The National Intel Report with John Stadtmiller, June 22, 2018 Hour 2

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We take much for granted, not the least of which including that our so-called ‘justice’ system will uphold… well, justice. Unfortunately, things in America have been trending in a markedly different direction, and for quite some time. What comes as an even greater shock is; this was neither unforeseen by the Founding Fathers, nor by accident.

Callers

  • Richard – AL
  • Mike – CO
  • Keith – MT (dropped)
  • Pat – TX
  • Wayne – TX

Quotes

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.”
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington (May 27, 1788)

“…paper is poverty, … it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington (May 27, 1788)

“The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government…”
— Who Owns the Federal Reserve Banks | In Plain English | St. Louis Fed

“For those who hold the Constitution of the United States in high regard and who are concerned about the fate of its principles in our contemporary practice of government, the modern state ought to receive significant attention. The reason for this is that the ideas that gave rise to what is today called “the administrative state” are fundamentally at odds with those that gave rise to our Constitution. In fact, the original Progressive-Era architects of the administrative state understood this quite clearly, as they made advocacy of this new approach to government an important part of their direct, open, comprehensive attack on the American Constitution.”
— Ronald J. Pestritto, The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government (November 20, 2007)

“The post-New Deal administrative state is unconstitutional, and its validation by the legal system amounts to nothing less than a bloodless constitutional revolution.”
— Gary Lawson, The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State, Harvard Law Review Vol. 107, No. 6 (Apr., 1994), pp. 1231-1254

“If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”
— Smedley Butler, reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize military support for a fascist-coup, as related by Butler to Congress (1934)

“…during the 4 years 1933-36 a change took place which was so drastic as to constitute a revolution. They also indicated conclusively that the responsibility for the economic welfare of the American people had been transferred heavily to the executive branch of the Federal Government, that a corresponding change in education had taken place from an impetus outside of the local community, and that this revolution had occurred without violence and with full consent of an overwhelming majority of the electorate. … In seeking to explain this unprecedented phenomenon, subsequent studies pursued by the staff clearly showed it could not have occurred peacefully or with the consent of the majority unless education in the United States had been prepared in advance to endorse it.”
— Thomas M. McNiece in his report to the Reece Committee titled The Economics of the Public Interest (1954)

“We have set up a fourth order in the tripartite plan of Government which was initiated by the founding fathers of our democracy. They set up the executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches; but since that time we have set up a fourth dimension, if I may so term it, which is now popularly known as administrative in nature. So we have the legislative, the executive, the judicial, and the administrative … Senate bill 7 [the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act] … is a bill of rights for the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose affairs are controlled in one way or another by agencies of the Federal Government.”
— Senate Judiciary chairman, Senator Pat McCarran (1946)

“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
— John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (July 17, 1775)

“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies.”
— John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams (June 21, 1776)

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
— Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1787)

“To trace the mischievous effects of a mutable government, would fill a volume. I will hint a few only, each of which will be perceived to be a source of innumerable others…

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulg[at]ed, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed.

Another effect of public instability, is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the monied few, over the industrious and uninformed mass of the people. Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said, with some truth, that laws are made for the few, not for the many.”
— James Madison, Federalist Paper no. 62 (1787)

“The complexity of social organization does not change. Our technologically sophisticated industrial society is more complex than the agrarian society of America in the eighteenth century. In this regard, that was ‘a simpler world’. But the complexities of politics (politics here meaning the science of governing) do not change much. The basic political problems confronting the Framers of our Constitution were as complex as our political problems today—perhaps more so, because they were striking off into the dangerous unknown, whereas all we need do is return to the fine highway we were once on.”
— Lawrence Patton McDonald, We Hold These Truths: A Reverent Review of the U.S. Constitution. Seal Beach, CA: ’76 Press, (1976) p. 13

“The point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they don’t mean anything … that’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.”
— Noam Chomsky

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
— Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) Chapter I. Organizing Chaos

“The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public’s thoughts and actions is likewise expensive. For this reason there is an increasing tendency to concentrate the functions of propaganda in the hands of the propaganda specialist. This specialist is more and more assuming a distinct place and function in our national life. New activities call for new nomenclature. The propagandist who specializes in interpreting enterprises and ideas to the public, and in interpreting the public to promulgators of new enterprises and ideas, has come to be known by the name of ‘public relations counsel.’”
— Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) Chapter III. The New Propagandists

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. … The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
— Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution : A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome (Pantheon Books, 1991)

“Salafism is sponsored globally by Saudi Arabia and this ideology is used to justify the violent acts of Jihadi Salafi groups that include Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Al-Shabaab. In addition, Saudi Arabia prints textbooks for schools and universities to teach Salafism as well as recruit international students from Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Africa and the Balkans to help spread Salafism in their local communities.”
— Salafi Movement – Views on extremism, Wikipedia

“The mission of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan is a test of the alliance’s political will and military capabilities. … The purpose of the mission is the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan.”
— CRS Report RL33627, NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance (October 23, 2008 edition)

“Nation-building involves the use of armed force as part of a broader effort to promote political and economic reforms, with the objective of transforming a society emerging from conflict into one at peace with itself and its neighbors.”
— The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building, RAND Corporation monograph (2007)

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