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From the Founder…
Today, great concern is expressed by patriots across the nation that the federal government has grown to an excessive proportion with an incredibly cumbersome bureaucracy that siphons the people’s tax dollars into endless wars, that generates needless federal programs not focused on the real needs of the population. To the contrary, the very bloated Executive Branch mandates programs opposed to the will of the majority of the people and fails to secure our borders and protect our citizens from the illegal drugs flooding into the nation. The States are increasingly challenged to take responsibility to protect their inhabitants in such a serious crisis in leadership on the national level.
The leaders in those states who are more concerned about the well-being of their people rather than political power – for themselves, or their Party – are the ones who are true public servants. The ones who serve Party first have been raised on Party strategy that Party comes first, even at the expense of others – and it is not about one Party vs. another. Many who are politically awake realize as Dr. Ben Carson did years ago that it is not about a Democrat vs. Republican dual. It is about We the People vs. the Elitists, Statists, and Traditionalists who want the illusion of freedom to exist mainly for the sake of controlling the population. This perception, that those holding the reins of power did not care about the people led to increased tension in the colonies and to irreconcilable differences.
Americans today, many without realizing it, face circumstances eerily similar to those that led to the birth of the United States of America – a nation in which only the vision of Liberty conceived the Land of the Free. A nation in which all that could be done was to plant the seeds of Liberty.
The Tree of Liberty still had to bear much fruit for all of the people. But, the United States was only conceived in 1776 - perhaps over the development of years through their exercise of self governing bodies in each of the colonies. True leadership originated in the grassroots as the local level and when duly designated representatives met in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, the concept of freedom had already been activated.
This is the point. There are grassroots efforts in many of the states at such a time as this and the understanding of what freedom is and what it isn’t is strong among the children of the Land of the Free. Those who see freedom as simply the “pursuit of pleasure” do not comprehend the need for eternal vigilance. If freedom equals licentiousness, it is not true freedom. The mature children of Freedom need to “step up to the plate” and take responsibility to take the steps that are necessary to ensure the retention of the Republic.
The first featured article is from A. Dru Kistenev and titled: “States halt illegal entry, trans sports, abortion; NOW Block Federal Energy Regs,” which was originally posted in Canada Free Press.
It is calling attention to the various efforts of overreach that the Federal government is taking in this Administration. Kristenev rightly points out that “...The Ninth and Tenth Amendments give all power to the people that is not specifically allotted to federal governance, and that is limited to protecting the United States’ security and commerce…” And a key point in the article is that: “The true work to retain a constitutional republic begins in the neighborhood, city, county, and state.”
The second article is actually a manifesto from our friend in Indiana, Dr. Richard Moss. Citizen Voice has posted his “Red State Manifesto to Defend the Nation - And Our Rights,” previously and is supportive of his current run for a seat in Congress being vacated by Rino, Dr. Larry Buschon.
The Manifesto is strong and our readers from red states, who are inclined to take action, need to realize, there are numerous operatives who are quite enthusiastic and energetic in ther own desire to pursue their own manifesto – one that Karl Marx put together a long time ago. We are
Witnessing the fruit of that effort maturing in our own nation right now. The hope for Freedom’s light continually shining lies in the hands of those who love Freedom.
The federal government has no authority to deny access to, production or distribution of energy that is essential to the wellbeing of citizens
States halt illegal entry, trans sports, abortion; NOW block federal energy regs
By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--April 30, 2024
States are waking up to the fact that they have the constitutional right to serve their citizens first, even and especially when the federal government is attempting to impose its authority.
The national seat of government, Washington, D.C., was never ceded power to interfere with or override that of individual states whose purpose is to protect their constituents from outside autocratic influence. Yet, states are incorrectly suffering under the insufferable hand of edicts emanating from the White House.
The erosion of states’ rights
The erosion of states’ rights has come about after decades of extending executive powers through an unconstitutional fourth branch of government--administrative agencies. This has not come about by accident, but by indulging the base needs of the populace, baiting it into inertia by handing the reins of government over to unelected officials to manage the nation’s infrastructure.
The concept of delegation of duties from the sovereign to underlings was meant to free-up owners and managers to continue wealth creation, which subordinates used for the benefit of the company, in this case, the nation. It went awry when sovereigns, the owners, began acting like trust fund babies, taking their eyes off the business to fritter away their inheritance on personal gratification.
Administrative agencies have usurped power that citizens ignored, preferring to concentrate on living in the moment instead of looking out for the future. In the present, there is no change other than to throw tantrums on college campuses, or complain that their inheritance can’t purchase what it did five, 10, 25 or 50 years ago, and blame others rather than shouldering the responsibility themselves.
As much as citizens focus on D.C., that’s not where the problem started, nor is it the ultimate answer to eliminate it. Yes, having the right person in the presidency is invaluable, because that is the one who must deliver national protection from invasion (of all kinds) and destruction of commerce.
It’s the local representation that gets overlooked by focusing on the macro issue of federal overreach, but that’s where federal interference is limited constitutionally.
Answer honestly… how well does the voter know the individuals running for local and state office? Are candidates’ true beliefs and intentions made clear as they vie for the office of mayor, city council, county commissioner, sheriff, school board, state representative, state senator, secretary of state, attorney general, and governor? Or are platitudes delivered that placate voters into checking off their name down-ballot because there’s a “D” or “R” attached?
These are the people that get little attention despite the fact they are the ones who will come up through the ranks to run for national office. They will reach Washington with the financial support of donors with an agenda that doesn’t align with constituents’ needs.
The country is now in a jam because the virtually unvetted local and state reps climbed the ladder to promote themselves rather than the voters. The significance of the local and state level of elected servant is that they have the ultimate power to turn back unconstitutional federal authority that was promulgated by that unvetted officeholder now seated in Congress.
States hold the ultimate authority, granted by the people to serve the people, not the federal government
Fact: States hold the ultimate authority, granted by the people to serve the people, not the federal government, not the executive handing out constitutionally unenforceable edicts, and certainly not unelected administrators creating unlawful regulations. Taking a portion of the United States Code, properly (or even improperly) passed by Congress, and inserting rules or regulations loosely based on unclear language in the statute, does not law make. This was the purpose of engendering a judicial branch to weigh the constitutionality of laws passed and, particularly, of interpreting such laws emplaced via administrative regulations.
Regulations and rules published in the Federal Register are not law. Why? Because they were not specifically passed by legislation but are an appended interpretation that may or may not agree with the original legislation.
Consider the latest regulations from the EPA to require $4 Billion of impractical, unworkable carbon capture technology on all coal-fired and gas power plants, making them unfeasible to build or operate. Despite the feds steadily diminishing the existence of power generating plants that supply a constant, reliable base load, Biden demands an all-electric society--cars, A.C., household appliances--when the technology industry’s appetite for energy grows exponentially. That means, tech giants running government will gobble up all available power, relegating little to nothing for individual businesses and homes. Welcome to the new dark ages ruled by feudal tech nobility.
The foregoing information is put forth to demonstrate how imperative it is to know every one of the local and state candidates before they get into office, because these are the representatives who have the power to shut down federal trespass on states’ rights.
Expanding imperial power of Washington
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments give all power to the people that is not specifically allotted to federal governance, and that is limited to protecting the United States’ security and commerce, both of which this and previous administrations have consistently failed to do. One intermediary four-year administration was not enough-- the last one before Biden--though it did well in attempting to turn back the tide of federal regulation. The true work to retain a constitutional republic begins in the neighborhood, city, county, and state.
This is the current state of affairs: we are closing in on a century of expanding the imperial power of Washington, D.C.’s administrative regulations that have steadily winnowed away individual rights to build a happy, healthy family and home. Aspects of life are being unconstitutionally directed by federal employees as to how citizens can earn a living, own and manage personal property, or pass down religious and ethical standards to their children.
The recourse left to the people, who authorize government, is that of restricting and blocking federal regulations from encroaching on the rights of individuals and their states through the actions of local and state representatives.
States such as Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and others are exercising their constitutional right to refuse federal attempts to override states’ rights to protect and serve their citizens. They are doing it by passing legislation that makes illegal immigration from a foreign nation a felony, not complying with Title IX redefinitions that allow biological men playing women’s sports, and setting their own standards for abortion.
These lands and resources do not belong to the federal government
The federal government has no authority to deny access to, production or distribution of energy that is essential to the wellbeing of citizens. Under the guise of fabricating “national emergencies,” calling it a pandemic or climate change, there is still no federal authority to shut off or restrict energy, self-protection, travel, business, free expression of religion or speech. None of these individual freedoms can be subverted as a danger to “national security” no matter how much the language is twisted to accommodate Washington’s agenda to control Americans from before birth to beyond the grave.
As a voter, make certain to know the local candidate’s true history and reason for running for office before putting a check next to their name. These are the elected officials who must take seriously their duty to protect their constituents from federal incursion and aggression, and be willing to re-establish county and state ownership of “public” lands and resources.
These lands and resources do not belong to the federal government, they belong to the people who abide in the states.1
1. Article I Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America explains the Powers of Congress; Section 9 – The Limits of Congress. Article III explains the limited power of the President. http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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America in Crisis:
A Red State Manifesto to Defend the Nation - And Our Rights
By Richard Moss, MD April 19, 2021
As the Left grows ever more aggressive and imperious, the Republican Party at the federal level remains as feckless as ever. It will fall to red states, therefore, to push back against the emerging socialist tyranny. The absurd hair on fire roll-out of leftist outrage regarding the modest election integrity law passed recently in Georgia is the latest example of leftist ascendancy and dominance over the nation and our institutions. Not only does the Left control the media, academia, Hollywood, professional sports, and Big Tech, but add to the list Wall Street and corporate America, all of whom now worship at the church of “wokeness.” As dysfunctional and corrupt as they may be, it is the Left that governs our nation and culture.
This comes alongside the Covid fascism that has paralyzed the nation, destroyed jobs and the economy, and attacked basic rights and civil liberties. They robbed us of the right to walk and breathe without physical encumbrances such as a mask, send our children to school, maintain our businesses and jobs, or attend church: all of it, mind you, for a lie, for none of the Covid measures have had any impact on the trajectory of the virus.
Covid, indeed, gave the Left the excuse it needed to clamp down on a passive people that has forgotten its legacy of liberty and independence.
There are, however, 30 states where republicans control both houses of the legislature, or 60% of the states, some overwhelmingly so. Twenty-three of those states enjoy the trifecta that includes the governors. Given the failure of the Republican party nationally, it falls to these solidly red states to defend the rule of law, our constitutional system, and our pre-political God-given, inalienable rights.
Herewith, a list of measures that red states should undertake to reclaim lost ground against the growing power of the Left, Covid-fascism, and useless RINOs that we may preserve the nation, or some part of it, and our way of life.
I would propose the following:
1. State legislatures shall call themselves into session at will, particularly when confronted with a tyrannical governor. Many state legislatures are part time, which befits the principle of limited government, something conservatives would generally approve of. In the context of unrelenting Covid-fascism, including in red states by Republican governors, and encroachments by the federal government, it is paramount that this be amended.
2. The state shall limit executive orders for emergency powers by governors to a single event and for not more than ten days. Extensions or further such orders shall require legislative approval.
3. The state shall declare and uphold the right of its citizens to freely assemble, worship (including in churches and homes), engage in free speech, to walk and breathe freely without encumbrance such as the wearing of masks, and to buy and sell and otherwise engage in commerce.
4. The state shall limit school closures to ten days. Further extensions shall require legislative approval.
5. The state shall end all mask mandates. It shall declare vaccination passports illegal including when imposed by corporations or other entities. When the state ends mask mandates, it shall render illegal for individual counties, cities, and towns to continue such mandates or pass their own mandates.
6. The state shall abolish all sweeping, universal powers of health departments at the state and county level. It shall be illegal for state or county health departments and directors to issue sweeping or universal mandates, force schools or businesses to close, or require the wearing of masks or other physical encumbrances, or impose quarantines. They may provide immunizations, public education, and guidelines, but shall have no authority to issue mandates, impose quarantines, or force universal closures of schools, businesses, restaurants, or any private or public enterprise. Health departments may carry out standard inspections of restaurants and other facilities as prescribed by law, and target a specific business entity if negligent based on established protocols, but have no authority to force universal closures of businesses or a category of businesses, such as bars, restaurants, salons, movie theaters, and gyms. They shall have no authority to ban gatherings at social, cultural, or sporting events, or to force schools to close or impose mask or other mandates. Health directors are not mini-dictators. They are paid employees of the county and state, serve at the pleasure of the public and its elected representatives, and readily terminated at the discretion of the state and county and their elected officers.
7. The state shall scrutinize all federal executive orders and laws. Any or some of them deemed unlawful and unconstitutional shall be nullified and declared null and void.
8. The state shall declare itself a sanctuary state for the Constitution, particularly the 1st and 2nd amendments, but its entirety. The citizens of the state and its government embrace freedom of assembly, worship, speech, and the press, freedom to petition the government, and to buy and sell, freedom from executive orders and sweeping mandates, including: mask mandates, vaccination passports, quarantines, and school and business closures, and general shutdowns. The state shall defend the right to bear arms, and freedom from unwarranted search and seizure.
9. The state shall refuse all so called “asylum” or “refugee” cases, shall refuse all such resettlement efforts in the state, as virtually none of so-called “refugees” are refugees by any definition but rather economic migrants that entered the nation illegally. They, rather, abuse the refugee/asylum system, as do many so-called charity/religious based organizations, law firms, and open-borders or other politicized advocacy groups. Refugee/asylum is intended for truly persecuted minorities, not those laboring under generalized poverty or crime in a particular country or area, which affects much of the world. They are not refugees and should not be accorded refugee status or resettled here.
10. The state shall refuse the resettlement of illegal aliens, in general, to support or educate them in anyway, provide health care, other than emergency interventions, whether they declare themselves refugees or not. The state may send them to blue Democrat states that covet them, if there is a shared border. Red states on our southern border shall send such individuals back into Mexico. Given the lawless behavior of the federal government in failing to enforce federal immigration law, defend our sovereignty, secure our border, and protect Americans, the individual states shall themselves enforce the law and protect their borders, territory, and citizens.
11. The state shall end the teaching of racist theories including critical race theory and the “1619 Project,” which is a baseless, ahistorical, and polemical attack on the nation and its history, deliberately demeaning of the founding of the nation and its founding principles, and rejected as partisan, militant, and inaccurate by respected historians and intellectuals on both sides of the political spectrum, and other anti-American propaganda, in any publicly funded schools, universities, or colleges.
12. The state shall defund schools and universities, and school and college boards that indoctrinate students in leftist/Marxist/critical theories, race or otherwise, encourage hatred of a particular race, and hatred of America, the American founding, and our founding principles. The state encourages and actively supports schools, colleges, faculty, educational boards, curriculum advisors, superintendents and educational departments to educate, foster, and cultivate patriotism, assimilation, nationalism, love of country, loyalty to America and the glories of the founders, the founding, and our founding principles.
13. The state shall treat each citizen as an individual, equal before the law, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin. There shall be no consideration of race, color, creed, or national origin in matters of law enforcement, criminal justice, government benefits, admissions, hiring, contracts, or set asides. There shall be no quotas or preferential treatment based on race, color, creed, or national origin.
14. The state shall restore the integrity of election laws so we may never again see electoral fraud as occurred in battleground states on November 3, 2020. Such measures shall include the following: Eliminate unsolicited mail in ballots. End same day registration and motor-voter registration. Ban computer systems. Return to paper ballots, hand counted. Require proof of citizenship. Limit early voting shall to two weeks or abolish all together, in which case there would be a single election “day,” not “season.” Update voter rolls regularly. Abolish “drop boxes.” Require photo ID.
15. The state shall pass anti-bullying legislation directed against any company, advocacy group, sports entity, league, or otherwise, professional or otherwise, and individual athletes or celebrities that disrespect our nation and flag or threaten to boycott a red state for passing a legitimate law regarding, for example, religious freedom, protecting children, students, and the general public against depredations by the Left with civilization-destroying ideas and policies such as transgenderism or critical race theory, and other intrusions on a lawful, open polity, and, of course, ensuring the integrity of our elections. The state shall ban such entities from future and existing state contracts, tax breaks, set asides, anti-trust, or other protections, and further work, business, or other dealings with the state.
16. The state shall consider banning companies, athletes, sports leagues and entities, professional or otherwise, that maintain commercial or other relations with the slave empire of China from future and existing state contracts, tax breaks, set asides, anti-trust or other protections, and further work, business, and other dealings with the state.
17. Attorneys General of red states shall aggressively litigate against leftist, globalist, anti-American corporations including “Big Tech” corporations that infringe on the rights of their state’s citizens including the enforcement of speech codes, censorship of conservatives, “canceling” individuals who espouse conservative or traditional beliefs, and otherwise prohibiting normal, free, and open exchange. Big Tech companies that deplatform, silence, cancel, ban, shadow-ban, filter, or demonetize individuals, websites, groups or organizations for expressing opinions they disapprove of, shall be fined, penalized, litigated against, including anti-trust litigation. States shall regulate them as utilities, no different than the phone company, or radio and TV, for the right given them to use the public “space” and public “airwaves,” and pursue punitive actions and litigation when they deny access to their platforms for political reasons. Similarly, they shall pursue litigation or other measures against any and all corporations that engage in boycotts and other threats or intimidation against the state.
18. The state shall pass “Right to Try” Legislation that allows eligible patients to have access to investigational drugs or medicines that are safe and therapeutic particularly for life threatening conditions but not necessarily approved by the FDA or other regulatory agencies or boards, often for political or economic reasons.
19. The state shall pass legislation protecting the right of doctors to prescribe and patients to use medicines for “off label” purposes. In the Covid era, despite much experience and data demonstrating efficacy of various medicines and supplements, this became highly politicized and not allowed. This included such safe, inexpensive, commonly used therapeutics found effective in the treatment of Covid, for example, such as Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Colchicine, Zithromax, Doxycycline, aspirin, steroids, Vitamin D3, Zinc, Quercetin, Elderberry, among others. State medical boards shall have no authority to discipline or threaten in anyway physicians who engage in such efforts, respecting the primacy of the patient-doctor relationship over dictates from politicized boards or other agencies. Pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and pharmacists shall similarly honor such prescriptions and recommendations by healthcare providers.
20. The state and the various cities, towns, and counties, through its law enforcement officials and criminal justice system shall enforce the law. Criminals, particularly violent criminals, those engaging in murder, rape, intimidation, extortion, assault and battery, robbery, armed or otherwise, those engaged in unlawful violent protest, looting, and destruction of private property, incitement of violence and insurrection, terrorism, the use and sale of illicit drugs, those unlawfully encamped on public streets, thoroughfares, and places, shall be prosecuted, held, tried, and jailed for their crimes. Law enforcement officials, district attorneys, courts, and judges shall be supported in their efforts to maintain law and order and preserve the peace. The state shall vigorously support the rights of victims of crime and protect them from criminals.
21. The state and officials at all levels, state and federal, on both sides of the political spectrum shall call for and demand that “woke” corporations and other entities and groups that hypocritically opposed election integrity efforts, particularly photo ID, as occurred recently regarding Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act,” boycott the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
22. Make Red States Red Again.
Each state should consider coordinating its efforts with other red states that the pro-America forces may present a united front against the Marxist Left. But each red state should begin protecting its own people first against the encroachments of the tyrannical Left and Covid fascists, often, but not exclusively, one and the same.
We must fight against the autocracy of the Left who have abused the country and employed Covid fascism to pursue political goals. We oppose conditions and policies that render the US less free than North Korea and Cuba or much of Europe. Students of history, we recognize that King George never did to the colonists what our government(s) is (are) doing to us today. We are well passed the time of reclaiming lost ground and demanding our God-given rights as free citizens. It is essential that conservatives wield political power, help friends and allies, and punish our enemies, as the Left does.
Let this serve as a Red-state manifesto, a rallying cry to galvanize those who are in a position to preserve what is left of the nation, in parts of the nation where the founding and founding principles still hold sway.
Make Red States Red Again.
Richard Moss, M.D., a surgeon practicing in Jasper, IN, was a candidate for Indiana’s Ninth District for Congress again in 2024. https://www.richardmossforcongress.com/about He ran in 2016 and 2018 but was “primaried.” He has written “A Surgeon’s Odyssey” and “Matilda’s Triumph,” available on amazon.com. Contact him at richardmossmd.com or Richard Moss, M.D. on Facebook, Twitter, Parler, and Instagram.
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From The National Archives: The Bill of Rights: What Does it Say?
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