines are delivered by an invasive needle (injection), and Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and several other absolutely proven remedies are also technically considered to be "vaccines"~! Most people may remember that Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and numerous other remedies (AKA; "vaccines") were massively vilified, banned, and even prevented from being purchased, by the same criminals of humanity who didn't want their mass murder democidal assault to be ruined. Everyone has been Brainwashed by the evil criminals of humanity from birth, but some of us have broken their own chains of enslavement and "we" know best how to analyze what is REALLY going on. You would think that now, after nearly ALL of the previously so-called "conspiracy theories" have been proven to have been true all along, the "useful idiots" would have learned their lessons and NOT constantly be making complete fools out of themselves~! Have a happy 4th of July and celebrate the fact that these evil and ruthless criminals of humanity have not already killed 90%+ of the world's population as they have long planned~!

Sincerely, Mike

Barbara Charis's avatar

President Trump recommended HCQ...and my daughter bought some. We both were hit with CV within hours of each other...and she made me take her one prescription of HCQ. I went to bed at 6 pm and slept for 18 hours...woke up and had breakfast. My daughter wound up sick in bed for two weeks. I read that our country was being threatened with a lockdown for ten years, while another more powerful CV vaccine was created. It said that President Trump's Warp Speed prevented the lockdown.

Michael Heath's avatar

You are absolutely correct, Patriot Babara Charis~!

President Trump did in fact recommend a couple of the MOST effective medical treatments in the world, and he was ruthlessly vilified for doing so every step of the way, which intentionally directly led to MANY millions of deaths and MANY more disabilities. Thank God that your daughter bought some HCQ at just the right time to save you, because it was an absolute death sentence for most who went into the deadly hospitals who got Remdesivir and put on ventilators, where the hospitals were collecting between $40K to $60K each for falsely listing the dead as "COVID" deaths~! I am assuming that your daughter is now, OK? We here were never fooled by the COVID mass murder because of our long dedication in several fields of science and the fact that we are American Constitutionalists. My long-suffering wife was one of the best vascular ultrasound experts in the world, so we knew all about the so-called "blood clots" that were obvious in the mRNA injected vaccine victims. She was fired just for answering her patients' questions honestly, her long outstanding career was attacked, she was threatened with criminal prosecution, and to date we have lost well over 1 million dollars just for doing our duty~! Even though we never got any COVID vaccines, and we never will take another vaccine of any kind, we still regularly "de-tox" ourselves with more natural and inexpensive treatments, because the criminals of humanity are NOT fooling around with their mass murder agenda and there are MANY lethal risks that most folks are unaware of~! Your information is excellent, because this mass murder COVID democide was initially planned to continue for at least 10 years, under strict lockdown, so the criminals would be able to slaughter an enormous number of Americans and folks all over the world, and steal all of the elections, power, and money that they could get~! If Hillary had won VS President Trump in 2016. a MASSIVE civil war would still be underway, and most Americans would be either dead or dying today... President Trump and the white hats very likely stopped TWO nuclear bombs from being triggered by these monsters, one in Los Angeles, and the other one in Seattle, Washington.... Maybe even more that we are currently unaware of... Human and child trafficking, many other deadly bioweapons, DEW's (Directed Energy Weapons), weather weapons, and many more lethal threats have been and are being dealt with by President Trump and the global alliance, so keep the faith! The fact that there is a HUGE 4th of July celebration ongoing in NY Harbor and Washington DC right now, is very good proof that "we" (American Patriots) are winning this old war against humanity and America, so keep up the great work talking with others and doing what you can~!

Sincerely, Mike

Jason Brain's avatar

"Most of our wealth today depends on debt." There is no independence if there is this much debt. Ron's final Congress speech still resonates: https://rumble.com/v7c6zjs-flashback-2012-ron-pauls-final-floor-speech-to-congress.html

BertPE's avatar

John, as J. D. Vance just said, you are one of the small voices that can speak of nothing but America’s sins, no grace of forgiveness that a Christian would have. May your leaching on the greatness of this country to gain fame and fortune come to an abrupt end and soon. I for one will never read another word you write and am pulling my subscription immediately. Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY jerk, and, after you study it thoroughly, you can stick J. D.’s speech where the sun don’t shine.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Great essay today, John. I had NO knowledge whatever of Burke's words to the wise. thanks for this bit of historical knowledge.

Parliament ignored him; the King ignored him; the generals ignored him.

Similar to how all those concerned about the nearly $40 trillion national debt are being ignored today.

Inevitably, change is due.

SteelJ's avatar

Yup, limited government power is the only way to go. That's intuitively obvious to anyone capable of thinking a couple of layers deep. Trouble is, that's a small minority. Most think in terms of "there oughta be a law". If a bill is proposed that sounds like it will do good things, they think "sure, who could be against that?". A simple-minded populace ends up under the tyranny it brings upon itself. Thanks for your brilliant efforts though John, it matters.

Deep Dive's avatar

Great points, John.

I used Gutenberg Project to bring up that presentation by Edmund Burke, and then performed some math on the growth of Pennsylvania's imports: They grew 44-fold for the 68 years from 1704 - 1772 -- which is a 68-year average average annual growth rate of 5.7%.

Holy Capitalism!

Even if you chalk-up 2.5% of that average annual economic growth to population growth, then you still end up with per-capita growth -- for 68 years in a row-- which averaged over 3% yearly. It is amazing what humans can do when government gets itself out of their way!

Thanks John, and happy Independence Day!

Elwood R. Bernat's avatar

Man did I get relegated to the bottom in a hurry by the “like” system of viewership.

Facts do not matter in a system of hierarchal niceties. It ain’t censorship, but it works to create conformity.

Elwood R. Bernat's avatar

Poor John Leake, the victim of the deep States media that created “orange man bad” takes another cheap shot at President Trump and the Federal government that Jonny says he voted for by waxing poetic history again on America’s birthday. With a veiled attempt using Britain’s Sir Edmund Burke (MP) to get back at President Trump for doing away with his Libertarian Representative buddies Massie, Paul, and the like of Tucker Carlson ilk, they all love their namesake liberty, with inalienable rights, so many rights and independence, except that they never want to acknowledge that evil exists, even the evangelicals among them, and that it must be maintained and defended by the citizenry against evil. Yet like liberal Jefferson to whom we owe much gratitude of his grand literal eloquence and penmanship, when Mr Revere cried the “British are coming”, the Virginia was immediately abandoned by him.

How dare you John take the words and parts of phrases to paraphrase the words of Sir Burke by saying, in your interpretation that those who chose to defend the colonies were “the colonists that resented the government in London and formed a jealous, hyper vigilant attachment to liberty”. The “government” in London was not just the Monarchial King George III, but a dystopian government of Monarchial kingdoms over serfdom that had been warring for centuries at their own demise, and to this day have their hooks in American policy.

If anything John it was the “jealousy” of the old Monarchial bloodlines that coveted the successes of the colonies they desperately found themselves loosing control of.

You want to wax history John try this:

1)The American colonies without Federal oversight had the Articles of Confederation and were so individually fickle about each others responsibility toward the idea of unity and financial responsibility of defending themselves that Congress could not get them to agree on payment to support the Revolutionary war and so the poorest in the colonial army starved to death without shoes and food in winter until Federal oversight of the Constitution mandated fair representation of responsibility to those patriots who give the last full measure.

2) The thirteen colonies had more than enough food, furs, and “golden” cotton without slavery to feed and cloth themselves, but it was the Monarchial bloodline of Eurasia run by the Banks of London and the likes of Lloyd’s of London’s global insurer’s scams that promulgated the slave trade in America to supply the “golden cotton” from America’s Southern Virginian and Georgian colonies to supply Europe with highly valued clothing.

The Euro aristocracy with which you and fellow libertarians so often relate to, love their fine things, especially clothing, art, and in your case waxing on about liberty, like the Mises of Austria, claiming to be “neutral”, except when the Nazi’s rolled in and they helped them round up the “Jews and gypsies”.

I can do this all day John but as an infantry combat veteran for my money I’ll take a Washington, Hamilton, and the Federalist papers that remind the fickle liberals in conservative clothing that evil is indeed existential, and without Federal oversight, one by one the fickle States would fall as we witness today because they’ve been convinced that democracy should be pure, not tethered by a Constitution, and “open” globally, the world that lives abroad should vote to determine your rights.

Rebuilding a six decades old intentionally emasculated DEI military, closing the border to illegal murders, rapists and the criminally insane from abroad, and reducing the size of Federal government to be bloated by enemies to America and removing the chaos from Democrat run cities were the first to be addressed by the current administration.

Time to renew your TDS meds John. Other than that you are a perfect gentleman, well traveled, perhaps a nice guy, and with exception a smart man.

Daniel Wirt's avatar

How many of the grievances listed by the patriots 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence could be raised against the Trump regime now?

https://youtu.be/iGX98wGcwE4?is=qNa7RmoceeGNAa-H