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From its beginning, the foundational story of the United States has been the struggle between freedom and tyranny, which is a conflict over power. Should the elite minority defined by lineage, wealth, or education control and rule the collective people; or should the people share in that power, since their consent is required? Which is worse, the tyranny of the few, or the tyranny of the many?
Most of our political conflicts go back to those questions. Take the current clash between Donald Trump’s administration, and the unelected federal judiciary. A district court judge has ordered Trump to stop deporting vicious illegal alien gangsters, per the 1798 Act Concerning Aliens, which makes it “lawful for the President of the United States . . .to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States.”
This judge also violated the principle of separated and balanced powers by egregiously interfering with the president’s power. Another district court judge issued an injunction against Trump’s Executive Order to transfer biologically male prisons who self-identify as women, back to male prisons. According to the judge, “The fact that they have already been transferred and, allegedly, have been abused at their new facilities can only strengthen their claims of irreparable harm.” You don’t have to work in a prison, male or female, to know that all inmates are subject to physical abuse, rape, and other sexual assaults.
That injunction also violates the Constitution’s separation of powers for district court judges to encroach on the powers of an elected president who is carrying out his duty to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed”? And as such, are not the judges’ orders an act of tyranny?
According to Aristotle, tyranny is “arbitrary power . . . which is responsible to no one, and governs all alike, whether equals or betters, with a view to its own advantage, not to that of its subjects, and therefore against their will. No free man willingly endures such a government.” Unelected district court judges who issue restraining orders on elected presidents can be a tyranny of one, disenfranchising the millions of citizens who put the president into office.
In our history, this moral hazard of tyrannical harm has been a bone of contention between those who favor the people, and those who favor elites. Andrew Jackson, our first non-elite, populist president, frequently addressed this struggle. Such “closed elites,” as historian Walter McDougall calls them, were empowered by the federal government, and vulnerable to the corruption of concentrated power. In 1824, Jackson wrote that a Federalist administration “is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”
Furthermore, Jackson wrote, “Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people . . . I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people,” a belief that challenged the technocratic pretensions that elites were more capable than the non-elites who relied on experience, virtue, faith, and common sense to guide their political choices. Jackson also distrusted institutions like the Supreme Court, whose authority “must not . . . be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacity.”
The recent use of restraining orders validates Jackson’s fears of corrupt encroachments on executive power. This abuse of restraining orders by unelected judges has increased in recent years in order to serve partisan ideological ends by using egregious double standards that overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
PJ Media’s Matt Margolis has pointed out this violation of the 14th Amendment. “In the sixty years between 1963 and 2023, federal courts issued a total of 127 nationwide injunctions.” But 64 of those were issued against Trump during his first term alone. . .” Worse, “in just the first two months of Trump’s second term, activist judges have already issued 37 more injunctions.”
Moreover, Margolis reports, “The partisan nature of this judicial assault couldn’t be more obvious. A staggering 92.2% of the injunctions against Trump in his first term came from Democrat-appointed judges. Only five Republican-appointed judges joined this partisan circus.”
Many of our Founders and populist ancestors would not have been surprised at this corruption, which they predicted would follow from social and economic elites who had control of concentrated federal power, especially a judiciary unaccountable to the voters. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ inappropriate scolding of the president for even talking about impeachment was also a blow to the separation of powers and accountability. Impeachment, after all, is one of the guardrails given to the people for checking, albeit indirectly, the tyranny of the federal government minority.
But there are other partisan assaults on the critical Constitutional structure of divided and separated powers. One of the more tempting forms of judiciary corruption is court-packing, altering the structure and protocols of the Supreme Court for partisan advantage. The Biden administration last July attempted to “reform” the Court, as obviously self-serving as FDR’s in 1937.
Biden’s “reforms” comprised 18-year term limits for justices; and government oversight, external to the Court itself, to investigate and punish dubious or manufactured charges of “corruption.” The real purpose was to prepare the court for Dems to appoint activist, “living Constitution” candidates when Democrats are in power. By this means Dems could swamp conservative and originalists like several of the current Court’s justices, who have corrected unconstitutional precedents such as Roe v. Wade, which was a grievous blow to progressives.
Finally, the second Trump administration has already made great strides in rolling back the century-long progressive assault on the Constitution’s structure of separated and balanced powers, and the Bill of Rights–– not just to thwart the technocratic progressives’ aim of “solving problems.” More important, Trump’s reforms will restore guardrails protecting the freedom and unalienable rights of citizens to improve their own lives, rather than surrendering to the dysfunctional, tyrannical, and corrupt federal regulatory Leviathan, and its pretensions to “follow the science” at the same time they marginalize common sense and the Constitution’s traditional wisdom.
But that achievement is only the start of restoring our Constitutional order. The party of the centralized empowerment of elites may seem in disarray at the moment, but like Yeats’ “worse,” they are full of “passionate intensity.” The lovers of ordered liberty, and haters of tyranny must never flag in their defense of their freedoms and unalienable rights, but prove Aristotle right when he said of tyranny, “No free man willingly endures such a government.”
Voter Fraud is turning the world into a tyrant playground . Voter fraud in California is rampant imho .
i don’t know about the world, but voter fraud is sure running rampant in the United States!
It doesn’t take 3 weeks to count ballots for a few House seats in northern California. Especially when literally ANYONE can vote, no ID required.
I don’t disagree with the thesis being promoted here; but, lordy, Andrew Jackson is a terrible example to use of someone opposed to tyrants — a tyrant in his own right.
Oh. Three people utterly ignorant of Andrew Jackson show up. Look at how he ran New Orleans.
Jackson saved New Orleans from the British. That did require him to be the boss. He did get cooperation.
Jackson was a man of his time. Judging him by ours dishonors one owed a debt of gratitude.
Medicare, Social Security, public schools; and many other government programs are not unalienable rights but I don’t see any conservatives or MAGAs complaining to get rid of those programs..
Liberty requires a citizen to carry his own weight and pay his own way through life in every sphere of his life. No government safety net. If the citizen falls on hard times he must depend on the help of friends and family or private charity. How many conservatives or MAGAs are willing to have liberty and the complete self-reliance that comes with liberty? Not many.
The biggest enemy of liberty is the fear of self-reliance and self-responsibility.
How about you, tough guy? Are you “willing to have liberty and the complete self-reliance that comes with liberty?”
Since you appear to be perpetually broke my guess is no. It’s always some one else’s fault, For years it was the Jews and the Christians preventing us from reaching your Objectivist nirvana. Now it appears your limp knives are out for conservatives or MAGAs as well.
Since I’m clearly in your head look up my Tea Party speech on YouTube. At yet another Tea Party in Galesburg the applause died down considerably when I stated it is not a proper role for government to provide for my health care or retirement.
Here’s you god Trump’s plan for addressing the unfunded liabilities–> <–
That would be the same Trump who when criticized said "it's the Republican Party, not the Conservative Party."
Do you think Trump's $500,000,000,000 Platinum Plan was a good idea?
Did you agree with Trump when he called the last $600 stimulus checks "measly?"
Associate professor sez: “I have a title at a dink college in bum-f*ck Ill and you will respect my authority”. Sorry Mr. Goober, not impressed. If you want people to read your drivel why not post the entire Tea Party speech here at FPM. As you condescendingly say……..I’ll wait.
Thanks but I’ll pass on your usual self serving questions. Once a failed teacher always a failed teacher. There is nothing you can say that will even begin to break my confidence in Trump.
It’s all about you isn’t it, Mr. Narcissist. Like I have the time or inclination to look up one of your stupid speeches. You are the typical embittered liberal fraud who thinks he somehow matters to anyone.
I’m going to keep on bugging you, ridiculing you, laughing at you, because you are an idiot, who obviously just doesn’t understand how irrelevant and inconsequential you will always be.
You should send your resume to MSNBC or CNN. Don’t forget to include the pic of you in your little red soccer coaches uniform. I’ll bet you voted for Obammy and Kammy. Cue the “Joy” part.
The biggest enemy of Liberty is CROOKED POLITICIANS!
Ultimately a country and its voters get the government they deserve:
Thank God we don’t deserve Objectivism.
But “carrying one’s own weight” does not include fighting to defend the country, or caring for your neighbor when he has need.
“One single object… [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” (Letter to Edward Livingston, March 25, 1825)
– Thomas Jefferson
We should be able to live in our own homes without some Liberal Democrats or UN/Globalists evicting us and giving our Private Homes to Migrants
And we should not lease homes we own from the government in the form of property taxes.
New York and California two States run by total Idiots Liberal Democrats
Nice article. Mr. Jackson has been the first president to have his legacy written negatively by the newspapers. He was hated for overthrowing the Rothschild run National Bank. They of course immediately paid their owned papers to write negative things. Mr. Jackson did not have the organization to fight back. Consequently, we only hear that he was a rube backwoodsman that was barely literate.
“People were standing on the furniture at his inaugural party”. Oh my!!!! The horror. Puritans never change. It sounds like more journalistic history to me. Just like today, they write what they are paid to “think.”
Following was published BEFORE Israel was re-instated:
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https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1948/03/11/01/article/65/
The Sentinel, 11 March 1948 — Page 26
‘Genocide’ is Now Practiced by Arabs
in their Campaign Against Jews
FRESH FROM THE WIRES.
By HIRSCH WOLFSON.
Paris, France, (WNS)—Some 800,000 to a million Jews living in the Arab lands of Africa and the Middle-East are today in mortal danger of annihilation.
They are being subjected to a wave of persecution of Hitler prototype and are being held as hostages no less, in the calculated scheme of reactionary Arab leaders to prevent the fulfillment of the UN decision to establish independent Jewish and Arab states in Palestine.