A New Discrimination Route: The COVID Hoax! The virus is real but the response is political!

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By: Richard Finger

August 9, 2020

 

The disease may recede, but the stigma lingers. I have experienced it first hand as earlier this summer; my twenty-one-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. Placing this data bit in the atmosphere receives hushed condolences as if revealing the contraction of an incurable venereal disease.  Exile to a leper's colony purged her Mark of Cain. She remained asymptomatic throughout her convalescence.

 

Paradoxically, neither my wife nor I tested positive, despite close contact with her in the days preceding.  Over a month later, I cheerfully introduce her as a recent COVID survivor. The mood changes, the unease is palpable, and all confirm face coverings are hermetically sealed.

 

Humanity has fallen into dystopian existence. Incessant media bombardment convince COVID to be the Armageddon that will forever redefine the human race. Permanent radical behavioral shifts, masks, social distance, no restaurants, bars or theaters, social seclusion, become the new future. Methodically, through all the redundancy, a tectonic reposition of thought patterns occur.

 

Bike riders secure their face coverings, yet no humans stray within a hundred feet. Ditto to the shrouded fools riding alone in their cars or solitary women with strollers. Masked hikers on the mountain trails of Colorado assiduously avoid my uncovered appearance.

 

My advance reeks panic of approaching death. They move aside, bow heads in prayer-like posture, and for extra protection, place their hands over already camouflaged faces. 

 

Such demeanor presupposes COVID disperses from the trees, the rivers, and mischievously lurks in crisp mountain air. People transform to vapid souls listlessly wandering the landscapes now devoid of internal electrical impulses remotely prompting they might question, much less rebel against, directives mandated by public officials. Shunning or worse for the pariah who dares resist the new orthodoxy. A complete indoctrination.

 

DEATH BY AGE

What if it's all orchestrated misinformation?

 

CDC statistics show through August 1, there were nationwide, a total of 45 deaths of children 14 years old and younger. With 60.7 million children in this population demographic, the odds of dying from COVID calculate to about 1 in 1.35 million, well outside the top ten causes of death for this age group. I hypothesize most of these unfortunate 45  suffered from previous underlying medical issues.

 

Conversely, during the past four years, over 100 children younger than five years old annually died of seasonal flu. In the 2017-18 season, influenza deaths for this age group were as high as 600; yet no schools closed. More than halfway through 2019-2020, officially 186 have succumbed. Yet COVID has claimed only 25 lives of those less than five years old, or 14 percent of seasonal flu numbers. The fifteen to twenty-four-year-old group remains nearly as bulletproof with a loss of around 225 people on a 42 million population base.

 

California, breaking through 10,000 COVID deaths, recently reported its first death of a "young person" with the passing of a 17-year-old male. Like most, he suffered from a preexisting health condition. Approaching six hundred thousand cases, yet only one confirmed school-age death, disingenuous teacher's union's and politicians miraculously deflect "safety of children" as one justification to keep schools shuttered.  

 

The CDC discloses in only six percent of all coronavirus deaths, "COVID was the only cause" mentioned. For the other ninety-four percent, "there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death." There were 115,495 fatalities where patients got admitted to the hospital with "influenza and/or pneumonia." Another 93,393 checked in with respiratory failure, while 35,167 arrived amid cardiac arrest. Yet hospital administrators sign COVID on death certificates one hundred percent of the time. Early on, Dr. Deborah Birx publicized the probability that medical facilities overstate numbers of actual coronavirus fatalities.

Of U.S.165,000 casualties attributed to COVID, six percent translates that less than ten thousand fatalities were otherwise healthy. Eighty percent of all deaths occur in those over 65. One-third of the deceased is over 85, even though this group represents only around four percent of the total population. With 165,000 dead, approximately 133,000 have been these older adults. It is impossible to know the precise age breakdown of the unlucky ten thousand victims in robust health, but the CDC published that half of all eighty-year-olds entered hospitals free from other maladies. Given the asymmetric sacrifice the elderly have made, many of these victims must have been previously in sturdy condition. Therefore, probably more than eighty percent of healthy deaths were also over sixty-five. This leaves 2,000 or fewer vigorous individuals killed by COVID under sixty-five. The under 65 population represents 272 million or 84 percent of America's total. That's outstanding odds you will be a survivor.

 

American behavior now far transcends sensible risk aversion sliding toward a surreal Twilight Zone.

 

Hospitals have every incentive to treat every admission as a coronavirus patient. Medicare will make a lump sum payment of $5,000 to a hospital for a pneumonia diagnosis, but the amount ricochets to $13,000 if the doctor determines COVID with pneumonia. Stick that COVID patient on a ventilator for 96 hours, and the reimbursement skyrockets to $39,000. How many manipulated for-profit death certificates signed "COVID" were in actuality from other medical issues? I confirmed with a doctor at a major Houston hospital pressure tactics exist, that, if a patient has COVID, to designate COVID as the cause of death, regardless of whether the victim was a 500-pound diabetic with cancer who had a heart attack.

 

Hospitals become even more motivated since many locations have continuing restrictions on elective surgeries, depriving a significant income source. In another questionable practice, to "earn" more federal dollars, some states, most notably N.Y., allow for "presumptive COVID cases." On April 14, New York magically added 3,700 COVID fatalities to include "people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have it." That equates to tens of millions in additional federal funds with the stroke of a pen. Andrew Cuomo maliciously carried out death sentences of thousands of New York nursing home residents consigning infected patients to join healthy populations. At nearly 33,000 victims, New York alone, with less than six percent of the country's people, accounts for 20 percent of U.S. fatalities.

 

Back in California, with cameras rolling, Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County's interim public health officer, tearfully recounted the 17-year old's death. "It's a huge trauma for everyone…., including the hospital workers who are still coping on this case. I am speechless when it comes to anything that I could say to the family……It just brings home the reality that this is not sparing even the youngest members of our community." Really. One dead of over 8.5 million California kids 17 or younger. While nothing can equal the catastrophe of losing a child, the doctor's tone sounds as if COVID confers exponentially more tragedy than death by mundane seasonal flu, cancer, or getting hit by a city bus.

 

Would a cancer death have warranted an equally hyperbolic and apocalyptic press briefing highlighted with sensationalized melodrama? A politicized COVID end translates to being victimized by the willful malfeasance of wicked Donald Trump. Liberals narrate that without the White House bungling, all of this cataclysm and economic destruction would have been avoided. Yet when Trump announced the very early January 30 China travel ban, Joe Biden and ilk were swift with stale cries of "xenophobia and fear-mongering."

 

Dying by coronavirus becomes a symbol, a logo of martyrdom to rid our country of the real virus, Trump. Hence, leftists and media collaborators promote ideas of "second waves," tacitly cheer rising fatality counts, and demand ever more economic lockdowns. 

 

Over the past couple of weeks, the media, with lackey doctors Fauci and Gottlieb providing imprimatur, double down on hysteria as for several days, COVID cases spiked above 70,000. Even Republican governors cowed under pressure as many states slow or halt reopening economies. For perspective, for the six-month Oct-April 2020, CDC reports up to 56,000,000 seasonal flu cases.

This calculates to over 300,000 per day. Currently, the official COVID count stands just over 5 million. Does anyone, ever, refer our annual flu "tradition" as a pandemic? During the recent case spike, deaths never got above 55 percent of the April peaks.

 

This recent case uptick comes from more testing, now approaching twenty percent of Americans. The muted death rates stem that most of the new cases are from the younger demographics that went back to work and mingled in reopened restaurants and bars. In California, 18-49-year-olds encompass over 60 percent of cases, yet comprise a little over 43 percent of the population.

 

Significant numbers, 35 percent or much higher in some studies, of those infected with COVID, show no symptoms. With such a high prevalence of asymptomatic virus response, the number of coronavirus cases certainly is much higher, perhaps by orders of magnitude than official reports. The CDC estimates the real numbers at six to twenty-four times larger. If 50 or 60 million people have been exposed, then realized death rates must be adjusted commensurately downward. 

 

The Meaning of Pandemic

The fourteenth-century Bubonic Plague classifies as a genuine pandemic. Forecasts that 100 to 200 million perished, erasing perhaps 50 percent or more of all inhabitants of Europe. Some guess it eclipsed 20 to 25 percent of the world's total residents.

 

Proportionally overlay these numbers to the twenty-first century and visualize over 100 million dead Americans and billions vanished worldwide. Yet the current 735,000 worldwide coronavirus fatality census corresponds to less than a 100^th of one percent of all people on the planet.

 

For this, governments worldwide, deprive millions of businesses and perhaps hundreds of millions of individuals a right to earn a living. With death rates among most demographics far less than one-tenth of one percent, the world economy gets forced into collapse.

 

Other Things To Worry About

While we hyperventilate over COVID, around the world, humans continue dying, sometimes in much higher numbers, from other things. So far this year:

---over a million dead by HIV/AIDS

---over 3 million dead from smoking

---over 1.5 million dead from alcohol

---nearly 5 million dead from cancer

---over 630,000 dead from suicide

---nearly 600,000 dead from malaria

---over 7 million dead from communicable diseases (not including COVID)

---nearly 4.6 million dead children under five years old

---25 U.S. deaths from COVID for children under five years old on a population of 19.7 million

---over 6.5 million dead from starvation

---over 500,000 dead by water-related diseases

 

Every year over 450 million worldwide cases of pneumonia end around four million lives. Headlines seem sparse on almost all the above disasters. These figures transform COVID into an afterthought.

 

The newly radicalized proxies of the Democrats, teachers' unions nationwide keep the education system hostage to specious safety concerns. Twitter and Facebook both removed a Donald Trump video clip announcing children are "almost immune from the disease." While not immune, the above numbers reveal they rarely get sick, and it's seldom fatal. Such universal coordinated censorship shields truth from the public. Empirical evidence from both a German study and a French survey found school settings not to be hotbeds of transmission. They bore out the hypothesis that kids are much less prolific transmitters of the virus than adults.

 

Conclusion

With all the pecuniary incentives for hospitals to bilk the federal government, I believe the number of COVID deaths vastly exaggerated. Given eighty percent of fatalities are over those over 65 and 94 percent have underlying health problems, young, healthy people have little to worry about. 

 

So, if you're over 85, take a leave of absence from work, or if you chose, just keep on living; at the end of the day, no one's getting out of here alive. If your're over 65, obese with diabetes, perhaps you should tread lightly as well. Everyone else should use common sense. But unsavory Democrats drill into heads an evil ethos of government as a benign omniscient protector. American society has long abrogated any concept of personal responsibility.

 

The recent multi-trillion-dollar COVID rescue or stimulus packages with another brewing further inculcate Democratic welfare ideology.

 

Coronavirus represents a culmination of a generation of leftist warfare to deracinate two and half centuries of American spirit. History might look back at this media-driven fabrication as the nail that irretrievably shut the coffin.

 

Open the hood of the car and discover there is no engine. Read all the numbers, not just those curated to dissemble. COVID is a flu, not a bubonic plague-like killer pandemic the media has programmed us to believe.

 

COVID is a hoax.

Let's Talk about Black Privilege By Rich Logis

There are approximately 250 million Americans aged 20 and over.  How many don't believe that black lives matter? I want a number, backed up by evidence — not a dissertation, pontification, polemic, manifesto, or Socratic dialogue.  A number. Not having to provide a fact-based number: black privilege — yes or no? Take NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who imagined a noose the way the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart imagined a droning beating heart.  A hysterical black American creates unnecessary panic over a noose found in his garage; draws 15 FBI agents to investigate, at a total of tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money; investigation confirms the black American's story was paranoia; FBI goes home; nothing happens to the black American for making a false accusation and creating unnecessary panic; continues to receive fawning press in the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex).  Black privilege — yes or no? Lincoln County, Ore. exempted from mandatory mask-wearing "[p]eople of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public."   Black privilege — yes or no? Black Americans saying the "N-word" without fear of recrimination of being called racist: black privilege — yes or no? During the recent George Floyd–related terrorist looting and riots, retired St. Louis, Mo. police captain David Dorn was shot and killed; he was 77.  His death was recorded on a phone for the world to see, in a grotesquely grim The Truman Show moment for the nation.  Dorn's alleged murderer, a 24-year-old ex-felon named Stephan Cannon, was convicted at 18 for violent felony robbery and was supposed to serve a seven-year sentence.  But he never served a day thanks to leniency from the presiding judge.  The violent ex-felon subsequently twice violated his probation but, alas, never went to prison.  Cannon is black; his two accomplices were also black.  So much for gun control. Cannon is entitled to Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed rights.  Our legal system is so "systemically racist" that Cannon will (once again, as a repeat offender) benefit from liberties 39 white guys decided over two centuries ago should be the law of the land. As a free black ex-felon after committing a violent crime and then violating his probation:  black privilege — yes or no? Sadly, black privilege did not save Dorn's life.  Rest in peace, Captain Dorn, who left behind a wife, five children, and ten grandchildren. When a free black man, with dozens of priors, allegedly kills a white cop, and no one hears about it on CNN or on the pages of The New York Times, was the black man privileged?  Such was the case in May, when Officer Cody Holte, of the Grand Forks, North Dakota Police Department, was gunned down.  Holte is survived by his wife and infant son. DMIC blackout of black-on-black crime: black privilege — yes or no? Do the members of the Congressional Black Caucus have privileges by virtue of their race? Would a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman as white as the driven snow garner more looks of suspicion in West Baltimore than a black woman?  If no, then doesn't the black woman have black privilege? White and Black Privileges Either we all enjoy some privilege or we have none at all.  I happen to consider everyone who lives in America privileged, including blacks — and illegal aliens, which I discuss in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat: How to Make America Grown-Up Again. Ask a black American about black privilege.  If he says none exists, then neither does white privilege.  If, however, he concurs that there's black privilege, he will likely immediately pivot from an abstract argument to a quantification argument — that whites have more privilege than blacks.  Once he makes this pivot, he has now TKOed himself, because a quantification argument requires a number; the onus and burden of proof is on the black American. How much more privilege, then, does a white have?  The black American will never give a number because: 1.   He doesn't know the number. 2. Any number he provides cannot be confirmed by anything other than the outcome he wants to come to. I want a mathematically determined number — not a Washington Post narrative. What's frightening and unnerving about most black Democrats is that they actually do believe that they are manacled victims of a multi-century, furtive, surreptitious, systematically racist cabal of the affluent Caucasian patriarchy enacted in 1619 or 1776.   If you believe this, you're not going to grow up wondering if your problems have anything to do with your own decisions and actions.  Black Democrats are not like affluent white Democrats, who believe none of the balderdash that comes out of their mouths.   What I see in Black Lives Matter is a group in pursuit of revenge, not equality.  Inequality is the new equality.   No matter how much Goebbelsian public relations Black Lives Matter receives from the DMIC, no reasonable American is mistaking the group for those who attended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 or the Selma to Montgomery marches two years later.   The conditions where black Americans have it worse — including problems with the police — are in cities run by Democrats for tens of thousands of consecutive days.  Machine gun–owning Jeffersonian constitutionalists living in towns whose local diner menus read "breakfast, lunch, dinner" aren't enslaving black Americans, despite what Don Lemon says nightly.  Would it be fair to say all participants of Black Lives Matter are violent?  No, but it's not the peaceful ones I'm worried about.   When Black Lives Matter colludes to tear down statues and monuments, they're not doing so to rewrite their Democrat history — they don't know anything about history.  They destroy and deface because terrorists kill, annihilate, and terrorize just for the sake of it, indiscriminately.   What we're discovering about the professional Democrat protest class is that they think quite similarly to Islamic supremacists.  The Woodstock generation has produced lite versions of Osama bin Laden — this is the actual legacy of the Democratic Party.   Islamic supremacists always recruit the young, the vulnerable, and the ignorant and always seek to expand.   The only substantive difference between Democrats and Islamic supremacists is that the latter have just been doing it longer.  If some of these Democrat terrorists could obtain suicide vests, I have no doubt some would detonate it in a crowd of women and children.   Many don't associate the Democratic Party with Islamic supremacists, Nazis, Soviets, and Maoists because the Democrats don't have genocides associated with their party.  But terrorists of similar feathers flock together. The sympathy well has run dry, black America.  You may not want to hear that, but you need to hear it. Rich Logis is author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat: How to Make America Grown-Up Again.

Federal Spending and who is responsible for the national debt

So lets talk about the national debt.  I'm gonna make a bold statement, here!  WE are responsible for the national debt!  Not the lawmakers but the voters.  We are the ones that keep sending them back saying give us something that we can't afford!  OK, got that of my mind.  Now to the question at hand.  Who actually spends the most, Democrats or Republicans.

Lets start by saying that all spending MUST originate in the House of Representatives.  So whoever controls the House also has a LOT to do with how much and where it will go.  These numbers are from FY1970 through FY2018 and are compiled from https://www.thebalance.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306

Deficits   (in billions)	White House
House of Representatives	Democrat	GOP	Grand Total
Democrat	6051	3247	9298
GOP	1778	2672	4450
Grand Total	7829	5919	13748
Average of Deficit/GDP	House Of Representatives
White House	Democrat	GOP	Grand Total
Democrat	4.37%	1.01%	3.03%
GOP	3.17%	2.08%	2.83%
Grand Total	3.62%	1.58%	2.91%
Avg Deficits (in billions)	White House
House of Representatives	Democrat	GOP	Grand Total
Democrat	504.25	162.35	290.56
GOP	222.25	296.89	261.76
Grand Total	391.45	204.10	280.57

So we can see that when the House of Representatives and the President is Democrat, the average deficit is nearly 70% higher than when the House and President are Republican (table 3).  Unfortunately, Republicans are not holding up their end of the bargain, either.  They are spending 33% more when they hold both the House and President than when they only control the House and there is a Democrat President.  When the House is in Democrat control and the President is Republican, the difference is startling.  When the House is Democrat, the average deficit is more than 210% higher with a Democrat President than a Republican President.

The economic costs of climate change.

Climate change is a hoax.  That is not only my opinion.  It is the opinion of countless other responsible observers.  This has been going on for more than a 50 years!  Read about some of the more spectacular predictions and the costs of
idiotic environmental predictions in this article by economist and professor of economics at George Mason University Walter E. Williams.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/economist-walter-williams-global-warming-cost-idiotic-environmental-predictions

If you believe socialism is the answer, read this!

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/13/my-socialist-hell-20-years-of-decay-in-venezuela/

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/09/12/bernie-sanders-extremely-unfair-to-compare-my-socialism-to-venezuelas/

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/09/07/venezuelans-increasingly-turn-to-witchcraft-seeking-relief-from-socialism/

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/08/28/venezuela-socialist-thugs-terrorize-civilians-signing-anti-trump-petition/

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/12/labour-mp-abolish-all-countries-socialist-utopia-not-achieved-through-national-barriers/

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/08/01/venezuela-socialist-death-squads-targeting-opposition-activists/

Illegal immigration, the shutdown, and the wall

So we now have a government shutdown over funding for repairs and construction of new physical barriers along our southern border.  As full disclosure, my wife is a currently furloughed employee and she is anxious to return to work.  But she is 100% behind the shutdown!  And so am I.  

There are estimates that 5-6% of the population of the US workforce is made up of illegal aliens.  Could be more than 10 million overall.  They work for lower wages and benefits in jobs that, some say, Americans won't do.  That may or may not be true.  I propose a "light" green card program that is funded by those who benefit from it.  Let's call it "DACIE".  Deferred Action for Illegal Entry.

"DACIE" should have a grace period, where if you are in the US illegally, you must come forward, submit a biometric sample including DNA (this is already a requirement for naturalization), and prove that you are gainfully employed or have means to support yourself and your family without public assistance. Anyone that is in this program will not be eligible for ANY taxpayer supported public assistance, state OR federal and agrees to this as a condition. If you apply for any public assistance, you are automatically ineligible for this program.  If you have overstayed your visa, that shows you have financial ability to pay and will be required to pay a fine for that before you are allowed into the program. If you fail to do this within the grace period, lets say 18 months, there is NO wiggle room. If you do NOT comply with the requirements, you are subject to deportation at any time. If you are arrested, you WILL be deported IMMEDIATELY. Members of the US military, or students making progress to a college degree will be exempt from the financial guidelines, but still must submit biometric and DNA samples.  Any past felony convictions are AUTOMATICALLY disqualified, and future felony convictions will immediately disqualify the applicant and agree to the condition that they be subject to immediate deportation as soon as their jail term is completed. 

 All employers are also required to comply with e-verify and ANY employer who has employees that are currently in this group MUST provide proof that payroll taxes and SS/Medicare taxes are being withheld and certifies that they will be withheld in the future. For social security purposes, their employment starts when they have their first withholding and they will then be subject to the same rules as EVERYBODY else. In addition, a new withholding, FOR THIS GROUP ONLY equal to the current Medicare tax will be created to finance the cost of this program. When they are granted citizenship, the new withholding in the paragraph above is ended!  If they choose to not become an American citizen, they will continue paying this tax. Any employer who doesn’t comply will be subject to large fines and/or jail. 

All members of this group will be submitted to USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) and there will be NO FEE WAIVERS for this group or exceptions from taking the civics or English language tests.  

The MOST important part of this program is the addition of a poison pill. If any court finds any part of this program to be illegal or unconstitutional, ALL parts of the program are defunct and all participants are subject to existing immigration laws and may be subject to immediate deportation.

So California Wants To Be A Sanctuary State...

California doesn't think they should have to comply with federal laws that they don't agree with.  They call themselves a "Sanctuary State".  Fine.  If they don't want to comply, then there is no reason to compel them to.  They should have to WANT to do it.  I have a solution to that! 


Mr. President, sign an executive order immediately removing all ICE enforcement and personnel from the state of California and moving all operations such as border inspections and all immigration related activities to new quarters along the California/Arizona border.  Within 30 days, you will have a lawsuit from the state claiming the federal government has failed in its duty to enforce immigration laws within the state!  But how can this be.....a sanctuary state.....you can't be enforcing a racist law like this.......can you?  The state will have to claim that it is the federal governments responsibility to enforce the law IN THEIR STATE.  Game, set, match!

A few missives and quotes from our founding fathers on gun control

George Washington
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined..."

Samuel Adams
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Thomas Jefferson
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

Patrick Henry
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

George Mason
“To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”

James Madison
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”

“The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone.”

**Madison was vehemently against a standing army because history shows that standing armies can be used as tools of tyranny as well as tools of defense.

Noah Webster
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”

Convention of States Project and Publius Huldah

If you are relying on Publius Huldah as an honest broker on questions about the Convention of States movement, let me tell  you about her.  First place, she is a divorce lawyer, not a constitutional scholar.  She even calls her self a strict constitutionalist yet opposes an article V convention even though it is one of the 2 ways the constitution can be amended.  She is married to an ex-client, Frank Scutari, who has been convicted of aiding and abetting his brother, Richard Scutari with crimes relating to armed robbery, the Alan Berg murder, the Aryan Nations and other anti-government groups. Frank Scutari was accused of helping fugitive members of The Order, a white nationalist revolutionary organization, by helping fugitives keep in touch with one another by setting up a network of rented offices.  Frank has also pled guilty to being an accessory to a 1984 armed robbery in which $3.6 million was taken from an armored truck in California.  This is the kind of person you think you should be forming YOUR opinions on?

DACA--Don't Americans Count Anymore

I see a story about a UC Berkley student who was arrested because he is in the country illegally. You can read the story here. This is another sob story about a person who thinks HE is special because he wants to be a lawyer and help others to get around our laws. The story refers to him as a "Dreamer" He is NOT a "Dreamer". If he was, he would NOT have been arrested. The clue is that his DACA status was NOT mentioned in this story. He is no different that the other 5 million people in this country illegally because they overstayed their visas. If he wants to be a citizen, then go back to Ecuador and do it the right way. The people who have complied with DACA parameters, even though it is fiat and NOT a constitutional edict, I have no problem with. They are complying with our "laws". However, they are STILL, legally, illegal aliens. I know there is no way to get rid of all 11 million plus but we also can't allow them to become citizens unless they do it the right way. 

I believe a new program should be created and funded by those who benefit from it.  This program should have a grace period, where if you are in the US illegally, you must come forward, submit a DNA sample, and prove that you are gainfully employed or have means to support yourself and your family without public assistance. Anyone that is in this program will not be eligible for ANY taxpayer supported public assistance, state OR federal and agrees to this as a condition. If you apply for any public assistance, you are automatically ineligible for this program.  If you have overstayed your visa, that shows you have financial ability to pay and will be required to pay a fine for that before you are allowed into the program. We create a NEW type of green card for this group. If you fail to do this within the grace period, lets say 18 months, there is NO wiggle room. If you do NOT comply with the requirements, you are subject to deportation at any time. If you are arrested, you WILL be deported IMMEDIATELY. Members of the US military, or students making progress to a college degree will be exempt from the financial guidelines, but still must submit DNA samples.  Any past felony convictions are AUTOMATICALLY disqualified, and future felony convictions will immediately disqualify the applicant and agree to the condition that they be subject to immediate deportation as soon as their jail term is completed. 

 All employers are also required to comply with e-verify and ANY employer who has employees that are currently in this group MUST provide proof that payroll taxes and SS/Medicare taxes are being withheld and certifies that they will be withheld in the future. For social security purposes, their employment starts when they have their first withholding and they will then be subject to the same rules as EVERYBODY else. In addition, a new withholding for this group equal to the current Medicare tax will be created to finance the cost of this program. Any employer who doesn’t comply will be subject to large fines and/or jail. 

The last part is that, in return for allowing them to stay in this country, they MUST start AND finish the process to become US citizens. They will NOT have a different path to citizenship. They will NOT be allowed to “cut the line” in front of those who are complying with our immigration laws currently. 

The MOST important part of this program is the addition of a poison pill. If any court finds any part of this program to be illegal or unconstitutional, ALL parts of the program are defunct and all participants are subject to immediate deportation.  DACA stood for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This type of program will allow DACA to no longer stand for Don’t Americans Count Anymore.

If you are a US Senator, be a Senator for ALL AMERICANS!

I know this is a tilting at windmills kinda thing, but the titles for our federal representatives in Congress is "United States Senator from " fill in the state name here. In other words, they should be representing what is in the best interests of the country AS A WHOLE! Why should I have to pay higher FEDERAL income taxes in Texas because California or New Jersey has decided to have high STATE income taxes. Why should the people of high state tax states have input in my FEDERAL taxes when I don't have any input in their STATE taxes. If your state has a problem because you won't be able to deduct state taxes, FIX IT THERE FIRST!

Ben Franklin's Final Speech at the Constitutional Convention

For full disclosure, Ben Franklin is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grand Father.  It was the side of  William Franklin, the Tory governor of New Jersey...but we can't pick our ancestors, now can we!

Mr. President:

I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present, but Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it: For having lived long, I have experienced many Instances of being oblig'd, by better Information or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own Judgment, and to pay more Respect to the Judgment of others. Most Men indeed as well as most Sects in Religion, think themselves in Possession of all Truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far Error. Steele, a Protestant in a Dedication tells the Pope, that the only Difference between our two Churches in their Opinions of the Certainty of their Doctrine, is, the Romish Church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the Wrong. But tho' many private Persons think almost as highly of their own Infallibility, as of that of their Sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French Lady, who in a little Dispute with her Sister, said, I don't know how it happens, Sister, but I meet with no body but myself that's always in the right. Il n'y a que moi qui a toujours raison. 

In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. 

I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution: For when you assemble a Number of Men to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, their Passions, their Errors of Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this System approaching so near to Perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our Enemies, who are waiting with Confidence to hear that our Councils are confounded, like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the Point of Separation, only to meet hereafter for the Purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. 

The Opinions I have had of its Errors, I sacrifice to the Public Good. I have never whispered a Syllable of them abroad. Within these Walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of us in returning to our Constituents were to report the Objections he has had to it, and use his Influence to gain Partisan in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose all the salutary Effects and great Advantages resulting naturally in our favour among foreign Nations, as well as among ourselves, from our real or apparent Unanimity. Much of the Strength and Efficiency of any Government, in procuring and securing Happiness to the People depends on Opinion, on the general Opinion of the Goodness of that Government as well as of the Wisdom and Integrity of its Governors. I hope therefore that for our own Sakes, as a Part of the People, and for the sake of our Posterity, we shall act heartily and unanimously in recommending this Constitution, wherever our Influence may extend, and turn our future Thoughts and Endeavours to the Means of having it well administered. 

On the whole, Sir, I cannot help expressing a Wish, that every Member of the Convention, who may still have Objections to it, would with me on this Occasion doubt a little of his own Infallibility, and to make manifest our Unanimity, put his Name to this instrument.

Someone please explain....

Why is it that the left is so concerned about foreign interference and influence in our elections? I would think, based on their OWN actions, they would welcome that. Reason you say? Because they obviously welcome interference and influence in our law making! Otherwise, they would NOT have their panties in a wad over DACA!!!!!