Ballots v. Bullets

Comments on last month’s Ballot Box v. Jury Box column were similar in tone and intellect with responses to past columns explaining our Pax Americana, that is, our so-called ‘Peaceful Transfer of Power’ as a forced coalition of once independent States. Given the recent flow of history recorded in Butler, PA it seemed timely to analyze how dysfunctional ballots proffer more bullets. Assassination attempts are nothing new in US history - esp. under hegemony.

Until provided facts to the contrary, I view this current shooter as little more than another poorly educated youth, confused and in despair (metastasizing in a nation where government is god) gunning for maximum notoriety from his suicide… dare one type ‘suicide by cop?’ Still alive, I also omit the name of Reagan’s infamous shooter seeking the attention of an actress (I suspect prefers her name forgotten in the matter) by shooting a high profile show-person for notoriety. This aligns with the current Trump assassination attempt - i.e., a famous reality TV showman (another big government/modern democrat ‘donning’ a Red jersey like Reagan) poorly educated w.r.t. political economy yet an accomplished corporate welfare queen.

President Andrew Jackson was the nation’s first assassination attempt. Among our most authoritarian Presidents, Jackson was also a ‘high-profile’ figure and ignorant on political economy. Going outside executive authority on treaties, Jackson’s genocide of Native Americans was brutal. Jackson likely did more than any other president to shepherd the Five Civilized Tribes to fight for the 1861-5 Confederacy. Given Lincoln’s treatment, seems these Native Americans understood their future. Jackson championed corporate welfare over the general welfare using the tax code to pick winners and losers (Tariff of 1828 - a.k.a., Abominations) with the highest tax to date - average dutiable rate of 61% but did not want fiat money to subsidize the wealth transfers he signed into law.

Tariff of Abominations triggered the Nullification Crisis where war looming between States was avoided by lowing taxes toward a more Constitutional [uniform] result. Umbrage between VP Calhoun and hegemonic Jackson was much uglier and less Kabuki Theatre than the Trump/Pence January 6th show. On January 30, 1835 both of Richard Lawrence’s pistols misfired in his effort to shoot President Jackson after leaving a funeral held at the HoR Chamber. Fans of irony may appreciate this 1835 case was the first use of insanity defense successfully for Lawrence to spend the rest of his life [26 yrs.] in an insane asylum. The lauded Francis Scott Key [who penned Star Spangled Banner verses] was the legal mind who led Lawrence’s successful defense a ‘precedent’ later used to acquit the murderer of Key’s son.

As tariffs cooled back down to the 20% benchmark rate [Tariff of 1857] and revenues flowed in to pay off Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase all seemed smooth sailing once ‘Panic’ reinvestments returned toward more market driven results from federal corporate welfare distortions. Enter the newly formed Republican Party (morphed out of the ‘protectionist wing’ of the Whig Party promoting corporate welfare programs, hegemony and high taxes) to set us on our American soviet path decades before Russian Soviets would herald Lincoln, et al. For those not blinded by zeitgeist rhetoric, it was easy to see when Republicans couldn’t accomplish their desired wealth transfers politically; they had no problem using bloody military force.

Much more vulgar than Jackson’s bluff and bluster, Force Bill, etc. little surprise Lincoln is the first President assassinated given his unconstitutional blockade, call for troops to commit acts of war (a.k.a., Article 3, Section 3 treason) against States, arresting legislators likely to vote in manner he didn’t approve, silencing the press, refusing writs of habeas corpus, first conscription acts, first federal gun laws, first federal income tax, first fiat currency… to name a few of his soviet policies. Hard to argue John Wilkes Booth (a well-known actor from Maryland which suffered ‘first blood’ in Baltimore) was insane as one who watched the John Brown raid ‘train wreck.’ Some saw a free black (Heyward Shepherd) as the first casualty of this treason episode. By some accounts, Booth attended Brown’s hanging and was angered at glorification of Brown’s treason at Harper’s Ferry. At the close of destroying the States’ hard won 1783 independence, our most malicious president called for ‘malice toward none’ under his 1865 ‘Pax Americana.’ Once again we hear the hue and cry for hegemonic unity from both Biden and Trump crime family type politburo members.

Again for irony aficionados, President Lincoln established the United States Secret Service [USSS] April 14, 1865 - the date Booth shot him, who worked with the Confederate ‘Secret Service’ in a plot to kidnap Lincoln for a prisoner exchange. How many authoritarian nations across the world parroted ‘SS’ nomenclature for similar abominations? In keeping with their flawed inception instead of more resources and coordination with Federal Marshals, the USSS was more added bureaucracy as a branch of the Treasury Department explicitly to combat counterfeiting. Given our first American Ruble (a.k.a., Greenback ‘fiat money’ created March 10, 1862) some estimate approx. half of the Greenbacks circulating were counterfeit. Not until occupied States were allowed back into Congress to curb Republican soviet policies would the Greenback debacle be reversed, Lincoln unconstitutional income tax abolished, etc. A century later, Nixon and the Republicans would put us back on fiat money closing the gold window August 15, 1971.

The Secret Service's mission expanded to include investigating and protecting other federal officials, including the president, vice president, and visiting heads of state beginning with informal and part-time protection of President Cleveland, the first Democrat elected president after war between the states. Most noted as the only president elected to non-consecutive terms, Cleveland was targeted by American soviets angered by curbing Union Soldier pension abuse, returning Confederate flags and not-signing the Wilson-Gorman Tariff [1894] re-introducing the Republican’s first income tax which would be correctly ruled unconstitutional by SCotUS in 1895. By most accounts (including Lincoln’s own forecast) if Atlanta had lasted another few weeks - i.e., not surrendered by the November 8, 1864 election, Gen. George B. McClelland would’ve been elected president and the Republican soviets would’ve faded away until the next attempt to end our independence.

Acknowledging a long column, I’ll save typing on Presidents Garfield and McKinley authoritarianism/notoriety for another day. Threatening the president has been a felony since 1917 under Woodrow Wilson - the first Democrat elected in 15 years; the start of modern, big government Democrats advancing many soviet programs/policies… most offensive to Libertarians? - The Federal Reserve. Following the RFK assassination (who’s son is currently a non-duopoly candidate for president) in 1968 LBJ added USSS protection of President & VP candidates of the ‘major’ parties to the Secret Service task list.

Entertaining to watch USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle’s hubris before the House Oversight Committee questioning the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump… evoking Janet Reno caliber arrogance on taking responsibility for yet another federal embarrassment by this $3+ billion/yr. agency. Cheatle seemed surprised at the politburo’s bipartisanship. This was not a Mayorkas impeachment where those harmed are the general public. Reno could Texas barbeque children and religious zealots, but don’t put the politburo in jeopardy, even more so when a shooter is angry enough to harm heads of the Biden/Trump crime families! My US House Representative doesn’t have the intelligence/integrity to understand DHS Secretary Mayorkas (KGB if you prefer the Russian Soviet acronym over the American) is a symptom; failing to follow the letter and Spirit of the Constitution with all the soviet agency redundancies are the problem.

My Senators (a mediocre football coach and $574,000/yr. BCA political sellout) similarly have no clue what’s the source of the problem, much less looking to the Constitution for solutions. The politburo (Blue and Red soviets) does understand holding onto their power and wealth-transfers over the general welfare of citizens. I still receive occasional ‘hate mail’ about agencies to be abolished or incorporated into legitimate ones and reduce redundancies. Amtrak, BATF, CIA, DoE, EDA, FBI, GinnieMae, HUD, IRS… NLRB, NSA… to Western Power Administration. The USSS duties would fall under the Federal Marshals’ Office. This would reduce ‘fiefdoms’ which are poor at communication, sharing information and credit, clearly more worried about making their bloated GS pay-grade and retirement than our general welfare.

Dangers to our national security increase with every redundancy and incompetent bureaucrat. Interaction between Federal Marshals and ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] must be seamless. When a threat by a US citizen is found by ONI, immediately dispatch to the US Marshals Service. If a Federal Marshal discovers a threat from a non-US person, immediately dispatch it to ONI. Compelled to include a few words on the only assassination in my lifetime, President Kennedy, was taking on American soviets with income tax reduction, secure currency, vowing to end CIA, etc. corruption after the Bay of Pigs lies and angering the ‘military industrial complex’ with plans to exit Vietnam. Don’t look to Trump showmanship for wisdom of this sort, more interested in ‘Space Farce’ duplication instead of tasking USN experience and success in solving problems of this sort.

Flawed ballots sow bullets. Lincoln and the Republican Party didn’t even appear in most the States which tried to separate from his mercantilist policies. In the post-steamship era, any well educated political economist understood ports North of Annapolis with a 47% tariff and those South with 10% would not bode well for Lincoln’s corporate welfare ends he was put in power to accomplish. Some see Lincoln’s assassination bullet as the last shot in his war of hegemony… sadly many more deaths would occur and the ‘Judas rhetoric’ legacy of claiming to care about enslaved persons to cloak avarice sowed even more death, despair and hatred to keep his travesty alive several score hence.

Imagine President Buchanan’s (reviled by soviet historians) wisdom prevailed and States were not forced to remain. No first assassination? No more returning people who escaped via fugitive slave laws? Of course, this was shunned by Northerners who wanted Blacks (free and slave) to fear fugitive slave laws and go up to Canada/leave their State. Continuing private emancipations (49% of Blacks in 1860 Maryland were free in this slave State) and State emancipation laws would have ended slavery in a few decades without this legacy of assassination, death and hate. In fact, Brazil was last in Americas to emancipate in 1888.

Those interested in this may want to (re)read [https://www.alabamagazette.com/story/2021/02/01/opinion/those-who-make-peaceful-divorce-impossible-will-make-domestic-violence-inevitable/2084.html] explaining how violence becomes inevitable when peaceful separation (as designed in the Constitution) is made impossible. Some have reminded me, ‘Violence is the language of the unheard.’ Jan. 6th was prologue to what true civil war looks like without allowing peaceful exit. Civil war is fighting for control of the SAME government. Our wise founding fathers’ design made civil war unlikely at best, foolish at worst – a State no longer wanting to be in the voluntary coalition would exit.

Some also recalled the ‘Congressional Shooter’ [https://www.alabamagazette.com/story/2017/07/01/opinion/hodgkinsons-disease-how-house-members-progressed-into-larger-targets/1094.html] who asserted, “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” Much like Trump’s shooter, the Congressional shooter was also clueless how a traitor is defined in our Constitution, furthermore one can NOT find the word Democracy in the 7,591 word document. This doesn’t stop Harris/Biden buffoons or Trump/Vance chumps from bantering the word about; seems those who shill loudest for democracy are those ‘progressing’ us toward the observed oligarchic result. Just as there would be less reason to shoot at presidents if they stayed within their Constitutional authority, there’d be little reason to shoot a powerless Congressperson if we had constitutionally correct representation. Alas, Congressional shooters are more symptoms; the disease is a flawed bi-polar political process producing ever more addicted and demanding parasites dependent upon redistributive government to get their ‘fix’ as they destroy themselves and our posterity.

In closing, ‘money mill parasites’ drive the observed outcomes. When the Republican Party told Trump (remember, Trump is a big government Democrat, currently donning the Red jersey who gave to soviets like Kamala Harris) they’d not pay his legal bills, he made overtures to the Libertarian Party. The parasites got scared they’d lose their cut of donations from the dumb masses and ‘Johns’ who pay political prostitutes like BCA Britt. The money mill parasites do not care how donations are spent, or the outcome as long as they get their cut. Donations with the Biden crime family at the top of the ticket were sinking, so inject a little more drama to get the money mill going again. These parasites will keep the Kabuki Theatre in full shriek and appearing a close duopoly race until Tuesday, November 5th.

Postscript: In the same deleterious spirit of Boob Riley’s Claritin Patent Extension Act and Felon Hubbard’s ‘Obamacare’ Auto-insurance monopolization legacy promoting similar lack of oversight given to BCBS... my pharmacist is gagged. A gag I fear much more than one put upon a failed businessperson who benefits from accounting fraud, bankruptcy laws, eminent domain abuse and disuniform taxation. Please read this investigative report on my local pharmacy: https://www.alabamaexaminer.com/post/beauregard-pharmacy-being-robbed-by-corporate-pharma-and-the-usual-suspects-in-downtown-birmingham. God watch over the few remaining investigative reporters like Brice, Moseley and Holbert in Alabama. When asked about this matter, reporter John Brice replied, “PBMs have routinely held independent pharmacists hostage using gag order clauses in the contracts they must agree to in order to distribute prescription drugs. This prevents them from being candid with their customers about lower priced alternatives to the artificially inflated drug costs that the PBMs are fleecing patients' pocketbooks with. If pharmacists violate these gag orders in the interests of consumers, the PBMs wield their onerous contracts like a weapon to cut off the supply of critical medications. It is imperative that members of the press and private citizens exercise their First Amendment rights to decry this abominable state of affairs." Please let Gov. Ivey and your legislator know you’ve had enough of the Felon Hubbard legacy in our State and ask your local pharmacist about alternatives which may limit the harm to you and our State.

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