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January 30, 2026

12 questions, (B is a good guess)

1. “I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was going to be a strong suit of mine.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2019

                B. President Barack Obama, 2012

2. “But, let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high — unless you change the dynamic in Mexico and – and you will not like this, and – punish American employers who knowingly violate the law when, in fact, they hire illegals. Unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2017

                B. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), 2006

3. “Today, I will issue a national security memorandum directing every Federal department and agency to do even more to stop the flow of narcotics – including fentanyl – into our country. It will increase intelligence collection on traffickers’ evolving tactics to smuggle narcotics into our country. And it will help our law enforcement personnel seize more deadly drugs before they reach our communities.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2025

                B. President Joe Biden, 2024

4. “The United States and the world faced a choice. (The dictator) declared he would show ‘no mercy’ to his own people. He compared them to rats and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets and kill over a thousand people in a single day. It was not in our national interest to let that (massacre) happen. I refused to let that happen.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2026, about Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro

                B. President Barack Obama, 2011, about Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi

5. “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2025

                B. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), 2005

6. “Real reform means stronger border security … putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2026

                B. President Barack Obama, 2013

7. “Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. … People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally… Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress on dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now…When we use phrases like undocumented workers we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combatting illegal immigration. If you don’t think it’s illegal, you’re not going to say it. I think it is illegal and wrong.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2017

                B. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), 2009

8. “Because we do need to address the issue of immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country. We certainly don’t want any more coming in.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2019

                B. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 2008

9. “All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. … We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2020

                B. President Bill Clinton, 1995

10. “I think we can enforce our borders. I think we should enforce our borders.”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2018

                B. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), 1994

11. “If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that. Right? … If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship…”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2017

                B. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), 1993

12. “A biometric-based employment verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States…”

                A. President Donald Trump, 2020

                B. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), 2009

Hint: If it’s not too late, consider betting on “B.”

December 25, 2025

Open Letter to Pres. Trump, 12/25/25

Filed under: Political Commentary — Tags: , , , , , , , — justplainbill @ 10:32 pm

Suggested Solutions

printed: September 3, 2025

Illegal Aliens:

By definition, an illegal alien is a criminal, all other crimes are add-ons to the original crime of breaching the immigration laws, thus, various categories should be addressed in order to provide for a reasonable solution. Many categories are compounded by the over-matching of the different enforcement agencies, for example, the tax violations with the social security violations with the actual criminal violations, &c.

Two major categories are the economic violations coupled with the tax violations. As such, we may separate those who have not committed criminal misconduct, such as murder +/or trespass, phrased simply as felonies and misdemeanors. Thus, we can separate these two groups of criminals by using current definitions and apply the appropriate, political, judicial, and social, remedies, that should satisfy all reasonable people, although triggering the ideologues.

Keeping in mind, that all solutions to this problem are legislative with the only power of The Executive being to implement Law.  See Article I and Article II of The Constitution of the United States 1788 as amended.

Simple illegals who have crossed and have been model citizens, with jobs, no criminal record other than false or stolen social security numbers +/or other simple identity frauds, excepting those of actual identity theft, and with the intent to assimilate, should be paroled.

All others should be prosecuted and either imprisoned or executed as appropriate to their crimes and the pertinent statutes. There should be NO exceptions, as this violates the current interpretations of the various discrimination decisions, especially those based on place of birth, race, national origin, and gender. To allow these criminals to remain without punishment discriminates against both legal residents and citizens of These United States. This policy eliminates the problem of deportations, as all of the crimes are inherently within the jurisdiction of the United States and its member States, and as such, imprisonment in local facilities is appropriate, not deportation until such time as the court ordered sentence is complete, and even then, the deportation should be immediate, as in within 24 hours. Although requiring an increase in prison facilities, overall, it should reduce the cost of this problem.

In order to be paroled, the illegal alien must admit to having committed the breach of the immigration laws, thus allowing for the court ordering a parole for the individual, much as a criminal consent decree. This required admission of guilt allows for the constitutionality of all of the following. Apparent conflicts between guidelines to be modified at the discretion of the Executive in the event that the legislation is ambiguous, but definitely not to be adjudicated by any Article I nor Article III nor any State’s court

  1. The parolee waives all rights to Due Process for a deportation if he commits any crime, felony +/or misdemeanor, subsequent to the parole. Any breach acts as an act of law, thereby not allowing for disputation of any kind;
  2. The parolee agrees to voluntarily leaving the country if within three years he has not learned English and can pass the then current citizenship test,
    1. A mandatory savings account may be required to cover the cost of this, assets to be returned at the passing of the test;
  3. The parolee agrees to never request citizenship, nor agree to sue on any grounds, other than performing three years of honorable military service, for such citizenship;
  4. The parolee agrees that no minor children of his are ever eligible for citizenship, but that grand-children with no criminal record may do so by satisfying the then current conditions for naturalized citizenship and specifically noted to be excluded from the rights and privileges of the native-born citizen;
  5. The parolee agrees to relinquishing, within (X) months, all forged documents, documents gotten for driving or for otherwise certifying skills of any or all kinds, and registering to retake all such certifications, including especially State issued documents which may be used to falsify citizenship or any or all skill sets regulated by any and all competent authorities, in English, especially those involving matters of trust or medical and legal expertise;
  6. The parolee presents evidence which must meet the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence, showing the date of entry into the country, or providing FRE evidence of date of birth, from which his taxes, Income, SSA, HCFA, &c, will be dated back to for payment and penalty, said dating to be established at the parolee’s  eighteenth birthdate.
    1. Said penalty may be waived at the discretion of the Executive, for purposes of establishing penalties, if any;
  7. The parolee pays an amount monthly, not to exceed 10% of his Adjusted Gross Income, nor for the total to exceed the amount to be estimated as his income tax liability dated from established date of entry, or 18th birthdate, and same to be penalty free at the discretion of the executive;
  8. No SSA or HCFA contributions made prior to the date of the parole shall accrue to the parolee’s accounts, but that from the date of the parole, same shall accrue and be treated in the same manner and form as all other accounts;
  9. The parolee agrees and consents that by accepting this parole, nothing herein is eligible for judicial review except to/+ through the office of The Secretary of State, and only with The Secretary’s consent and The Secretary’s approved administrative office and procedure or as otherwise provided for in the enabling legislation; &,
  10. Legislation for the purposes of Foreign Work Visas, Green Cards, Student Visas, &c., shall be separate from this parole legislation.

Criminals: all crimes committed within the Jurisdiction of These United States shall be adjudicated within the U.S., applying all pertinent statues and rules with the exception that no bail or bond shall be applied, but only incarceration up to the penalty hearing shall apply.

At no time shall an Illegal Alien have the citizen’s Right to Bail, as the risk of flight +/or repeat offenses is historically at or near 99.9999% as can be humanly determined. The history of allowing Bail is that the accused is not a risk for flight or repeat offenses, whereas the Illegal Alien is already a criminal, and by definition a flight risk to flee to foreign lands and by definition has no community ties to the U.S., as he is, by legal definition as established by The Supreme Court of the United States, an alien. For whom is covered by the U.S. Constitution, one may go back to the Dred Scott Decision; Scott vs Davis, according to Shepard’s, still a good ruling, although modified.

The Camp LeJeune Justice Act

How to screw Veterans while pretending tort restitution

Several years ago, The Congress, passed The Camp LeJeune Justice Act. It is based on the fact that from the late 1950’s through the late 1980’s, the water in the aquifer and Base water system was contaminated with dry cleaning fluids and aviation fuel from deteriorating WW II fuel tanks. Troops, dependents, and contractors have all suffered cancers, neurological diseases, death, and the typical tort damage of pain and suffering. The generals and responsible congressional committees having full knowledge of same. In The Act, Congress admits to total liability for these and other damages, waiving sovereign immunity.

Among congress’s errors and exacerbated by the federal judiciary and the Department of the Navy and the Department of Justice, is their failure to apply the Federal Torts Claims Act’s limitation on contingency fees. The FTCA limits fees to 10%. Currently, the thousands of claimants, are required to pay a range of 33% to 60% depending upon the locale of the law firm “handling” the case. Thus, the injured party will not receive an amount commensurate with the damages. To further add injury to the petitioner, is the fact that the local court has consolidated the filings into the hands of a small number of law firms, if information is correct, Wallace & Graham, of North Carolina, thus, most of these plaintiff’s lawyers will be unjustly enriched at the expense of the injured parties as their only legal activity will be to have filed the original petition, yet W&G will be doing almost all of the actual legal work and not getting paid.

Another problem is that the local judge decided to violate the VIIth Amendment by denying petitioners a jury trial in a Civil Case. The judge has decided that all on his own, he can determine all damages including the pain and suffering of everyone, including family members of those damaged, without the input of a jury nor of the victims. Bench trials being notorious for ignoring pain and suffering, as a matter of course.

Next is that both the DOJ and DON haven’t hired enough lawyers to handle these cases. Rumor has it that the Biden Administration simply ignored all budget requests for this matter. However, considering how many lawyers are in the JAG Reserves, these people could handle the bulk of the paper work on their weekends of ‘service’ and two weeks of ‘active’ duty.

Both the DOJ and DON, rumor again has it, have stalled to the point that the judge has threatened sanctions and censure over the course of the case. Hasn’t done so yet, of course.

In order to ease their own burden at the expense of the victims, DON has put out a schedule of payments for those who will drop their participation in exchange for immediate cash. A review of this schedule shows how DON is ignoring most rules of a tort claim by simply saying if you fall into this category, regardless of how injured you are or the complexity of the claim, we’ll pay you, right now, this six figure amount. DON hereby ignores how a victim may have multiple cancers, neurological diseases, injuries, loss of wages, pain & suffering, &c, but, hey, the judge is ok with all of this. By stalling, they’ve gotten away with avoiding numerous claims. Further, how many settled just to get it over with, and still had to pay 33 – 60% in contingency fees to those who have done nothing to earn it?

With the contingency fee rates as they are, in order for a veteran to receive reasonable compensation, the minimum claim should be settled for no less than $3,000,000.

Victims are dying daily, claims are being lost, and where is the justice for veterans? Somebody at DOD, DON, or Justice needs to get on this ASAP.

Education

The Not Department Thereof

The Bureaucratic Process at both the State and Federal levels are, except for the degree of corruption, in the moral sense, the same. A Legislature enacts block payments to the various educational districts, generally based on student attendance. Did you never wonder why attendance is taken at the beginning of every single class, every single day,  wasting the first ten to fifteen minutes of each fifty minute ‘teaching/learning period’? Payment is for attendance and not learning goals. Much of the bureaucracy is simply supervision over the paperwork of attendance. Notwithstanding Teachers’ Unions claims as to a building’s fitness, school supplies, &c., monies paid are all determined by attendance.

This is a carryover from the 18th Century, one room brick school-house where the one teacher was paid per student and the local community taxed, or in many cases, the parents were required to pay for this service, based on the number of children sent to school, then upon residential land values. Note that Judeo-Christian Parochial schools, still charge the parent per child, or the parent gets a scholarship from the local parish or community support groups, as these schools do not discriminate. Madrassas do the same, but unlike the others, only accept Muslim children. They are not open to the general public.

If implied, the parochial schools also assist in getting Public Assistance for the family. Yet, in addition to these costs, the parents are still required to pay taxes to support public schools to which they have no contact and from whom they receive no benefit and from which, according to recent audits, have failed miserably to teach reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, concentrating on the Green Hoax, DEI and CRT. Note how Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is required viewing in California Public Schools as science.

Experience suggests that school boards are merely steppingstones for the politically ambitious and are simply a testing ground for political correctness, thus having nothing to do with educating the children, but as a way for directing tax dollars to the appropriate entities. An example in Platte County MO is how in the Park Hill School District, Park Hill South High School was designed by a board member’s bubba, an architect who mostly designs prisons, and thus, how PHS looks and feels like a prison rather than an institute of learning.

A scam created by citizen indifference to history.

Further, it has been estimated that like hospital beds, over 30% of students are in private schools, and thus, tax funded schools are not carrying their ‘fair share’ of the educational burden, while in fact gaining 100% of the proceeds for duties and obligations for which they are not fulfilling. Many of these private schools are failing for lack of adequate funding, Kew-Forest among them.

Oddly enough, before LBJ’s Great Society, New York City and New York State had a system that was admired and followed by many other districts. They had a standardized City-wide testing program, and NYS a Regents Program, the corpses of each are still in existence, which ignored all discriminating factors thereby laying a very level playing field for all. Such field was demolished by the racist Affirmative Action programs, implying that the ‘under-classes’ are incapable of learning at the same level as the ‘privileged’. As proven by the likes of Charles Payne, Jason Riley, Thomas Sowell, PhD, Rev M. L. King, jr., ThD, and many others, not only was/is this position false, but it gave rise to a privileged underclass of superior beings and have passed fortunes onto race-baiters like Al Sharpton.

 See Ludwig von Mises, Fredrick Hayek, James Q. Wilson, Ralph Raico, Leonard Read, &c for actual, reasoned research and analysis of the negative aspects of raising one group above all others and how it diminishes and punishes the diminished groups. Hayek’s Economics in One Lesson, and Read’s Freedom in One Lesson are available at www.mises.org .

Currently, NYS has three levels of ‘acceptable’ secondary school achievement. First is the General Education Diploma (G.E.D.), then the General High School Diploma (where the student actually attended the physical building but whose level of achievement is the same as the G.E.D.) and the Regents’ Diploma, where students actually take the very watered down tests of the NYS Department of Education. Through the NYS legislature, NYS Supreme Court of Appeals, and SCOTUS, all three are to be treated as equal.

Thus, the cure involves two very distinct approaches. First, education, second, the bureaucracy itself. The Bureaucratic solution is applicable to most; non-police power bureaucracies.

The Federal Department of Education should do just that. It should set a world-wide standard, using standardized blind testing, for K-12, with a sub-bureaucracy for both higher education and skill sets. The testing should be voluntary & open, but any employer, trade, regulated skill, or other activity requiring a minimum standard, such as a driver’s license, barbering, massage, electrician, plumber, school teacher, attorney, &c., may require the certification of such a Federal Standard, be a basic employment requirement or for use of public roads or facilities without having to worry about lawsuits from various, mostly racist, special interest groups. A current example is the requirement for lawyers to take the Multi-State exam as well as the State bar exam.

Note how SCOTUS forced States to enforce the 55mph speed limit or not get Federal funds, reasoning still applicable and used today to limit Federalism.

Testing could be given on a quarterly basis using the military reserves to administer them on their weekend/two week active duty dates. Using the Reserves should eliminate any bias or cheating that bureaucratic administrators will be prone to do.

By keeping all of this grant money, the bureaucracy will be reduced, costs will be reduced, and student proficiency increased. The works of Thomas Sowell and Jason Riley show this to be so.

The Judiciary

The Injustice thereof

In direct violation of the VIIth Amendment, The Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act. Businesses of all sorts, most notably Wall Street Firms, have clauses in their contracts of adhesion requiring the customer to agree to arbitration rather than their constitutional right to a civil jury trial. The automotive industry used these until The States started enacting consumer protection and various Lemon Laws.

The wonderful federal judiciary has ruled that the un-bargained for relinquishment of our right to a jury trial is quite acceptable because the customer can always not accept the contract. Of course, since the only way to access these services is through these businesses, this is a legal falsehood and quite contrary to the debates on the constitution in 1787 wherein such arbitrariness and injustice are referred to as The Spanish Trial, a reference to the Spanish Inquisition. For reference, see The Debate On the Constitution, Bernard Bailyn, editor, © 1993, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., ISBN978-0-940450-42-4, Vols I + II.

 In the financial industry, access is necessary for one to manage one’s 401(k), or other retirement plan, or any self-directed account, thus the ‘clauses freely entered into’ is a blatant lie and legal fiction designed to save the judiciary from actually having to know something beyond the basic Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Procedure (mostly criminal with some judges actually being familiar with civil procedure) and to favor, especially in State Courts, donors to/of political campaigns and issues.

Arbitrators being mostly failed judge ‘wannabees,’ not only know little law, less procedure, and with the knowledge that arbitration awards are un-appealable to a real court or jury, generally practice either the ‘split the baby’,  a la King Solomon, or ignore everything except to grant the big money’s position. Trump Industries experiences with labor and contract arbitrations bear this out.

Eliminating, or threatening to eliminate, FINRA, &c., grants the administration several political advantages.

Firstly, all of these cases will be shifted to the Federal Courts. This will reduce the cost of these cases, for although more Federal Judges will need to be appointed, the overall administrative costs will be reduced, with only a small addition to the FedCrt administrative staff.

Secondly, this will allow the administration to suggest that, unlike ‘court packing’, the increase in the workload will require two or four additional associate justices to be added to the Supreme Court of the United States. Jonathon Turley, Mark Levin, Pamela Bondi, and Jeanine Pirro will make exceptional additions to the court.

In order to prevent such nonsense as the recent J-6 prosecutions, jury selection could be:

  1. The jury pool shall consist of all taxpayers;
  2. Jurors shall be compensated at the hourly rate computed by their IRSEZ 1040 AGI,
    1. Employers will be required to grant unpaid leave for jurors;
    1. US Treasury will cover all other benefits costs including 401(k) matching, healthcare will be commensurate to MEDICARE + Part B advantage care;
    1. Meals and appropriate accommodation shall be provided as necessary; &,
    1. Appropriate privacy and security will be provided;
  3. Although judicial candidates are normally suggested by the Senator(s) of the States with a vacancy, ALL appointments will be made to a non-contiguous state, thus reducing any and all forms of collusion, patronage and favoritism;
  4. All case allocations must be through random draw, with the only exceptions being for case overload or illness, in which case the overloaded/ill judge will be removed from the draw until such time as caseloads are evened out or gotten well;
  5. The position of U.S. Magistrate shall be eliminated and replaced by actual, Senate approved, U.S. Judges; &
  6. The constitutional right to a jury trial in both civil and criminal cases shall be absolute, legislatures and jurists notwithstanding.

There are a few other points to make, but they should be addressed in a private, secure conference.

Elections

Un-Democracy

Although Gerrymandering is a current talking point, the actual problems are more complex and evil. Originally, The Founders gave the Federal Franchise only to certain property owners and men, thereby giving only approximately ten percent of the citizenry, not residents, the franchise. The Roman Senate refused to give the vote to the plebes stating, “give the plebes the right to vote, they will vote for bread and circuses, to the detriment of the Republic, every time.” A lesson they learned from the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars.

The evil of the current system manifests in the Single Issue policy vote as well as in the over-representation of various groups and the under-representation of others, mostly on racial lines. The fact that both the politicians and bureaucrats are helping themselves to the treasury, Fauci and Pelosi are fair examples, although evil in and of itself, an inherent characteristic of all such institutions, is actually less harmful than the social and cultural damage done to a civilization than the moves toward the tyrannical control of the people and the destruction of the national character. See Prof. Dr. Victor D. Hanson’s recent op-ed in the NY Post.

Examples throughout history are extant. Just in the last one hundred and fifty years, we have the various bureaucracies creating the Boer War, U.S. colonial expansion, WW I, the creation and extinction of the Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, Hitler, Mussolini, WW II, &c. All, as noted by historians like Murray Rothbard, Ralph Raico, Shelby Foote, and Joseph Schumpeter, from the causes of narcissistic selfishness to the detriment of individual advancement. The bureaucracies creating war and chaos for personal gain, while producers pay the price in death and lost wealth.

With Gerrymandering, whomever can get out specific activists in a district, will win the election. Frequently, using mostly fear tactics, the exalted single view washes out the necessary general policies that would benefit all citizens, such as lower taxes or standardizing educational goals.

 Two such single issues are how Colorado and Missouri came to be marijuana protectorates, and how almost 40% of Gen Z and Millennials have been murdered in the womb. If 1/3 of a generation had died in war or by disease, the Media furor would overwhelm this country, if not the world. However, the votes approving the psychoses and cancers, caused by this plant, and the murders of babies, have been approved mostly by making them single issues, thereby overcoming the common sense of the majority. Note how when such single issues are placed on the ballot, intermittent voters come out to vote and vote the straight party line, regardless of whatever other issues are at stake.

There are several issues with Voting Rights which need to be addressed, and not all are commented on anywhere, not even on Joe Rogan, even though they’ve been around for centuries and advanced by such groups as the Academicians and the Levelers.

All voting districts start with an approved and verified voter registration roll. Judicial Watch has litigated this matter, and all that need be said here is that States, for example Colorado, where corrupted rolls have been proven, have generally ignored the Court’s order to clean things up, by pointing to the legislature saying that they need funding to do this, and the Legislature will not provide it. Thus, corrupted voting continues and the courts will not sanction or hold in contempt, these officials.

Dishonest “loose ballots,” although extant, is a problem easily dismissed.

When the Poll-Sitters arrive at their precincts, ballots, already counted and accounted for by the pertinent Election Commission, are re-counted for accuracy and accountability. The Registration Rolls, printed in some places, now mostly electronic, are tested for use. During the day, audits are made as to how many have voted and how many ballots are on hand and how many are registered in the ballot box.

At the end of day, ALL sitters gather around the ballot box as it is emptied, and the cast ballots are placed in a medium sized cardboard box and the box is SEALED AND ALL OF THE SITTERS SIGN THE SEAL! Thus, in order to get a loose ballot, the box and seal must be broken into. Election Laws are such that two sitters, one from each party, must take these boxes of cast votes directly to the Commission Offices, no deviation from the less than 15 minute predetermined route, and delivered and audited again at the commission office.

Exceptions, such as early voting, until COVID, required the voter to go to the commission’s office, show proof of identity, and early vote there before the administrators. Those with mobility issues can request that an official take a ballot to their residence for early voting or arrive at the polling place and a sitter go out to the parking lot and prove the voter’s identity and then allow them to vote while sitting in their car.

Mail-in, identity questionable, voting has allowed for the security video of the woman taking in two suitcases of unverified “loose ballots” to be counted there in Georgia. An obvious and flagrant breach of law, dismissed by a biased and corrupted court, with no accountability for the corrupt official either for voting fraud or for perjury of their oath of office.

During my 25 years as a poll-sitter, I have had numerous incidents of attempted voter fraud.

Much of these and other voting issues may be corrected by implementing two inter-dependent reforms.

First, equality in district.

Place a hexagonal grid over the globe with its start point at the real North Pole. The size of the hex may be determined by taking any standard Metropolitan Demographic Area that includes approximately 400,000 people, such as around Columbia SC. Each hexagon now becomes one congressional district. Borders will of necessity cross state and county lines, thereby reducing geographic and local biases. This is a good thing. This will force all within the hexagon to view everyone else within the hex to view ALL national issues as one which each and every one of them must consider, and more importantly, as each relates to each of them. Race, gender, wealth, education, &c all become reduced in the face of the overall, National Interest.

The hexagons, in and of themselves, are, obviously, insufficient, even though completely fair and honest.

Second, weighted voting.

In order to make this work, once sitting in The Congress, each representative’s vote must be weighted, as the Senate was originally designed to be.

Each Representative’s vote shall only count as to how many votes he received in his election. Let’s be honest, I live in Colorado and not one of my congressional delegation has in all the years that I have lived here, not once that I can remember, voted for my best interest, (Hickenlooper, Bennett, and Crow). Yet, not only does each claim to be working for me, that each claims to “represent me”,  each has worked to raise my taxes and reduce my government services all of the time increasing their own personal hoards without earning it.

This policy means that if the representative in the Rhode Island district receives 100 votes and his district contains only 110 eligible voters, yet the Denver district representative receives 90  votes even though there are 500 eligible voters in Denver, the RI Representative and his constituents, because they are united, will have a greater input to national issues and to impact national policies. By being united, the benefit to the national interest  is obvious. The tyranny of the single-issue voter is substantially reduced if not eliminated completely. This will force ALL to take an interest in the National Interest.

For those who would object to this direct weighting, a mitigating formula leveling weights out could be created.

As old as these two policies are, dating farther back than Rome and Athens, and more efficacious and realistic & honest than any current democracy or tyranny, as other than talking points or bargaining chips they have almost no current practical value to a politician. However, as to that, these are big chips against the false claims of ‘fair share,’ ‘social justice’, and ‘wealth gap equity.’

Under Federalism and the hex/weight system, we can leave the States’ and Local Governments alone to find their own levels.

Also, the financial situation will change drastically. These changes would force the States to finance themselves or join in regional compacts with their neighbors, as many do in sharing forensic labs and police/fire services. It would stop the current situation of 40% or more each of these states’ budget being based on receiving Federal tax dollars. Just look at how much Federal money is going to California and Puerto Rico. One with no water to fight fires and a multi-billion fast rail boondoggle, and the other a bureaucracy so corrupt that the FBI is unable to operate to find out who is doing what to whom and where any of this federal tax money is actually going.

The only process currently acceptable to the general population for curing this problem is Voter I.D. coupled to paper ballots. Sad, but true, as the Hex/Weight actually gets to the issue of issues, but such a plan will always be opposed by professional politicians and their owners.

The Right to Bear Arms

2nd Amendment Reality

Earlier, reference was made to the Debates on the Constitution wherein much of this issue lies. Under no circumstances, including those of magazine limitations and extra taxation, may any government limit the possession of a rifle or pistol, if the reasoning of The Founders is to be followed. Here, in Colorado, there is a 6.5% extra tax on firearms and ammunition. There is a magazine capacity limit. There are attempts to put additional unconstitutional limits and burdens on honest citizens to Bear Arms.

The Debates are quite clear: the purposes of the Militia, the military arms of the various States, are twofold. One, to protect the citizens of each state from the depredations of the other States & the Natives, and two, to protect the States from the depredations of THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, which at the time of the Founding, was expressly forbidden a Standing Army. When President Washington went to put down The Whiskey Rebellion, he had to ask the States to call up their various Militias so that he’d have an Army.

These two purposes have not changed.

However, The Congress, in 5 U.S. Code, has a legal definition of who is in the “unorganized” Militia. Makes for interesting reading as it, last I looked, states that as a matter of law, all able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 48, elected officials and other government personnel excepted, are the National Militia! The interesting part of this is that in order to be the Militia, one MUST HAVE basic rifle skills, know the Landing Party Manual, and have basic infantry skills. To see what these are, one need only look to the Swiss Army where one must show up once a year with his rifle and demonstrate that it is in good working condition. Basic training is in their late teens.

These standards would require a functioning rifle in the possession of every able-bodied male in the country under penalty of charge of felonious neglect to duty, and the standard six months of active-duty service to acquire the other necessary skills. Bluntly, these skills are met at the time a boy/girl scout reaches the second-class level. Completion must be at the ‘honorable and satisfactory’ standard.

A further point in here is, should this universality be extended, because of Equal Rights and its gender discrimination, be it required that women be included in the un-organized Militia?

Foreign Affairs and Entanglements

Well, dang, other than keeping in mind that Xi, Putin, Modi, the Ayatollahs, Maduro, the Castros, the cartels, Kim, &c hate us and want to destroy us, y’all doin’ a damn fine job!

Finance

Fiat Money & Policies

The real danger in doing away with cash and going to Crypto or “plastic” lies in the facts that crypto relies on electricity and has no real value other than a bookkeeping entry on a server. Plastic is bookkeeping purporting to have a real relationship with wealth. Value is subject to government interference and financier greed. Still, it is controlled by electricity and serviced by humans who, in some cases, are corrupt and will “hack” the system to their own perceived benefit. Review how the PRC and its CCP control the population by having this master system. Tick-off a CCP bureaucrat, and he’ll close your bank account. No food or rent money for you. No travel papers or permits for you. No clothes, &c.  A hidden point here is that those Illegal Alien Gottaways from China? Does any thinking person really believe that they got out of China w/o the CCP’s approval? Where one needs travel papers to go across the street, get on a bus, a taxi, &c?

Doing away with pennies or otherwise continuing along the debasing currency path is, historically, a bad thing. Too many books have been written about this; an easy currently available read is Rothbard’s What has Government done to our Money? ISBN 978-1-61016-770-3. Bad money always chases out good money. And, doing away with pennies means that all prices will go up 4¢, a modest increase, but still inflationary.

One of several solutions includes the elimination of Federal Reserve Notes. It is possible to replace them with precious metals notes. The PMNotes would not be for cash, but for exact troy weights. The lesser amounts could be made in the same fashion as goldbacks and the larger weights be redeemable, at a premium, through normal banking procedures. Goldbacks, silverbacks, copperbacks, would become currency, and the others act as notes of transfer. Goldbacks as a National Currency would be maintained in a similar fashion as Crypto, plus having serial numbers the same as Federal Reserve Notes.

Five States have already made goldbacks legal currency: Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Utah.

As to the specious claims of scarcity, NASA has reported a gold nugget out around Mars, consisting of more gold than there is of minable iron located and found on the surface of the Earth. If NASA doesn’t get there first, China or India will and the global economy will collapse. Musk, Bezos, et al, should be encouraged, and maybe contracted to start mining space. BTW, operations for this would be on the Moon, and shipped economically to Earth via the gravity differential. Put a silk farm in a hydroponics cave for parachutes thus not needing polyester, mine lunar iron, put in a small steel mill, and a magnetic gun, and shipping all of the finished products from the moon now becomes both feasible and economical.

First one there will win.

Coinage, that which is generally referred to as loose change, is another method of debasing the currency and forcing the general population into the electronic prison of a tyrannical bureaucracy. In your lifetime, you have seen and noticed how silver has been removed and replaced by copper, iron, or lead. It has been pointed out how expensive the manufacturing of coins is. This is being used as an excuse when it would be less costly to change the manufacturing process.

Another unacceptable Federal Policy has been to stop requiring banks to take coins as money. The Fed has allowed the banks to eliminate coin counting machines. The Banks now require anyone trying to deposit or convert coin to paper to bring in the coins pre-rolled. It has created an industry of usury. In order to convert coin to paper, one must go to a vending machine which charges 99¢ to access, then keeps 12.5% (1/8!) of the total as its fee!

Debasing the currency always leads to the Weimar Republic and its subsequent tyranny.

Debasing the currency and doing away with cash is a surefire way of eliminating Freedom.

Well, I suppose that this is enough for now, if y’all want to visit or contact me, there are at least two confidential items of interest to you, and not just maybe, contact and I.D. was included in the FEDEX package sent to Ms Wiles, Mr Miller and yourself back in October.

Respectfully,

www.justplainbill.wordpress.com

suggested reading list/bibliography available upon request

February 19, 2024

analysis of NYS Trump “fraud” trial, by Robert Charles

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$355 Million Penalty – Pure Politics

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Scary. Respect for rule of law is in freefall. Democrats have disparaged Supreme Court rulings. State officials try hijacking a presidential election by misinterpreting the 14th Amendment. Biden tries to imprison his opponent. Now, New York State Judge Arthur Engoron inflicts a $355 million penalty on the leading candidate for president – not a good look. 

In his 92-page opinion, following a highly personalized trial, the judge makes a victimless non-crime called “business puffing” – no damages – into a crime. He declines the defendant a jury trial, holds kangaroo court, then inflicts a huge penalty.

To get this result, Americans must swallow never-before-asserted legal fictions, interpretations of law, and a politically hostile state prosecutor and judge overseeing the proceeding, despite their rank prejudice.

Almost certainly, this decision will be revised, perhaps thrown out entirely. It simply cannot stand. Why?

First, the facts are hardly damning. Loans were secured from banks with guarantees based on legal documents, clear representations, comparative values, assessing Trump’s credit, and due diligence.

The judge ignores expert witnesses who said no fraud occurred, the banks were content to lend to Trump, no entity lost money on any transaction, nor did any citizen suffer provable damage.

Despite this, the anti-defendant judge who repeatedly tried to gag Trump (reversed) and consistently insulted him – offers a conclusory view. He says Trump’s statements were “blatantly false… resulting in fraudulent financial statements.” Boom, one and done, over, next.

The whole concept that a biased state judge, abetted by a vengeful state prosecutor, is allowed to target, harass, convict, try to bankrupt, and end the campaign of a political opponent – is revolting, utterly anti-democratic. It violates a dozen principles of ethics.

Still, not a single leading Democrat has said this is wrong, political persecution, like the cases being brought by Jack Smith, a prosecutor sanctioned for a political case in 2014 (9-0, Supreme Court), and the embarrassingly unethical, unrepentant Georgia prosecutor.

What else is wrong with this fantastical $355 million dollar penalty, inflicted with apparent joy by two partisans on candidate Trump mid-campaign?

A lot. Throughout this opinion, the judge miscasts his own behavior, visible to the world, shamefully hostile to the defendant, telegraphing with his words, tone and temperament an intent to demean.

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Moreover, the prosecutor and judge target the former president’s sons for punishment, making a crime of something never previously viewed as a crime, also not taught as a “crime” in law schools – including New York law schools, just “business puffing” in the subjective realm of value assessment.

The judge then pretends common law fraud is not under discussion, that his punishment is not a penalty, just a civil act of “disgorgement” – giving back money when it is plainly a debilitating punishment.

Listing elements of common law fraud – including false statement, knowledge that it is false, reliance and damages, he sidesteps the entire thing, saying this is not common law fraud.

Why? Because he cannot prove those elements “beyond a reasonable doubt,” cannot prove the statements were false, anyone relied on them, or any damages.

Instead, the judge and prosecutor create their own non-crime crime, saying the “marketplace,” which has shown no harm, is the victim – of statements never proven knowingly false, or exclusively relied upon, or for which there were any damages or complaints.

This pretzel-like approach to trapping a defendant, making up standards and victims, pretending damages exist, that they were somehow horrendous, that anyone has ever been prosecuted like this – is audacious. It is also profoundly anti-democratic, further eroding respect for prosecutors and the courts.

But, we are not done. This judge cites Executive Law 63 (12), from 1956, to shoehorn defendant’s “puffing” into a heinous criminal act, prosecuted in civil form to avoid proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” (criminal standard, versus “more probable than not” the civil standard), just another cheat.

Insufficient room exists to properly unpack this ugly, disingenuous opinion. It rambles, miscasting much of the trial, demeaning the defendant. It oozes prejudice, undisguised hostility.  The words “fair administration of justice” do not pop to mind.

Last, one must look at the whole multi-act play. These two actors have knowingly interfered with an election, which is a federal crime. They take no responsibility for that, just plan to skip away scot-free.

Creating something from nothing – making “business puffing” a crime, trying it on a civil standard, imposing a monster penalty on a political candidate they hate speaks to no integrity.

Net-net, this is a judicial system gone wild. The disarray needs to stop with the next election. What a disgrace, what a sad day for America … a $355 million dollar penalty inflicted for politics. Scary.

January 15, 2024

Myth of an apolitical military, by Keuhlen & Ramsey

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The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action

By Phillip Keuhlen & Brent Ramsey
January 09, 2024

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Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i]  Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the State as the arbiter of a changeable ‘common good’ and government by the State as preeminent over individuals, regulating personal liberty bestowed by government so long as it supports the state-defined ‘common good.’ 

Founded upon Woodrow Wilson’s paradigm of a “living constitution” with law making by judicial fiat or Executive Order and day-to-day governance by an unelected, unaccountable, administrative state, the proponents of Progressivism have unceasingly advanced a vision and values directly opposed to, and profoundly irreconcilable with, those the country was founded upon. They have mounted a Second American Civil War by a long march through the institutions of governance, education, culture, commerce, and more recently science and the military, their Grand Strategy to incrementally subvert the Madisonian Constitution and the Founding Principles it was designed to protect. Their strategy is supported by tactics of lawfare, carefully calibrated civil violence, and institutional subversion.

Americans have a sense that things have gone wrong, but their perception is fragmentary, focused on one tactical issue or another. Their focus on individual issues inhibits understanding of how one relates to another and how all support the profound Progressive subversion of American constitutional governance. Shellenberger and Boghossian’s “WOKE RELIGION: A Taxonomy”[ii] demonstrates the scope and interconnectedness of different fronts in this Civil War for the soul of the American republic. Readers are urged to view this link.

In the field of governance Progressives have mounted sustained legislative, judicial, and executive programs that have the aim of compromising essential elements of Madisonian constitutional governance, effectively replacing it with an antithetical political philosophy that seeks to divide and conquer. In much of public life and discourse that philosophy is represented by Critical Race Theory and allied movements, implemented via programs of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).  Now, this poisonous ideology has captured our military to the detriment of focus on readiness and lethality. The background and experience of our authors tends to focus on what is happening in and to the military and why it is a danger to our nation. However, it is important to not lose sight of this battle as part of a greater strategic effort to subvert the Madisonian Constitution and the Founding Values it was designed to protect.

By functionally choosing sides and thrusting the entire military establishment into a conflict pitting our founding values against progressive ones, the Civilian & Uniformed leadership of DoD have made a fiction of the principle of an apolitical military that has been the basis of civil-military relations throughout the second half of the 20th Century.[iii]  To the extreme detriment of readiness, lethality, retention, morale, and recruitment, the military has been transformed into a political organization with racial quotas; degraded ground combat unit readiness by lowering standards to allow assignment of women; gay pride celebrations; transgendered individuals recruited, placed in limited duty status degrading unit readiness, and provided transitional surgery while in service; promotion of abortion for service members and family members in contravention of long-standing US law; and the embrace of climate change as an existential crisis and top Department of Defense priority. 

This political fight for the soul of the military has not only devastated morale, but eroded the esteem in which the military has been held since our founding. Trust and confidence in the U.S. Military has dropped precipitously, from 70% in 2018 to 46% five years later (-24%), according to a recent Reagan Institute survey. Exacerbating this troubling situation, much of the youth of American no longer wish to serve, having been indoctrinated in false history by our nation’s public schools with such revisionist anti-American works as the 1619 Project and Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist”. Even cadets and midshipmen at our service academies are exposed to these and similar works as recommended reading. To top it off, the progressive ideology now in vogue throughout the military has alienated the prime source for recruiting, young people brought up with traditional patriotic values who are now staying home in droves…thus creating a severe recruiting crisis that gets worse each year.

CALL TO ACTION:

The authors embrace the viewpoint of President Ronald Reagan,

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Now is the time for all citizens of like mind to stand up, be counted, and fight for the soul of the nation, our liberties, and the preservation of our Constitutional Governance.

Armed Forces Officers must return to the promises made when they took the Oath of Office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. There is nothing in that oath about diversity, equity, and inclusion. That oath stood us in good stead for over two hundred years.

Citizens, Officers, Retirees and Veterans must remind military leadership that “just following the civilian leadership’s orders” has never been an adequate defense of the indefensible, whether it be DEI as a putative need or benefit with respect to military effectiveness[iv], or subversion of the Constitution and the fundamental American values it protects. EEO is still the law of the land, and it mandates equal treatment. Orders/indoctrination that are counter to that are not lawful orders[v].

Serving Flag and General Officers must repudiate the politicization of the military, resigning if necessary.

Retired Flag and General Officers must acknowledge the active politicization of the armed forces that is underway in support of Constitutional subversion, stop hiding behind the myth of an “apolitical military,” and speak out and LEAD in defense of the Madisonian Constitution and the founding American Values it protects.

Medical and Legal Professionals, particularly in the Armed Forces, must challenge DEI indoctrination as an unethical form of thought reform (i.e., brainwashing) …the application of psychological manipulation without informed consent.[vi]

Like-Minded Citizens must resist Critical Race Theory and its associated DEI programs aimed at destroying American Constitutional Governance. Fight Back![vii]

  • Understand CRT/DEI
  • Challenge CRT/DEI under the law
  • Build grassroots resistance movements
  • Build broad coalitions
  • Get the word out to peers, and especially to legislators
  • Engage the Churches
  • Confront woke institutions
  • Stand up to Big Tech censorship
  • Monitor Federal, State & Local agencies to oppose taxpayers do not subsidize organizations that are hostile to America and American Values
  • Develop alternatives to DEI training.

Perhaps it is time to recall the passages that George Washington had read to the soldiers of the Continental Army at Valley Forge on the eve of their battles at Trenton and Princeton:

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Number 1, December 19, 1776

This work is about Honor, Courage, and Commitment. We need to restore the concept of Honor to our Armed Forces. We need to show Courage and call out to the nation and its leaders that we are on the wrong course with the embrace of the false doctrine of DEI. We need a nation-wide Commitment to call upon senior military and political leaders to restore the Armed Forces to its traditional values and eliminate divisive identity politics that weakens us and makes us vulnerable to defeat at the hands of our enemies.

If citizens stay silent, our traditional values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment are undermined and the Progressive enemies of Constitutional governance win.

It is up to you… SILENCE IS CONSENT!


Phillip Keuhlen is a retired naval officer and nuclear industry senior manager. He was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School and had the privilege to command USS Sam Houston (SSN-609), a nuclear submarine. He writes on topics related to governance and national security.

CAPT Brent Ramsey, (USN, Ret.) has written extensively on Defense matters. He is an officer with Calvert Group, Board of Advisors member for the Center for Military Readiness and STARRS, and member of the Military Advisory Group for Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11).


Notes:

[i] Keuhlen, P. J., “Which United States Constitution?,” American Greatness, October 17, 2021, https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/17/which-united-states-constitution/retrieved 1/12024

[ii] https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy retrieved 1/1/2024

[iii] Swain & Pierce, The Armed Forces Officer, NDSU, DOD, 2017 (https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/armed-forces-officer)

[iv] Keuhlen, P. J, “Task Force One Navy Final Report,” Real Clear Defense, December 6, 20121, https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/12/06/task_force_one_navy_final_report_the_emperors_new_clothes_redux_806507.html retrieved 1/1/2024

[v] Title VII  Civil Rights Act of 1964 (https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964)

[vi] Sturman & Keuhlen, No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military, 2023 (https://brownstone.org/articles/no-institution-is-safe-dei-thought-control-in-the-military/)

[vii] Swain & Schorr, Black Eye For America, Be The People Books, 2021, pp 69-78

March 16, 2017

Strategika Issue #39, You Say You Want A Revolution? Thomas Donnelly [nc]

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Issue 39
You Say You Want A Revolution?
by Thomas Donnelly
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

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To paraphrase the Beatles: Well, you know, you’d better free your mind instead; you may want a revolution but ought to settle for some evolution.

It is an article of revealed religion among defense elites that “we live in a relentlessly changing and fiercely competitive world.” Those words were from former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, once a physicist and someone deeply imbued with the idea that technological change and competition were the elements propelling change, and that those who failed to “innovate” were doomed to defeat: “Today’s era of military competition is characterized by the additional variables of speed and agility, such that leading the race now frequently depends on who can out-innovate faster than everyone else, and even change the game.”

Such attitudes took root in the late Cold War, back when the Pentagon had a “director for defense research and engineering”—a powerful post separate from the actual weapons-buying bureaucracy—and invested substantial sums in the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency. These agencies were dominated by engineers, practical people whose goal was not science per say but to find ways to put new technologies into the hands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. But the combination of the Cold War’s end and the endless small wars of the post-9/11 years has inverted this traditional approach; the leaders of the Defense Department have been driven by the immediate need to respond to today’s enemies—all of them unpredicted—and have luxuriated in an extreme form of futurism—dreams that must inevitably go unfulfilled.

The failure to build and field in important numbers the weapons designs of the 1990s has all but deprived U.S. forces of the conventional-force superiority that is a premise of their strategy. The past failures to innovate incrementally have added up, even though the Russians and Chinese—and, increasingly, their Iranian partners in what Walter Russell Mead has dubbed the “Axis of Weevils”—have done little more than attained the level of lethality and sophistication reached by U.S. forces during Desert Storm. And since the Weevils are, for the moment, entirely engaged in moving into the vacuum created by American withdrawals rather than testing their strength directly, it is hard to know what level of tactical competence they have really derived from their belated modernization, but the balance of military power has undoubtedly shifted. National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster put the matter succinctly: “When we minimize our Army, we maximize the risk to our soldiers, the risk that in a crisis they will be forced to enter a fight too few in number and without the training and equipment they need to win.”

In such circumstances, broad programs of military “transformation”—Donald Rumsfeld’s dream or a “third offset,” and Ash Carter’s homage to former Defense Secretary William Perry and the creation of “stealth” aircraft—are not relevant. Photon torpedoes, warp drives, and cloaking devices remain in the realm of the starship Enterprise. Better the urgency of President John Kennedy, who vowed to put an American on the moon “in this decade,” than the spirit of Captain James Kirk. And in fact, there are fairly mature military technologies that meet the test of restoring the tactical advantages that U.S. troops once enjoyed.

Perhaps the most tantalizing near-term technologies are related to the substitution of intense amounts of electrical energy for the explosive power of gunpowder. This comprises a kind of catch-all category that subsumes several developments and could have—at least to leaders with an engineering mindset—multiple applications. Fielding electrical-energy-based weapons depends upon the ability to generate and to store immense amounts of power, and then release it either as a destructive force on its own or to propel a projectile at extremely high speeds. Stored electricity might prove to be the gunpowder of the future.

The Defense Department and the military services have been experimenting with these technologies for a decade and more. The Army and Navy have tested a number of “railgun” designs. Railguns are electromagnetic launchers with a parallel set of conductors—the “rails”—that accelerate a sliding armature by passing a very strong current down one rail, along the armature to the other rail. In essence, it’s a 21st-century slingshot that hurls a very dense, but inert, projectile about twice as fast as a traditional cannon; the kinetic energy of these projectiles is enormous.

It does appear that the science of railguns has reached some level of maturity. The main technological challenges are generating and storing enough electrical power—that is to say, a big engine and a good set of batteries—to allow for repeated pulses of direct current that would yield militarily relevant rates of fire of something like six rounds per minute. Other challenges are to build durable and practical rails, since the launch process generates extreme heat that stresses the rail materials. Further, designing guidance mechanisms that can withstand the heat generated by the speed of the projectile may be difficult. On the plus side, the design of munitions ought to be simplified, as should storage, handling, and logistics, since there is no “warhead” atop a railgun round and explosives are not required. Moreover, the range of railguns would far exceed that of any cannon.

But again, the railgun literature strongly indicates that these are challenges for engineering, not basic science. The Navy is interested in railgun technology as a potential solution to the rising challenges of surface fleet air defense and, especially, cruise and ballistic missile defense. Ironically, the otherwise-disastrous Zumwalt-class destroyer—which is now a $4 billion-per-copy pocket battleship—would make a practical platform for a railgun-based system. The ship is huge for a “destroyer”; at almost 15,000 tons it’s almost twice the size of the current Arleigh Burke-class ships. And it has an electric engine that can not only drive the ship at 30 knots, but also generate huge amounts of additional electricity. The Navy originally planned to buy 32 Zumwalts, but the program has long since run aground—because of its technological and cost problems, but also, most importantly, because the ship was misconceived—and halted at just three. To redesign and revive the project would involve great further expense and be an engineering risk, surely. But it could also result in fielding a game-changing technology that would go far toward solving the “anti-access” problem posed by the growing arsenals of Chinese, Russian, and Iranian anti-ship missiles within the next decade rather than several decades. There is no reason to believe that designing a new class of ships would be any less expensive; indeed it is irrational to think that starting over would save money.

On a smaller scale, electromagnetic guns might become the main armaments on tanks and howitzers. While all the same challenges would recur and be compounded by the need to reduce both the source of the electricity and the storage device to the size of a ground combat vehicle, the fundamental engineering challenges are the same as for ships. And the Army already is experimenting with modifying existing howitzers to shoot the same projectile as an electromagnetic weapon. “It turns out that powder guns firing the same hypervelocity projectiles gets you almost as much as you would get out of the electromagnetic rail gun, but it’s something we can do much faster,” says Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, who has been held over from the Obama Administration to ensure continuity in defense planning. “We are [saying to the next administration]: ‘Look, we believe this is the place where you want to put your money, but we’re going to have enough money in there for both the electromagnetic rail gun and the powder gun.’”

A related development, also resulting from the ability to generate and store immense amounts of power, that is on the cusp of science fiction and reality is the prospect of using directed energy itself as a weapon. Indeed, some low-level forms of directed energy have been employed by the military for some time: microwave systems that heat the water in skin cells, causing irritation, have been used as a crowd-control measure; microwaves also have been fielded to fry enemy electronic systems. Even the radars on combat aircraft may have limited applications in disrupting the sensors of attacking missiles. And, as far back as 2002, the U.S. Air Force began flying an “Airborne Laser”—basically, a giant high-energy chemical laser stuffed inside a 747 commercial aircraft body—as a missile defense test system. In January 2010 the system successfully passed an intercept test and a month later destroyed two targets in a single engagement. But shortly thereafter, amid one of the many rounds of defense budget reductions during the Obama Administration, the effort was scrapped. In many ways, fielding the system as designed was a bad idea—the laser itself needed to be more powerful and would have required a large and vulnerable aircraft to fly within range of enemy air defenses—but the underlying concept was sound and indicative that such systems were technologically feasible, if tactically immature. Also, it was clear that using electricity rather than chemistry as a power source was a better solution.

Electromagnetic guns, hypersonic projectiles or even directed energy death rays would by themselves not necessarily constitute a revolution in warfare. But these technologies could yield a substantial increase in the capabilities of a wide variety of legacy platforms—and, importantly, again provide U.S. forces with a significant battlefield edge. Most of all, such investments could get the American military back in the habit of continuous modernization and the operational innovation that comes from actually fielding new capabilities. The enthusiasts for “transformation” of the past generation have been looking through the wrong end of the telescope; their model of innovation was that, starved of funds, the U.S. armed services would have to think of new ways to fight. But, through history, the process of change in war has been one that more frequently rewards practical tinkering—matching organizations and doctrine to technologies—more than bold conceptualization. Imagining the tank or the fighter aircraft was the basis for a revolution, but to realize it demanded their integration into combined-arms formation and figuring out how to keep that organization supplied with fossil fuel.

Finally, the experience of recent decades ought to debunk the transformationists’ idea that the United States could afford a geopolitical “strategic pause” to pursue a strategy of innovation. Nor can a global power afford an “offset” approach. To paraphrase the Beatles one last time: Evolution is the real solution. And you can see the plan.

August 30, 2016

Response to Phyllis’ ‘Wow’ pro-Hillary email

[I got the following email chain of two, one from John responding to Phyllis. I sent John what follows Phyllis’ email to him. Please, think before you vote in November. Keep in mind that not voting is a vote for the other guy.]

John: Lots of famous, incredible/good people experience financial failures as well as other types of failures. I remain unaffiliated as I don’t wholly support any party platform. Indeed, this has been an interesting campaign cycle. Both are bright and either will face new challenges heretofore nuvo. The media have been so provocative. I could covet them with plenty of other pejoratives as well.

All would do well to forget about scrutinizing personal medical, income tax, family and concentrate on defining issues and solutions to problems. This isn’t just a battle for public office. It’s a chance to explore/expose and hopefully create workable solutions to our many problems that we face now and towards perpetuity. Please God, May we the people choose wisely.
John

From: Phyllis Subject: Wow!

Hi–I was surprised to read that Meg Whitmann is now campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Ms. Whitmann called Trump a loutish demagogue. Warrenn Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and Mark Cuban have also endorsed Hillary. John, the man is just too volatile, ignorant of knowledge about the world and dangerous to be President. A man who has declared bankruptcy 6 times? That means that he cheated a lot of people. Frankly, I’ve heard him a few times and found him frightening because he sounds like Hitler.

Justplainbill:

IS your friend, Phyllis, serious???

Hillary is a criminal. She & Bill sold the presidency. She personally ordered the murder of Vincent Foster in the Blue Room at the White House using a corrupt Secret Service Agent (the book is posted on the book list, “The Strange Death of Vincent Foster”).

Bill and Madelaine Albright gave all sorts of secrets and patents and protected business secrets to the Chinese for, as Madelaine Albright was caught on tape when exiting the U.N. saying, that we cannot have a single super-power, so she and Bill were building up China to ‘balance’ the world. Just look at all of those Sino-American scientists charged by the FBI for espionage during the ‘90’s who ‘magically’ had the charges dropped and then never heard from again. All working at Los Alamos, too.

Hillary committed a felony when she destroyed evidence after receiving a subpoena to produce documents. If you know anything about MS Word, what they did to locate those 37,000 emails, was to enter keywords, such as ‘secret,’ ‘top secret,’ &c into the search box, then deleted them all and then over-wrote them, which means that ALL of the missing emails were classified!

She was a complete failure as Secretary of State, ran ‘Fast and Furious’ in cahoots with the racist anti-Semite Eric Holder, had the failed Russian Reboot, no one still knows where she really was during the Benghazi disaster although some sources state that it was supposed to be a kidnapping so that her buddies could exchange an ambassador for Jihadists held at Gitmo.

She has been in contempt of congress more than once.

She has been in continued violation of the Lawyers’ Professional Code of Conduct since being fired from her job as an intern during the Watergate Hearings. She’s been suspended from practice, disbarred and reinstated, failed bar exams finally passing the Arkansas exam.

The list just goes on, and on, and on.

AS to Buffet, he owns the railroads carrying the oil from the Canadian oil fields. That is why he is against the XL Pipeline. The RR has refused to upgrade the tracks, because Buffet knows that the pipeline is a certainty, which is why every 17th train derails and spills tons of oil into the environment, but neither Obama’s OSHA nor his EPA will do anything about it. Buffet makes billions of $ under Obama, and will continue to do so under Clinton as will Cuban and Soros.

Bloomberg is the idiot who has allowed crime back into NYC after Rudy kicked it out; he is also the idiot behind the can’t have 32oz drinks, no sugar, no salt, &c in restaurants.

Mark Cuban is an idiot, and Meg Whitman has probably been promised SCOTUS, after Hillary fills Scalia’s seat with Obama.

As for business bankruptcies, they happen.

According to Hillary, even with the $20,000,000 advance the publishers gave Bill and her for their memoirs, she claimed to be broke coming out of the White House. Anybody who is so stupid as to claim insolvency with $20,000,000 in cash, a guaranteed pension for life of over $1,000,000/yr, guaranteed healthcare, not medicare so $0 premiums, for life, a $14,000,000 estate in Westchester County NY, &c, should not be allowed near the federal budget.

Phyllis should look to the issues, see what Trump is proposing compared to Hillary’s lies and frauds and plans that are guaranteed to not work, like Hillary-Care, Amnesty, The Arab Spring, tax raise for all those making over $125,000 (filing jointly, no less), and how Charity Navigator can’t rate the Clinton Foundation because it is really a money laundering scheme, (give money to the Canadian Clinton Foundation, and they will forward it to the Arkansas Clinton Foundation – a clear violation of the OCC regs [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] as Canada does not require reporting of all transfers of $5,000 or more, which the OCC does).

Trump has been putting forth some good plans and the people that he’s already suggested for his cabinet and SCOTUS show that he’d be a zillion times better as prez than Hillary.

BTW, Phyllis does understand that Hillary supported the Iran-nuke deal, which means that within ten years Tel Aviv will be nuked by a terrorist truck nuke device, driven in from Egypt, doesn’t she? She does understand that about 9% of all Muslims are openly declared Jihadis, which means that under Hillary, there is a good chance that within ten years either she or one of her family will be attacked because they are Jewish and not Muslims, doesn’t she?

Of the just let in 10,000 Syrians, 99,954 are Muslim.

In the last 7 1/2 years, Obama has already let in over over 2,000,000 Muslims from around the world, including 1,000,000 Palestinians. Meaning that there are over 180,000 declared Jihadis in the country just waiting for an opportunity to kill a Jew or Christian, or LGBTQQ, or a woman who shows too much skin or otherwise violates Sha’Ria Law. And, she is aware that NYC Mayor Deblasio has appointed a Sha’Ria judge to the Brooklyn Borough Municipal Court, isn’t she?

I’ve been a Truman Democrat all of my life, accepted the Coward Kennedy as a compromise, and was ashamed of the Cowardly Criminal Carter. I did not vote for Clinton or Obummer. The current GOP is, if one looks at their philosophy and actions, really a reincarnation of the Kennedy administration.

If one wishes to make similies with Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, look at Hillary, Bill, and Obama.

October 27, 2015

Barack Obama is not seeking “legacy”, by Sylvia Thompson (concur nc)

Sylvia Thompson column
Barack Obama is not seeking “legacy”

Sylvia Thompson
Sylvia Thompson
October 26, 2015

To the many gullible souls out there who truly think that Barack Obama is “legacy building” in his all-out assault on America, I implore you to bow out of the conversation because you are not seeing clearly.

The term legacy carries positive connotations of something bequeath that is to the receiver’s benefit. Everything that Barack Obama does is calculated to destroy America, which he despises. This man no more cares about legacy than he fears being properly prosecuted by the white political leaders whose responsibility it is to remove him from office.

I focus on white leaders, because whites are still in the majority and they fill the majority of political offices. If the majority of political operatives were of some other ethnicity, I would lodge my complaint against that group. Ethnicity is an issue only because Obama is half-black and he uses that fact to intimidate guilt-conflicted white people. Otherwise, he would have been impeached and likely in prison for treason by now.

Barack Obama’s sole aim has been, since he first entered politics and continues as he winds down this presidency, the complete destruction of America as it was founded.

It is an insult to the intelligence of all Americans who must listen to elitist pundits on Fox news and elsewhere, and political drones in either party endeavor to make Obama’s behavior fit a pattern of normalcy. Attributing his destructive policies to “legacy building” is either self-delusion on the part of the people who make that claim or cowardliness.

This is my take.

Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran has nothing to do with legacy but rather to enable a Muslim nation to wage nuclear war with America and Israel – the two nations that he most despises. Does anyone wonder why Russians praise Vladimir Putin despite what the rest of the world might think of him? Putin cares about his country, that’s why.

Obama despises the American military because traditionally it has been a mainstay of America’s strength, and our strength infuriates him.

Imposition of a polluting homosexual, anti-Christian agenda upon the military ranks destroys unit cohesion and literally terrorizes male members with the prospect of sodomy rape. Such rapes have increased since the forcing of open homosexuality in the ranks, against the will of a majority of members I might add. Couple that with an infiltration of women, for whom all standards of strength must be reduced, and Obama attains his goal of emasculating and demoralizing the forces.

He could not care less about a legacy of making the forces more diverse. Besides, President Truman diversified the military as much as it should be when he integrated it. Obama’s objective is its destruction.

Obama reopened relations with Cuba because Cuba is Communist. Legacy is not his concern here either, but rather to scuttle America’s attempts to keep Communist influence out of the Americas. That Cuba has major issues with human rights does not matter. Like his Marxist African father before him, he despises the West and all that it represents.

Obama lawlessly declares open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, because he wants to overrun America with third-world people who bring little more than dependency with them. This tactic not only does not ensure a legacy, but rather it guarantees the eventual conversion of America itself into third-world status, if it is allowed to continue.

Bill Clinton started the travesty of increasing the numbers of third-world immigrants at the expense of culturally more suited immigrants from European and European-influenced nations, but Obama has taken the trend to lawless, destructive extremes. He is fully aware that many of these invaders have no intention of assimilating.

It is only the outcry of a majority of Americans that holds back this hateful invasion scheme, and Donald Trump’s entry onto the political scene to oppose that scheme is a saving grace for our nation.

These are but a few instances of behavior that display the loathsome character of Barack Hussein Obama. And he is allowed to roam freely through the American landscape poisoning and polluting as he goes, sure in the realization that no one will stop him because he is “black.”

The day that we no longer have to hear the prattle about his “legacy building” will not be soon enough for me.

Many, many Americans are thoroughly fed up with Barack Obama and the spineless crop of political leaders who ignore his criminality. It is yet unknown whether Republicans will ever garner the backbone to become a true opposition party and hold him accountable. Promising signs are the House conservatives’ getting rid of establishment types John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker and Speaker hopeful, respectively, and Donald Trump’s entry into the 2016 presidential race with enough money and testicular fortitude to tell the Establishment and the Left where to shove it.

Should these positive trends not continue and the 2016 election cycle yield no movement to counter all the harm that Barack Obama has done to this nation, I think there will be massive disruption. Those folks in the National Rifle Association ads currently running on television seem very serious to me, and that is a good thing.

Sylvia Thompson is a black conservative writer whose aim is to counter the liberal spin on issues pertaining to race and culture.

Ms. Thompson is a copy editor by trade currently residing in Tennessee. She formerly wrote for the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley California Newsletter and the online conservative blog ChronWatch, also out of California.

She grew up in Southeast Texas during the waning years of Jim Crow-era legalized segregation, and she concludes that race relations in America will never improve, nor will we ever elevate our culture, as long as there are victims to be pandered to and villains to be vilified. America is better served without victims or villains.

© Copyright 2015 by Sylvia Thompson
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sthompson/151026

July 31, 2015

Still Blind to the Costs of Illegal Immigration, by Bruce S. Thornton [c]

Still Blind to the Costs of Illegal Immigration
July 31, 2015 11:12 am / Leave a Comment / victorhanson
What really explains Trump’s rapid climb to the top of the polls.

by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine
Photo via FPM

Photo via FPM

Donald Trump’s blunt and clumsy comments about illegal immigration sparked the usual firestorm of criticism from the well heeled of both parties. Particularly vocal were those Republicans who think that an amorphous, make-believe category comprising “Hispanics” or “Latinos” will vote Republican if only Republican meanies like Trump would stop insulting them by complaining about illegal aliens. As usual, willful ignorance or blindness about the costs of illegal immigration underwrites these dubious ideas.

Trump’s comments about crimes committed by illegal aliens, for example, were attacked by the usual denial and obfuscation. Various statistics, some mixing illegal and legal immigrants, were touted as showing illegal criminal activity was proportionately less than that of the native-born. But as Brietbart reported, while illegal aliens are 3.5% of the population, based on federal sentencing data they represent 12% of murder convictions. Add state crime data, and according to an analysis at American Thinker illegals commit 10 times more murders than do citizens.

Murder obviously gets the most attention, especially after a five-time deported illegal alien felon in San Francisco gunned down Kate Steinle in broad daylight. Yet the champions of the “path to citizenship” typically ignore the less spectacular disorderly behavior of the sort rife in regions with large concentrations of illegal aliens like the San Joaquin Valley. Driving under the influence or while intoxicated, driving without insurance, perpetrating hit-and-run accidents, discarding garbage and trash along roads, disregarding laws and codes covering construction, animal control, restaurants, and sanitation, breaking into homes and cars, stealing copper wire from farm pumps––all these quality of life infractions have increased as more illegal aliens have settled in the Valley.

In other words, the “broken windows” theory of policing that many conservatives are criticizing New York mayor Bill di Blasio for attacking––the idea that cracking down on minor quality of life crimes creates a sense of enforced public order that deters more serious crimes––is nowhere to be found in many parts of the rural San Joaquin Valley. The social costs of this breakdown in civic order, of course, are born by those––law-abiding Americans of whatever ethnicity–– tied by tradition or necessity to these Valley towns. And the economic costs are paid by every state and federal taxpayer whose billions of dollars––$20 billion a year in some estimates–– fund the costs of unpaid emergency room visits, criminal prosecution and incarceration, highway mayhem, illegal welfare benefits, schools crowded with the English deficient, and fraudulent social security disability payments.

Nor is it true, as the race industry hacks claim, that such criticism merely reflects bigotry or racism against the oppressed brown “other.” The Mexican-American legal immigrants of the sort I grew up with in the 50s and 60s suffer today just as much from this influx of peoples from cultures with very different mores and attitudes towards law, relationships to legal authority, and civic obligations. Yes, America in the past took in many other ethnic groups and nationalities with similar differences that often caused social problems. But back then, immigrants were faced with a brutal trade-off: change your cultural habits, learn and obey American law, political principles, and social customs, and speak English. If not, go back home, or pay a price for your refusal. No one had a right to come to America and then demand that Americans adjust their culture and mores to those of the newcomer.

That old mechanism of assimilation has been broken. The triumph of multiculturalism and its evil twin “diversity” have taught many immigrants, legal and illegal alike, that they should not have to assimilate, that their culture is just as good or even superior to America’s, and that political and civic institutions must adapt to their culture and language. Organized lobbies like La Raza and LULAC institutionalize such separatism, demanding all the privileges and boons of living in a liberal democracy ruled by law, at the same time they counsel their clients to resist endorsing and practicing the very culture that underwrites their freedom. Rather than a privilege to be earned, American citizenship and its advantages are considered justified reparations for all the historical sins Americans have inflicted on their southern neighbors. Add a porous border with Mexico continually refreshing the old country’s culture with new arrivals, and the obstacles to transforming illegal immigrants into Americans make the “path to citizenship” rhetoric a pipe dream.

Of course, there are millions of illegal immigrants who don’t commit crimes other than the first one of crossing the border. They don’t illegally receive welfare benefits––though their children born here can and do. No doubt many would become good citizens, and want their children and grandchildren to become more American. The problem is that no one touting “comprehensive immigration reform” can lay out for us a specific program for sorting out the potential good Americans from the murderers, welfare cheats, and thugs. It’s so much easier politically just to confuse illegal with legal immigration, indulge Emma Lazarus “nation of immigrants” sentiments, and scold critics that they are keeping Republicans from winning millions of voters.

Trump’s rapid climb to the top of the polls, at least for now, reflects a widespread anger with establishment Republicans who refuse to tell the truth about the costs of illegal immigration. Trump’s fans are sick of their reasonable complaints being dismissed as the bigotry or stupidity of “crazies,” as John McCain called them, or as the bitter tantrums of the narrow-minded fearful of change. They are very much like the New Yorkers of the 70s, who finally had enough of bums, punks, criminals, hookers, welfare freeloaders, and all the other detritus that made New York the dystopia of Taxi Driver and Death Wish.

Those New Yorkers got Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a police force empowered to restore civic order by enforcing the law. Those today fed up with the costs of illegal immigration disorder and violence, or the virtual nullification of federal law wrought by “sanctuary cities,” get insulted and ignored by their own party. Is it any surprise that they are supporting a politician who, for all his political opportunism, takes their anger seriously and promises to do something about it?

[Secession and The Heartland Plan. Review the intermediate argument for secession elsewhere on this blog.]

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