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Donald Trump Should Endorse the ‘Defend the Guard’ Act
Posted by M. C. on August 13, 2024
“As nineteenth-century U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster said, “It will be the solemn duty of the state governments to protect their own authority over their own militia and to interpose between their citizens and arbitrary power.” “
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/donald-trump-should-endorse-the-defend-the-guard-act/
This public letter includes a list of signatories including influential libertarians, Republican legislators, and military veterans which can be found below.
The newly adopted Republican Party platform promises to “SEAL THE BORDER” and “PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE.” Donald Trump, who last month formally became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for the third time, should endorse the Defend the Guard Act as a way to achieve both.
The Defend the Guard Act is state-based legislation that would prevent the deployment of National Guard units overseas into foreign wars unless Congress has first officially declared war, as the Constitution requires.
Despite commonly being dismissed as “weekend warriors,” the National Guard has been the primary fighting force in the Global War on Terror. 45% of those deployed in the post-9/11 wars have been Guardsmen, and Guardsmen have also represented nearly 20% of the casualties from those wars.
My father’s childhood friend was deployed with the North Dakota National Guard when he was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2012. The North Dakota National Guard would not have been in Afghanistan if the Defend the Guard Act had been law in North Dakota and if states had insisted that Congress declare war first.
Lamentably, in addition to their tremendous cost, none of the post-9/11 wars have been constitutional. In fact, Congress has not declared war as required by Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution since World War II, and yet, the United States has intervened in countless overseas conflicts since then.
An Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) is not a declaration of war, but rather, represents Congress’ abdication of their authority and responsibility to declare war to the president—a situation the framers of the Constitution attempted to prevent.
The result has been an asymmetry between foreign policy outcomes and the public’s wishes, and at great cost to the military and the men and women who loyally serve in it.
The American public has consistently favored withdrawal from our endless wars while their government in DC has prolonged them. For instance, the public has repeatedly favored withdrawal from Syria, but famously, top generals lied to President Trump when he attempted to leave.
In addition, nearly three-fourths of veterans supported leaving Afghanistan when President Trump negotiated the original Doha agreement, but the Joe Biden Administration recklessly pushed the withdrawal date from May to the middle of “fighting season,” leading to predictable disaster.
The Defend the Guard Act would have prohibited National Guard units from being sent to any of those conflicts unless Congress, on behalf of the public, went on record first.
An additional consequence of Congress’ abdication is that the National Guard has been fighting endless wars when they could have been deployed at the southern border or at home to protect their communities from natural disasters.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, 3,200 Louisiana Guardsmen were overseas in Iraq. When Florida was recently hit by hurricanes, 165 members of the Florida National Guard were training Ukrainians. Earlier this year, Arizona National Guardsmen were injured in a drone strike that killed three U.S. troops on the Jordan-Syria border when they could have been assisting Texas in its efforts at the United States border with Mexico.
The above examples prove that if Donald Trump backed the Defend the Guard Act, it would be consistent with his “America First” messaging and popular with his base of constitutional conservatives.
After Governor Greg Abbott sparred with President Biden over the Texas National Guard and the border earlier this year, the Texas GOP voted internally on the following Republican proposition:
“The Texas Legislature should prohibit the deployment of the Texas National Guard to a foreign conflict unless Congress first formally declares war.”
An overwhelming 84% supported the proposition, totaling more than 1.8 million votes.
In addition to grassroots support, the legislation has been endorsed by Vivek Ramaswamy, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Congressman Paul Gosar, Senator Rand Paul, and, of course, all of the signatories below. Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on X, “I support state-level ‘Defend the Guard’ acts, which prohibit the deployment of the National Guard abroad without a formal declaration of war by Congress. It would put a limit on the military adventurism we take for granted today as normal.”
After a monumental vote in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, which is the second-largest legislative chamber in the United States behind Congress, a Fox & Friends panel hosted by Will Cain, Pete Hegseth, and Kayleigh McEnany expressed resounding support for the legislation. “To me, it makes a lot of sense, and I spent most of my career as a National Guardsman,” Hegseth said, “I love it.” McEnany added, “I love it, too.”
When I asked Congressman Thomas Massie about the effort, he said, “Trump should commit to respecting all aspects of Congress’s sole authority to declare war. This includes all branches of the military as well as the Guard.”
The legislation is also tripartisan, and Donald Trump’s support would likely win over many independents and libertarians to his campaign.
In June, the Montana Republican Party became the sixth state GOP party to adopt Defend the Guard language in its platform. To this day, the bill has been championed in over thirty states by Republican and Democrat sponsors and cosponsors (over a quarter of them military veterans) with the Libertarian Party National Committee’s endorsement and the help of many Libertarian Party state affiliates.
“My goal over the next year is to gain support for this bill from prominent liberty-minded congressmen and senators, like Matt Gaetz and Mike Lee,” said Angela McArdle, Chair of the Libertarian Party National Committee. “I think a libertarian populist wave is sweeping the nation and people are very open to the idea of bringing our troops home.” The Libertarian National Committee officially endorsed the legislation during McArdle’s first term as LNC Chair.
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Tim Walz’s Military Embellishment Is Bad, But This Stuff Is Much Worse…
Posted by M. C. on August 12, 2024
Minnesota spy on your neighbor hotline. And that is the good part.
This is the best we can offer?
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The Most Inhumane Arab Slave Trade in Africa That Nobody Talks About | Thomas Sowell
Posted by M. C. on August 12, 2024
“To this very moment, slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained.”
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“Another Massacre”
Posted by M. C. on August 12, 2024
When Israel bombs schools, it uses American bombs that shred every child’s body into pieces, rendering them unrecognizable and unidentifiable.
They bombed the Tabeen school in Gaza City with so much explosive force that not a single full body was recovered.
It was just pieces of people everywhere. They bagged body parts in 70-kilogram piles to try and estimate a death toll.
It was impossible to identify bodies or sort out which parts belonged where. Just one big stretch of undifferentiated carnage. Kind of like how the entire Gaza onslaught is starting to feel.
These massacres are all starting to blur together, like the lifeless bodies ripped apart and mixed together in bags. We westerners say “another massacre” when we talk about it, referring to it as just one more nightmare in an uninterrupted deluge of nightmares that’s been going on for ten months.
But it wasn’t “another massacre” for the people who were there. For the woman whose foot that used to belong to. For the boy who used to own that arm. For the man whose intestines those once were. For them it was the end of the world. For their loved ones it was unfathomable anguish.
Each and every one of these victims in each and every one of these massacres felt as much as you and I, cared as much as you and I, hoped and dreamed and loved and longed like you and I, and was just as capable of suffering as you and I.
Their bodies intermingle in the wreckage and the massacres intermingle in our memories, but we can’t just let it all blur together into background white noise. We can’t let this become our baseline. Our new normal. We can’t let them do that to us. We can’t let them rob us of our humanity like that.
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The State Is Not Your Friend!
Posted by M. C. on August 10, 2024
Once a person frees himself from the delusion that the government is here to help, it’s much easier to make sense of its otherwise inexplicable behavior. Think of the State as a ruthless conqueror interested only in taking everything you own.
Our governments do not care about free speech, free markets, self-government, or world peace. Why would they? Such lofty ideals only detract from their power and authority. On the other hand, censorship, regulation, bureaucracy, and constant war provide the State everything it needs to rule in perpetuity.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/the_state_is_not_your_friend.html
By J.B. Shurk
Right now, the United Kingdom is barreling toward totalitarianism. After a second-generation immigrant reportedly murdered several children in a vicious stabbing attack last week, native Brits took to the streets to denounce their country’s criminally dangerous open borders. If these outraged citizens had been members of Antifa, the press would have compassionately framed their actions as “mostly peaceful protests” deserving of praise. Instead, because the public’s fury is directed toward one of globalism’s sacred cows — mass migration — angry parents have been condemned for fomenting “violent riots.” Protecting children from serial killers and sexual predators, it seems, is not “politically correct.” Of course, anyone familiar with the Rotherham grooming scandal already knew that
The problem, according to the ruling Establishment, is not that open border immigration policies have led to marked increases in violent crime and cultural hostility, but rather that ordinary citizens have begun to express their displeasure. Commie Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a two-pronged solution for combatting public dissent: (1) increased social media censorship and (2) widespread implementation of facial recognition technology to beef up the U.K.’s already robust mass surveillance.
This exercise in raw tyranny follows Big Brother’s favorite playbook. First, the government creates a problem that harms ordinary citizens. Next, authorities pretend that no problem actually exists. Eventually, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands. Finally, the government uses public outrage as an excuse to expand its own powers.
As in America, there is overwhelming public support in the U.K. for secure borders and controlled immigration. Just as in the United States, both sides of the U.K.’s political Uniparty have ignored citizens’ wishes and instead flooded the country with illegal aliens who cannot easily assimilate into Western society. After violent crime and community conflicts predictably rose, U.K. authorities were more willing to ban knives than to admit that they had put the public in serious danger. And now that regular Brits are pushing back against the government’s criminal enterprise, the Marxist prime minister has chosen to use the crisis as a pretext for increasing mass surveillance and banning free speech. Somewhere on a whiteboard in a Deep State dungeon, this blueprint for erecting a new world order dystopia has long been planned out. Government officials have the blood of innocents on their hands.
Such ruling-class treachery is nothing new. Similar blueprints for erasing freedoms and expanding government power abound. For instance, there is the classic welfare state gambit: (1) move blue-collar jobs overseas, (2) tax and regulate citizens into poverty, (3) buy the votes of impoverished citizens desperate for handouts, and (4) keep the public dependent upon the government’s continued “generosity.”
There is the central bank funny money gambit: (1) give a small cabal of filthy rich bankers the power to print money as they see fit, (2) fund extravagant government programs with loans from the money-printing bankers, (3) artificially inflate the value of Wall Street assets while devaluing the meager savings of the working poor, (4) prop up unnatural economic bubbles with government interventions, (5) transfer all real property from the poorest to the wealthiest, (6) leave the majority of citizens in the precarious position of borrowing all their lives from rapacious creditors, (7) wait for the economy to crash like a house of cards, and (8) force all the desperate peasants into a system with central bank digital currencies that supervises their transactions in real time.
There is the global apocalypse gambit: (1) indoctrinate citizens with the false message that hydrocarbon energy is killing the planet, (2) heavily regulate all market activity for the public’s safety, (3) tax citizens for using unapproved energies, (4) launder windfall profits to “green energy” cronies, and (5) strictly monitor all citizens’ carbon footprint from cradle to grave.
There is the WWIII gambit: (1) promise Russia that NATO’s military alliance has no intention of expanding toward its borders, (2) spend the next three decades expanding NATO’s military alliance right up to Russia’s borders, (3) blame any Russian response on its secret desire to conquer Europe, (4) provide the European Commission with an excuse to erase national borders and build a pan-European military, and (5) give Western nations an opportunity to send able-bodied young men off to battle before they can turn their attention to matters closer to home.
Finally, there is the global health emergency gambit:
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The Civil War Didn’t ‘Settle’ The Question Of State Secession
Posted by M. C. on August 10, 2024
Written by a socialist in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance attempts to program Americans into internalizing a falsehood: that the United States is “one nation, indivisible.” On that score at least, the deeply-flawed pledge isn’t working on a large number of citizens.
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey
Secessionist inclinations are on the rise in the United States, and are sure to intensify after Nov. 5 regardless of which party prevails. When that happens, you can expect the accompanying discourse will be peppered with assertions that states have no right to secede, with many declaring the question was “settled” by the Civil War.
The embedded contention that legal and moral questions are rightly and permanently settled by the outcome of a mass-murder contest is absurd on its face. However, the notion is so widely and casually embraced that it invites an emphatic response. It also serves as a starting point to address other flawed forms of secession skepticism.
Written by a socialist in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance attempts to program Americans into internalizing a falsehood: that the United States is “one nation, indivisible.” On that score at least, the deeply-flawed pledge isn’t working on a large number of citizens.
A YouGov poll taken earlier this year found substantial slices of both major parties would support their state’s departure from the union: 29% of Republicans and 21% of Democrats. Similarly, the five states in which secessionist yearning is highest represent a mixed bag of red and blue: Alaska (36%), Texas (31%), California (29%), New York (28%) and Oklahoma (28%). While 23% of all Americans want their state to secede, 28% would be content if other states did so.
For now, the Lone Star State seemingly has the strongest separatist momentum.
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An economist looks at North Shore Search and Rescue
Posted by M. C. on August 10, 2024
How might, then, a competitive private mountain ownership system reduce the need for the services of NSS&R (they would be the first to welcome such an eventuality, since they want to save lives, not build an empire).
https://walterblock.substack.com/p/an-economist-looks-at-north-shore
British Columbia’s North Shore Search and Rescue group is a very impressive organization. Over the years they have saved the lives of numerous hikers and skiers in the mountains to the north of Vancouver. It’s a private undertaking, financed by voluntary contributions. They have their own helicopters. Dozens of highly-skilled staff pilot these vehicles, go down on ropes to pick up the wounded, whisk them off to hospitals. They have their own doctors to assist with those in need. Sometimes, all too often, weather conditions interfere with or preclude their efforts, and all they can take out of the dangerous mountainous trails are human remains, which greatly saddens them.
They are heroes, a credit to this great country of ours.
How might an economist look at this organization? One question is the dollars spent per lives saved. How does it compare with other efforts to save lives, such as efforts to quell heart disease or cancer or obesity or smoking or traffic fatalities. The goal, presumably, is to equalize this statistic across all such efforts to maximize the bang for the buck in terms of lives saved. For if one avenue is more efficient than others, more money should be allocated in that direction to maximize results.
Another consideration is to realize that specialization and the division of labour are integral aspects of the dismal science. North Shore Search and Rescue only steps in when people are in trouble. But what about prevention?
The difficulty is that private enterprise does not heretofore play much of a role in this aspect of life saving. Why? Mainly because the government owns much of land in the mountains. How could privatization help reduce the demand for the always necessary services of NSS&R?
Here are the names of some of the mountains that lie to the North of West and North Vancouver: Grouse, Seymour, Black, Hollyburn, Strachan, Unnecessary, Lions, Goat, Dam, Crown, Fromme and Lynn. Imagine a scenario where all of them were fully privatized; there would be one owner for each.
A basic finding of economics is that competition brings about a better product at a lower price. The reason we have pretty good and relatively cheap shoes, socks, bicycles, computers, heaters, air conditioners, pens, pencils, paper clips, rubber bands, furniture, ketchup, bread, etc., is because these industries are run on a competitive basis. This also accounts for why the immigration traffic was from East to West Germany, from North to South Korea, and not the other way around.
How might, then, a competitive private mountain ownership system reduce the need for the services of NSS&R (they would be the first to welcome such an eventuality, since they want to save lives, not build an empire). It would be simple. Each owner would set up his own “rules of the road” and we would then be able to determine which system better promotes the safety of skiers, hikers, bikers, snowshoe walkers, etc.
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It’s Weird to See a Retired General Scotch a Plea Bargain
Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2024
This entire dual, competing judicial system is about as weird as weird can get, including the fact that a retired military general now wields the authority to involve himself in plea bargains in criminal prosecutions. The fact that this weird judicial system has become a normal and permanent part of American life just goes to show how the national-security establishment controls, manages, and directs the federal government, with the other three branches simply playing a supportive role. SeeNational Security and Double Governmentby Michael J. Glennon.
Given that we have all been born and raised under a national-security state form of governmental structure, no one in the mainstream press is batting an eyelash over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s role in a plea bargain into which military prosecutors had entered with three men who are accused of participating in the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawix. Austin scotched the plea bargain because it eliminated the possibility of a death sentence for the three men.
To be sure, there are some mainstream pundits who have expressed disagreement with Austin’s decision to cancel the plea bargain. But none of them question the very notion that a retired military general is making a major decision in a case involving criminal justice. That’s because the mainstream press, along with many Americans, has come to accept the normality and permanence of the judicial system that the Pentagon established in Cuba after the 9/11 attacks.
But the fact is that Austin’s role in a criminal prosecution is weird — extremely weird. A retired military general serving as U.S. Secretary of Defense has no more legitimate role in America’s criminal-justice system than he does in America’s public-school system.
The U.S. Constitution established one judicial system. It consists of U.S. District Courts, federal courts of appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. It encompasses both civil and criminal jurisdiction. Under the Constitution, when the U.S. government targets someone with criminal prosecution, it must do so within the rules and constraints of the federal-court system.
In other words, the Constitution did not set up two dual, competing criminal-justice systems — one run by civilians and one run by the military.
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COVID Roundup: New Zealand Codifies Forced Injections in Martial Law ‘Pandemic Plan’
Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2024
And you thought it was over
By Ben Bartee
Under the skin is the final authoritarian frontier; as many have noted before, if you don’t have control over what is injected into your body, you don’t have freedom in any meaningful sense of the word.
If the Kiwis aren’t rioting in the streets of Auckland at this very moment, if this isn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back — either because the information space in New Zealand is so tightly controlled that they don’t know what their government is doing to them or because they are too psychologically/spiritually compromised to be bothered to do anything about it — all hope of a popular resistance may be lost.
Via New Zealand Pandemic Plan (emphasis added):
“Special powers are authorised by the Minister of Health or by an epidemic notice or apply where an emergency has been declared under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002. The power to detain, isolate or quarantine allows a medical officer of health to ‘require persons, places, buildings, ships, vehicles, aircraft, animals, or things to be isolated, quarantined, or disinfected’ (section 70(1)(f)). The power to prescribe preventive treatment allows a medical officer of health, in respect of any person who has been isolated or quarantined, to require people to remain where they are isolated or quarantined until they have been medically examined and found to be free from infectious disease, and until they have undergone such preventive treatment as the medical officer of health prescribes (section 70(1)(h))…
Section 71A states that a member of the police may do anything reasonably necessary (including the use of force) to help a medical officer of health or any person authorized by the medical officer of health in the exercise or performance of powers or functions under sections 70 or 71.”
‘European Vaccination Card’ program goes live in five EU member states
Via Vaccines Today (emphasis added):
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