WEEK IN REVIEW

3/1/2026

SO, who do you believe?

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. – William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s first CIA Director (from Casey’s first staff meeting, 1981)

“There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.” — William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

“The existence of the secret government was so closely held that Congress was completely bypassed.” ~James Bamford

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” --William Colby, former CIA Director

WHICH DEFINITION OF PATRIOTISM IS YOURS?

“Patriotism–real patriotism–has a most important venue, and it is not always about putting on a uniform to fight some senseless, insane war in order to sustain the meaningless myths about freedom or America’s greatness. There is a higher loyalty that real patriotism demands and encompasses, and that loyalty is the pursuit of truth, no matter how painful or uncomfortable the journey.” ~Peter Janney

When did the plan for population reduction begin and who was the first group Marxists targeted for extinction?

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote to his wife in October of 1862: “The war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people. There is a class of people, men, women, and children, who must be killed…”

Here it comes—Again!

WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE (GOVERNMENT) Randolph Bourne 1918.

“With the shock of war, however, the State comes into its own again. The Government, with no mandate from the people, without consultation of the people, conducts all the negotiations, the backing and filling, the menaces and explanations, which slowly bring it into collision with some other Government, and gently and irresistibly slides the country into war. For the benefit of proud and haughty citizens, it is fortified with a list of the intolerable insults which have been hurled toward us by the other nations; for the benefit of the liberal and beneficent, it has a convincing set of moral purposes which our going to war will achieve; for the ambitious and aggressive classes, it can gently whisper of a bigger role in the destiny of the world.

The result is that, even in those countries where the business of declaring war is theoretically in the hands of representatives of the people, no legislature has ever been known to decline the request of an Executive, which has conducted all foreign affairs in utter privacy and irresponsibility, that it order the nation into battle.

Good democrats are wont to feel the crucial difference between a State in which the popular Parliament or Congress declares war, and the State in which an absolute monarch or ruling class declares war. But, put to the stern pragmatic test, the difference is not striking. In the freest of republics as well as in the most tyrannical of empires, all foreign policy, the diplomatic negotiations which produce or forestall war, are equally the private property of the Executive part of the Government and are equally exposed to no check whatever from popular bodies, or the people voting as a mass themselves.

The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves. They then, with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives, and turned into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other people may have, in the appointed scheme of things, come within the range of the Government’s disapprobation. The citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to Government, identifies himself with its purposes, revives all his military memories and symbols, and the State once more walks, an august presence, through the imaginations of men. Patriotism becomes the dominant feeling and produces immediately that intense and hopeless confusion between the relations which the individual bears and should bear toward the society of which he is a part.

The patriot loses all sense of the distinction between State, nation, and government. In our quieter moments, the Nation or Country forms the basic idea of society. We think vaguely of a loose population spreading over a certain geographical portion of the earth’s surface, speaking a common language, and living in a homogeneous civilization. Our idea of Country concerns itself with the non-political aspects of a people, its ways of living, its personal traits, its literature and art, its characteristic attitudes toward life. We are Americans because we live in a certain bounded territory, because our ancestors have carried on a great enterprise of pioneering and colonization, because we live in certain kinds of communities which have a certain look and express their aspirations in certain ways. We can see that our civilization is different from contiguous civilizations like the Indian and Mexican. The institutions of our country form a certain network which affects us vitally and intrigues our thoughts in a way that these other civilizations do not. We are a part of Country, for better or for worse. We have arrived in it through the operation of physiological laws, and not in any way through our own choice. By the time we have reached what are called years of discretion, its influences have molded our habits, our values, our ways of thinking, so that however aware we may become, we never really lose the stamp of our civilization, or could be mistaken for the child of any other country. Our feeling for our fellow countrymen is one of similarity or of mere acquaintance. We may be intensely proud of and congenial to our particular network of civilization, or we may detest most of its qualities and rage at its defects. This does not alter the fact that we are inextricably bound up in it. The Country, as an inescapable group into which we are born, and which makes us its particular kind of a citizen of the world, seems to be a fundamental fact of our consciousness, an irreducible minimum of social feeling.

Lysander Spooner nails it!

“… two men have no more natural right to exercise any kind of authority over one, than one has to exercise the same authority over two. A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.”

Most everyone has heard of Andersonville, Confederate POW Camp but how many have been taught about Camp Douglas (80 Acres of Hell) or Elmira (Hellmira) Union POW Camps?

Perverted or Revisionist History?

If you support the constitution, you believe one clown in a black gown can overrule the people!

How much of Orwell’s 1984 novel are we living today?

If you support the constitution, you support unlimited taxation. Yes, it’s really that simple!

How long did it take the Federalists who dominated the very government they had illegally created with their Constitution of 1787 to violate the provisions which they themselves had written into said constitution?

In the past week I have seen multiple acknowledgments and well-deserved tributes to the greatness of actor Robert Duvall, one of my all-time favorite actors. Several of these mention his roles in many of the movies and TV series he appeared in.

Tragically not mentioned in the tributes I have seen was any mention of his role as Robert E. Lee in the movie “Gods and Generals” a magnificent portrayal of a magnificent man in American History.

This is obviously just another slight against the South and our wonderful Ancestors and heritage proving beyond a doubt the prejudice of the willfully ignorant.

The great actor, Robert Duvall not only portrayed with honor a great American, but he was also a descendant of Lee through his mother.

Why was the very first power granted to Congress under the Constitution of 1787 (Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1) that of unlimited taxation and has Maryland delegate Luther Martin’s predictions about this power proved accurate?

“It will, by the imposition of the variety of taxes, imposts, stamps, excises, and other duties, squeeze from them (the people) the little money they may acquire, the hard earnings of their industry.”

Luther Martin also warned about Congress’s power to tax imports, cautioning that it could impose levies on “every article of commerce imported into these States, to what amount they please,” with no meaningful restraint.

Martin was also critical of the power to impose excise taxes, calling it “a power very odious in its nature” because of its intrusive potential.

Martin predicted such taxes could reach into nearly every corner of daily life.

“The Congress may impose duties on every article of use or consumption, – on the food that we eat, on the liquors we drink, on the clothes that we wear, the glass which enlightens our houses, or the hearths necessary for our warmth and comfort.”

Again, was Luther Martin correct in his predictions?